November 7, 2024 - The UK’s recently announced Autumn Budget includes an extra £100m for Active Travel such as cycling and walking according to Cycling UK. The funding is on top of the approximate £50m which has been the capital funding part of the active travel budget for the past two years.
While the budget boost is good news and feels like a campaign win, officials at Cycling UK, “…had to find the relevant single sentence (page 96) in the Autumn Budget document.”
The new budget helps to reverse previous cuts of 75% from an initial £200m per year initially planned, but falls short of the unprecedented levels of funding promised by Transport Secretary Louise Haigh in August.
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