Specific advice related to transport (including cycling) and local area agreements Was published in December 2007 by the Department for Communities and Local Government and the Department for Transport entitled ‘Local Transport Services: the Crucial Role of the New Local Performance Framework’ and can be viewed at:
www.communities.gov.uk/publications/localgovernment/transport
Earlier this year the Secretary of State set out our approach to cycling in “A Sustainable Approach for Cycling”, the same time announcing a six fold increase in the budget for Cycling England, which will complement local authority spend. Their budget will double to £20 million next year and then rise to £60 million in both 2009-10 and 2010-11.
This investment will enable an extra 500,000 children to have access to the new Bikeability cycle training by 2012, create additional safer walking and cycling routes to at least 500 schools and allow the expansion of the Cycling Demonstration Town programme.