West Sussex Think Active Travel campaign gets government boost
The county council has been awarded £275,000 for the project
Last updated 24th Oct 2021
The Government has awarded West Sussex County Council with £275,000 to push forward with the Think Active Travel campaign.
It's 100% of the bid put forward by the council and means designs for Local Cycling and Walking Infrastructure Plans can be developed and a promotional campaign encouraging pupils and parents to walk to school can continue.
Joy Dennis, Cabinet Member for Highways and Transport, said: “Providing a wide range of safe, accessible cycleways across the county to ensure residents can travel sustainably is important to us, so this latest funding award is really positive: it will enable us to develop three or four priority cycling and walking schemes to then bid for capital funding.
“When we first put in for this funding, the Department for Transport had asked us, and several other local authorities, for additional information and assurances and it’s pleasing to know they have backed us with 100 per cent of our application.”
The County Council’s new Council Plan sets a target of providing at least 30km of new cycling infrastructure in West Sussex over the next four years.