Transport Action Network was set up in 2019 and is run by six people with a wealth of experience.
OUR PURPOSE is to help communities seek better (and more sustainable) transport. We support more investment in bus and rail services and active travel. To enable this and better roads maintenance (fewer potholes) we continue to oppose spending on damaging roads. We also support better integration between transport and planning.
Please get in touch if you would like some help (we can't run your campaign for you unfortunately) or if you would like to network with other like minded people and organisations. All our services are free to local campaigners.
Note: we mostly work in England and Wales.
If you would like to support our work, please consider donating.
Chief Executive
Abby Coften
Abby Coften has held senior leadership roles in the not-for-profit sector for over ten years. Most recently, she was Chief Executive of Campaign to Protect Rural England, Hertfordshire (CPRE Hertfordshire), where she focused on protecting the countryside from inappropriate planning applications, promoting a brownfield-first approach to planning and launching CPRE Hertfordshire’s first ever hedgerow planting project alongside Herts and Middlesex Butterfly Conservation, planting over 2,500 meters of hedgerows to offset carbon and provide new wildlife corridors.
Abby has been a professionally qualified communications expert for over 20 years and uses these skills to successfully campaign on a number of environmental concerns, including a petition last year calling on the Government to review the definition of ‘grey belt’ in the National Planning Policy Framework which started as a local campaign that attracted over 45,000 national signatures.
Abby is a Trustee of several charities including Heads up Kids, a children’s mental health charity and CPRE Hertfordshire. A nature enthusiast and keen walker, Abby advocates for sustainable transport and enjoys supporting local communities in campaigning against damaging road schemes that impact our green spaces.
Roads & Climate Campaigner
Rebecca Lush
Rebecca is a life-long environmental campaigner, specialising in transport. She became involved when Twyford Down was bulldozed for the M3 motorway in 1992, near where she grew up.
She played a leading part in this campaign, and many of the prominent campaigns against roadbuilding in the 1990s, including the Newbury Bypass campaign. She attended the first UN COP climate talks in Berlin in 1995, taking part in the first youth protests about the lack of progress in tackling rising carbon emissions. She established Road Block in 2005, an alliance of community groups against the new roads programme, and in 2007 became the first Roads and Climate Campaigner for Campaign for Better Transport.
She had a brief interlude from 2012, working for Lush managing their charitable giving, but has now returned to her original passion, supporting local communities campaigning on transport issues.
Communications Officer
Nisha Kotecha
Nisha has worked in digital communications for more than seven years, supporting both businesses and charities to increase awareness of their work.
In 2014, she created Good News Shared, a platform highlighting uplifting charitable stories from around the world. She has created a guided positivity journal, and is currently co-facilitator of her local Action for Happiness ‘10 Keys to Happier Living’ group.
As someone who has never owned a car and so always relies on public transport, she is interested in ways we can improve our transport systems in the UK. Having previously worked for an older people’s charity, and as a member of the Women’s Institute, she is aware of how crucial bus services are to older people and those living in rural areas.
Low Traffic Future Campaigner
Ed Lamb
Ed brings his media and digital skills to the world of sustainable transport campaigning. Living with his wife and two kids in Wirral, Merseyside, he has worked for many years with local businesses helping them with web and graphic design, photography and email marketing.
In his spare time, Ed has been working hard for local change. After returning to cycling in his early 30s, and particularly after witnessing the horror of the car-filled school run, he started to campaign hard for change. He has worked closely with Merseyside Cycling Campaign and Wirral Pedestrians Association as well as getting involved with his local authority in shaping new schemes.
In 2018 Ed setup Rethink Now CIC. He and colleagues have worked on air quality testing projects, carbon literacy training and an annual family cycling event attended by hundreds of local citizens.
Low Traffic Future Campaigner
Roger Geffen
Roger’s involvement in transport campaigning began as a volunteer with the London Cycling Campaign (LCC) in the late 1980s. He went on to take active roles in various transport and environment groups ranging from CPRE, Campaign for Better Transport, Alarm UK (the anti-road building alliance) and various anti-road campaigns, notably the M11 Link Road in east London in the 1990s.
With the subsequent shift in national transport policy, he took a masters in Transport at London University and began working for Oxfordshire County Council on walking, cycling and local transport policies.
After a spell with consultants Steer Davies Gleave, he joined Cycling UK as Campaigns & Policy Manager (now Policy Director) in 2002.
He was awarded an MBE for services to cycling in 2015.
Low Traffic Future was set up by TAN to build an alliance across communities and organisations to promote the benefits of less motorised traffic for people, places and the planet.
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