Better Transport

Campaign for Better Transport today welcomed the announcement by the Conservative Party that it would scrap expansion plans for Heathrow and invest in a new high-speed rail line.  

Stephen Joseph, executive director of Campaign for Better Transport, said:  "The Conservatives have responded to the fact that expanding Heathrow would break our chances of tackling climate change. In the absence of the necessary bold Government transport policies to tackle climate change, the Conservatives have shown the way that is good for the economy and good for the climate." 

At today's Labour Party conference, Ruth Kelly confirmed her intention to stand down as transport secretary. Responding to her speech, which summed up current Government transport policy, Stephen Joseph, executive director of Campaign for Better Transport, said:

Michael Palin's travelling companions haven't always been of the highest calibre – take for example, the herd of goats he had to journey with on a Mauritanian iron-ore train.

But apart from goats* anyone's welcome this November at Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre, London.

Michael Palin is inviting the public to journey with him on a rolling, perambulating, dog-sledding, camel-roping reminiscence, with Around the World in 80 Ways, a talk at Queen Elizabeth Hall. Michael Palin says:

Campaign for Better Transport today revealed that Boris Johnson’s plans to tackle congestion and improve transport in outer London will be wrecked by the GLA’s own approval of massive traffic-generating schemes for London’s development areas. An average of almost 8,000 parking spaces has been approved or planned for each of eight of the 'opportunity areas' where new developments are to be concentrated. [1]