Brake supports announcement of Urban Challenge Fund
The Urban Challenge Fund, announced this week in the UK by the Department for Transport, will replace the Congestion Transport Innovation Fund. It is designed to support measures that tackle congestion and also safety and cut carbon emissions. Local authorities can apply to the fund.
Brake’s campaigns officer Ellen Booth said: “We welcome the widening of this funding pot to include road safety schemes as well as congestion relief schemes. However, Brake wants a more fundamental commitment to increased, ring-fenced funding for road safety initiatives, particularly for lower speed limit safety zones in communities and pedestrian and cyclist facilities such as pedestrian crossings and cycle paths. Our volunteers who campaign for road safety come up against financial barriers to desperately needed safety improvements time and time again.”
See also:
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December 10, 2011
