'It is easy to describe a transport problem as a lack of routes, high fares or unreliable services. Hearing directly from people affected by these issues showed me that they... can influence someone’s independence & sense of belonging' Ruby, Bevan Foundation www.bevanfoundation.org/views/work-e...

Work experience: Learning to see the policy behind the everyday - Bevan Foundation

Third year Cardiff University student, Ruby Llewelyn, reflects on a week of work experience at the Bevan Foundation.

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Will the government learn from HS2 mistakes? transportactionnetwork.org.uk/is-the-lower...

Is the Lower Thames Crossing the New HS2?

HS2 has become shorthand for infrastructure failure in the UK. Sadly, lessons have not been learnt, and the Lower Thames Crossing (LTC) could soon become the new poster child for infrastructure…

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Can you support our work for a healthier, more sustainable future, where everyone has a choice in how they travel? transportactionnetwork.org.uk/help-us-help...

Help us help others

Help us help others We help local communities press for better (and more sustainable) transport (public and shared transport, walking, wheeling and cycling). We support them fighting damaging road…

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For years, campaigners and local communities have been asking a simple question: Is the Lower Thames Crossing, a destructive £11 billion Smart Motorway, actually worth it? transportactionnetwork.org.uk/lower-thames...

Lower Thames Crossing: Digging Up the Truth

When publicly funded infrastructure projects grow to a multi-billion-pound scale, transparency should grow with them. Instead, the £11 billion Lower Thames Crossing (LTC) has become a textbook…

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Sign up to our mailing list By signing up to our mailing list you will get our monthly newsletter which contains the latest news and events. Occasionally we will contact you if there is a specific…

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Full report here. 💯agree with this recommendation: “The Welsh Government should ensure it listens to the voices of people on low income when developing its transport policy”

The route to net zero transport in Wales: how to make it work for people in poverty - Bevan Foundation

The Bevan Foundation's new report evidences how Wales' net zero transport plans can prioritise tackling poverty

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More than 450 people have signed this petition already!

Transport Action Network@transportaction.bsky.social · 3w ago

The Friends of Carrington Moss and other local community groups proposed an alternative solution to the eastern part of the Carrington Relief Road to Trafford in March 2021. For more than 5 years, they have repeatedly requested that this solution be considered... actionnetwork.org/petitions/pl...

💌 Join thousands of others who stay informed on the latest transport news and actions. Sign up: transportactionnetwork.org.uk/sign-up/

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Is this destructive £11 billion Smart Motorway actually worth it? It's time for the DfT to end the deception and release the Lower Thames Crossing's Outline Business Case. The public have a right to know how our money is spent. transportactionnetwork.org.uk/lower-thames...

Lower Thames Crossing: Digging Up the Truth

When publicly funded infrastructure projects grow to a multi-billion-pound scale, transparency should grow with them. Instead, the £11 billion Lower Thames Crossing (LTC) has become a textbook example...

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What are they going to privatise next? The roads we drive on? YES, and the government pumps public money into it too After privatising the Lower Thames Crossing, the government is also privatising the Dartford Crossings Demand the National Audit Office investigate this: vist.ly/5hdn6

Investigate the privatised Lower Thames Crossing now!

Action Network

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On #WorldCarFreeDay, let's celebrate a small recent @transportaction.bsky.social win 🥳🥳 The definition of "sustainable transport" in the Government's National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) no longer includes electric vehicles. This is good news as we need fewer cars, not just newer cars!

On #WorldCarFreeDay, we're excited to share that we've helped England take an important step forward on its car-free ambition—but there's still a way to go 👇🏾

Rafe Smyth@rafe-s.bsky.social · 3w ago

For a decade, planning policy in England defined cars as "sustainable" if they were low (exhaust) emission, ignoring their wider impacts on people, place-making and nature. A small change slipped out in the new #NPPF last month corrected that. Happy #WorldCarFreeDay!

So many people are dependent on cars because they have no viable alternatives. Freedom is people being able to CHOOSE their transport based on their needs, not FORCED to drive because nothing else exists. This #WorldCarFreeDay, we’re calling for better choices. 🧵

The Friends of Carrington Moss and other local community groups proposed an alternative solution to the eastern part of the Carrington Relief Road to Trafford in March 2021. For more than 5 years, they have repeatedly requested that this solution be considered... actionnetwork.org/petitions/pl...

Please support the Carrington Relief Road Community Alternative Option

The Friends of Carrington Moss and other local community groups, including Parish Councils, proposed an alternative solution to the eastern part of the Carrington Relief Road to Trafford back in March...

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Our RIS3 consultation response called for: ❌Cancellation of the A38 and A46 ✂️Further cuts targeted at capital spending which increases traffic and congestion 🪾Funding for safety and the environment (especially outfalls) to be ringfenced, and active travel funding increased

If you want to have your say on this, do it now! Deadline is today...

Transport Action Network@transportaction.bsky.social · last mo.

The DfT is looking to cut the RIS3 budget by £428 million. This would be done by: 1) Cancelling two road schemes (the A46 Newark Bypass and A38 Derby Junctions) - saving £315m. 2) Making £113m of cuts in other capital funding Have your say 👇🏼 actionnetwork.org/letters/lets...

