It’s a scandal that, for one of the most important transport connections in the UK, no serious exploration of alternatives has ever been undertaken until now.
Read our Essex-Kent Superlinks report here: buff.ly/41elq19
03.03.2025 08:59 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Each year we look at new housing developments to find out if there are good places to live that don't require a car. Our volunteers make this possible by making site visits and reporting back on their findings. If you're interested in becoming a volunteer, please sign up here: buff.ly/3DkU8hq
28.02.2025 15:01 — 👍 4 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 1
Our report, Essex-Kent Superlinks, shows there are good alternatives to the Lower Thames Crossing.
Scrapping the Lower Thames Crossing and choosing solutions which address the needs of working people would be transformative for them and the economy.
buff.ly/41elq19
01.03.2025 11:00 — 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
The Essex-Kent Superlinks report highlights alternatives to the Lower Thames Crossing. Alternatives that would be transformative for working people and the economy!
Read the report here: buff.ly/41elq19
02.03.2025 13:57 — 👍 10 🔁 5 💬 2 📌 2
Transport for London calls for new cash to replace 50-year-old trains
Andy Lord tells FT he has written to the UK chancellor for long-term funding to stop network from falling into disrepair
the boss of Transport for London tells FT he wants employers to encourage staff to come into the office more frequently:
but TfL mandates its office-based staff to be in the office only 50% of the time....
www.ft.com/content/7397...
25.02.2025 07:58 — 👍 39 🔁 8 💬 15 📌 5
Campaigners criticise Norfolk A47 tree felling
National Highways says 7,000 trees will be planted to replace those lost during work on the A47.
2,500 trees felled to create two additional lanes and two new junctions on a 5.5-mile (9km) stretch of the A47 between North Tuddenham and Easton, Norfolk
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
18.02.2025 16:52 — 👍 7 🔁 6 💬 3 📌 3
In this short report, Keith Buchan, a highly experienced transport planner, makes recommendations for safety improvements on the A66 which could be implemented now, at low cost, rather than waiting five years for the £1.5 billion A66 scheme to be built transportactionnetwork.org.uk/wp-content/u...
20.02.2025 14:07 — 👍 8 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0
making trips due to lower travel cost (mostly shifted from car); 16–24 year olds, urban; frequent bus users benefit most by more trips/perceived positives.
Value for money hard to assess, but ‘low’ even with unquantified extra benefits.
13.02.2025 18:58 — 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
EVALUATION OF FIRST 10 MONTHS OF THE £2 BUS
FARE CAP January-October 2023, England
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/67a5f5...
Key results :
Approx. 5% increase in bus pax.
Savings vary significantly.
Travel costs cut.
Main beneficiaries probably:
those who'd travel even if no cap; those
13.02.2025 18:58 — 👍 2 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 1
So basically a 'Mobility Hub' is a car park with some cycle parking, which happens to be near some bus stops and 6 minutes walk from a tram stop.
Sounds rather like Leith Street.🤷
citydev-portal.edinburgh.gov.uk/idoxpa-web/a...
h/t @harryjwilliams.bsky.social @edi.bike
10.02.2025 16:48 — 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 0
The bus stop "flag" sign at Petypher Gardens northbound, Witney Road, Kingston Bagpuize. The route numbers are more than six years out of date.
The bus stop "flag" sign at Petypher Gardens southbound, Witney Road, Kingston Bagpuize. The route numbers are more than six years out of date.
BUS STOPS MORE THAN 6 YEARS OUT OF DATE
In 2018, Stagecoach West renumbered its Swindon–Oxford route from 66 to S6.
In 2020, @oxfordshirecc.bsky.social reinstated route 63.
The stops at Petypher Gdns, Witney Rd, Kingston Bagpuize, are more than 6 years out of date.
www.facebook.com/bususersoxfo...
03.02.2025 05:11 — 👍 0 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
The bus stop "flag" sign at Petypher Gardens northbound, Witney Road, Kingston Bagpuize. The route numbers are more than six years out of date.
