Active travel

Active travel is important to us

Our customers include everybody walking, cycling and horse-riding along or across our Strategic Road Network.

We encourage healthy and sustainable travel through the routes we maintain and facilities we deliver.

Depending on who you are, this could mean:

low carbon journeys to jobs and services
leisure trips on the many National Cycle Network routes crossing our network.

In this roads period (2020-2025), we've invested over £80m from our Designated Funds programme on schemes which support active journeys.

Find a route on the National Cycle Network.

How we support active travel

Here are some of the ways we're encouraging active travel, our investments to date and successes.

Improving experience

Working in partnership

Connecting communities

"While we strive to maintain safe and reliable journeys for the vehicles that rely on our network each day, we know that ever higher levels of social and environmental responsibility will, quite rightly, be required of us. This means we will need to find new and innovative ways to continue connecting the country by facilitating active travel and public transport."

Nick Harris, Chief Executive, National Highways