More than 100 people demonstrated outside the Scottish government in Edinburgh yesterday to demand that funding for cycling and walking be doubled to £40 million next year.

Tom Ballantine, chairman of Stop Climate Chaos Scotland, who organised the protest, said: “Funding for walking and cycling is inadequate. It is 1 per cent of our transport budget, which is a tiny amount.

“We want to see it doubled, because cycling and walking are good for our health, the quality of the air and the planet.” He added that they would like to see increases continue until cycling and walking were allocated 10 per cent of the transport budget by 2020, in line with a government target that by 2020, 10 per cent of all journeys should