Resources: Quick guide to ... walking and cycling

It cuts across departments and ranges from traffic calming to arranging cycle training and installing bike sheds. Could this help improve young people's fitness levels and independence and help them reclaim the streets and roads for their own use? Exercise your mind with the quick guide.

1. It suits a lot of journalists to moan that young people get driven everywhere and never walk. Frankly, it isn't true. A study by researchers at Lancaster University found that today's young people walk nearly as much as their grandparents did. But there is scope for everyone to do a bit more, or do it faster. The basic lesson for fitness is not to cycle when you can walk, and never to be driven when you can cycle. While we are on the pious slogans, remember there is no such thing as bad weather, just inappropriate clothing.