Stop the A38 Expansion

Take Action: Write to Politicians – Demand Rail Investment, Scrap the A38 Expansion The Government’s recent spending review paused Phase 3 of the Midland Mainline electrification—despite clear evidence it would deliver nearly £400 million in local economic benefit, create 5,000 skill...

Over 5,450 letters sent demanding Govt stop throwing £100s of millions at destructive road schemes & invest in rail electrification instead.

✅ Cleaner & less harmful
✅ Improves train services
✅ Shifts freight off roads
✅ More jobs than roadbuilding

Write today:
actionnetwork.org/letters/take...

Wildfires rage in Spain and Portugal amid searing heat Extreme temperatures exacerbated by carbon pollution fuel fires in southern Europe as green policies are rolled back

Almost 46C in Cadiz

Only a matter of time before 50C mark is smashed for the first time in Europe

And the heat won't stop there....

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

At 23:50 in this transport podcast, our campaign is mentioned: calling for the electrification of the Midlands Mainline to be funded by scrapping the now £646 million+ A38 expansion.

Take action now using our letter tool: actionnetwork.org/letters/take...

The next episode of CaS is about to arrive!

In S3E19 our hosts @christianwolmar.bsky.social and @markwalker59.bsky.social discuss #TheGreatestGathering and Mark’s trip on #TheBelmondBritishPullman, plus Christian interviews Darren Caplan of RIA

Catch it here: markwalkerg.podbean.com

National Highways not being held to account There was a flurry of publications just before Parliament broke up in July, three of which directly related to National Highways. These reports are quite revealing about what National Highways has and...

You can read about National Highways' KPIs including on road safety in our latest post transportactionnetwork.org.uk/national-hig...

Strange that there is nothing in the ORR's blog post about how National Highways failed to achieve one third of its key performance indicators (KPI) over the RIS2 period, and is likely to fail on its road safety KPI when the figures are published next year www.orr.gov.uk/search-news/...

Imagine this invested in buses and public transport. Look around you and imagine every 30 cars was a bus, and imagine how quick your journey would be...

"This is the definition of bad governance: approving a project you know is outdated, overpriced, pointless and destructive, just because it’s already in the pipeline".

Take Action: Write to Politicians – Demand Rail Investment, Scrap the A38 Expansion The Government’s recent spending review paused Phase 3 of the Midland Mainline electrification—despite clear evidence it would deliver nearly £400 million in local economic benefit, create 5,000 skill...

Take action now using our updated letter tool to contact politicians and demand better rail investment instead:
✉️ actionnetwork.org/letters/take...

A38 Derby Junctions costs leap up to over £646m — Stop the A38 road expansion Stop the A38 Expansion campaign has discovered the cost of the A38 Derby Junctions scheme has leapt up 200% to over £646 million, a staggering rise from the £200 - £250 million forecast in 2019. They ...

The A38 Derby Junctions road scheme is now set to cost £646 million – above the £500m threshold that saw the A1 dualling scrapped. Authorities refused to reveal the true costs before approval. Read more www.a38derbychaos.org/news/a38-der...

MP sets up A47 group after dualling near Peterborough is axed Sam Carling says the group will push for improved safety measures on the road near Peterborough.

Fantastic to see Sam Carling MP pushing for average speed cameras and better infrastructure for cyclists to improve road safety.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

National Highways not being held to account There was a flurry of publications just before Parliament broke up in July, three of which directly related to National Highways. These reports are quite revealing about what National Highways has and...

Is the Office for Rail and Road (ORR) the right regulator to hold National Highways to account and to ensure public money is well spent delivering across all government priorities? transportactionnetwork.org.uk/national-hig...

National Highways not being held to account There was a flurry of publications just before Parliament broke up in July, three of which directly related to National Highways. These reports are quite revealing about what National Highways has and...

National Highways was on course to fail to meet its target of no net loss on biodiversity. Somehow it has turned that around...

--> How reliable are these figures?
--> Can we can trust the ORR to really be on top of this? transportactionnetwork.org.uk/national-hig...

