Online Guides
We've prepared several guides to help you campaign locally for better transport. Contact us if there's one you'd like us to add or if you've ideas for improving the ones here.
With a good dose of energy, determination and patience, you can stop a damaging road proposal from going ahead.
You can make your streets better for cyclists with just a few improvements to street design and infrastructure.
Around the country many parents are working with schools and local authorities to make it easier for children to walk and cycle to school.
The two main ways you might slow down local traffic are to convince the local authority to create 20mph zones and to engineer the road so that cars drive more slowly. Often the two work in tandem.
There are tried-and-tested practical ways to reduce car-based commuting.
A Home Zone is a clearly marked area where the road or roads are used for a wide range of activities besides simply driving.
Most rail journeys form part of a trip that includes travel to or from the station. You can improve the journey to a station.
Any campaign to get a station or line re-opened is likely to be a long-term campaign requiring a high level of involvement.
If you have heard that your train is in danger of having its service reduced, you’ll have to act quickly.
If you wish to improve your local station, you should be able to quickly find people who will support your efforts.
Local matters
Local campaigning is essential if we are to achieve easy journeys, happy streets, clean air and a safe future for the planet.
Stop the Heysham to M6 Link Road
Your help is urgently needed to stop this disastrous road in Lancashire, save precious Green Belt and cut CO2.
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A double-decker bus carries the same number of people as 20 fully occupied cars but takes up 1/7 of the road space.
Source: Future London
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