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Children’s voices matter 📣

Find out what children across Scotland have to say about #Transport and #ActiveTravel.

Read our first ever Children’s Walking and Cycling Index, published today.

👀 sustrans.org.uk/childrens-index/scotland

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April 2, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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Our latest #WalkingCyclingIndex for Edinburgh shows people are feeling safer walking, wheeling and cycling in the city 🚶‍♀️👨‍🦽🚴‍♀️

Almost half of residents say they want to cycle more - and there is undeniable support for continued investment in active and sustainable travel 👇
March 18, 2026 at 5:06 PM
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It's time to tackle the cycling #GenderGap ♀️

On #InternationalWomensDay we want to raise awareness of the barriers that stop women getting on bikes.

Our upcoming #WalkingCyclingIndex for Scotland reveals the number of women cycling in our cities is still half that of men 🚴‍♀️
Photo of a woman standing with her bike on the pavement by a city read. Traffic lights and a bus are in the background. To the right, a male cyclist is parking his bike at a stand.
March 8, 2026 at 9:00 AM
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Our #WalkingCyclingIndex Data Tool was recently updated with data from 2023.

Draw comparisons and gain insights across our interactive dashboards:

💭 What people think
🚴‍♀️ What people do
🏙️ City data
📈 Trips data
💚 Benefits data

Discover the Tool: buff.ly/3D3f8FK
People walking, cycling and running across the new Sighthill Bridge in Glasgow.
January 30, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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Our first ever Children's #WalkingCyclingIndex reveals children in Scotland want to walk and cycle more - and want safer streets to do so 📢

We launched the report earlier this month at Craigdhu Primary School in Milngavie - find out what pupils there think 👇

Read more here 👀 buff.ly/IuLW1CE
April 25, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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The report reveals children in Scotland rely on #ActiveTravel to get around their local area 👇

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The Sustrans Children's Walking and Cycling Index Scotland report front cover, beside the following statistic: More than half (59%) of children's trips are made by walking, wheeling, scooting or cycling.
April 2, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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"Anything that you would do every day with a car, we do on the bike" 🚲

For Perth's most recent #WalkingCyclingIndex we heard from local resident Robin about the benefits of having a cargo bike.

Find out more 👉 buff.ly/2QvVtp3
From commuting to camping, our family cargo bike does it all: Robin’s story
In this blog, a dad from Perth encourages others to follow his lead by explaining the practical benefits of his family's adoption of a cargo bike for commuting, shopping and more.
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March 11, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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Yesterday we launched our first ever Children’s #WalkingCyclingIndex for Scotland 🎉

We joined Craigdhu Primary School in Milngavie during the #BigWalkAndWheel to celebrate 🌞

The Index report gives children a voice on transport issues.

Hear their views 👉 sustrans.org.uk/childrens-index/scotland
A group photo in the playground of Craigdhu Primary School in Milngavie. Sustrans' Lee Muir alongside school teachers and pupils with their bikes and scooters celebrate the launch of the Children's Walking and Cycling Index Scotland report with their hands in the air. School pupils scooting and cycling in a playground. A school pupil on a bike in a playground.
April 3, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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📢 Good news! 📢

Our latest #WalkingCyclingIndex shows people in our cities are feeling safer when walking, wheeling and cycling 🎉

We've seen a rise in safety perceptions across the board - including among women, LGBTQ+ and disabled people.

Find out more: buff.ly/E6opsWq

#ActiveTravel
Graphic with a purple and blue border, showing data. Text reads: Scotland Walking and Cycling Index 2025. People in Scotland’s cities are feeling safer when walking, wheeling and cycling. 76% of residents feel safe walking or wheeling (66% in 2023). 48% of residents feel safe cycling (40% in 2023).
March 18, 2026 at 9:01 PM
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Our new #WalkingCyclingIndex shows what's possible when more people use #ActiveTravel.

