{"id":874578,"date":"2026-08-31T03:58:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T03:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/874578\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T03:58:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T03:58:09","slug":"50-million-in-funding-open-for-active-transport-regional-development-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/874578\/","title":{"rendered":"$50 million in funding open for active transport \u2014 Regional Development Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\" data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\">Media release: Minister for Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government<\/p>\n<p style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\" data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\">The next funding round of the Active Transport Fund is now open, for new or upgraded bicycle and walking pathways across Australia.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: start; ; white-space:pre-wrap;\" data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\">After establishing the program as an ongoing measure in the 2026-27 Budget, the Australian Government is delivering $500 million in new funding over ten years, with $50 million delivered every year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: start; ; white-space:pre-wrap;\" data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\">This application-based, merit-assessed program is open to all state and territory governments as well as local councils.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: start; ; white-space:pre-wrap;\" data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\">The funding aims to deliver safer active transport networks that promote healthier, more liveable communities.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: start; ; white-space:pre-wrap;\" data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\">This will build on the $100 million for more than 80 active transport projects already funded nationwide.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: start; ; white-space:pre-wrap;\" data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\">Successful projects include new walkways, bicycle paths and shared pathways, along with supporting upgrades such as new signage, speed bumps, kerb ramps and drainage improvements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Media release: Minister for Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government The next funding round of the Active&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":874579,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-874578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=874578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874578\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/874579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=874578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=874578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=874578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}