Jun 9, 20229 min readHeavy Rail in Herefordshire The Future. June 20221. 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...
Feb 24, 20222 min readFrom Elation into the Pits Elation: There was great elation when the Prime Minister announced Bus Back Better - A National Bus Strategy for England - in early 2021....
Jan 24, 20226 min readGreat British Railways Call for Evidence Consultation. January 2022Submission by Herefordshire Sustainable Transport Group Using the Strategic Objectives blueprint, these are the HSTG comments and...
Jan 1, 20223 min readRail Fares Hike Makes a Mockery of Tackling Climate Change. January 2022The Campaign for Better Transport summed it up neatly: Considering the urgent need to act on climate change, the Government should be...
Sep 9, 20212 min readWhere have all the Bus Drivers Gone? September 2021In July the Hereford Times ran a news item that bus services in Hereford were being cut to an emergency timetable as Yeomans Travel faced...
Sep 6, 20212 min readBus Service Information. September 2021Geoff Lusher, Chairman of the Midland Branch of the Omnibus Society opens a recent branch bulletin with an article highlighting the...
Sep 4, 20211 min readGoing in the Right Direction. September 2021 At last a local authority that is travelling in the right direction. Herefordshire Council, a Unitary Authority, are to be highly lauded...
Aug 5, 20213 min readResponse to consultation on the Herefordshire Bus Service Improvement Plan. August 2021In the Council’s consultation document on the Herefordshire BSIP, Councillor Harrington is correct in stating.... ‘Good and affordable...
May 18, 20213 min readBus Back Better to Where? May 2021In October 2020 HSTG issued a report entitled The Bus Muddle. In it we identified that local authority bus budgets in England and Wales...
Apr 28, 20213 min readThe Diseased Algorithm. April 2021An algorithm is defined as ‘the list of instructions and rules that a computer needs to do to complete a task’. The...
Apr 26, 20212 min readDitching the Hereford Bypass was the Easy Part. April 2021The difficult part is putting in its place a sustainable transport system that is in line with the climate emergency and that will...
Apr 13, 20212 min readRising to the Challenge. April 2021The title of this news item has been taken unashamedly from the recently published important report Rising to the Challenge: Achieving...
Mar 18, 20217 min readResponse to the Midlands Connect Transport Strategy Refresh. March 2021Summary of Response Economic growth in Herefordshire is identified in the high technology and engineering sector as well as agricultural...
Mar 11, 20212 min readNo Fare Buses. March 2021Free 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...
Mar 10, 20212 min readPublic Transport Needs Secure Finance. March 2021In a recent very lucid article Laura Shoaf, MD for Transport for West Midlands emphasised the fact that the future of the bus—and a...
Mar 7, 20212 min readThe Parlous State of Rural Bus Services. March 2021In 2020 the Council for the Protection of Rural England and the Campaign for Better Transport published an important report on Transport...
Feb 19, 20212 min readTime and Speed. February 2021The 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...
Feb 19, 20211 min readA Tale of Two County Towns. February 2021Shropshire and Herefordshire have a great deal in common. They are both essentially rural shire counties with county towns at the heart...
Feb 16, 20212 min readParcels by Bus. February 2021There 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...
Feb 6, 20211 min readA Matter of Embodied Emissions. February 2021Professor John Whitelegg is a Senior Fellow with the Foundation for Integrated Transport (FIT). He has a long and distinguished career as...