National Highways has just confirmed 250 locations where they will stop toxic outfalls pouring road runoff into sensitive watercourses. Your pressure worked! The number of locations went 👆🏽from 182 to 250 with funding in place in RIS3. But, that funding is now under threat 🧵

The DfT is looking to cut the RIS3 budget by £428 million. This would be done by: 1) Cancelling two road schemes (the A46 Newark Bypass and A38 Derby Junctions) - saving £315m. 2) Making £113m of cuts in other capital funding Have your say 👇🏼 actionnetwork.org/letters/lets...

Let’s get damaging road schemes cancelled and save active travel!

The Department for Transport (DfT) is consulting on cutting its road investment strategy (RIS3), to fund defence. They are currently consulting a small number of stakeholders but we want to make sure ...

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I takes less than a minute to add your details to their letter or alternatively you can write your own. Either way please support this worthy cause.

Transport Action Network@transportaction.bsky.social · last mo.

Help us make sure that road safety, the environment and active travel funding is not cut. Respond to this consultation ASAP (deadline 14th Sept) 👇 actionnetwork.org/letters/lets...

Help us make sure that road safety, the environment and active travel funding is not cut. Respond to this consultation ASAP (deadline 14th Sept) 👇 actionnetwork.org/letters/lets...

Let’s get damaging road schemes cancelled and save active travel!

The Department for Transport (DfT) is consulting on cutting its road investment strategy (RIS3), to fund defence. They are currently consulting a small number of stakeholders but we want to make sure ...

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It is time for the Department for Transport to end the deception and release the Lower Thames Crossing’s Outline Business Case immediately transportactionnetwork.org.uk/lower-thames...

Lower Thames Crossing: Digging Up the Truth

When publicly funded infrastructure projects grow to a multi-billion-pound scale, transparency should grow with them. Instead, the £11 billion Lower Thames Crossing (LTC) has become a textbook example...

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Are you a transport campaigner? This webinar by Foundation for Integrated Transport could be useful to understand how to influence mayors. integratedtransport.org.uk/webinar-infl...

Webinar - Influencing mayors for better transport - FIT

9 September 2026, 12:15pm to 1:30pm. Join FIT and a series of experts who will be discussing how transport campaigners and changemakers can build on their work to influence mayors.

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Help get the A38 Derby Junctions @stopa38expansion.bsky.social and A46 Newark Bypass scrapped for good! The Department for Transport is consulting on cuts to roads funding, and is proposing to scrap these two destructive schemes. Please support their cancellation actionnetwork.org/letters/lets...

Let’s get damaging road schemes cancelled and save active travel!

The Department for Transport (DfT) is consulting on cutting its road investment strategy (RIS3), to fund defence. They are currently consulting a small number of stakeholders but we want to make sure ...

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Tell the Treasury your ideas ahead of the Autumn Budget 👇🏼 transportactionnetwork.org.uk/autumn-budge...

Autumn Budget Survey 2026

Autumn Budget Survey 2026 The Treasury is asking for ideas for the Autumn Budget. Help us to make the case for sustainable transport by filling in the Treasury's survey here (selecting 'Transport' at ...

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The Department for Transport is quietly reviewing its road investment strategy (RIS3). But they are only consulting a small number of stakeholders. Here’s how you can have your say 👇 actionnetwork.org/letters/lets...

Let’s get damaging road schemes cancelled and save active travel!

The Department for Transport (DfT) is consulting on cutting its road investment strategy (RIS3), to fund defence. They are currently consulting a small number of stakeholders but we want to make sure ...

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Why is the government privatising roads? Millions of pounds in toll revenues currently used to fund other transport projects will now go into the pockets of the private sector 💰😕⁉️ Taking rail franchises into public ownership while privatising our roads makes no sense

Transport Action Network@transportaction.bsky.social · last mo.

The UK's public spending watchdog is going to investigate the £11bn Lower Thames Crossing project. But when?! Help us continue to increase the pressure on the National Audit Office to confirm a date ASAP actionnetwork.org/letters/inve...

Great opinion piece in The Guardian on the #20mph media frenzy over the past week, generated from just being a footnote - continuing a 12-year-old policy - in the next Birmingham Local Plan!

Dear culture-war motorists, look to the future. We'll all be driving at 20mph soon | Christian Wolmar

There are howls of protest from the right about plans for Birmingham to be a 20mph city. But it will be a good thing, and others will follow, says transport writer and podcaster Christian Wolmar

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Whilst nationalising other national assets, the government is proposing to privatise future roads which is incoherent economic and transport policy. Privatising roads will lead to higher tolls which will not help with the cost of living. 1/2

While No 10 talks of "bringing back hope," the Treasury's infrastructure fire-sale under Reeves is still full steam ahead. Here's why that matters for transport 👇🧵 1) Public assets sold off → higher tolls, fares & freight costs → cost of living goes UP, not down. @greenjjnews.bsky.social

Disappointing to see that, while the rhetoric may have changed, the Government is STILL pressing ahead with Rachel Reeves’ plans to sell off vital national infrastructure — pushing up living costs, putting more HGVs on our roads and fuelling climate breakdown. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

More public control is the way to grow UK economy, Burnham to tell MPs

Exclusive: Prime minister wants to ‘bring back hope’ by tackling cost of living as MPs call for electoral reform

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