All regard motorcycling as a mode to be encouraged, for example through the provision of additional secure parking facilities, but they are also concerned about safety. There are varying views about the potential desirability of allowing motorcyclists to use bus lanes, with Edinburgh opposed to this on safety grounds but Fife and South Lanarkshire proposing to study the feasibility of doing so. The main issues relate to service specifications, new services, high passenger fares, and the effect of competition in the freight market on service security. Some strategies refer to the promotion of external ferry links to Europe. A number of authorities seek improved external air links.
Most strategies consider freight issues.
Several refer to the concept of a road hierarchy to assist in defining lorry routes so as to minimise environmental impact. Stirling Council suggests the possibility of 'quality partnerships' for freight. Some strategies consider the potential for transferring certain bulk freight movements, particularly timber and open-cast coal, from road to rail and sea. The issues of bulk freight movements are of particular concern to rural authorities including Highland, Argyll and Bute, Dumfries and Galloway and Scottish Borders because of the pressures they create on local roads. There are hardly any references to inland waterways, which may be seen as largely a recreational issue.