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Five times more funding needed to ‘bus back better’ in rural England, CPRE research reveals

Five times more funding needed to ‘bus back better’ in rural England, CPRE research reveals

Monday 22 March 2021

  The government will need to invest five times the amount it pledged last week for buses to provide everyone with ‘cheap, reliable and fast’ bus journeys The government’s National Bus Strategy is woefully unambitious and will continue to deliver “wholly inadequate” bus services, especially in rural areas, according to a report from CPRE, the […] Read more >

Does Transport Secretary revelation scupper plans for Lower Thames Crossing?

Does Transport Secretary revelation scupper plans for Lower Thames Crossing?

Monday 8 March 2021

Campaigners against the building of the Lower Thames Crossing between Kent an Essex have been encouraged by the news that the Secretary of State for Transport ignored the advice of his own officers in refusing to review the government’s road policy.   The Guardian’s front-page story revealed how Grant Shapps had dismissed the advice from civil […] Read more >

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