The strategy encourages car users to switch one journey a week to public transport, walking, wheeling, or cycling and for people who don’t have access to a car to continue to travel sustainably.
Small changes to how we travel will help us to make a big difference – cleaning up our air, lowering carbon emissions, reducing congestion on our roads and improving the health and wellbeing of local people. This could result in around 200 million additional trips being made by sustainable transport every year, improving our environment and the health of local people.
Making the Right Travel Choice is the lead policy of the 2021-2035 North East Transport Plan which is currently under refresh. If we each increase our green journeys by even one journey per week, that will take us towards achieving our vision and our regional transport objectives.
