Surrey’s ten-year Transport plan which includes measures for reducing the 41% of carbon emissions currently generated by transport, was approved by Councillors at their Full Council meeting today (12 July 2022).

The plan prioritises measures to support people to get around Surrey easily and sustainably including increasing the number of walking and cycling routes, providing more charging points and parking for electric vehicles, charging for transport use and introducing car clubs, as well as improving internet connections for home-working and redesigning neighbourhoods to enable easier access to local services, lessening the need to travel by car.

Matt Furniss, Cabinet Member for Transport, Infrastructure and Economy said, “Our new transport plan sets out our roadmap for a transport network in Surrey that meets the needs of the future. Crucially this includes proposals to help tackle the climate emergency and become a carbon free county by 2050.

“With such a high proportion of harmful emissions coming from transport and their significant impact on our environment, we all need to act.
Residents can play their part by relying less on their cars for some journeys. “We know this will be a challenge and we do not expect to eliminate car use. We have recently invested over £39m in buses, £6m to improve cycle routes and footpaths and a further £6m to improve road safety around schools to help make other methods of travel more appealing and accessible for certain journeys, whilst also improving the health and wellbeing of our residents.”

All local authorities are required to produce and consult on, a local transport plan to set out how it will maintain and improve the local
transport system.

The full plan will be available at
www.surreycc.gov.uk/roads-and-transport from Wednesday 13 July.

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