Active travel
Active travel is important to us
Our customers include everybody walking, cycling and horse-riding along or across our Strategic Road Network.
We encourage healthy and sustainable travel through the routes we maintain and facilities we deliver.
Depending on who you are, this could mean:
- low carbon journeys to jobs and services
- leisure trips on the many National Cycle Network routes crossing our network.
In this roads period (2020-2025), we've invested over £80m from our Designated Funds programme on schemes which support active journeys.
Find a route on the National Cycle Network.
Connecting communities through active travel
We’re helping more people to walk, wheel and cycle safely by connecting communities across England through a range of local routes and improvements.
From Cornwall to Cumbria, we’ve supported projects that link towns and villages, improve access to nature, and create safer, greener journeys.
Each route has been developed in partnership with local authorities, community organisations and national charities to deliver long-term benefits for people and places.
Find out more about some of the active travel projects we’ve supported across the country:
Keswick to Threlkeld Railway Trail
How we support active travel
Here are some of the ways we're encouraging active travel, our investments to date and successes.
"While we strive to maintain safe and reliable journeys for the vehicles that rely on our network each day, we know that ever higher levels of social and environmental responsibility will, quite rightly, be required of us. This means we will need to find new and innovative ways to continue connecting the country by facilitating active travel and public transport."Nick Harris, Chief Executive, National Highways
