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New "Move Free" report by Create Streets shows that enabling walking and cycling brings benefits for everyone

Overview

Organisation:
Create Streets

Media type:
Other evidence/studies

Topic:
Economics & benefits

Setting:
Families / residential, Town centres / Urban

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"Move Free - How and why making it easier to get about towns and cities in as many ways as possible boosts prosperity, high streets and freedom, happiness, health and house-building" finds that "more movement makes us richer"

Key statistics

30%
the average increase in retail sales created by projects that improve walking, cycling or public transport access to shops.
Findings outline the benefits, economic and otherwise, that the opportunity to walk or cycle brings. Results include that more walkable neighbourhoods are typically worth 10-55% more, and that retail sales increase by an average of 30% following projects that improve walking, cycling or public transport access to shops.
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