Big push for cycle network

THE National Cycling Network carried 407 million cycling and walking journeys last year, its co-ordinators said today.
By The Newsroom
Published 10th Sep 2010, 11:13 BST
Updated 10th Sep 2010, 11:13 BST

Sustainable transport charity Sustrans added that the health benefit of walking and cycling journeys on the network in 2009 was estimated at 384m and would result in substantial savings to health budgets.

It said that if each of those journeys replaced a car trip, the potential carbon savings were worth 32m.

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Sustrans released the statistics to mark the 15th anniversary of the start of the network on September 11, 1995.

Now 12,600 miles long, the network carries more than one million walking and cycling journeys every day. Over the last nine years it has grown in length by 200 per cent.