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Reaction: Conservatives point the way towards the future of transport

Sep 29th 2008

29 September 2008
Campaign for Better Transport today welcomed the announcement by the Conservative Party that it would scrap expansion plans for Heathrow and invest in a new high-speed rail line.  

Reaction to Ruth Kelly’s speech

Sep 24th 2008

24 September 2008
At today’s Labour Party conference, Ruth Kelly confirmed her intention to stand down as transport secretary. Responding to her speech, which summed up current Government transport policy, Stephen Joseph, executive director of Campaign for Better Transport, said:

Michael Palin to speak at Queen Elizabeth Hall

Sep 11th 2008

11 September 2008
Michael Palin’s travelling companions haven’t always been of the highest calibre – take for example, the herd of goats he had to journey with on a Mauritanian iron-ore train.

Parking plans will mean London congestion chaos

Sep 3rd 2008

3 September 2008
Campaign for Better Transport today revealed that Boris Johnson’s plans to tackle congestion and improve transport in outer London will be wrecked by the GLA’s own approval of massive traffic-generating schemes for London’s development areas. An average of almost 8,000 parking spaces has been approved or planned for each of eight of the ‘opportunity areas’ where new developments are to be concentrated. [1]

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