Media

31 July 2009
Reacting to the news the Government has approved Nottingham City Council’s plans to put in place a workplace parking levy, Richard Hebditch, Campaign for Better Transport’s campaigns director, said:

31 July 2009
The Department for Transport’s carbon-reduction strategy overstates technology, ignores the carbon produced in order to make biofuels, and understates the role that behaviour change and land use planning can make in carbon reduction. These are the results of independent analysis of the strategy carried out for Campaign for Better Transport.  

29 July 2009
Campaign for Better Transport welcomes the Government’s decision to abandon 21 road schemes around the country.  Richard George, the group’s roads and climate campaigner, says, “While we’re disappointed with large amount of money the Government allocated to the regions for road building, we’re heartened it cleared out some unaffordable and undesirable road schemes.”

24 July 2009
Campaign for Better Transport welcomed today’s report by the Transport Select Committee which argues that there should be a clearer link between the Treasury and transport policy to assuage public mistrust in motoring taxes.

23 July 2009
Campaign for Better Transport welcomed today’s announcement on rail electrification but said that this must not mean higher fares. Stephen Joseph, executive director, said,

22 July 2009
Today’s announcement [1] that the Government has approved billions of pounds for regional transport spending misleads communities and won’t solve transport problems, the Campaign for Better Transport said.

20 July 2009
As the Government revises its major scheme business case guidance, Campaign for Better Transport and PTEG [1] have called for an end to the discrimination against trams.

16 July 2009
Campaign for Better Transport today welcomed the new eco-towns planning policy [1] but warned that the planned eco-towns must have good public transport and not be designed around new roads.

15 July 2009
Campaign for Better Transport welcomed the Government’s low-carbon transport strategy but said that the measures in it were being undermined by the rest of Department for Transport policies. Executive Director Stephen Joseph said: 

15 July 2009
In the next week or so, the Government will publish a strategy to reduce carbon emissions from transport. This briefing sets out the context, what’s likely to be in it and likely reactions.

14 July 2009
In the next few days, the Government is expected to announce spending plans for local transport, based on what’s known as “Regional Funding Advice”. This will be the first transport spending decision following the Government’s carbon reduction strategy and will be the first test of its commitment to tackling greenhouse gas emissions from transport. The signs are that the Government will duck hard decisions on funding and leave them until after the next election.

6 July 2009
Congestion on motorways and trunk roads will get significantly worse unless the Government rethinks its transport policy, according to a new report published by the Campaign for Better Transport [1]. The report, which coincides with the start of the Department for Transport studies into transport corridors, recommends introducing a number of measures to manage demand for road space to tackle rising congestion.