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What’s the Government’s vision for Transport in northern England?

15 March 2016

…the environmental and health constraints of expanding a road which is already the subject of air quality management issues along virtually its entire route between Liverpool and Manchester.  The NICs…

West Coast Mainline improvements deliver huge benefits

8 April 2019

The line, which runs from London to Glasgow though Birmingham, Manchester and Liverpool, underwent a major modernisation programme to track and train with the introduction of tilting Pendolino and Super…

Domestic flights are a climate disaster: we need #trainNOTplane

11 October 2021

…and former Transport Minister, Norman Baker, to Glasgow. Paul travelled by plane, hoping to arrive for a sandwich lunch on Sauchiehall Street. Norman caught the train, but would he get…

The Integrated Rail Plan – a £96bn own goal?

7 December 2021

So what went wrong and how did the Government manage to score a £96 billion own goal? The answer lies not in the contents of the Plan which, although it…

Work doesn’t pay for parents as childcare and rail fares swallow up 35% of families’ wages

28 October 2011

…set to rise 28 per cent over the next four years, these combined costs will become increasingly unbearable. For many families it means that work simply doesn’t pay – it…

Campaigners respond to government figures on rail overcrowding

9 September 2015

…morning peak arrivals and Leeds 26 thousand. 15.7 per cent of passengers arriving into Manchester in the morning peak were standing. 4.3 per cent of services arriving into Manchester were…

Autumn Statement 2016 – Media briefing from Campaign for Better Transport

18 November 2016

It is expected that the Chancellor, Philip Hammond MP, will introduce a spending plan aimed to help those who are ‘just about managing’ and use infrastructure spending to help revive…

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

3 April 2026

…transport here. We have a train line to Manchester and buses serving a limited number of destinations. We have only one Sunday bus service (into Greater Manchester) which is also…

Passengers’ frustration at ‘weakest link’ train stations: regional releases

27 August 2007

…before someone is hurt.”   Manningtree Station Manningtree station is used by 1,300 people a day, but there are virtually no joined-up bus/rail journeys and no consideration of how people…

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12 December 2014

2014 Car Dependency Scorecard

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