Liverpool City Council’s Cabinet has approved the adoption of a Local Cycling and Walking Infrastructure Plan (LCWIP) aimed at improving walking and cycling facilities in the city over the next ten years. The document will shape the design of both council-led and privately-led development schemes with the primary objective of encouraging residents and visitors to walk and cycle more often. Liverpool’s LCWIP has prioritised 13 strategic cycling routes and 30 primary routes, focusing on six in the short-term and 11 in the medium-term. The plan has also identified 36 core walking zones, highlighting 15 as short-term priorities and 11 as medium-term.
This move follows the council’s recent efforts to “connect up the network” for active travel across Liverpool post-Covid and comes as the council works to transform two pop-up cycle lanes in Toxteth and establish a new cycle lane linking routes from the city centre to Otterspool and Sefton Park. The plan complements the Liverpool City Region’s LCWIP and supports the ambitions of Active Travel England. It also fits with the city’s wider transport and planning policy.
The Transport Plan seeks to address the fact that almost two-thirds of city journeys are made by car, generating nearly half a million tonnes of CO2 emissions per annum. By introducing various new interventions, the council aims to reach net-zero carbon emissions while increasing cycling journeys by ten-fold by 2027. Liverpool City Council’s Cabinet Member for Environment and Climate Change, Councillor Dan Barrington, expressed his support for the LCWIP and the challenges ahead, emphasizing his desire to see the changes delivered in the coming decade.
Liverpool City Region’s Walking and Cycling Commissioner, Simon O’Brien, also praised the LCWIP, calling it a “fantastic piece of work” that spells out precisely what needs to be done to make the city an “active travel nirvana”. He believes the newly adopted plan is not only coherent and simple to understand but also complements the city region’s larger active travel plans
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