Exclusive: Labour estimates huge impact on public health and wider economy from halving active travel budget
The government’s decision this month to slash the budget for cycling and walking in England by more than 50% could cost more than £2bn in the long term through its impact on public health and the wider economy, a Labour analysis has estimated.
The £380m cut to the active travel budget in the current spending review, which has two more years to run, has already been condemned by campaign groups as shortsighted and damaging.
