No, it isn't :(
09.03.2026 14:09
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No, it isn't :(
I've recently been looking to move house, and as I'm unable to drive, I've noticed many newer estates don't have a shop or a bus service. I'd be trapped and reliant on deliveries. That's no way to live.
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Most road runoff filtration systems are made by UK companies - so investing in tackling road runoff would be investing in UK jobs, wildlife, rivers + water security, as @stormwater-jo.bsky.social explains in our joint podcast with @planetpossible.bsky.social:
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Thank you. Essential to call this out. Market towns here in Hampshire had significant development 2015-25 but public transport provision collapsed in that period.
What’s the point of the NPPF provision to ‘align growth and infrastructure’ (para 2.11a) if no Local Plan delivers it?
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In our latest blog post we focus on the campaign to save the Queensbury Tunnel.
Grant Shapps’ intervention in 2020 should have been the end of it, but sadly that was not the case...
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Surely not many people still believe it. The Financial Times revealed last year that the cost of the Lower Thames Crossing had jumped 17% to £11bn in just 9 months!
No full business case? No problem! At least, where the Lower Thames Crossing is concerned.
Shocking that billions are being squandered on this 'smart' motorway. The government is playing fast and loose with taxpayers' money for a white elephant scheme that will deliver little economic benefit.
Just a bit!
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The Labour government has not published any long-term transport strategies nearly two years after being elected.
Radical ambition is now needed to turn around what has become the biggest source of UK emissions.
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With the Labour government yet to publish any long-term transport strategies nearly two years after being elected, radical ambition is now needed to turn around what has become the biggest source of UK emissions.
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That assumed earlier climate plans would be delivered, which is looking unlikely.
Last June, we secured a historic victory in the Court of Appeal against cuts to active travel funding, revealing new evidence that official targets would be way off track without shifting funding.
By 30 June 2026: The Government is required to set the level of climate ambition for 2038 to 2042, a process known as the seventh carbon budget.
The Climate Change Committee recommended an 87% cut of Greenhouse Gas Emissions from 1990 levels was needed. 🧵
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A powerful short film about the impact of a lack of bus services on a community of Gamesley near Glossop (NW Derbyshire). Well worth a watch 👇
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Stormwater Shepherds has pointed out that there is no shortage of treatment technologies and devices for managing highway runoff.
What is missing is the will – and the funding – to implement them.
National Highways currently has Designated Funds exactly for this sort of purpose
‘Smart’ motorway reports expose them as a costly failure.
So why is the government claiming that they are not building more of these roads when they are? transportactionnetwork.org.uk/smart-motorw...
Sadly it isn't 'just' sewage that is a problem. What is less talked about is road runoff. When it rains a toxic brew of oil, particulate matter, and microplastics from tyre & brake wear is washed off the roads and into our watercourses. National Highways is failing to tackle this problem...
Well done Better Shrewsbury Transport campaigners. After 7 years, the end seems to be in sight for the North West Relief Road (NWRR)!
National Highways cannot be allowed to pretend most outfalls are not a problem, or that it only needs to treat a tiny proportion of them.
All are leaching heavy metals and carcinogens into our rivers and groundwater.
Unlike sewage, these chemicals will be around 'forever'.
