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looks at introducing a bus gate. The council has launched a consultation on active travel measures and is asking residents their thoughts on multiple measures to improve cycling and walking routes across the borough and help address climate change. These plans will be paid for by the £335,000 grant given by the Department for Transport’s Active Travel Fund. One of the schemes includes introducing a bus gate outside Maidenhead railway station along the length of Shoppenhangers Road between Larchfield and Braywick Road in Oldfield ward – blocking off all traffic except for buses, bicycles, and hackney carriages. It also aims to prevent ‘rat running’ – areas used as cut-throughs to avoid traffic on the main roads.
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More than £630,000 of Government funding will be used to create two major new cycle routes in Stoke-on-Trent â but council chiefs have missed out on a further £210,000.
Stoke-on-Trent City Council has been allocated £504,750 from the second tranche of the Department for Transport s Active Travel Fund, after previously securing £126,000 from the first tranche.