Buckie area gets £25k active travel boost
Moray Council has completed installation of cycle parking, bike repair stations, and pumps promised earlier this year for Buckie and the surrounding area under a £25,000 active travel scheme.
Moray Council’s Active Travel team invited Buckie residents to cast their votes on how £25,000 should be spent on cycle infrastructure in and around the area. The funding was allocated through the council’s Participatory Budgeting process, which gives local people the opportunity to decide where public money is spent in their communities.
Following feedback from residents, a bike repair station, pump, and cycle parking area was installed at Cluny Square. Cycle stands are now in place at Marchmont Business Park, while Buckie Community Centre boasts a bike repair station and pump. Strathlene has a new bike repair station, pump, and cycle stands, and Buckpool Harbour is home to cycle stands.
The Buckie active travel project is one of 23 schemes Moray Council put in place across Moray in the first 12 months of its five-year Active Travel Strategy (2022-2027). The strategy aims to promote more non-motorised travel for residents and visitors, like walking and cycling.
Moray Council Leader Kathleen Robertson said: “These installations give residents more choice in how they travel round town, provide health benefits through reduced congestion and better air quality, and these areas also have the potential to help the people of Buckie to save money.”