Cycling and Walking Initiatives

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Editors Comment:- Personally I've never met so many people walking around Audlem!

Councils next steps in drive to get more of us walking and cycling

Cheshire East Council has taken another major step in its drive to reduce emissions from cars and get more people walking or cycling to boost health and wellbeing.

The council intends to introduce cycling and walking infrastructure plans with proposed dedicated active travel routes across four towns in the borough.

Crewe, Macclesfield, Wilmslow and Congleton are the first towns to benefit from a walking and cycling infrastructure plan, which could attract government investment.

Following an evidence-based review, these towns were considered to have the greatest potential for increased walking and cycling. Each town could see a network of segregated cycling and walking routes linking key locations, such as bus and train stations, leisure centres, shops and employment sites.

In Crewe, for example, where seven potential routes have been identified, a new green link along the Mill Street corridor would offer safe off-road cycling and walking routes to and from the town centre and train station.

Rood Hill, Mill Street, Antrobus Street and the town centre are some parts of Congleton, identified as potential locations for similar schemes, while in Wilmslow work is already scheduled for a new walking and cycling designated route from the train station, through the town centre to the high school, Royal London campus and Alderley Park. Other measures are also proposed.

In Macclesfield, a variety of improvements are proposed, creating or upgrading cycling and walking-friendly routes linking Middlewood Way, Hurdsfield industrial park, Waters Green, Sunderland Street and Cumberland Street, together with public realm improvements at the train station.

The plans for each town will be published on the councils website.

The full report is attached separately as a pdf