:Active Travel (Wales) Act 2013
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|short_title = Active Travel (Wales) Act 2013
|parliament = National Assembly for Wales
|type = Welsh assembly act
|long_title = An Act of the National Assembly for Wales to make provision for the mapping of active travel routes and related facilities and for and in connection with integrated network maps; for securing that there are new and improved active travel routes and related facilities; for requiring the Welsh Ministers and local authorities to take reasonable steps to enhance the provision made for, and to have regard to the needs of, walkers and cyclists; for requiring functions under the Act to be exercised so as to promote active travel journeys and secure new and improved active travel routes and related facilities; and for connected purposes.
|year = 2013
|statute_book_chapter = 2013 anaw 7
|introduced_by = Carl Sargeant
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|royal_assent = 4 November 2013
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|status = Current
|original_text = http://www.legislation.gov.uk/anaw/2013/7/contents/enacted
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The Active Travel (Wales) Act 2013 (anaw 7) ({{langx|cy|Deddf Teithio Llesol (Cymru) 2013}}) was an Act of the National Assembly for Wales that was given royal assent on 4 November 2013.{{cite web|url=http://gov.wales/legislation/programme/assemblybills/active-travel-act/?lang=en |title=Welsh Government - Active Travel (Wales) Act 2013 |date=4 November 2013 |work=gov.wales |accessdate=1 November 2015 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20151202074907/http://gov.wales/legislation/programme/assemblybills/active-travel-act/?lang=en |archivedate=2 December 2015 }} The Act requires local authorities to continuously improve facilities and routes for pedestrians and cyclists and to prepare maps identifying current and potential future routes for their use. The Act also requires new road schemes (including road improvement schemes) to consider the needs of pedestrians and cyclists at design stage.{{cite web|url=http://www.senedd.assembly.wales/mgIssueHistoryHome.aspx?IId=5750|title=Active Travel (Wales) Act 2013 - National Assembly for Wales|work=assembly.wales|accessdate=1 November 2015}} The law was passed after a six-year campaign led by Lee Waters, then director of Sustrans Cymru.{{cite web|url=http://www.clickonwales.org/2009/01/couldnt-give-an-lco/|title=Click on Wales|work=clickonwales.org|accessdate=1 November 2015}}
In 2016, 'lack of funds and leadership' and resistance from highways engineers, were among the factors blamed for the failure of the Act to deliver its potential.{{cite news |title='Lack of funds and leadership' in active travel law |date=22 February 2016 |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-politics-27956219 |website=BBC News |department=Wales Politics |accessdate=10 October 2018 }}
In 2018, a report from the Welsh Assembly's Cross Party Group on the Active Travel Act, led by Lee Waters, found no increase in the numbers of people walking and cycling to work; the numbers going to school had actually declined.Post Legislative Scrutiny of the Active Travel (Wales) Act 2013. National Assembly for Wales Economy, Infrastructure and Skills Committee. June 2018 https://www.assembly.wales/laid%20documents/cr-ld11566-r/cr-ld11566-r-e.pdf The report blamed a lack of leadership in councils and the Welsh Government.{{cite news |title=No increase in cycling in Wales despite active travel law |date=24 May 2018 |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-politics-44230493 |website=BBC News |department=Wales Politics |accessdate=10 October 2018 }}