UK government urged to establish a national walking strategy

For more than 50 years Britain's governments and city planners have sidelined the rights of pedestrians in favour of cars, turning walking into an “ever more unpleasant” experience, a report published by a cross party committee of MPs has claimed.

Despite the advantages of walking, we are all doing it less, preferring to take the car to an out of town shopping centre than stroll to the local …