Promotion Of Active Transport

Active transport (walking and cycling) reduces congestion, pollution, and disease. We would support promoting active transport through integrated Health and Transport policy.

We believe in the health benefits to the extent that we would consider promotion of active transport to be a health issue; cycling promotion is currently fragmented, and split between Department of Transport and NHS budgets; we would move all such funding into the scope of a single NHS project. This would result in a net saving to the NHS, since obesity, heart disease, and other inactivity-related illnesses would be significantly reduced as a result.