The government has recently announced their strategy for a more integrated transport system. As part of the strategy, they eight key priorities, including to:
Create healthier communities
Transport will help create healthier communities, where making healthy travel choices will be easy and convenient, supporting cleaner, quieter and more liveable places. To achieve this, we will improve walking, wheeling and cycling routes, improve integration between cycle and rail, and scale-up shared mobility. This is alongside delivering cleaner transport to improve air quality and reduce noise pollution, helping to reduce health inequalities.
We will strengthen statutory guidance for local transport authorities, making clear that pavements and cycle paths must be planned, maintained, and managed with the same priority as road infrastructure.
This is key, and will only be achieved with local communities holding the government (and local councils such as Kent County Council) to account. This will mean roads such as the A226 from Gravesend to Rochester are given the necessary funding to create safe, protected, and regularly maintained cycle paths to promote active travel and the benefits it brings.
The policy can be found here:
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