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Scrap roads schemes to grow the economy
Scrap road schemes to grow the economy Transport Action Network [1] has written to the new Chancellor, Jeremy Hunt, to suggest scrapping expensive and damaging road building projects, which will do little to boost the economy [2]. Examining the business cases for five flagship road schemes, TAN has discovered that...
Growth Plan under threat?
Growth Plan under threat from road legal challenges? Transport Action Network (TAN) [1] has lodged a legal challenge at the High Court [2] of the Government's decision to approve the A428 Black Cat to Caxton Gibbet 'improvement' [3] part of the cancelled Oxford-Cambridge Expressway. It follows a number of previous...
Road to ruin for South East plan
Road to ruin as South East plan fuels climate change Transport Action Network (TAN) is strongly objecting [1] to Transport for the South East's draft Strategic Investment Plan (SIP) which is currently being consulted upon until 12 September [2]. The draft SIP outlines the transport spending priorities for the region...
Repairing our roads
Repairing our roads and public transport need to be Government priorities Transport Action Network (TAN) is calling on Liz Truss and Anne-Marie Trevelyan, her new Transport Secretary, to get the basics right [1] and repair our roads. These are crumbling after a decade of underinvestment [2] and this is a...
Fast-track to climate catastrophe
Fast-track to climate catastrophe Transport Action Network (TAN) is deeply concerned at Government proposals announced yesterday to bulldoze through new road schemes in even shorter timescales with even less public scrutiny [1]. Delivering road projects faster is said to be "essential to support…net zero" and to "enhance and protect the environment"...
National Highways “fiddling at the edges” while the planet burns
National Highways "fiddling at the edges" while the planet burns As National Highways issued its Net Zero Highways Progress Report [1], Transport Action Network compared the carbon emissions they claim to have saved with the huge increases caused by its £24 billion roads programme, RIS2 [2]. The claimed savings are...
Calls for clear vision on traffic reduction welcomed
Calls for clear vision on traffic reduction welcomed Transport Action Network broadly welcomed the Climate Change Committee's (CCC) 2022 Progress Report to Parliament published today [1], especially its recommendations on reducing traffic growth and considering alternatives to road building. The CCC, which has applauded the Government's ambition on climate change,...
Lower Thames Crossing blasted by Council
LOWER THAMES CROSSING BLASTED BY THURROCK COUNCIL The £8.2 billion Lower Thames Crossing (LTC), billed as the "largest road scheme in a generation" has been blasted in a letter [1] to the Treasury by Cllr Gledhill, Leader of Thurrock Council [2]. The letter, published on the last day of the...
TAN statement on Smart Motorways announcement
TAN statement on Smart Motorways announcement Scrap Smart Motorways to prevent climate change Transport Action Network welcomes today's announcement that another three Smart Motorway schemes have been paused by the Government (the M3 Junction 9-14 scheme was already paused in November 2021). However the ten-mile M6 Junction 21a - 26...
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