New report makes case for spending review to back the bus
A new report by the Urban Transport Group has shown that the Spending Review will need to make significantly more funding available for bus if the aspirations of the national bus strategy, and the Government’s wider levelling up agenda, are to be to met.
Be like Rotterdam and 'make it happen'
The planet is in danger. The trouble is that all too often targets and declarations can become ‘sign and forget’ – we need to act now
Tram and light rail providers welcome new Covid funding package
The Urban Transport Group, which represents the transport authorities responsible for tram and light rail systems in the English city regions, has today welcomed a new £56 million funding package from Government for tram and light rail systems outside London.
From point A to point B with a bit of poetry
Leeds was one of many cities that pre-figured what Beeching was to do to the national rail network in the Sixties by trashing their own mass transit system in the fifties.
I tried to stop a rail privatisation
Since the Williams-Shapps rail plan was published it seems like everybody has been telling their story of rail privatisation. So I’m going to tell mine.
What might the Williams-Shapps plan mean for urban public transport?
There are clear tensions between the urgent need to de-clutter and de-layer the railway landscape; the influence of the wider ‘save the union’ project; and the facts on the ground around existing devolution of urban and regional rail (and its clear benefits).
Fighting smart to get passengers back on public transport
In some ways, getting the funding to keep public transport going during the pandemic was the easy bit. During the pandemic it was important for Government to keep the public transport show on the road (and the companies that provide it) to prevent a wider sense of societal and economic breakdown.
The national bus strategy
For years we have been arguing that passengers in our areas don’t want on-street competition and private companies determining the key public service that they rely on.
What the transport decarbonisation plan means for urban transport
Here are five key takeaways, based on an initial run through, of what the Transport Decarbonisation Plan means for urban transport.