Regeneration: targeting funding and developing new projects, by Ryland Jones for Sustrans Cymru

is a world in which people

choose to travel in ways that benefit their

health and the environment

Sustrans vision…..

1. Big Lottery funded infrastructure

2. Valleys Cycle Network

3. Travel information advice

1.Recent successes

Pont-y-Werin – The People’s Bridge

Economic benefits of the scheme: £9,603,376Health 41.0% £4,113,118Absenteeism 3.4% £337,756Car kilometres replaced after scheme: 583,443 kmAmenity 43.6% £4,372,355Decongestion 8.8% £879,791Actual cost of the scheme: £4,893,237Benefit cost ratio of the scheme: 3.0

Rhyl : Pont-y-Ddraig

Puddler’s Bridge – heritage and connectivity

Clydach Connect 2 – Phase 2 bridge artworkClydach : art and function

Cost of the scheme: £1,111,94450,000 additional users between 2010 and 2012

Economic benefits : £3,878,212(of which Health = 60.9% £2,364,272)Car kilometres replaced : 29,580 km

Benefit cost ratio of the scheme: 3.5

Geographical coverage

Valleys Cycle Network

Funding the VCN programme

Workplace travel

1. Recent successes in Active Travel

2. Emerging priorities- Active Travel Wales

(2013) Act - City Regions- South Wales Metro- ERDF

2. Emerging priorities

ERDF Funding 2014-20 priorities:Increasing the commercial attractiveness of places

Investment priorities from the three thematic objectives:

• Promoting sustainable transport and removing bottlenecks in key network infrastructures

• Increasing urban and labour mobility to and from key urban and employment centres

• Promoting employment and supporting labour mobility

Urban Design: People and Places

Connectivity Legibility

Permeability Movement