Extra Council staff for walking and cycling initiatives
Active Travel Teams are to be funded by Government in all local authorities to support the expansion of walking and cycling facilities.
These will amount to up to 248 new local authority jobs, to support the delivery of almost 1,000kms of such infrastructure by 2025. The initiative announced today will almost quadruple the number of staff working on these projects.
The walking and cycle initiatives include the new Safe Routes to School programme, aimed at ensuring children of all ages and backgrounds can travel to school safely, and in a healthy and active way.
€1.8bn will be spent on walking and cycling over the lifetime of the Government, according to the Programme for Government.
