Media

27 August 2015

Campaign for Better Transport responds to fans of Coventry City FC and Wasps RFC being told they will not be able to use the new, soon to be opened, Ricoh Arena rail station to get to and from matches due to safety fears and lack of trains.  

25 August 2015

Campaign for Better Transport responds to an increase in cost of £30 million for the Norwich Northern Distributor Road, calling for the road to be scrapped.

25 August 2015

Campaign for Better Transport welcomed the opening of new tram lines in Nottingham today and urged other places to follow the city’s example of a workplace parking levy to fund good public transport. 

25 August 2015

Virgin Trains are set to scrap a key benefit for young people on their West Coast franchise.

20 August 2015

Campaign for Better Transport responds to latest government figures showing train operators Delay/Repay compensation payments made to passengers have doubled in the past two years.

20 August 2015

“Everyday transport” – local roads and pavements, bus services, cycling and walking – is at risk of very large government budget cuts, according to transport groups. In a letter to the Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin, the groups note that his department’s unprotected budget faces a cut of 25-40 per cent in the Chancellor’s spending review. Since major investment programmes for roads and railways are ring-fenced, this means cuts are expected to fall disproportionately on local transport.

19 August 2015

Campaign for Better Transport has responded to the publication of today’s report from the Institute of Public Policy Research on “total transport authorities.”

18 August 2015

Campaign for Better Transport responds to the government’s announcement ‘Earnings outstrip rail fare increases for the first time in a decade’.

18 August

The UK lags behind the rest of Europe when it comes to flexible rail tickets, despite having more part-time workers, according to research by Campaign for Better Transport.

11 August

Responding to the Department for Transport’s blueprint for the Northern Powerhouse, which has been released today and sets out how Government money will be spent on transport in the north of England, Martin Abrams, Campaign for Better Transport’s Public Transport Campaigner, said:

“People in the North need better transport, but less than 25 per cent of the £13bn investment is actually committed putting the whole Northern Powerhouse project at risk, despite Government assurances.

10 August

Commenting on today’s £2m fine for Network Rail, Martin Abrams said: “It’s right there are penalties for poor performance, but fines are meaningless if things don’t get better for passengers. 

4 August 2015

Cuts to local authority funding that have caused bus services to be withdrawn in towns and villages all over the country, and are threatening to wipe out supported bus services for good, are now affecting the Prime Minister’s own constituency of Witney.