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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...
Ministers undermine own pledge to cut emissions
UK ministers undermine own pledge to cut emissions UK ministers sought advice to protect road-building, day before net zeRo transport plan Secret briefings revealed as part of a High Court challenge [1] against England's £100bn roads programme [2] undermine UK pledges to cut emissions, say campaigners. The documents show that...
Time to stop dancing around decarbonisation
“Time to stop dancing around decarbonisation” Department for Transport told Campaigners fresh from a legal battle with the Department for Transport say that its Transport Decarbonisation Plan cannot be credible, unless it abandons the roads programme. The much delayed Plan is rumoured to be published this Wednesday 14th July, coinciding...
Court protects stability of roads programme over climate
Court protects stability of roads programme over climate Transport Action Network is shocked by today’s High Court ruling that the Secretary of State for Transport did not need to provide evidence to show he had considered the impact of the “largest ever” roads programme on climate targets [1]. In March...
High Court challenge to largest ever roads programme
High Court challenge to largest ever roads programme Photo call: 1pm, 29 June 2021 outside Royal Courts of Justice, Strand, London Communities fighting road schemes across the UK will gather with banners and placards in support of this historic legal challenge on the first day of the judicial review The...
Campaigners launch legal challenge against UK Government as it hosts UN climate summit
Campaigners launch legal challenge against UK Government as it hosts UN climate summit Climate campaigners have marked the fifth anniversary of the Paris Agreement with a legal challenge against the Government. Hours before the UN Climate Ambition Summit 2020 [1] started, Transport Action Network (TAN) served a judicial review on...
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