Giving you sustainable travel choices

The NHS recommends at least 150 minutes’ moderate activity per week which a 15-minute daily commute easily covers. Outdoor physical activity is also great for your mental health by helping you manage your stress levels. It can help you sleep better at night too.

Instead of automatically grabbing the car keys, why not walk, cycle, wheel, run or scoot to work, school, your friend’s home or the shops. Being physically active is easier if it replaces something you already do. Short journeys to work or school are ideal for this and, let’s face it, by the time you’ve factored in traffic jams, road works and finding a parking space, cycling, scooting or walking is often faster and less costly than driving!

‘The Active You’ is about YOU and your environment. It’s about helping you to build regular exercise into your day, good for both your physical and mental health. It’s also about cutting down car journeys and reducing congestion and air pollution.

Check out transformingtravel.info for more information and tips to help ‘The Active You’ walk, cycle or scoot for your local journeys.

Our ‘Active You’ programme aims to change the way we travel. We want to encourage you to take up an active form of travel and we’re busy building a network of new cycle and walking paths to help you do this. We’re also providing programmes like our longerterm cycling and walking plan, our ‘School Streets’ initiative and our cycle training schemes.