May 2019 – No Expressway Alliance

Highways England’s own analysis of the Expressway shows a benefit:cost ratio (BCR) in the range of 1.1 – 1.3, far lower than most other…

No Expressway Alliance

2 weeks ago

Hi - we haven't gone away, and we are looking to work on issues of over-development around the 'Arc' and better ransport systems. But just to confirm we have now been told that the team at Highways England who were working on the Expressway have been 'stood down'. That may be as close as we ever get to a formal 'end of story (for now!)'. ...

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No Expressway Alliance

4 weeks ago

Highways England plans may have dropped the ExWay, but still plenty more roads...
The Government is currently consulting on how to cut carbon emissions from transport - deadline is 31 August. Here's some useful guidance from Transport Action Network.
transportactionnetwork.org.uk/take-action/

It's really important that the Government gets a strong message that it needs to stop building roads and invest in sustainable solutions instead, including broadband.
Our headline points are:
Government should take clear leadership
Set mandatory carbon budgets for transport (separate for both surface transport and aviation) with a clear pathway to net zero at both a national and regional level
Set road traffic reduction target nationally to give a clear steer that technical solutions are not enough
Create an affordable, clean and fully integrated public transport network including for rural areas funded by road pricing
Create a fair and just transport system that doesn’t leave people behind and improves public health and wellbeing
Increase faster broadband rollout, increasing speeds and capacity
Stop making things worse
Repurpose money for roads from RIS2 and other funding streams and put into positive solutions that will reduce emissions
Fully integrate transport into planning and stop enabling car dependent developments

You can email the DfT (preferably in your own words) via: TDP@dft.gov.uk
We've also produced guidance for those wanting to respond using the Government's questionnaire online.
For more information about this and other consultations see our Take Action! page
Please circulate to friends, family and colleagues. ...

Take Action!

transportactionnetwork.org.uk

This page lists any significant actions or consultations that people might wish to engage with: Actions e-bike Action - write to your MP! The government has pledged to ‘create a new era for cycling and walking’ but we need an incentive scheme for e-bikes to really make this happen (it is plannin...

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No Expressway Alliance

10 months ago

Now here's an interesting leaflet going through letterboxes in 'West Oxford and Abingdon' from a wannabe MP. It states that the Secretary of State (if re-elected) will 'scrap the expressway plans'. (we'll hold them to that!)

Now - two questions you can answer:
1: Who's the wannabe MP standing against?
2: Who has been the MP who has campaigned hardest against the Expressway and even had a debate in Parliament about it.? That MP sounds like they should get the credit here?

Oh what a surprise... They are the same person!

It seems like he is trying to take the credit for something his opponent has done... surely no-one would be that cheaply opportunistic?

(Answers on a postcard to B***s J*****n) ...

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Month: May 2019

Oxford-Cambridge expressway: the real costs, and the dubious benefits