Scottish manifesto comparison

All content below is directly quoted from the relevant manifesto and is as comprehensive as possible.

Scottish Conservatives

Scottish Greens

Scottish Labour

Scottish Lib Dems

SNP

Manifesto

Your Local Priorities

Think Global Act Local

Build the Future Together

New Hope

Stronger for Scotland

Support for cycling

It is important that we make active travel as safe as possible for children and adults.

...direct record investment into local walking, wheeling and cycling projects.

Promotion of active travel and to ensure each area has a local active travel plan…. support increased investment, improving the maintenance of paths and street lighting, and delivering more secure cycle parking and storage.

Develop a Safe Routes strategy and incorporate modern streetscape design with separate spaces for cyclists, walkers and motorists to keep them all safe.

Provide more walking and cycling routes in local areas and ensure that communities in every part of Scotland benefit from …increased budget for active travel.

...ensure that every major Scottish city has a dedicated cycle network in place.

...invest in walking, wheeling and cycling networks… give the streets back to communities.

Reallocate road space to people and support the creation of low traffic neighbourhoods so that walking, wheeling and cycling are prioritised and made more attractive and safer.

Potholes and maintenan ce

...local Pothole Action Funds, to give communities the right to request repairs to local roads.

…equalities approach to road and path maintenance, including maintenance and winter weather treatment of footways and cycleways that are particularly important to marginalised groups.

...fixing potholes, repairing essential roads and paths, …. and ensuring that our travel networks remain safe to use.

…ensure that every town has access to a high quality and separated walking and cycling network, allowing safe daily commutes and reducing dependence on private motor vehicles.

Commit resource to tackling the chronically poor condition of local roads and pavements to make them safer for walking, wheeling, cycling and driving, improving the quality of repair to resolve issues first time around.

…make owning a bike an option for everyone, …ensure that loans and grants are available for the purchase of pedal cycles and for their repair. …provide funding to maintain pavements, pathways and routes that cyclists and pedestrians use.

Car journey reduction

One of the main criticisms of car travel is the emissions that it causes…this should be a challenge to make driving greener rather than reduce car travel. …support local shopping, …remove parking charges in council owned car parks

20mph zones and speed limits

…will listen to their communities as to whether they want a 20mph zone introduced in a targeted local area and will oppose blanket zones being enforced.

…reducing demand for cars and parking in our towns and city centres …introduce low emission zones in town centres and carbon-free city centres, …local authority targets for reducing carbon emissions from transport.

Extend 20mph speed limits within residential areas and town and city centres by 2025 and seek to lower 40mph speed limits to 30mph to improve road safety,

…will prioritise improvements to public transport so that leaving the car at home is a viable option for everyone.

…reduce car travel to school by more than 10%.

…develop and publish plans on how our local areas can reduce kilometres travelled by car by 20% by 2030 - … highlighting where car journeys are still needed but also setting out how we will encourage people to use the bus, local rail services, and walk and cycle more.

…identifying residential areas that would benefit from lower speed limits

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Integrate the concept of 20minute neighbourhoods into planning to bring most of what people need in daily life within a short distance, reducing the need for travel.

…creating safe cycle routes near schools

Plan so that every child has done their cycling proficiency test by the end of primary school.

…deliver 20-minute neighbourhoods - liveable, accessible places, with thriving local economies, where people can meet daily needs within a 20 minute walk, enabling us to live better, healthier lives and supporting the transition to net zero.

To encourage our youngest citizens to participate in Active Travel, we will provide free bikes for all children of

…using the planning system to plan for reduced car use in urban areas and support great public transport reliability.

Introduce a Vision Zero approach for road safety, …fund road safety teams in all local authorities 20-minute neighbour hoods

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Deliver 20-minute neighbourhoods, where essential services can be accessed locally, creating liveable towns and cities. …making local neighbourhoods safe, healthy and welcoming for all.

Children cycling

…invests in cycling proficiency training for children and adults and cycle repair vouchers to encourage

…more ‘Safe to School’ initiatives, … every child who lives within a two-mile route from school is able to walk, wheel or cycle there safely.

more people to take up cycling and increase safety

Public transport

Planning

…encourage people to return to using public transport, by making services as frequent, as affordable and as fast as possible

Councils should not approve large housing developments without making sure there are services to support them.

Make public transport a practical alternative to car use, by improving bus services, supporting railway re-openings, integrating ticketing and bringing local bus services into public or social ownership

Planning which prioritises public and green transport options

Rethink …street design and development planning, making walking, wheeling and cycling easier, safer and more efficient

…using the planning system to plan for reduced car use in urban areas.

Support measures to make travel to school more childfriendly, reduce congestion at school gates and aim to reduce car travel to school by more than 10%.

school age who cannot afford them.

…support transport integration, affordable tickets, and to ensure it delivers economic opportunity and equity.

…maintain current bus services and seek to expand these where possible; as part of this, we will engage with local bus operators to ensure they and communities are benefiting from funding to switch from diesel to ecofriendly vehicles.

Campaign for new local powers to integrate all forms of transport and to control local bus services.

Ensure new housing developments are well connected and supported. …develop wider infrastructure such as transport connections, …in the approval process for new developments.

Integrate the concept of 20minute neighbourhoods into planning

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