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Over 144 primary schools in South Yorkshire are moving more and differently on the school run this week for Mayor Oliver Coppard’s Walk & Wheel Challenge. The Mayor’s Walk & Wheel Challenge 2025 – a special collaboration with national walking charity, Living Streets, to encourage children to walk, wheel or …

South Yorkshire’s Mayor Oliver Coppard has launched his second Walk & Wheel Challenge for all primary schools in the region in a special collaboration with Living Streets. This year’s challenge builds on the successful Mayor’s Walk & Wheel Challenge in 2024, part of the Mayor’s Year of Active Travel. In …

A new city cycle route in Leeds has been launched, with Mayor of West Yorkshire Tracy Brabin joined by double Olympic champion and Leeds local Alistair Brownlee to cut the ribbon. The route runs between north Leeds and the city centre, along Clay Pit Lane. The infrastructure is part of …

A coalition of 33 organisations representing Scotland’s road users has called on Police Scotland to introduce a nationwide camera footage submission system to make Scotland’s roads safer. The organisations – including the AA, the RAC, Cycling UK, road safety charity Brake, British Motorcyclists Federation, British Horse Society Scotland and Living …

Nine walking, cycling, public transport and shared mobility groups have come together to call for ‘rapid’ action to cut greenhouse gas emissions with less than one year to go until COP26 in Glasgow. The NGOs have formed the Sustainable Transport Alliance, a new UK-wide alliance for green and fair transport …

Transport Secretary Grant Shapps has today given councils across England £175 million to create safe space for cycling and walking, as surveys and independent polls show strong public support for high-quality schemes. The money, part of the £2 billion announced for cycling and walking in May, will fund measures including …

PJA is to hold a webinar tomorrow, 31st July, on the £2 billion cycling and walking ‘revolution’ announced earlier this week. PJA’s chairman Phil Jones and Adrian Lord were key advisors on the plans launched this week by Prime Minister Boris Johnson. The active travel experts advised the Department of …

More than £1 million of Government funding has been secured to help further work to promote walking and cycling in Leicester and Leicestershire. The money, from the DfT’s Access Fund, totals £1.065 million and has been given to the councils to extend a four-year programme of partnership work between them, …

The lobby on the steps of the Senedd heard calls for the Welsh Government to match the £20 per head spent in Scotland

'Increase transport funding for cycling and walking to 5% to meet Government ambitions', say charities