Cycle Routes in Hereford. November 2020
In July 2020 the Department for Transport published Local Transport Note 1/20, entitled Cycle Infrastructure Design. This document by the...
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The end of petrol and diesel cars is in sight – but are the alternatives good enough? November 2020
(Image by (Joenomias) Menno de Jong from Pixabay ) Government announced this week that from 2030, sales in the UK of new fossil-fuelled...
Response to Planning For the Future White Paper. October 2020
Herefordshire Sustainable Transport Group has been making the case for active travel, public transport, and innovative schemes for a...
DfT's TRANSPORT DECARBONISATION PLAN: CALL FOR IDEAS. HSTG Response. August 2020
This is a response from Herefordshire Sustainable Transport Group (HSTG) a campaigning organisation that advocates for clean and...
The Bus Muddle. August 2020
Bus Crisis in 2020? We read that the Covid 19 pandemic and the resultant lockdown has thrown the bus industry into confusion and panic,...
Departure: The Future for Herefordshire Bus Services. June 2020
1. Background In 2015 Herefordshire Council presented its Local Transport Plan 4 (2016-2031). The plan identified a core network of...
The Bright Bits - In the Midst of a Storm There is Always a Brightness. May 2020
The brightness to come out of the country’s present strange situation is there for all to see. People, communities, businesses, local...
Post Lockdown - It Ain’t Going to be Easy from Now On. May 2020
In the words of the song by Elton John, ‘It ain’t going to be easy from now on’! With the government’s economic policy (if ever there was...
The Lost Decades : Fin de Siècle (The 20th Century Ends). May 2020
In 1999 the Health Education Authority (HEA) published a report entitled ‘Making T.H.E. Links’. The report was the result of a research...
New Era for Cycling & Walking - Does This Herald a New Era? May 2020
Sir Edward Elgar has a wry smile on his face. After all these years of cycling and walking being driven into the background, or the hedge...
New Homes & Sustainable Transport. March 2020
1. Introduction ‘Aspirations for new homes mirror many aspects of modern society thinking. This envisages more physically active and less...
The Need for a Herefordshire Bus Strategy. March 2020
1. A Better Deal for Bus Services The news that Herefordshire Council is considering spending up to £39 million on new electric buses to...
Connecting Hereford. March 2020
This seven-page HSTG report re examines the case for the development of an ultra-light rail route on the old railway line connecting the...
An Electric Town Bus Service for Ledbury. March 2020
1. Introduction The Herefordshire Council Core Strategy 2011-2031 stated ‘Within the overall vision for Herefordshire, Ledbury will...
The Role of Railways in Herefordshire’s Future. March 2020
The Background Herefordshire suffered greatly in the great railways cull of the 1950s and 1960s, commonly known as the ‘Beeching axe’....
Bus Service Information. February 2020
1. Introduction Finding out what time the next bus departs may not be as easy as it seems. On the face of it, with modern technology,...
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