Contacts in your region
- Tel:01722 334209Salisbury Campaign for Better Transport campaigns on local issues and supports the national organisation in pressing for sustainable transport.
- Tel:01962 867338
The White Horse Alliance is an umbrella organisation for local people and environmental groups who are campaigning to preserve the countryside around Westbury in Wiltshire, and who oppose a road in the Wellhead Valley, at the foot of the Westbury White Horse.
Wiltshire County Council wants to create a "strategic route" between the south coast and the M4 motorway, defying the regional strategy and rejecting transport solutions which reduce traffic and pollution. The proposed road - the A350 Westbury Eastern Bypass - is three and a third miles long (5.4 km) and costs about £ 35 million. It will remove lorry traffic from outside 230 properties in Westbury but it is opposed by the majority of the town's 10,000 residents and neighbouring villages.
- Tel:01380 860183
The Association of Kennet Passengers is a voice for the travelling public in and around Kennet, Wiltshire. We also act as a travel information point. We're overseeing the evolution of the successor to Wiltshire's 'Wigglybus', Connect2Wiltshire, in Kennet which now includes taxi links to Pewsey station.
We meet at least six times a year in the Devizes area; please contact us for more information.
Campaign Against New Beeching Report (Canber) is a confederation of campaigning groups and individuals, united in the aim of preventing the closure of lines and stations and securing their future role.
- Tel:01225 708225
Save The Train is campaigning to regain and retain an appropriate train service linking the five largest population centres of Wiltshire: the Swindon area, Salisbury, Chippenham, Trowbridge and Melksham. Bus links between the towns are slow and the roads poor, but most trains were withdrawn by the train operator in December 2006, leaving just two trains daily setting out from Swindon at 06:18 and 18:45. This is despite the fact that 120,000 journeys are made on this service per year, with a growth rate over ten per cent per year.
Save The Train is an internet-based group - we have an active forum and we provide occasional email updates. We meet a few times a year when it is useful to discuss significant developments. Meetings usually take place in Melksham.
As well as the Save The Train website we provide the First Great Western Coffee Shop as a forum for passengers of other First Great Western lines to discuss common themes and their own local issues, with a view to everyone gaining a greater understanding of the rail travel system in the South West of England.
More Train Less Strain campaigns for decent rail services in the West Country and the whole of the UK.
We are campaigning for:
- A decent train service with enough carriages so you know you won't be left standing on the platform
- Trains that leave and arrive when they are meant to
- Fares that are fair
Is that too much to ask?
- Tel:07825 542123TravelWatch SouthWest is a community interest group which promotes the interests of users and potential users of public transport in South West England. Our aim is to promote an integrated network that is accessible to everyone, affordable and socially inclusive, available where and when needed and attractive to users.
- Tel:07791 751877SCAN is an independent group of people from across Swindon who are concerned about climate change and want to do something about it. We aim to raise awareness of the impacts of climate change and help people in Swindon to combat it, by encouraging them to reduce their personal carbon emissions and get involved in local and national campaigns.
Campaign for Better Transport Limited is a company limited by guarantee (1512347).
Campaign for Better Transport Charitable Trust is a charity (1101929) and a company limited by guarantee (4943428)