Workshop 4 - Transport and Active Travel

Cairngorms Cli­mate Conference

Monday 9^th March 2020

Work­shop 4: Trans­port and Act­ive Travel: Trans­ition­ing to a sus­tain­able and act­ive future

Key Speak­er: Claire Daly Head of Policy & Com­mu­nic­a­tions (Scot­land), Sus­trans Host: Dav­id Clyne & Pete Crane CNPA Vis­it­or Ser­vices Facil­it­at­or: Anna­bel Dav­id­son Knight

Pur­pose: To col­lect­ively con­sider how best to devel­op func­tion­al, sus­tain­able, act­ive travel in Cairngorms Nation­al Park for res­id­ents and vis­it­ors lead­ing towards the aim of a net zero car­bon emis­sion tar­get for all travel by 2045.

Look­ing at who we need to engage with, and what are the key changes that we need to imple­ment to make such dra­mat­ic changes pos­it­ive for people, our eco­nomy and the nature and cul­ture of Cairngorms

Main points raised:

The work­shops con­sidered at four key ​‘ele­ments’ required to sup­port this dra­mat­ic change sum­mar­ised below:

Bene­fits

1. Cli­mate bene­fits – under­stood but undersold?
2. Health-phys­ic­al/so­cial/­ment­al – under­stood but undersold?
3. Poten­tially less congestion?
4. Less social isol­a­tion – walk­ing & cyc­ling togeth­er (+pub­lic trans­port & car share)
5. Eco­nom­ic bene­fits – more effi­cient, vis­it­ors stay­ing longer
6. Access to all – if delivered to include all
7. Con­nec­tion with place – real exper­i­ences of what Cairngorms has to offer both people & nature
8. Com­munity involve­ment — good sup­port from many Cairngorms com­munit­ies and com­munit­ies of interest

Chal­lenges

1. Motiv­a­tion — what really encour­ages People/​change
2. Char­ging points – how will we get enough in all the ​‘right places’
3. Multi use paths – access­ible to all
4. Integ­rated trans­port – trains, buses link­ing to act­ive travel

5. Afford­able? ​‘I can’t afford to change’

6. Big­ger impact in rur­al area – longer jour­neys, few users

7. Get­ting bet­ter pub­lic trans­port earlier
8. Lessen­ing car use — 70yrs of hav­ing our own car ​‘con­trol’
9. Life­style change – liv­ing closer to work or increased remote working

‘Pre­pared­ness’

1. Fund­ing £ — suf­fi­cient fund­ing and sup­port (staff and polit­ic­al) needed to ini­ti­ate change
2. Bet­ter usable pub­lic trans­port for want and need required to ini­ti­ate change…linked
3. ….Linked to where people go – Infra­struc­ture – safe NMU- night-time use – social & polit­ic­al sup­port (cel­eb­ra­tion) encour­aging what’s sup­posed to hap­pen ‑walk­ing and cycling
4. Nation­al­isa­tion – Cairngorms deliv­ery of a Nation­al approach
5. Free (afford­able)
6. All Abil­it­ies involvement
7. Cul­ture change — Dis­cuss what works best — Take people with us
8. Safe and welcoming

What next?

1. Nation­al lead — Scot­tish Gov­ern­ment to set the vis­ion and short­er term aims
2. Loc­al Author­it­ies – key to pub­lic trans­port support
3. Bet­ter engage­ment — Go to the people + young/​old, res­id­ent & visitor
4. Bet­ter engage­ment — ​“Not 19.30 in cold hall”
5. Bet­ter engage­ment — focus on people who can & need change
6. Agree pri­or­it­ies — what are the best changes we can make?
7. Share the vis­ion with real experiences