Spinning your wheels Sir, R.L. Vickers ("Freight of history", Letters, Eye 1654) asserts that "public transport eats taxes, private transport provides tax revenues.” In fact, the hidden costs of motoring's many downsides far outweigh the tax receipts. These socialised costs - gridlock, air and noise pollution, emergency services costs, road damage, public health impacts from sedentary lifestyles and deaths from road crashes - are met only partially by motorists. Motoring taxation raises about £40bn per year, while a recent report from the Royal College of Physicians estimates that the annual cost of air pollution alone is as much as £50bn. If drivers had to pay the full and true costs of motoring the only people who could afford to drive would be multi-millionaires. CARLTON REID, Motoring journalist and author of "Roads Were Not Built for Cars", Newcastle on Tyne.

“If drivers had to pay the full and true costs of motoring the only people who could afford to drive would be multi-millionaires.”

My letter about the hidden costs of motoring is in the latest @privateeyenews.bsky.social

'Disclosure dividend': Study shows how acting on climate data can deliver up to $21 for every $1 invested New CDP report details how companies that accurately report on their carbon emissions can unlock significant financial benefits

It would be a good investment to act on climate even if it were financially burdensome. Given that doing so can deliver $21 for every $1 invested, it is pure folly not to press ahead.

Unless you're a petrostate or a fossil fuel company. In which case, populist politicians are your last bastion.

Campaign demands A38 Derby scheme funds be redirected to Midland Main Line electrification | New Civil Engineer The MML runs from St. Pancras to Sheffield, servicing many cities in the Midlands. Its electrification has been ongoing for some years, having started at

Write today to demand funds from polluting road schemes like the A38 are diverted to electrifying the midlands mainline: actionnetwork.org/letters/take...

www.newcivilengineer.com/latest/campa...

So backwards! Such a huge mistake to ever privatise buses.

Derby: Two Sunday bus services axed over passenger numbers Two services will cease at the end of August as part of a revision of timetables by Arriva.

4 and X38 - and the fewer services there are, the fewer people will use them - just like the more roads you build the more cars congest them. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

So true, and yet here we are :(

It's great to hear @stopa38expansion.bsky.social enjoyed lots of supportive conversations when handing out leaflets in Derby on Friday and Saturday.

We shouldn't need to campaign to have an electric railway in 2025.

Thank you! Argh not more bus route cancellations. Which ones are they?

Keep the pressure on. Rail, and better local buses. It's crazy two Sunday bus routes are being cancelled in Derby

Outside of Alstom's railway event, we handed out hundreds of leaflets. Many people want to see money spent on clean, reliable rail not destructive, polluting road schemes like the A38 expansion. Let’s keep up the momentum, write to key decision makers now: actionnetwork.org/letters/take...

Derby folks - unless you want more road congestion and disruption

Join our demo!

🚆 Protest for Rail, Not Roads – Stop the A38 Expansion 🚧

📍 Location: Litchurch Lane, Derby (on the pavement)

🕘 Friday 1 August, 9:30am – 11:00am

🕙 Saturday 2 August, 10:00am – 11:30am

📍 Map link: maps.app.goo.gl/6dbuhQ2RBZH1...

Take Action: Write to Politicians – Demand Rail Investment, Scrap the A38 Expansion The Government’s recent spending review paused Phase 3 of the Midland Mainline electrification—despite clear evidence it would deliver nearly £400 million in local economic benefit, create 5,000 skill...

Take Action: Write to Politicians – Demand Rail Investment, Scrap the A38 Expansion. Send your letter here: actionnetwork.org/letters/take...

The Government’s recent spending review defunded the Midland Mainline electrification but funded the pointless & polluting A38 Derby junctions.

Thank you!

A graphic promoting the demo with an image of an electric train and flaming Earth. It says DEFUND CLIMATE WRECKING ROAD SCHEMES and DEFUND CLIMATE WRECKING ROAD SCHEMES then info on the demo's dates and times.

🚆 Demo for Rail, Not Roads 🚧

📍 Litchurch Lane, Derby
🕘 Fri 1 Aug 9:30am–11am
🕙 Sat 2 Aug, 10am–11:30am
📍 maps.app.goo.gl/6dbuhQ2RBZH1...

Join us for a demo demanding electrification of the Midland Mainline and an end to destructive, polluting road schemes like the A38 Derby Junctions project.

Four years and 3 months in prison for one tree. While Government ministers use millions of tax money to destroy thousands of trees because they can't be bothered to go back to the drawing board and develop a sustainable, non-destructive solution for the A38 Derby junctions.

Extreme heat could lead to 30,000 deaths a year in England and Wales by 2070s, say scientists

A new study from researchers at UCL and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine finds that heat mortality could rise more than fiftyfold in 50 years because of climate change.
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