With Active Travel England established, and targets to increase walking and cycling across the the UK listen to an interview with Professor Rachel Aldred explaining five of the key trends and issues for active travel in the UK.
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Professor Rachel Aldred is the Director of the Active Travel Academy and from the University of Westminster.
Key points from the interview as highlighted by Professor Aldred:
The ethnicity gap for cycling in London is as a similar size to the gender gap but it's not talked about as much
The example of Barcelona's super blocks ....some of the lessons from this are the way they used those schemes to give something back or event to enable people to take something back. Those interchanges that were freed up....enabled citizens and neighbours to set-up pop-up sports evens, cinemas.
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