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Recommendation 8
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DfT established specific objectives for increasing active travel rates by 2025
Conclusion
DfT set out its most recent objectives for active travel in 2022. These are to: • increase the percentage of short journeys in towns and cities that are walked or cycled from 41% in 2019 to 46% in 2025; • increase people’s annual walking activity to 365 stages per person per year; • double rates of cycling from 0.8 billion stages in 2013 to 1.6 billion stages in 2025; and • increase the percentage of children aged 5 to 10 who usually walk to school from 49% in 2014 to 55% in 2025.12 8 C&AG’s Report, paras 1.5, 3.9 and Figure 10 9 Qq 75, 77; C&AG’s Report, para 3.10 10 Qq 11, 30, 37; C&AG’s Report, para 1.10 11 ATE0010, Written evidence submitted by Living Streets 12 DfT, The second cycling and walking investment strategy (CWIS2), published 6 July 2022; C&AG’s report, para 3 Active travel in England 11
Government Response
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