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Programmes of capital (£957,400) and revenue (£478,050) expenditure have been developed to meet the 5% spending commitment on cycling.
The spending commitment in the 2013 -14 budget has been set at 6%.
Capital Projects. The Quality Bike Corridor was launched in November 2012 and the first stage of the Leith – Portobello ‘Family Network’ of routes in October 2012.
Revenue Projects. Other cycle schemes will be developed and delivered. A pilot of residential cycle parking provision is being progressed. The revenue expenditure will be used to improve maintenance of cycle facilities including off-road cycle paths (such as through removal of vegetation encroachment) and relining of on-road cycle facilities. There will also be promotional activities to support cycling and encourage safe behaviour of drivers and cyclists.
A report on “Cycling in the City – 5% Transport Spend Commitment and the Delivery of the Active Travel Action Plan” was considered by the 13 September 2012 TIE Committee.
Additional staff resources have been recruited, to ensure effective delivery of the projects associated with the additional expenditure.
Funding to meet the 5% (+1% p.a.) target will need to be found from other areas such as centralised Roads maintenance/renewal budgets and from local Neighbourhood area revenue budgets.
These pressures will increase as the target increases year by year (1% per annum) and where total transport expenditure increases.
Deliver to the outcomes of Active Travel Action Plan.
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