1. Background There has been much talk of a new station at Pontrilas of late. However this is just one aspect of the future of the heavy...

Elation: There was great elation when the Prime Minister announced Bus Back Better - A National Bus Strategy for England - in early 2021....

Submission by Herefordshire Sustainable Transport Group Using the Strategic Objectives blueprint, these are the HSTG comments and...

The Campaign for Better Transport summed it up neatly: Considering the urgent need to act on climate change, the Government should be...

In July the Hereford Times ran a news item that bus services in Hereford were being cut to an emergency timetable as Yeomans Travel faced...

Geoff Lusher, Chairman of the Midland Branch of the Omnibus Society opens a recent branch bulletin with an article highlighting the...

At last a local authority that is travelling in the right direction. Herefordshire Council, a Unitary Authority, are to be highly lauded...

In the Council’s consultation document on the Herefordshire BSIP, Councillor Harrington is correct in stating.... ‘Good and affordable...

In October 2020 HSTG issued a report entitled The Bus Muddle. In it we identified that local authority bus budgets in England and Wales...

An algorithm is defined as ‘the list of instructions and rules that a computer needs to do to complete a task’. The...

The difficult part is putting in its place a sustainable transport system that is in line with the climate emergency and that will...

The title of this news item has been taken unashamedly from the recently published important report Rising to the Challenge: Achieving...

Summary of Response Economic growth in Herefordshire is identified in the high technology and engineering sector as well as agricultural...

Free Fares, no fares, fare free, zero fares, there is a lot of talk about this of late. The Hereford Issue has started a petition for...

In a recent very lucid article Laura Shoaf, MD for Transport for West Midlands emphasised the fact that the future of the bus—and a...

In 2020 the Council for the Protection of Rural England and the Campaign for Better Transport published an important report on Transport...

The writer Monisha Rajesh made a telling and accurate comment in her book ‘Around the World in 80 Trains’. She said: As a people we’d...

Shropshire and Herefordshire have a great deal in common. They are both essentially rural shire counties with county towns at the heart...

There was a time when the humble country bus was more than just a bus. It was a means of connecting villages with towns and carrying not...

Professor John Whitelegg is a Senior Fellow with the Foundation for Integrated Transport (FIT). He has a long and distinguished career as...