We’ve published a presentation prepared for the High Speed Rail Group event ‘From Plane to Train: Achieving Modal Shift in Anglo-Scottish Travel’ held in Edinburgh on Monday 25 October. Transform’s…
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October newsletter – Campaigns update
Transform Scotland’s Communications Officer, Rachel McFarlane, reports on a selection of our recent campaign activities. Putting Down Routes: Building Scotland’s Active Freeway Network On October 7 we published a new…
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Rail patronage recovery campaign should be the priority, not rail service cuts
We have today published out response to the ScotRail consultation ‘Fit for the Future’ consultation. In our response, we set out five key recommendations for the Scottish Government: Pause rail…
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Caledonian MacBrayne — Environmental Heroes Programme
In each newsletter we highlight the work of one of our members. This edition we hear from Caledonian MacBrayne. Caledonian MacBrayne is the UK’s largest ferry operator – delivering ferry…
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September Campaigns Update
Transform Scotland’s Communications Officer, Rachel McFarlane, reports on a selection of our recent campaign activities. Roads to Ruin report published On August 10, we published a new report titled ‘Roads…
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Prospects for sustainable transport in 2021: we’ve got to win this time around
Transform Scotland’s director Colin Howden discusses the prospects for sustainable transport in light of this summer’s collaboration agreement between the Scottish Government and the Scottish Greens, and the subsequent Programme…
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Programme for Government commentary
Transform’s response to the Scottish Government’s Programme for Government this year took the form of a tweeted commentary from our director Colin Howden. (In truth, there wasn’t much new in…
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Strategic review needed of Edinburgh-Newcastle local passenger services
Transform Scotland has today published its response to the review of the East Coast Main Line rail timetable. Transform rail spokesperson Paul Tetlaw said: “We welcome LNER’s proposed improved journey…
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New action required to embed the benefits of distributed working
We’ve today published an update on our ‘Connected Recovery’ report of June 2020, highlighting whether there has been progress in embedding the benefits of distributed working necessitated by the pandemic…
Read moreScotland’s Railway – The Year Ahead
Transform’s rail spokesperson Paul Tetlaw has prepared a new commentary on what developments we might see on Scotland’s railways over the coming year. Government Transport Policies The future development of…
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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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‘Now is the time to invest for the long-term future of our public transport networks’
In our ‘Transport Recovery – Rebuilding Public Transport Patronage’ report published on 25 June 2020, we examined the impact of the pandemic on public transport and the routes to recovery…
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