CANBERRA Mar 14 AAP - Cycling, walking and access to public transport will have to be considered in major infrastructure projects that want to get federal funding, Transport Minister Anthony Albanese says.
The minister told the Bus Industry Confederation dinner on Wednesday active forms of transport such as walking, cycling and catching public transport were now becoming mainstream - although the car still dominates.
This meant they should be provided for in future infrastructure programs.
Mr Albanese said the provision of safe and active travel options would have to be built into the design of any projects that got federal funding under the next tranche of the Commonwealth's nation building program.
"This will mean that federally funded urban transport infrastructure projects must consider whether provision has been made for appropriate cycling and walking paths," he told the dinner.
"When we build a bridge we shouldn't consider it only as a carriageway for car traffic, we should also ensure that it caters for walkers and cyclers."
That would avoid the hefty cost of retrofitting infrastructure in the future.
The policy of taking active transport needs into consideration during project planning is known as positive provision.
Cycling Promotion Fund spokesman Stephen Hodge said this was the first time leadership had been shown at a national level on positive provision.
"There is such strong evidence now for the benefits of putting in these relatively cheap and easy to install bits of infrastructure when you're doing big projects, that there was some leadership needed," he told AAP.
His group is a member of the Moving People 2030 Taskforce, whose report on transport in Australia was formally launched at the dinner.
The taskforce is made up of a range of transport, planning and health groups.
It said congestion in Australia's major cities would cost the country $20 billion by 2020.
The taskforce recommended a range of solutions governments should look at including congestion charges and aiming for a third of all passenger trips in 2030 to happen via public transport, walking or riding.
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