Falkirk Council has pledged to make "a real change in direction" as it aims to make walking, wheeling or cycling more popular than taking the car for shorter, everyday journeys. In the long term, that will mean big changes such as replacing space on roads that is currently used for on-street parking with wider footways and new cycleways.
The 15-year active travel and local transport strategies, which were presented to members of Falkirk Council's executive on Tuesday, is based on an extensive consultation on active travel undertaken in 2021.
It found that 75 per cent of people in the Falkirk council area use a car as their primary mode of transport, even for fairly short journeys. But it also revealed that while many people would like to use more active travel, there are barriers to them doing so. More than 50 per cent of over 65-year-olds said they felt roads were unsafe for them as pedestrians.
