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Our website contains a variety of items dating back to 2001. You can use this archive to explore by year, campaign theme, specific campaign, and category. See also our new releases, our media appearances and our newsletters.

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Support the Chorlton Cycling and Walking Route

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Manchester City Council are leading a consultation on a 5km, £13.4 million proposed cycling and walking route from Chorlton to Manchester. You can show your support with this simple email action, created by Love Your Bike.

Time is running out to save Wales’ Amazon rainforest.

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The Welsh Government wants to bulldoze through the Gwent Levels – Wales’ equivalent of the Amazon rainforest for their diversity of wildlife – to build a new 14-mile-long six-lane motorway. Gwent Wildlife Trust urgently needs your help to stop their destruction.

Sign the petition for Better Buses in Greater Manchester

transport

Right now, bus companies do what they like and it’s afree market wild west scenario. We need public control.

Call for sustainable transport and healthy air for the city centre!

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Transport for Greater Manchester are seeking views on the development of the city centre. They are working with Manchester City Council and Salford City Council. You have until Wednesday 17th October to give your views on how you find getting …

Remove the A6-M60 Bypass from SEMMMS plans: lift the threat to our valleys and fields (Goyt Valley SOS!)

transport

Please sign the petition, calling for the A6-M60 Bypass to be removed from Stockport Council’s SEMMMS Refresh transport strategy. The final version of SEMMMS Refresh is likely to appear soon for approval by councillors. It is yet another attempt to …

Stop the destructive Arundel Bypass! (Campaign for Better Transport)

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Help us protect National Parks and ancient woodland from new roads. On 11 May 2018, Highways England, the Government’s road building company, announced its preferred route for the A27 Arundel Bypass. All three options included in the public consultation were …

Demand investment in cleaner, better public transport

transport

Our public transport is in crisis. Rail chaos, shrinking bus networks and appalling local infrastructure mean we can’t reliably get from A to B on time – and millions of us are being forced to drive.

Help put an end to air pollution

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Air pollution is deadly. But action to deal with this invisible killer just isn’t happening quickly enough. Too many of us are breathing in toxic filthy air created by vehicles on our roads – in particular diesels. And the consequences for …

Dear Government, set up a fund for rail reopenings... (Campaign for Better Transport)

transport

With more and more people using the railways, we want to see many of the lines and stations closed by Dr Beeching in the 1960s open once more, and new lines and stations being built to serve communities. But this …

Plan for people not cars...respond to the consultation on the Major Roads Network (Campaign for Better Transport)

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The Government is consulting on defining a Major Road Network (MRN), identifying the busiest A-roads in the local authority network, and then targeting extra investment at them. The current proposals limit the MRN spending to road projects over £20 million. …

Protect our National Parks and ancient woodlands from road building (Campaign for Better Transport)

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If Government plans for new “strategic orbital routes” and “expressways” go unchallenged, some of our most precious countryside will be at risk. The Government is consulting on future plans for the motorways and trunk roads that make up the Strategic …

Michael Gove: Help us get diesel cars out of our towns and cities (Healthy Air Campaign)

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The UK Government is asking members of the public to send in their thoughts on how we can take diesel cars out of our towns and cities, without hurting the wallets of diesel car owners.

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