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Revision as of 12:36, 24 March 2015
Template:Sustainable transport UKnews This article focuses on information specific to United Kingdom. Please see our Sustainable transport activism page for a topic overview.
Campaigns
Campaign for Better Transport, UK advocacy group that promotes better bus and rail services and for supportive policies and for less expenditure on road building. It draws together the views of a wide range of organisations including conservation and environmental groups, community groups and trade unions. W
Living Streets, campaigns for better streets and public space for people on foot. They have local branches and contacts, and materials to help people campaign locally.
Save our Buses, Campaign for Better Transport
Community rail in the United Kingdom
Community rail in the United Kingdom is the support of railway lines and stations by local organisations, usually through community rail partnerships (CRPs) comprising railway operators, local councils, and other community organisations, and rail user groups (RUGs). Community railways are managed to fit local circumstances recognising the need to increase revenue, reduce costs, increase community involvement and support social and economic development.
The Association of Community Rail Partnerships (ACoRP) supports its fifty or so member CRPs and also offers assistance to voluntary station friends groups that support their local stations through the station adoption scheme. Since 2005 the Department for Transport has formally designated a number of railway lines as community rail schemes in order to recognise the need for different, more appropriate standards than are applied to main line railway routes, and therefore make them more cost effective. W
Resources
- Reducing the Need to Travel, a Campaigners’ Guide from Campaign for Better Transport, December 2011
Video
More video: LivingStreetsUK channel on youtube
See also
- Sustainable transport activism
- local information can be found, or shared, via our many UK location pages
- Climate action UK
- Cycling UK
- Localism UK
- Open spaces UK
- Road safety UK
- Rural sustainability UK
- Sustainable livelihood UK
- Urban sustainability UK
Interwiki links
Wikipedia: Trams and light rail in the UK, Walking in the United Kingdom (category)
External links
- Acorp, National federation of Community rail partnerships
- Co-wheels car club which operates as a Social Enterprise
- ETA Trust, environmentally friendly transport
- Liftshare.com
- National Rail enquiries, for train journey planning
- Passenger Focus, independent Passenger Watchdog
- The Ramblers, formerly known as the Ramblers' Association, is the largest walkers' rights organisation in Great Britain and aims to represent the interests of walkers (or ramblers). It is a charity registered in England and Wales and in Scotland, with around 123,000 members.
- Traveline, impartial and comprehensive information about public transport
- Walkers are Welcome, community-led initiative operating in England, Scotland and Wales. The scheme promotes towns and communities as 'walker-friendly', based on a number of criteria, aiming to benefit local economies by attracting tourism. W
- We Are Futureproof, pushing for new ideas in personal transport
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