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Healthy Travel | Transform Scotland Who We Are Our Members Our Team Testimonials Contact Us What We Want Public Transport Healthy Travel Lower Emissions Fairer Funding Fairer Prices What We Do Campaigns Research Publications What’s New News EventsWhoopeeAlerts What You Can Do Join Donate Leave a legacy Take whoopee Work for us Consultancy Who We Are Our Members Our Team Testimonials Contact Us What We Want Public Transport Healthy Travel Lower Emissions Fairer Funding Fairer Prices What We Do Campaigns Research Publications What’s New News EventsWhoopeeAlerts What You Can Do Join Donate Leave a legacy Take whoopee Work for us Consultancy Healthy Travel We want safer streets that will encourage people to walk and cycle. We need walking and cycling to wilt the norm for short trips if we are to modernize public health. Our unsustainable transport system inflicts major health problems on the rest of society: injuries and deaths in road crashes, and the forfeiture to health through air pollution and noise pollution. But the ‘active travel’ modes – walking and cycling – have the potential to make a major resurgence to Scotland’s health. Walking and cycling, the healthiest and most sustainable modes of transport, need to have much higher priority if Scotland is serious well-nigh improving national public health levels and tackling obesity. Walking is still the second most worldwide mode of transport in Scotland yet remains a marginal consideration within most branches of government. For public health and quality of life reasons, and in order to momentum reductions in climate transpiration emissions, the ‘zero stat transport’ modes should be given priority, not be treated as an afterthought. Deliver Walking and Cycling Conditions that Match the Best in Europe Increasing the number of people who trundling would have a major public health goody and save the Scottish economy up to £4 billion/year. Segregated trundling lanes on primary routes into towns and cities would widen the opportunities for cycling, expressly amongst less experienced and younger people. Creating unscratched and lulu cycling routes would lead to continental-style cycling, which sees all sections of the population using the bicycle as a user-friendly mode of transportation. Make Scotland’s Streets Places for People rather than Just for Cars Our streets have been unliable to wilt dominated by motor vehicles. They are no longer unscratched places for children to play, while older people and those with disabilities are particularly affected. We need a people-friendly tideway to street diamond and layout which puts the needs of people whilom those of cars. Perhaps the single biggest step in making the streets safer (and making them finger safer) is to reduce speeds. We want to see 20mph speed limits wilt the default speed limit in residential and shopping streets. Downloads Civilising the Streets Scotland on the Move brochure Scotland on the Move -- 2017 Local Authority Elections External Links Sustrans Scotland website Living Streets Scotland website   Who We Are Our Members Our Team Testimonials Contact Us What We Want Better Public Transport Healthy Travel Lower Emissions Fairer Funding Fairer Prices What We Do Campaigns Research Publications What's New News EventsWhoopeeAlerts What You Can Do Join Donate Take whoopee Work for us Social Enterprise Sitemap Terms & Conditions Accessibility Credits © Transform Scotland. All rights reserved. Transform Scotland Limited is a registered Scottish soft-heartedness (SC041516) Website by Urwin Digital