Share your views for lively journey within the Cairngorms

A brand new on-line session has been launched, seeking to discover out what is required to make it simpler for everybody to get across the Park by strolling, wheeling and biking.

The Remodeling Transport suite of tasks is a part of the broader Heritage Horizons: Cairngorms 2030 programme, which can empower individuals who dwell, go to and work within the UK’s largest nationwide park to deal with the local weather and nature crises. The tasks have acquired funding via The Nationwide Lottery Heritage Fund due to cash raised by Nationwide Lottery gamers, and funding via the Sustrans Locations For Everybody fund.

Since being awarded the funding in 2021 the Cairngorms Nationwide Park Authority has been working laborious behind the scenes and have put collectively a brand new Remodeling Transport Workforce. The group consists of three lively journey professionals; Anna Ronayne, Sjoerd Tel and Helen Wilson, who will develop the tasks over the following 18 months prepared for supply in 2024-28.

The Remodeling Transport group shall be on the bottom across the Park, in search of resident and customer views on what could possibly be completed to enhance lively journey and transport within the Park, and the place folks assume enhancements are wanted most. By means of working with communities and companions, the group purpose to develop high-quality strolling, wheeling and biking connections each in and between communities.

Household pleasant Group Engagement classes shall be held within the following communities throughout the following few weeks:

Carrbridge Village Corridor – August 23 – 4:30-8:00pm

Aviemore Group Centre – August 23 – 4pm-8pm,

Newtonmore Village Corridor – August 24 – 4:30-8:00pm

Dulnain Bridge Group Corridor – September 1 – 4:30-8:00pm

Nethy Bridge Group Centre – September 6 – 4:30-8:00pm

If transport help is required, contact the Badenoch and Strathspey Group Transport Firm on 01479 810004.

Different tasks that hyperlink to this initiative embody making a devoted e-bike community for residents and guests to make use of, investigating future transport choices for the route between Aviemore and Cairngorm Mountain, and bettering the way in which public transport might function in Deeside.

Grant Moir, Chief Govt at CNPA mentioned: “Views on lively journey and accessibility within the Park got here via strongly within the Partnership Plan session and with transport accounting for over a 3rd of Scotland’s carbon emissions, how residents and guests journey to and across the Nationwide Park might want to change if we’re to attain our web zero targets.

“By means of these tasks we have now an opportunity to place lively journey on the coronary heart of a greener and more healthy future and for the Park to grow to be a rural exemplar for sustainable and lively journey. This won’t occur with out the help and involvement of those who dwell and work right here and we encourage as many individuals as potential to get entangled with the session.”