Call for an increase in spending on walking and cycling

In advance of the Spending Review, we have joined forces with thirteen other organisations and written to the Finance Secretary, Derek Mackay, to urge the Scottish Government commit a minimum of 10% of the overall transport budget to supporting walking and cycling by 2020, with a significant step in that direction in the next budget.  

Our call comes on the day that new Transport Scotland statistics show that cycling rates are stalled at around 1% of all trips. 

Read our letter here, cosigned by the British British Lung Foundation Scotland & Northern Ireland, Carplus Bikeplus Scotland, Chest, Heart & Stroke Scotland, The Children and Young People’s Commissioner for Scotland, Cycling UK Scotland, Cycling UK, Edinburgh Festival of Cycling, Friends of the Earth Scotland, Glasgow Bike Station, Obesity Action Scotland, Pedal on Parliament, Spokes the Lothian Cycle Campaign, Stop Climate Chaos Scotland, Transform Scotland