A better Scotland for walkers, wheelers and cyclists
Our green vision for transport doesn’t stop at buses, trains and ferries.
It’s also about making where we live, work and play better for everyone.
It’s about creating spaces for people and communities where it’s easy to walk, wheel or cycle. Where private cars don’t dominate our streets, and where every child can travel to school safely. And where everyone can enjoy the right to roam Scotland’s hills, lochs and countryside.
Thanks to the Scottish Greens, we’ve invested record amounts in active and sustainable travel over the past five years – and we’re seeing these incredible changes in our communities. This investment will pay off for generations to come, both in reducing our impact on the climate, and creating healthier communities where active travel is the first choice. But there’s much more to do.
That means committing even more of our transport budget to build more cycle paths and ensure our core path network is accessible to everyone. That means reducing speed limits on popular walking and cycling routes to keep everyone safe. And that means designing safe routes to school, with better lighting, crossing points and segregated paths.
- Allocate at least 10% of the national transport budget to active travel, and provide multi-year funding grants to delivery organisations.
- Ensure that every child leaving primary school has had the opportunity to learn to cycle and swim, up to bikeability level 2 standard.
- Support reduction of national speed limits on single carriageway roads, including extending 40mph speed limits on roads popular with walkers and cyclists around villages and towns.
- Support the full rollout of 20mph as the default speed limit in urban and built up areas and ensure this is fully enforced.
- Introduce a safe school run package, ensuring travel to schools is safe for children and parents, investing in better segregated active travel routes, crossing points, lighting, and enforcement of bans on pavement parking and idling.
- Deliver a national blueprint of walking, cycle and wheeling networks, including better connections for active travel infrastructure with public transport to link longer journeys together.
- Expand and improve the National Cycle Network and support councils to deliver active travel infrastructure quickly and efficiently.
- Establish a Scottish Paths Fund to extend Scotland’s core path network and protect our right to roam.
- Create an Outdoor Access for All initiative to help the most disadvantaged groups enjoy Scotland’s iconic landscapes and greenspaces.
- Introduce new regulations on the use of e-bikes and e-scooters in Scotland, so that local councils can establish e-mobility schemes appropriate for their communities.
