Thursday, August 28 2008
Transport planner JMP has played a key role in helping Dundee City Council and East Renfrewshire Council to win financial support for their green travel plans from the Scottish Government’s £15m Smarter Choices Smarter Places initiative.
Dundee looks set to become one of the first local authorities in the UK to run a self service cycle hire scheme while East Renfrewshire is targeting a whole range of green initiatives, many of which link to its £100m Barrhead regeneration project.
JMP assisted Dundee by helping to define the content of its £2.1m bid, facilitating discussions with stakeholders and writing the final bid document, while in East Renfrewshire it advised on the content of the £1m bid document and its structure.
Dundee’s cycle hire scheme is one of a number of initiatives designed to encourage healthy living by cycling and walking within its communities and using the facilities within them, rather than using the car.
In East Renfrewshire energies will be directed at personalised travel planning, piloting a travel plan for council employees and rolling it out to the wider business community, the Go Greener Partnership and a Green Travel Map to promote cycling and walking.