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Transport

Birmingham Friends of the Earth has an active local transport campaign. Over the years we have campaigned on a wide range of transport issues including road widening, rail and bus services, walking and cycling, traffic congestion, speeding, Red Routes, Park and Ride schemes, as well as fighting major transport battles like the Birmingham Northern Relief Road (BNRR), Western Orbital Motorway, and aviation, which have their own pages on this site.

Briefings and other documents

Transport campaign press releases

• Campaign groups slam City Council bus lane decision (18th July 2005)
• Bring back the Tyburn Road bus lane! (30th November 2004)
• Taking the Green out of Acocks Green (8th July 2004)
• Stop the chop on the Outer Circle route (7th July 2004)
• 'Bus conductors' and 'lollipop ladies' show the Way to Go on transport (16th March 2004)
• 'Kill your speed!' say residents - national traffic speed day of action (9th December 2003)
• In Town Without My Car Day in Brum - maybe next year? (19th September 2003)
• Free Bike Buddies for new cyclists (10th June 2003)
• Hagley Road widening - let's try again! (2nd April 2003)
• Birmingham wimps out of Car Free Day - AGAIN! (21st July 2002)

Press centre: an archive of Birmingham Friends of the Earth press releases 2000-present

Action Briefing articles 2003-6

• A new walking and cycling map for Birmingham (Apr - May 2006)
• National Rail: Towards a More "open" network? (Feb-Mar 2006)
• Local Transport Plan (Feb-Mar 2006)
• Local Transport Plans: progress from paper to Tarmac? (Dec 2005 - Jan 2006)
• Transport and Climate Change: An irresistible force meets a lot of movable objects (Oct-Nov 2005)
• Car-Free Day 2005: Putting the Boot into Car Culture (Oct-Nov 2005)
• Car-Free Day 2005: Putting Birmingham in the Picture (Aug-Sept 2005)
• Busted: Birmingham's buses (Aug-Sept 2005)
• Congestion, or just waiting your turn? (Jun-Jul 2005)
• Roadblock conference coming to Brum (Apr-May 2005)
• You've heard of Red Routes, now its Blue Routes! (Apr-May 2005)
• The M6 Toll, one year on (Feb-Mar 2005)
• Tyburn Road: Bring back our bus lane! ( Feb-Mar 2005)
• Air quality: Brum still fuming mad (Dec 2004-Jan 2005)
• Local Transport Plans: Reasons to be cheerful, part 2? (Dec 2004-Jan 2005)
• Car-Free Day 2004 bypasses Brum (Oct-Nov 2004)
• Express yourself - No to M6 Expressway! (Oct-Nov 2004)
• Goin' Brumderground (Aug-Sept 2004)
• Chop Stopped as Roads Plot Dropped (Aug-Sept 2004)
• (Not) Trainspotting: M6 Expressway (Aug-Sept 2004)
• M6 Expressway: The Two-Tier Toll Terror! (Aug-Sept 2004)
• Way to Go campaign update (June-July 2004)
• Public Transport Users Forum (Apr-May 2004)
• Showing the Way to Go on transport (Apr-May 2004)
• Birmingham transport services: making the right connections? (Apr-May 2004)
• Beware! Bus showcase scheme (Apr-May 2004)
• Dudley's weakest link (Apr-May 2004)
• Roundabout round the bend (Apr-May 2004)
• Local Access Forum and Living Streets (Apr-May 2004)
• Kill your speed, not a child! (Feb-Mar 2004)
• Join the Passenger Transport Users Forum (Feb-Mar 2004)
• Are we being taken for a (Park and) Ride? (Dec 2003-Jan 2004)
• Centro's Metro consultation: have your say (Dec 2003-Jan 2004)
• Are you plagued by speeding traffic? (Dec 2003-Jan 2004)
• In Redditch without our cars . . . but will Birmingham take part in 2003? (Oct-Nov 2003)
• Bye bye bypasses! (Oct-Nov 2003)
• East meets West: by road at any rate (Oct-Nov 2003)
• The Event Formerly Known As Car Free Day (Aug-Sept 2003)
• Martin's transport round-up: Hagley Road, red routes, local rail (Aug-Sept 2003)
• Where's the Multi in Multi-Modal Study? (Aug-Sept 2003)
• Memory lanes (Aug-Sept 2003)
• Hagley Road: stop the chainsaw massacre! (Jun-Jul 2003)
• Bike Week 2003 (Jun-Jul 2003)
• Network Rail going off the rails (Jun-Jul 2003)
• Red routes: seeing red on the Stratford Road (Apr-May 2003)
• Bus Showcase Schemes: road widening by stealth? (Apr-May 2003)
• Moving slowly forward in Hereford (Apr-May 2003)
• Shropshire roads and supermarkets (Apr-May 2003)
• Hagley Road success as consultation reopened (Feb-Mar 2003)
• Bus priority or car priority? (Feb-Mar 2003)

More Action Briefing articles in our archive.

M42 Widening

• Why FoE opposes widening of the M42 (December 2001)

Consultation responses

• Strategic Park and Ride for the West Midlands (October 2003)
• Stratford Road Red Route (February 2003)
• Response to the West Midlands Local Transport Plan (November 2002)

Links

• Friends of the Earth - transport www.foe.co.uk/campaigns/transport/
• Home Zone news www.homezonenews.org.uk/
• Living Streets www.livingstreets.org.uk/
• Rail Future www.railfuture.org.uk/
• Slower Speeds Initiative www.slower-speeds.org.uk/
• Transport 2000 - the national environmental transport body www.transport2000.org.uk/
• Travelwise week www.travelwiseweek.org.uk/

This page last updated: 6th April 2006