Transform policy officer Laura Hyde-White welcomes the Scottish Government’s new initiative highlighting the need for greater safety for women and girls using public transport, and calls for gender considerations to…
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Draft Energy Strategy and Just Transition Plan | Consultation
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‘Fair Fares’ needed to transform the fortunes of Scotland’s public transport
New report calls for Scotland to deploy a multi-modal, multi-operator ticketing system to make public transport simple, accessible and affordable. A new report published today calls for decisive action to…
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Fair Fares
This report reviews the current cost of public transport to users from different groups and how this impacts access, with recommendations for the government’s Fair Fares Review.
Programme for Government: Rail fare freeze welcomed, but what about bus fares?
Responding to today’s Scottish Government Programme for Government announcement, Transform Scotland director Colin Howden commented: “We’re very pleased that the government has frozen fares on ScotRail, which otherwise might have…
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Scotland set to miss target for bus electrification
NEWS RELEASE Monday 5 September 2022 SCOTLAND SET TO MISS TARGET FOR BUS ELECTRIFICATION: New report reveals whether Programme for Government sustainable transport commitments are being met A new report published…
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Community rail in Scotland looks to the future
As ScotRail services transferred into public ownership on 1st April, Scotland’s network of community rail partnerships and station groups looked forward to playing an increasingly strong role in shifting Scotland…
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Reducing the dominance of cars in Scotland: a question of equality.
We have today published the video and minutes from the Cross-Party Group on Sustainable Transport meeting, where Bruce Whyte, the Public Health Programme Manager at Glasgow Centre for Population Health,…
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Spring Statement does nothing for public transport users. What about the third of households without a car?
Commenting on today’s Spring Statement, Transform director Colin Howden said: “Today’s Spring Statement does absolutely nothing for public transport users. The Chancellor clearly thinks that everyone has a car. What…
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Reflections on 2021 by our Chair
Transport is central to all of our lives. We make choices daily about where to go, how to get there, or if we should even travel at all. Perhaps there’s…
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Why has Scottish public transport recovery lagged behind the rest of Great Britain?
Transform Scotland has today published a new paper, ‘A Just Recovery for Transport?’, which reflects on pandemic trends in transport, and the differing impacts that this has had on private…
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