Scotland has again challenged English local authorities by announcing a £15m fund for sustainable travel. For a cost of £10M, car use has declined by an average of about 10% in England's three sustainable travel towns of Darlington, Worcester and Peterborough. Scottish transport minister, Stewart Stevenson, pledged to make £15M available over three years to tackle ‘increasing car use and rising emissions'. He compared it directly with the Department for Transport's £10m over five years, launched in 2004, and called for a focus on innovation rather than raising revenue. Cllr Alison Hay, of the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities, said: ‘Councils have long-advocated sustainable travel, and this project allows us to look at how we can make these shifts in a big way.'
