Vision

Campaign for Better Transport’s vision is for all communities to have access to high-quality, sustainable transport that meets their needs, improves quality of life, reduces inequality, and supports a vibrant, productive and decarbonised economy.

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Campaigns

We're campaigning for a cleaner, greener future with more frequent, affordable trams, buses and trains, less traffic and pollution, new and reopened rail lines, fewer domestic flights and a supported, sustainable bus network.

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Research

How should bus services be funded? Which disused rail lines should be reopened? How does access to transport networks affect social exclusion, health and the economy? Our research helps shape all aspects of transport policy.

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Portrait of David
"I live in a village with a limited bus service. I do wonder what will happen when I can no longer drive. Rural services are being cut as councils no longer have the money to support them. There has to be a better way."
David, Wiltshire
Local transport

Towns and Trams: Learning from the French

10 April 2026

France builds 300,000 homes every year. If that number sounds familiar, it’s because that’s the target that the UK misses year after year. So far this century, a new tramway…

Buses

“Residents feel isolated” – campaigning for better buses in Glossopdale

3 April 2026

“Glossopdale is situated in the far north west corner of Derbyshire, a couple of miles from the border with Greater Manchester to the West, and close to the Peak District…

Rail

The Beeching legacy and the case for rail expansion

27 March 2026

The Beeching closures of the 1960s reshaped the country’s transport geography in ways that still shape daily life today. Entire towns lost their rail links, local economies were weakened, and…

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