North Wales Transport Commissioner Sue Flack reports on recent policy developments in Wales and what Scotland can learn from their success. Transform Scotland is always keen to learn lessons from…
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🗓️ 24 April 2023
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The end of the beginning: Reflections on NPF4
Transform Scotland’s Policy Advisor, Tom Flanagan, reflects on the NPF4 Ministerial Statement.
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Our new priorities for sustainable transport
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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Scotland’s Traffic Summit: How can Scottish businesses help shape the traffic reduction agenda?
How can Scottish businesses help shape the agenda for traffic reduction? That was the question posed at our Traffic Summit, where we brought together Scottish business leaders to discuss what…
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Stuck In Traffic
Report analysing progress, or lack thereof, on Scottish Government Programme for Government commitments on transport made since the 2019 ‘Climate Emergency’ Programme for Government.
Roads to Ruin one year on: Better policies, but road spending plans largely unchanged
A year ago today we published our ‘Roads to Ruin’ report, which found that Transport Scotland: Note that this ÂŁ7 billion is not the budget for repairs or upgrading existing…
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Recent updates from Transform
Transform’s communications officer, Rachel McFarlane, reports on a few of our recent activities. Scottish Bus Week success! The first-ever Scottish Bus Week, which took place during the last week of…
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Local Elections 2022: Securing traffic reduction locally
Transform’s policy officer Marie Ferdelman reflects on this Thursday’s Scottish local elections. In two days people across Scotland will be voting to elect their new Councillors. The issues that will…
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Transport and climate: putting in place the right incentives
Our director, Colin Howden, discusses the necessity of cutting transport emissions in order to reach our climate targets, and how we might go about achieving this. Transport is the toughest…
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NPF4: Like NPF3, this plan will fail to deliver without clear capital investment programme
Transform Scotland has today published its response to the Scottish Government consultation on National Planning Framework 4. Our conclusions are that: There are many positive developments in the proposed framework….
Read moreOil madness: Why we must avoid fuel duty cutsÂ
“Addiction to fossil fuels is mutually assured destruction”: Transform’s communications officer Rachel McFarlane sets out why cutting fuel duty is not the answer to the Ukraine crisis. The UN Secretary…
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