Like always, in principle this is great.
But 1) actively fund it, and 2) actively enforce local authorities to do it *properly*.
ATE are a great org, but without the heft of their bigger brother DfT, too many LAs either still don't get it, or still aren't serious.
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Whitworth Street West with Deansgate beyond, Manchester.
An area recently dominated by space for motor traffic has been rebalanced to enable cycling as part of wider network changes and with a rain garden replacing a former slip road. Places can change.
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Strategy aims to deliver 5,000 new walking, wheeling and cycling routes and 10,000 safer crossings over the next 5 years.
I don't post much on here but today, I thought some dots needed joining. So, have a read of this, about the most powerful health, cost of living, growth and health intervention you've never heard of www.linkedin.com/pulse/most-p...
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Imagine I told you there was a single intervention that could reduce annual sick days by 4.4 million, free up 1.
as I said on @trashfuture.bsky.social , the great problem has historically been that any leader from the North has had to be from some particular part of the North meaning that everyone else in the North hates them. Burnham is potentially the Paul Atreides figure capable of uniting the tribes.
