Walking

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Promoting walking as a healthy and more preferable option to the motor car for short journeys.

Encouraging walking and cycling: Success stories

This companion to Walking and Cycling: an action plan, contains 50 examples of successful schemes from across England.


Walking and Cycling: an action plan

The action plan sets out measures from across government to increase levels of active travel by creating places to walk and cycle in and influencing travel behaviour through training, education, marketing and promotion.


Encouraging walking - Advice to local authorities (1 Mb)

Published:
20 May 2005

Walking in Towns and Cities: government response to Select Committee report

The Government's response to the Environment, Transport and Regional Affairs Committee's report on Walking in Towns and Cities.

Published:
16 March 2005

Walking maps (1 Mb)

Guidance and research on producing a walking map.

Published:
20 June 2008

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