Olympic gold medallist is appointed commissioner of Active Travel England
07 March 2022
Chris Boardman MBE, former racing cyclist and gold medallist, has been appointed interim national commissioner of the Government’s new cycling and walking body, Active Travel England.
The body has been created to raise the standards of cycling and walking infrastructure in line with the Government policy paper: Gear Change: a bold new vision for walking and cycling.
According to the Department for Transport, Active Travel England will be responsible for ‘driving up the standards of cycling and walking infrastructure’, as well as managing the national active travel budget and awarding funding for new projects.
Active Travel England will also investigate and report on the performance of highway authorities on active travel and identify ‘particularly dangerous failings’ which pose a risk to cyclists and pedestrians.
In addition to creating Active Travel England, the Government has committed:
Active Travel Commissioner Chris Boardman said, “The positive effects of high levels of cycling and walking are clearly visible in pockets around the country where people have been given easy and safe alternatives to driving. Perhaps most important of all, though, it makes for better places to live while helping both the NHS and our mission to decarbonise.
“The time has come to build on those pockets of best practice and enable the whole nation to travel easily and safely around their neighbourhoods without feeling compelled to rely on cars. I’m honoured to be asked to lead on this and help deliver the ambitious vision laid out in the government’s Gear Change strategy and other local transport policies”.
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