Let’s travel hopefully into 2025!
A few people have asked ‘so how is your campaign going?’ And the answer is – rather quietly. Without clear guidance (and appropriate resource allocation) from central and local government, new transport infrastructure will not proceed. The ‘Reverse Beeching’ initiative by the last government is now generally considered to have been a complete failure – […]
New government – New thinking? We will continue to lobby
As we await the formation of a new government, we can only hope that the new administration will be addressing climate change, sustainable planning and infrastructure delivery more seriously than the manifestos and election campaigning have indicated. An analysis of manifesto policy by Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth showed only the Green Party scoring […]
Network Rail back ‘Tram Trains’
Whilst ‘official’ UK government policy continues to vacillate on a range of issues – sustainable planning for the 21st century simply must shift away from its current dependency on road traffic towards mixed transport options. This will offer long-term social, environmental and economic benefits. This is what we are now seeing in many other parts […]
A nostalgic look backwards – or a reminder of what we could and should still have?
It has been another fraught Easter for King’s Lynn and West Norfolk as holidaymakers poured along our local roads on the way to the Norfolk coast. This has resulted in traffic chaos and hours of almost complete gridlock in King’s Lynn on three separate days, with two serious accidents at the Hardwick roundabout, including at […]
In spite of … everything … rail schemes are still coming forward
It has been a frenetic 12 months in British and world politics. As this government limps towards the finishing line, previous commitments to transport infrastructure investment seem to be falling by the wayside. Last week substantial cuts (or at least, ‘delays in expenditure’) were announced for HS2 and ‘active travel’ programmes. We have also […]