This is too good to be true. According to the Sunday Times, "ministers and civil servants at the Department for Transport are drawing up a new national walking strategy...Officials want to create what they call "legible cities", so that those on foot can find their way easily and safely. A new pavement policy will advise pedestrians in the way the Highway Code advises drivers. David Jamieson, the transport minister, has ordered the review amid concern that people are walking a quarter less than they did in the 1970s...Jamieson said last week: "A draft national walking strategy is being prepared. We are developing a specification for research on attitudes to walking. We are reviewing and updating our technical guidance on walking."
I say it's too goo to be true, but of course it's all too predictable that this government should seek to impose a "national walking strategy". I await the first conultation paper on the most efficient walking method. And time, surely, for a 'national breathing strategy'.
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