Cycling in a carbon clever city

Highland councillors have approved a number of priority cycling projects that will help increase the use of cycling in the City of Inverness and work towards the city achieving Carbon CLEVER status by 2025.

At the City of Inverness Area Committee today (9 December 2013) members welcomed details in a report on the Council’s approach for increasing cycling as a viable mode of transport in a Carbon CLEVER city through the Inverness Land Use & Transport Strategy consultation and the Green Transport Strategy.

Members recognised that a number of existing projects are being delivered to improve cycling in the City:

The priorities approved by members for further increasing cycle use included:

Members also agreed that other issues for encouraging more cycling, including methods for tackling travel behaviour and attitudes cycling, will be fully considered through the consultation on the Inverness Land Use & Transport Strategy.

Leader of The City of Inverness Area Committee, Councillor Ian Brown said: “Delivering a long term sustainable transport network for the future is vital not only to the future economic health of our city but to the physical health of our citizens. We must reduce our carbon consumption and work towards achieving a Carbon CLEVER city for people today and tomorrow. Cycling is a key method by which we can achieve this.”

Leader of The Highland Council, Councillor Drew Hendry added: “I see this as  journey on two wheels for the development of a Green Transport Plan for Inverness. These projects are very good practical examples of what the Council’s Carbon CLEVER commitment is all about.”