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UK Government will have to take action on fuel duty for Railways to be able to compete

15 April 2025

Transform Scotland has submitted its response to the UK Department for Transport’s ‘A Railway Fit For Britain’s Future’ consultation. You can read both our response and the Scottish Association for…

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Draft Scottish Budget 2025-26: Our response

4 December 2024

Colin Howden, director of Transform Scotland, said: “It’s deeply disappointing that no funds were found for reinstating the Bus Partnership Fund. Installing bus priority on the roads is a cheap…

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Transform’s top 4 priorities for the Scottish Budget

3 December 2024

Wednesday 4 December sees the Scottish Government’s finance secretary set out the draft Scottish Budget for 2025/26. We set out here four areas where we need to see the Scottish…

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Climate targets scrapped: Transform response

18 April 2024

Commenting on today’s scrapping of Scotland’s 2030 climate change targets, Transform Scotland director Colin Howden said: “It is dishonest of the Scottish Ministers to blame Westminster for its own failure…

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Trams Return To Leith: Now Let’s Build More Lines

7 June 2023

We’re delighted to see the return today of tram services in Edinburgh to Leith and Newhaven. The completion of the original ‘Line 1’ from the Airport to Newhaven must now…

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Making the Case For Change in the Highlands

8 May 2023

Transform has today submitted its response to HITRANS’s consultation on its Regional Transport Strategy ‘Case for Change’ document. Transform Scotland director Colin Howden said: “There’s much to welcome in the…

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Public transport begins recovery from pandemic lows

14 March 2023

Transform Scotland heralded the resilience of public transport and active travel as the latest Scottish Transport Statistics show a marked increase in journeys in 2021/22 compared to the previous year…

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Our new priorities for sustainable transport

8 November 2022

Our new website places front and centre a new set of priorities for sustainable transport. Our priorities concentrate on either infrastructure or incentives, as it is these factors which we…

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Bus recovery: What’s the picture? Edinburgh bus user group reports

24 October 2022

There was a flurry of interest in early October about public transport recovering from losing passengers during the Covid pandemic. The Scotsman reported transport minister Jenny Gilruth MSP needing to…

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Recent news from Transform

27 September 2022

Here, our communications officer Rachel McFarlane reflects on the Transform team’s activities in September. Transform’s trip to the Riverside MuseumWe were delighted to commence September at the Riverside Museum for…

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LNER Forum 2022: Positive takeaways from rail

14 September 2022

Below, our Head of Enterprise Elspeth Wray talks about her experience at LNER’s Scotland Stakeholder Forum in Edinburgh last week. I was delighted to speak at LNER’s Scotland Stakeholder Forum…

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Transform’s trip to the Riverside Museum: Glasgow’s transport past, present and future

7 September 2022

We were delighted to meet up with our members and supporters at the Riverside Museum on Thursday last week for our first in-person event since 2020.  After meeting outside the…

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