Better Transport

Rail passengers cite buses that don’t connect with train times, insecure cycle parking and poorly-lit footpaths as barriers to using their local train stations.

These are the results found in the ‘Weakest Link’ [1] survey launched by Transport 2000 [2] to find the best and worst train stations to travel to in England and Wales.

East Midlands 
East of England
London
North East 
North West 
South East
South West 
Wales
West Midlands 
Yorkshire and The Humber

Environmental campaigners have expressed concern over Government plans to investigate a trial site for dyke relocation alongside the A47 Acle Straight [1].

The Council for National Parks [2] and Transport 2000 [3] say that any decision to go ahead with a trial should only be taken once alternative small-scale road safety solutions have been tried and tested. Monitoring of road safety measures only recently put in place will not be complete until summer 2008.

This afternoon at the High Court, Justice Collins turned down Transport 2000 and CPRE’s request to hold a judicial review into Dorset County Council’s granting of planning permission for the proposed Weymouth Relief Road.

Responding to the British Chambers of Commerce’s new website Get Britain Moving, Transport 2000 has rejected claims on the website that the planning system has slowed down the approval process for 16 road projects.

Campaigner Denise Carlo said:

Transport 2000 [1] has discovered that the government is not only considering widening the M1 between junctions 21 and 30 at a cost of £2.5bn, but is also considering using the new hard shoulder as an extra lane. This would create four new lanes of traffic, resulting in a 10-lane super highway through the East Midlands.