Our walking strategy is part of our Local Transport Plan. It sets specific targets for increasing walking, and ways of reaching these targets.
What it envisages
Walking will become the first choice for local journeys and together with public transport, a positive part of longer ones. Children will be regularly walking along safer routes to school and as a result there will be noticeable increases in levels of fitness.
Capital programme
Our local transport plan's capital programme includes a range of schemes to encourage walking and improve accessibility. These include:
- Controlled crossings, such as puffin and toucan crossings
- Build-outs, where the kerb is extended into the road to reduce the distance you must cross
- Pedestrian refuges or islands, so you can cross a wide road in two stages and wait safely in the centre of the road
- Dropped kerbs for mobility-impaired people and people with pushchairs
- Tactile paving, to alert visually-impaired people of potential dangers
- New and widened footways and pavements
- Raised kerbs at bus stops to make it easier to step onto the bus
- Replacing steps with ramps
- Removing barriers that make it hard for wheelchair and pushchair users to use a path
- Disabled parking bays
- Facilities for mobility-impaired and deaf pedestrians such as audible and tactile signals at crossings
To find out more
Please download the summary of our walking strategy, the full report, or the local transport plan.