Peterborough City Council has been awarded a further £1.6million towards Active Travel Schemes in the city. 

The council has had another Active Travel scheme funded to help make easier avenues for residents to walk, cycle and take part in more forms of active around the city.  

This time, £1.6million was awarded to them by the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority.  

Fengate will receive more than £500,000 to help pay for a new footpath on Newark Road and pedestrian improvements on Eastfield Road/Oxney Road. 

Another amount of money more than £500,000 will be spent on another new footpath but on Malborne Way as well as upgrades to the Shrewsbury Avenue cycleway. 

Thorpe Wood will be getting a further £625,000 for a cycleway after a successful funding application was made to the Department for Transport.  

While the organisation delivering the scheme has been confirmed, Peterborough City Council’s highways partner Milestone, dates for the work have not. 

An additional £10,000 will go towards the School Streets project that aims to encourage pupils and parents to cycle or walk to school instead of taking the car.  

11 schools currently take part in the project in Peterborough with two more starting this month. 

Councillor Marco Cereste, cabinet member for climate change, planning, housing and transport, said: “We’re incredibly happy to have been awarded this amount of funding from the Combined Authority.  

“In Peterborough we have some brilliant cycle routes which enable residents to sustainably travel across the city.  

“I’m positive it will make a big difference to pedestrians and cyclists, and I hope will encourage more residents to consider sustainable travel.” 

The council has already had several active travel schemes funded by the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority. 

Earlier this year in October, the Combined Authority awarded the Peterborough City Council £635,000 in total for two schemes. 

£625,000 of that money went towards a cycleway on Thorpe Road which will connect the replacement footbridge to existing cycleways off Thorpe Road and into the Anglian Water offices. 

The remaining £10,000 went to the same School Streets project mentioned previously.