Other Benefits of Walking

Walking is the most natural, green, inclusive and sustainable form of transport.

Walking is free.
Walking doesn’t involve bulky and expensive vehicles or dangerous fuel.
Walking doesn’t produce excess carbon dioxide or fumes or cause noise pollution
Walking is a more efficient use of space: 20 times as many people can move in the same space by walking as in a car
Walking and public transport are perfect partners.

Did you know?

If we all swapped one car journey a week for walking instead, car traffic levels would reduce by at least 10%.
If every car driver in the UK left their car at home once a month and walked for 20 minutes instead, we could save up to 320,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide each year, the same amount produced by 50,000 homes.
Car users regularly suffer up to three times as much pollution as pedestrians because they are sitting in traffic in the line of exhaust fumes from the car in front.

Walking also has indirect environmental benefits. The more we walk, the more we take an interest in our surroundings. The more people use parks, green spaces, attractive urban public spaces and the countryside, the more likely it is that money will be spent to preserve, maintain and improve them.

Walking helps create better and more prosperous places to live

People on foot are likely to spend more at local shops and businesses.
More people out walking on the streets helps deter crime and makes places feel safer.

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