❤️‍🩹 Healthier communities which reduce pressure on our NHS

💸 Thriving, sustainable local economies

🌍 Meaningful action on the climate crisis

🔗 walkwheelcycletrust.org.uk/scotland
Graphic with a purple and blue border, showing data. Underneath logos of a tall building, a heart with a cross, and a tree, text reads: Every year walking, wheeling and cycling in Scotland’s cities makes a big impact. Prevents over 4,500 serious long-term health conditions. Creates almost £1.5 billion for the economy. Saves 93,000 tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions.
March 17, 2026 at 9:00 PM
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And we need safer, more connected routes that take women where they need to go.

Because when women and girls feel safer, everyone benefits ✨

Look out for the Scotland #WalkingCyclingIndex 2025 on 17 March.

Find your nearest city's report now 🔗 buff.ly/5uKsx4B
A photo of two girls cycling across a main road in a cycle lane. In the background there is colourful street art on the side of a residential building. In the distance there is a person crossing the road on a powered wheelchair.
March 8, 2026 at 9:00 AM
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"If you go out walking, you're part of the world" ✨

For Dundee's most recent #WalkingCyclingIndex, we spoke to Frances about her day-to-day using a powered wheelchair and the importance of walking for mental wellbeing 👩‍🦼

Find out more about the Walking and Cycling Index: buff.ly/38ukoa0
Powered wheelchair is my way of living: Frances’ story
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February 19, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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Yesterday we joined partners @edinburghcouncil.bsky.social to celebrate the launch of their latest #WalkingCyclingIndex 🤩

The report shows 57% of residents support shifting investment from road-building schemes to fund walking, wheeling, cycling and public transport 💪

Full report: buff.ly/owC4RtD
Councillor Stephen Jenkinson, Transport and Environment Convener at City of Edinburgh Council, gives a speech at the launch event for the 2025 Edinburgh Walking and Cycling Index. Fiona MacLeod, Director for Scotland, Cyrmu and Northern Ireland at Walk Wheel Cycle Trust, gives a speech at the launch event for the 2025 Edinburgh Walking and Cycling Index. Attendees reading the new report at the launch event for the 2025 Edinburgh Walking and Cycling Index.
March 19, 2026 at 8:00 PM
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And children in Scotland want to travel actively more often:

🚲 almost half (48%) want to cycle more

👩‍🦽🚶‍♂️ almost a third (31%) want to walk or wheel more

🚗 almost a quarter (23%) want to be driven less

Full report: sustrans.org.uk/childrens-index/scotland

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Promotional graphic for the Sustrans Children's Walking and Cycling Index Scotland report, featuring a photo of two teenage girls with bikes in a park. Read the report now at sustrans.org.uk/childrens-index/scotland.
April 2, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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The #WalkingCyclingIndex has become one of the most important tools we share ⚙️

It helps us understand how people experience getting around their city, what’s getting better, and what needs improved.

The new report tells us city residents want to travel actively more often 👇
Graphic with a purple and blue border, showing data. Text reads: Scotland Walking and Cycling Index 2025 report. People in Scotland's cities want to travel actively more often. 46% want to walk or wheel more. 45% want to cycle more.
March 17, 2026 at 10:30 AM
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Exciting news 🎉 Later this month we'll be launching our first ever Children's Walking and Cycling Index for Scotland.

We want to make sure that children across Scotland are given a voice on transport issues.

Watch this space and find out more
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Children walking, wheeling and cycling in a park
February 6, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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Our first ever Children’s #WalkingCyclingIndex reveals a #GenderGap in children cycling in Scotland 🚴‍♀️📉

Full report: sustrans.org.uk/childrens-index/scotland
The Sustrans Children's Walking and Cycling Index Scotland report front cover, beside the following statistic: 16% of girls cycle five or more times a week, compared to 22% of boys.
April 7, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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"It is really about building that nice safe environment for everybody to feel that they can be themselves and have a bit of fun" 🌞

For Stirling's most recent #WalkingCyclingIndex we met the programme breaking down barriers to cycling 👩‍🦽 🚲

Read more: buff.ly/gQAdgul
Breaking down barriers to cycling in Stirling
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March 3, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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Scotland's cities are changing how they move ➡️ and the public are behind this vision 💪

Today we publish the second ever Walking and Cycling Index for Scotland, bringing together data from our 8 cities.

