Campaign For Better Transport
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Most governments are accused at one time or another of geographically skewed priorities. In this respect, recent decisions to drop the electrifications of major rail routes in the north, the…
January’s rail fare rises have been pegged to the previous July’s RPI figure since 2014, but the figure announced today is higher than anticipated and a real blow for hard…
These include a station on the Durham Coast line at Horden which will serve Peterlee new town. Like many new towns, Peterlee was built at a time when railways were…
Passenger satisfaction with Southeastern is among the worst on the entire rail network, with only the infamous Southern having lower satisfaction. Transport Focus found that over half of commuters are…
Working with Railfuture and with support from the Department for Transport, Expanding the Railways takes local authorities, developers and communities through the process from having an initial idea for a…
In 2016, our thought leadership programme Tracks was set up to react to contemporary issues in the transport sector and its new research report, Ensuring a Sustainable Rail Industry, has found that while franchising looks…
Whilst I was on maternity leave we moved back out to Kent, after 20 years in London, for a chance to get a decent step on the housing ladder. When…
Instead, Chris Grayling used his much trailed speech on the future of the railways to do a little housekeeping and change emphasis a bit while leaving the main building blocks…
Childfare is a national campaign which was founded earlier this year by myself (Sophie Barber) and Emily Stott. We are both sixth form students, in the first year of our…
The fare originated in 2010 in Meldreth, ten miles south of Cambridge. The railway came to the village in the 1860s for the purpose of transporting apples and plums to…
The watchword of the ORR inquiry was ‘choice’ – how to increase choice in the types of ticket sold, choice in who sells them, and choice in when and where…
We’ve all had those nightmare journeys. You head to the train toilet, only to find that it’s out of order, and you have another three hours of journey ahead. Your…
Unit 407
164/180 Union Street,
Waterloo,
London,
SE1 0LH