In April 2017, the DfT launched the Cycling and Walking Investment Strategy (CWIS), which aims to make cycling and walking the natural choice for shorter journeys, or as part of a longer journey. The strategy aims to double cycling levels by 2025, increase walking activity, reduce the rate of cyclists killed or seriously injured, and increase the percentage of school children walking to school.
Through the CWIS, local authorities are strongly encouraged by DfT to prepare LCWIPs in order to take a more strategic approach to planning walking and cycling networks; a 10 year timeframe is suggested. Surrey County Council is working with constituent local authorities including Guildford Borough Council to create a LCWIP, and GBUG is currently involved in this process.
If you have suggestions for whole new routes, add them to plotaroute.com (its free to sign up). Name the route “G-LCWIP Suggestion A to B”, include your rationale and expected use in the route “About” box. Email to info@g-bug.org, GBUG will collate the routes, send them to Surrey County Council and discuss the routes with them at our next meeting. Your suggestion could follow in the tracks of the Guildford to Godalming Greenway which was suggested and planned by cyclists and is now being implemented. We have until April 2023 to supply our comments. Several of the routes which have been suggested through GBUG, now form part of the LCWIP study.
Guildford’s LCWIP will focus on everyday commuting journeys e.g. to work, schools, the shops, visiting friends or family, and to railway stations. It is not for leisure routes.
(Update August 2021: expected the process will start imminently; SCC has set up an online map where you can post suggested improvements. Update July 2023: Stage 1 will start imminently and will take 9 months. Stage 2 will take 1 year. Update August 2023: GBUG and other stakeholders are meeting regularly with SCC and their contractor Atkins about Guildford’s LCWIP.).
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