Read the report 🔗 buff.ly/LXnHk3Q

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Graphic with a purple and blue border. It shows the front cover of the Scotland Walking and Cycling Index 2025 report, which includes a photo of a young woman cycling in a city and Walk Wheel Cycle Trust and Transport Scotland logos. Across the bottom of the image, highlighted text reads: Read it now at walkwheelcycletrust.org.uk/scotland.
March 17, 2026 at 10:30 AM
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People want more services and spaces where they live

Shops, schools, green spaces and public transport within a short distance – sounds good, right?

Find out what else people have said about Cymru’s capital:
walkwheelcycletrust.org.uk/walking-cycling-index/cardiff

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A graphic promoting Walk Wheel Cycle Trust's Cardiff Walking and Cycling Index for 2025. The graphic communicates the statistic that 76% of residents support having shops, schools, green spaces and public transport within a short distance of where they live.
April 14, 2026 at 8:02 PM
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It's #GlasgowClimateWeek 🌍

For our 2023 #WalkingCyclingIndex we met Glasgow Tool Library - an organisation cutting emissions and helping ease the cost of living crisis in the city 💡

Hear about their experience using an e-cargo bike trailer 🚲

More: buff.ly/2ObhUg7
May 14, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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"These paths have been great for my kids too. I truly believe having these routes helps them grow confident on their bikes." 💪

Like Claire's family, everyone deserves access to safe #ActiveTravel routes.

Read about the latest progress in our cities: buff.ly/E6opsWq

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Quote graphic with a purple and blue border. Text reads: “I feel like these paths are really setting my kids up for choosing active travel in the future. It also replaced a lot of the car trips we used to take. It would be great if this could be city-wide and everyone had access to infrastructure like this.” Claire, Dundee. A photo below shows Claire and her two kids cycling away from camera.
March 20, 2026 at 8:02 PM
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It was great to join partners @glasgowcc.bsky.social last Thursday to launch the city's latest #WalkingCyclingIndex 📖

Glasgow has been bold in the last few years and the city is changing how it moves. As a result people are feeling safer getting around on foot, by wheelchair and by bike 📈
Photograph from the launch event for the 2025 Glasgow Walking and Cycling Index at the Glasgow City Chambers. The photo shows people speaking in a panel discussion. Photograph from the launch event for the 2025 Glasgow Walking and Cycling Index at the Glasgow City Chambers. The photo shows a close up of an attendee looking through the report. Photograph from the launch event for the 2025 Glasgow Walking and Cycling Index at the Glasgow City Chambers. The photo shows people speaking in a panel discussion. Photograph from the launch event for the 2025 Glasgow Walking and Cycling Index at the Glasgow City Chambers. The photo shows Walk Wheel Cycle Trust representatives holding copies of the report.
March 10, 2026 at 10:30 AM
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Our Children's #WalkingCyclingIndex revealed what young people across Scotland think about #ActiveTravel 💭

Discover Fatimah's story and others, by reading the report here ➡️ sustrans.org.uk/childrens-index/scotland

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Fatimah, 12 years old from Dundee, said: “Once you start walking places, it becomes part of your life. Because I've been walking to school since P1, it stuck."
August 19, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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To improve our places for young people to thrive, we need to know more about the issues that affect them most.

Find out what children need to be able to walk, wheel or cycle for more of their everyday journeys ➡️ sustrans.org.uk/childrens-index/scotland

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Teenage girl cycling on the road in Glasgow city centre.
August 25, 2025 at 2:26 PM