Transform’s director Colin Howden has congratulated the Scottish Government’s new ministerial team for transport. The new Cabinet sees Michael Matheson MSP, who held the brief for transport, infrastructure & connectivity…
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2020/21 Transform Scotland member survey — key findings
1. What we did Over the past few months, we carried out a membership survey to find out what our members think about Transform Scotland. We supplemented the survey with…
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Moving the Vote: Analysis of transport in Holyrood party manifestos
We have today published our report ‘Moving the Vote: Sustainable transport in the party manifestos for the 2021 Scottish Parliament elections’. The report sets out our analysis of transport in…
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Michael Matheson MSP discusses the SNP’s transport vision in our final ‘Moving the Vote’ event
On Friday 23 April we held the fifth and final event in our ‘Moving the Vote: Transport Conversations with the parties’ series. A recording of which can be found here….
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Moving the Vote – Mark Ruskell MSP outlines the Scottish Greens’ vision for Scotland’s transport sector
We held the fourth event in our ‘Moving the Vote: Transport Conversations with the parties’ series on Friday 9 Mar, a recording of which can be found here. In a…
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Alarming failure by STPR2 to consider economic instruments for reducing traffic
Transform Scotland has today published its response to the Transport Scotland consultation on the Jacobs/Aecom ‘STPR2 Update on Phase 1 Recommendations’ report. Amongst other things, the report sets out a…
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Moving the Vote – Sarah Boyack MSP outlines Scottish Labour’s plans to achieve a sustainable transport sector
We held the third event in our ‘Moving the Vote: Transport Conversations with the parties’ series on Friday 26 March, a recording of which can be found here. We were…
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What Do Transport Groups Want from the next Scottish Government?
The Scottish Parliament’s Cross-Party Group on Cycling, Walking & Buses held its final meeting on Tuesday 9 March. At this meeting, the members of the group were asked to share…
Read moreIs there an election or something happening?: Director’s Notes for March 2021 newsletter
In his ‘Director’s Notes’ for the March 2021 newsletter, Transform director Colin Howden attempts to keep up. Is there an election or something happening? Yes, the blizzard of announcements over…
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Switch spending from building more roads to zero-carbon communities: welcome for Just Transition Commission report
Transform Scotland has today welcomed the key message from the Just Transition Commission in their final report, published today, that: ‘We must move beyond GDP as the main measure of…
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Moving the Vote: Carole Ford outlines the Liberal Democrats’ vision for sustainable transport
We held the second in our ‘Moving the Vote: Transport Conversations with the parties’ event series yesterday, Thursday 11 March. A recording of which can be found here. We were…
Read moreAll five speakers confirmed for ‘Moving the Vote’ series
Transform Scotland has today confirmed all final speakers for its ‘Moving the Vote: Transport Conversations with the parties’ series. Transform spokesperson Marie Ferdelman commented: “We are very pleased to be…
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