By email to: consultation@A701ReliefRoad.com Dear Sir/Madam We object to all of the Routes Options proposed. These will all induce additional levels of traffic, which will negatively affect the operation of…
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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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SNP-GREENS DEAL: Scaling-back of Scottish roads programme welcomed
Transform Scotland NEWS RELEASE For immediate release: Friday 20 August 2021 SNP-GREENS DEAL: Scaling-back of Scottish roads programme welcomed Transform Scotland, the national sustainable transport alliance, [1] has today (Friday…
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Roads to Ruin video
We’ve today published our new ‘Roads to Ruin’ video, prepared for us by Bob Carr of Bob Carr Creative.
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Roads to Ruin: New report finds climate-wrecking roads programme due to double in size
Transform Scotland NEWS RELEASETuesday 10 August 2021 ROADS TO RUIN:New report finds climate-wrecking roads programme due to double in size despite Scottish Government’s Climate Emergency pledge Transform Scotland [1] has…
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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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Union Connectivity Review fails to take serious approach to Climate Emergency
Transform Scotland has issued its initial views on the interim report of the Union Connectivity Review. Chris Day, who prepared Transform’s evidence paper to the Review, commented: “We have no…
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Climate Plan scrutiny failure to tackle high-carbon bias in transport investment
Transform Scotland has issued a parliamentary briefing ahead of this afternoon’s debate on scrutiny of the Climate Change Plan. Transform director Colin Howden said: “We welcome the joint parliamentary committees’…
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Action on bus priority needed to turn around bus patronage trends
Commenting on today’s publication by the Scottish Government of its ‘Scottish Transport Statistics 2020‘ publication, Transform director Colin Howden said: “It’s hardly surprising that people will abandon buses if bus…
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Campaign Update: Unambiguous investment plans required, not nebulous promises
Transform Scotland director Colin Howden reports on recent climate and capital expenditure plans revealed by the Scottish Government. The last couple of months has seen a deluge of new Scottish…
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