The bus stop "flag" sign at Petypher Gardens southbound, Witney Road, Kingston Bagpuize. The route numbers are more than six years out of date.
BUS STOPS MORE THAN 6 YEARS OUT OF DATE
In 2018, Stagecoach West renumbered its Swindon–Oxford route from 66 to S6.
In 2020, @oxfordshirecc.bsky.social reinstated route 63.
The stops at Petypher Gdns, Witney Rd, Kingston Bagpuize, are more than 6 years out of date.
www.facebook.com/bususersoxfo...
03.02.2025 05:11 — 👍 0 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
The Lower Thames Crossing scheme was predicted to cost £9bn in August 2020. Applying inflation for road construction up to September 2024 gives a new total of £11.3bn.
It fails on ALL its scheme objectives and will only bring 5 years of traffic relief at Dartford for 7 years of disruption!
21.01.2025 17:13 — 👍 0 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
How does the Government intend to address the connectivity needs of SW England?
Our report looks at alternative transport investment in the South West after the cancellation of the A303 Stonehenge and A358 road schemes. transportactionnetwork.org.uk/wp-content/u...
22.01.2025 10:11 — 👍 1 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
This should be a wake up call for the Government.
Instead of spending £billions on new roads, funding should be prioritised for public transport and active travel.
23.01.2025 12:49 — 👍 6 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
There appears to be a mistaken belief that any infrastructure project is good for the economy.
This is despite the government’s own projections showing congestion would worsen even if all the schemes in the current roads programme were built!
23.01.2025 16:00 — 👍 5 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
Starmer vows to curb 'Nimby' legal blocks on infrastructure schemes
No 10 says it is targeting
Focussing on removing planning constraints and reducing opportunities for legal challenge misses the bigger problems causing delays, such as poor developer proposals, or slow decision making, of which the government is as guilty as anyone else it cares to blame.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
23.01.2025 16:00 — 👍 5 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
These flaws then affect decision-making, with the government often taking far longer than the three months allocated.
We should by all means speed up vital infrastructure, but we should be honest about where the problems lie.
Our letter in The Times 👇🏼
24.01.2025 16:09 — 👍 0 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
including promoting roads when we need better public transport. In the case of the Lower Thames Crossing, it wasted years producing something so flawed that it had to withdraw its original planning application.
24.01.2025 16:09 — 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
The government has made much of its desire to speed up planning decisions, yet by focusing on the legal system it is missing where the real problems lie.
This is especially true for road building, where National Highways spends years developing unsuitable and unpopular proposals
24.01.2025 16:09 — 👍 0 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Our letter printed in The Times about the government wanting to speed up planning decisions 👇🏼
24.01.2025 15:59 — 👍 4 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 0
Large, polluting, dangerous SUVs are taking over our streets. But there is an alternative…
The SUV Alliance are taking action with their 5-point manifesto for safer, fairer streets, without SUVs.
suv-alliance.org.uk
#SaferStreets
#FairerStreets #WithoutSUVs
29.01.2025 09:38 — 👍 15 🔁 11 💬 0 📌 0
Rachel Reeves is talking about growth but wants to go ahead with the Lower Thames Crossing 🤔
It would make a poor investment and deliver little economic growth compared to its huge cost.
29.01.2025 10:35 — 👍 13 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 1
The bus stop "flag" sign at Lathbury Road northbound, on Banbury Road, in Oxford. It is completely up to date: the County Council has deleted routes 94 and 250; added route 24; all the other route numbers are in numerical order; and there are no unsightly gaps. The County Council should raise every bus stop between Magdalen Street and Gosford to this standard!
The bus stop at Lathbury Road northbound, on Banbury Road, in Oxford. The "flag" sign is perfect, but one of the timetable cases below it is broken and empty.
In five miles of route that we inspected, only one stop advertises route 24. It is at Lathbury Road northbound on Banbury Road. But it has no Grayline route 24 timetable, as its @oxfordshirecc.bsky.social timetable case is broken!
See our photo report on Facebook:
www.facebook.com/media/set/?v...
31.01.2025 18:45 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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