Nov 12, 20207 min readCycle Routes in Hereford. November 2020In July 2020 the Department for Transport published Local Transport Note 1/20, entitled Cycle Infrastructure Design. This document by the...
Nov 6, 20204 min readThe 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...
Oct 21, 20203 min readResponse to Planning For the Future White Paper. October 2020Herefordshire Sustainable Transport Group has been making the case for active travel, public transport, and innovative schemes for a...
Aug 24, 202012 min readDfT's TRANSPORT DECARBONISATION PLAN: CALL FOR IDEAS. HSTG Response. August 2020This is a response from Herefordshire Sustainable Transport Group (HSTG) a campaigning organisation that advocates for clean and...
Aug 13, 20206 min readThe Bus Muddle. August 2020Bus Crisis in 2020? We read that the Covid 19 pandemic and the resultant lockdown has thrown the bus industry into confusion and panic,...
Jun 6, 20205 min readDeparture: The Future for Herefordshire Bus Services. June 20201. Background In 2015 Herefordshire Council presented its Local Transport Plan 4 (2016-2031). The plan identified a core network of...
May 23, 20204 min readThe Bright Bits - In the Midst of a Storm There is Always a Brightness. May 2020The brightness to come out of the country’s present strange situation is there for all to see. People, communities, businesses, local...
May 19, 20206 min readPost Lockdown - It Ain’t Going to be Easy from Now On. May 2020In 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...
May 8, 20204 min readThe Lost Decades : Fin de Siècle (The 20th Century Ends). May 2020In 1999 the Health Education Authority (HEA) published a report entitled ‘Making T.H.E. Links’. The report was the result of a research...
May 4, 20205 min readNew Era for Cycling & Walking - Does This Herald a New Era? May 2020Sir 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...
Mar 30, 20205 min readNew Homes & Sustainable Transport. March 20201. Introduction ‘Aspirations for new homes mirror many aspects of modern society thinking. This envisages more physically active and less...
Mar 27, 20207 min readThe Need for a Herefordshire Bus Strategy. March 20201. A Better Deal for Bus Services The news that Herefordshire Council is considering spending up to £39 million on new electric buses to...
Mar 21, 20202 min readConnecting Hereford. March 2020This seven-page HSTG report re examines the case for the development of an ultra-light rail route on the old railway line connecting the...
Mar 18, 20205 min readAn Electric Town Bus Service for Ledbury. March 20201. Introduction The Herefordshire Council Core Strategy 2011-2031 stated ‘Within the overall vision for Herefordshire, Ledbury will...
Mar 13, 20207 min readThe Role of Railways in Herefordshire’s Future. March 2020The Background Herefordshire suffered greatly in the great railways cull of the 1950s and 1960s, commonly known as the ‘Beeching axe’....
Feb 12, 20204 min readBus Service Information. February 20201. 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,...
