Call for views on walking and cycling in Scotland
Closing date for submissions - Friday 11 December 2009
The Transport, Infrastructure and Climate Change Committee is holding an inquiry into walking and cycling in Scotland.
The formal title of the Committee’s inquiry is an Inquiry into Active Travel.
As part of this work, the Committee is keen to hear views on walking and cycling from all interested individuals and organisations.
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This page provides more information on the Committee’s approach to its inquiry; the issues on which it is looking for views; and details of how to respond to the call for views.
Responses to the call for views will be posted here.
Remit of the inquiry
The Committee is aware that walking and cycling offers many social, economic and environmental advantages.
The Committee’s inquiry is therefore focused on how to deliver an improved uptake of walking and cycling in practice. The Committee is particularly interested in hearing about what more the Scottish Government, local authorities and other bodies can do.
The formal remit of the Committee’s inquiry is to consider—
- The progress being made in developing active travel;
- Any barriers to further progress; and
- The further action that may be required by the Scottish Government, local authorities and other bodies to ensure that significant progress is made in the development and implementation of active travel in Scotland.
Issues on which the Committee is seeking views
The Committee is seeking comment on the following issues specifically—
Question 1
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What more can be done to encourage people to change their travelling habits and walk and cycle more?
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Question 2
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Is enough progress being made in developing and delivering improvements in the uptake of walking and cycling?
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Question 3
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If not, what are the barriers to progress? (for example, lack of policy development, lack of political leadership, lack of funding/investment, the lack of prominence given to active travel in transport policy development, project planning and construction etc.)
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Question 4
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Why do walking and cycling policies set out in national, regional and local transport plans not result in a greater modal share for walking and cycling?
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Question 5
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What further action is required by the Scottish Government, local authorities and other bodies to ensure that significant progress is made in the development and implementation of walking and cycling, particularly if transport is to make a greater and more meaningful contribution to the reduction in greenhouse gas emissions?
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Question 6
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What can Scotland learn from good practice/successful implementation in other countries?
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Respondents are invited to structure their responses around the issues identifed by the Committee above. You are free to answer as many or as few of the questions as you wish.
As well as these issues, the Committee is interested in any other comments you have about matters within the remit of the inquiry.
Scottish Government work
The Committee is aware that the Scottish Government has undertaken various pieces of work on active travel, including a recent consultation on a Cycling Action Plan for Scotland.
The Committee will have access to the responses to this consultation. If you wished to provide any additional views, the Committee would be very keen to hear from you.
The Committee will also have access to the reports from the various consultation events carried out in relation to the Cycling Action Plan for Scotland.
The Committee anticipates that its inquiry will report before the Cycling Action Plan for Scotland is published.
Before responding
Before you submit your views, please ensure that you have read our policy for handling information received in response to calls for evidence (pdf 15kb). Information you provide will be handled in accordance with this policy.
Information you provide will be treated according the Scottish Parliament's privacy and data policy.
Your views may be published by the Parliament and will be treated as a public document unless indicated. Your views will be made available to the Committee.
How to respond
The closing date for written submissions is Friday 11 December 2009. Ideally submissions should not exceed six sides of A4 paper. The Committee prefers to receive written submissions electronically. These should be sent to: activetravel@scottish.parliament.uk
Please note that if you make an electronic submission there is no need to follow it up with an additional hard copy. If you wish to make a hard only submission, please address it to—
Transport, Infrastructure and Climate Change Committee
Room T3.40
The Scottish Parliament
Edinburgh
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