Better Transport

This road (of three sections) is a nine-mile dual carriageway which runs partly through a built-up area and partly through the Green Belt on the southern edge of Bristol.

The road will impact on half a dozen communities in North Somerset and South Bristol by exposing thousands of residents to traffic, air pollution and noise, split the communities of Bishopsworth and Hartcliffe in half, and destroy existing community facilities, local green space and attractive countryside. It will be a waste of hundreds of millions of pounds of public money which is desperately needed to improve public transport, cycling and walking in South Bristol.

The SBRR steering group meets every six weeks at different locations along the route. Local groups covering Whitchurch, Stockwood, Bishopsworth, Long Ashton, Hartcliffe and Southville/Bedminster/Ashton meet separately. Get in touch for more details.

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.

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 Bus links between the towns are slow and the roads poor, but most trains were withdrawn by the train operator in December 2006, leaving just two trains daily setting out from Swindon at 06:18 and 18:45.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?

Traffic is a big problem in Bristol. We all suffer delay, pollution, noise, accidents and road rage. We all pay for expensive attempts to prevent all this. Yet Bristol fails to exploit an asset that would reduce traffic: our branch railways, neglected and disused, and our main line stations, obscure and dismantled, still make up a ready-to-use system other cities would envy, which might eventually be converted to light rail.

Friends of Suburban Bristol Railways (FOSBR) campaigns to:

• Defend services on the Severn Beach Railway
• Restore passenger services to Portishead, Pill, and Ashton, Chittening, Hallen and Henbury, Horfield and Ashley Down
• Increase services to Pilning, Patchway, Stapleton Road Lawrence Hill, Keynsham, Parson Street and Bedminster
• Improve connections with other railway lines and other forms of Public Transport

The group meets four times a year.

The Transport for Greater Bristol Alliance is an alliance of 25 local environmental, transport and community groups in the Greater Bristol area.

We have published a green transport manifesto for the city and the Greater Bristol area. To view our manifesto go to our website.

Our main current aims are to persuade councillors in the four West of England councils to vote for an Integrated Transport Authority (ITA) for the Greater Bristol area (made possible by the forthcoming Local Transport Act) and get them to support a list of public transport projects we would like the ITA to undertake (mainly local rail and bus projects). We oppose major new road building and airport expansion.

We have regular contact with councillors of all parties on Bristol City Council.

We meet every six weeks, usually on a Wednesday night at 5:45pm at a central Bristol pub. All of our meetings are open to the public: contact us for more details.