AQW 10567/17-22

Mr Andrew Muir
Alliance Party
North Down

Tabled Date: 18/11/2020
Answered On Date: 15/02/2021
Priority Written: No

Question:
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure for an update on the Active Travel Centre at the North-West Transport Hub.

Answer:

I am very keen to increase the proportion of everyday journeys made by walking, cycling and public transport right across the North.

Enhanced passenger facilities opened in November last year with the completion of the main station work along with a new 100 space Park & Ride facility. This work marks a further step in development of this integrated active travel hub that will help to inspire smarter, greener and healthier travel choices. The provision and operation of an Active and Sustainable Travel Centre (ASTC) is another important part of the Hub project. The ASTC has the potential to become an exemplar of best practice; providing a focal point for the encouragement and promotion of sustainable travel, and the destination to advise, inform and support users and out-of-state visitors in making local, suburban and regional journeys.

My Department submitted an application for funding of the Active and Sustainable Travel Centre (ASTC) from the INTERREG VA Programme to the Special European Union Programmes (SEUPB). SEUPB has advised this request for funding is still under consideration.