What would safer streets in Birmingham look like?20's Plenty, Shared Space and how we get there.By Matthew KeysImagine a city where you could walk or cycle to work, the shops, or school, without h...

  Should we Spend £30bn on High Speed Rail?   Before the election, the previous government put forward its plans for HS2, the high speed rail network that it said will revolutionise the transpor...

Local primary schools have produced some stunning posters in a drawing competition organised by Birmingham Friends of the Earth as part of Bike/Walk to school week. The competition was on the theme o...

Everyone is aware of the benefits of using public transport over the car: less pollution in crowded city streets, less congestion on busy urban roads and fewer per capita CO2 emissions to name but thr...

GOVERNMENT EXPECTED TO ANNOUNCE PLANS TO BUILD NEW HIGH SPEED RAIL LINK Commenting ahead of tomorrow's expected announcement (Thursday 11 March 2010) on the building of a new high speed rail link...

  Birmingham Friends of the Earth is calling for the default limit on all residential roads in Birmingham to be set at 20 mph to make them safer for cyclists, pedestrians all road users and reside...

The struggle with transport is always the end-to-end journey and it is always too easy for the car to win out when this is not considered properly.

As those who follow our activities will know, recently we ran a very successful public campaign to get as many people as possible to respond to the consultation on the WM Rail Development Plan. We got...

In just a few weeks, on 11th September, a ground-breaking rail consultation closes. Dependant on the outcome, and that relies on input from the public, the railways around the West Midlands could be...

Birmingham Friends of the Earth and West Midlands Campaign for Better Transport (WMCBT) have launched a joint campaign to lobby for improvements to the bus service in Birmingham and the West Midland...

Often when people go into meetings for the first time, there are a lot of new things to learn, so here are some names and terms to help in transport meetings: Network Rail – According to their webs...

Check out this fantastic short documentary on sustainable transport in Birmingham - The Green Pedal . It was made by a group of Birmingham based media students and features BFoE's very own Joe Pea...

It took almost 36 hours to travel door-to-door from Redditch to my amigo’s in Andalucia, two hours north of Granada. I’d chosen NOT to fly, travelling by public transport. That meant using...

Road accidents are the leading cause of death and serious injury in children and young people in Britain. While Britain's road safety record is good overall, our record on child pedestrian safety ...

Comedian and activist Mark Thomas has shown his support for BFOE and BANG's Flyagra campaign against the proposed expansion of Birmingham International Airport. At his recent talk and book s...