Campaign for Better Transport Traffic Reduction Blog

Urban Challenge Fund needs to have funds to give out

admin — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 18:13:04 +0000

3 March: For a while we've been calling for the Government to help the capability of cities to reduce traffic in their area. Now the Government has responded and has launched an Urban Challenge Fund for transport. But there's no money set aside yet for it, and no timescales.

Politicians must set out their plans for improving everyday transport

admin — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 10:05:02 +0000

26 January: We're launching today our manifesto for improving everyday transport. We'll be challlenging politicians in the run-up to the election to tell us what they would do to make it easier to travel by public transport, walking and cycling.

Government backs us on planning

admin — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 17:46:30 +0000

19 January: The Government has responded to the Committee on Climate Change's annual progress report and has strongly backed our call for much better integration of land use planning and transport.

London Plan and transport strategy mustn't be a missed opportunity

admin — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 15:47:56 +0000

16 January: We've just responded to the London Plan and Mayor's Transport Strategy. The fact that both are being developed at the same time should be a great opportunity to integrate planning and transport but the failure to set out a real vision in either means this could be a missed opportunity for London.

Regions must act to improve local transport plans

admin — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 14:58:03 +0000

12 January: I've just written to all the regional government offices to ask them to make sure that the latest round of local transport plans have serious targets for cutting CO2 from transport.

Go ahead for Norwich road but bus and city transport funding has to wait

admin — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 09:59:06 +0000

18 December: The Government this week gave in to Norfolk council and gave the go-head for the £91 million Norwich North Distributor Road despite the council's failure to make an effective case for the road. But at the same time funding for vital Kickstart funding and for pilot sustainable travel cities is being held up by the Treasury.

Great new guide for community groups

admin — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 13:59:08 +0000

8 December: Our friends at COIN have written a great new guide for community groups.

Time to think again on the western extension of London's congestion charge

admin — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:29:11 +0000

19 November: We're calling on Boris Johnson to think again about his intention to scrap the western extension of the congestion charge as it becomes clearer that people aren't impressed with the fare rises they face as a result.

Labour takes up our challenge

admin — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 16:35:18 +0000

13 November: How would your party reduce transport’s carbon footprint? That’s the question we have challenged each of the three main political parties to answer in a series of speeches we're hosting.

DfT agrees with us: traffic needs to be cut

admin — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:56:56 +0000

6 November: Today, the Government has recognised what we’ve been saying for years: car use needs to be reduced.