Better Transport

We are a national organisation with most staff based in London. Because transport affects everyone, we’re never working alone:

• We represent the transport views of around 40 organisations, including environmental charities and bus and train user groups
• Our Transport Roundtables bring together national and regional campaigning organisations to call with an even stronger voice for sustainable transport
• We’re supported by dozens of local groups all over the country as well as countless thousands of individuals

Together, we work in a number of different ways to campaign for sustainable transport.

Political work

We lobby Ministers, MPs, regional government and local authorities, making sure sustainable transport issues are kept high on the political agenda. Our lobbying work is helped greatly by members of the public taking part in our email campaigns. We are often asked to advise politicians on transport issues, and we comment on a wide range of draft bills, policy documents and consultations.

Research

Decision-makers can’t develop sensible policies unless they know all of the facts. Our research makes the environmental and social impacts of transport impossible to ignore, and inspires changes for the better.

Work with communities

We support local groups fighting devastating road-building schemes and communities blighted by dangerous, noisy and polluting traffic. We recently put some of that support online.

Work with transport companies

We work with transport companies, promoting good examples of companies providing better, more affordable services. We also work together with companies to pressure the Government to support public transport. An example of our work with transport companies is the Freight on Rail partnership, which we host. It works to get goods off the road and on to the railways.

Work with the media

With our strong media profile we are able to make the case for sustainable transport in newspapers and magazines, on TV and radio and online. We make the headlines with stories that draw attention to scandals like our overcrowded railways, or the spiralling cost of the Government’s roadbuilding programme.

See some of our recent media coverage.

Campaign for Better Transport is two separate organisations:

• A trust, which undertakes and disseminates research and good practice
• A campaigning arm, which lobbies and campaigns for better transport policies and programmes We make a great team, complementing each other’s work in order to secure more successes.