Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon River in 49BC. As Professor Laurie Pickup* stated in a recent article: the significance of that simple...

It is amazing what a pandemic can do. With the country emerging from a state of suspension and government expenditure running high, the...

This is the response of Herefordshire Sustainable Transport Group (HSTG) to the government’s call for evidence on Future of Transport:...

In July 2020 the Department for Transport published Local Transport Note 1/20, entitled Cycle Infrastructure Design. This document by the...

(Image by (Joenomias) Menno de Jong from Pixabay ) Government announced this week that from 2030, sales in the UK of new fossil-fuelled...

In a bold move the Welsh Government has announced that it will nationalise the rail services under its franchise agreement. Ministers...

In terms of reducing emissions the answer is yes. There is no doubt that the quick phasing out of the diesel engine bus is an essential...

Herefordshire Sustainable Transport Group has been making the case for active travel, public transport, and innovative schemes for a...

In February 2020 the Department for Transport published an update of its document ‘A Better Deal for Bus Users’. It included a section on...

The promotion of electric cars as the panacea of all our transport ills gathers momentum. True, they can help in reducing but not...

The Smart Villages concept is catching on. Smart Villages are defined as communities in rural areas that use innovative solutions to...

Any one trying to get out of or into Hereford on the Ledbury Road between 15.15 and 16.00 cannot be but amazed and annoyed at the...

The Foundation for Integrated Transport has appointed Professor John Whitelegg as one of its first two Senior Fellows. John and I are...

On the 11 August Prime Minister Boris Johnson visited Hereford’s new Super Surgery. The state-of-the-art surgery brings together many...

This is a response from Herefordshire Sustainable Transport Group (HSTG) a campaigning organisation that advocates for clean and...

Such a core network is based on services that operate between the market towns, larger villages and Hereford on a regular pattern during...

Bus Crisis in 2020? We read that the Covid 19 pandemic and the resultant lockdown has thrown the bus industry into confusion and panic,...

Background Hereford has been a regional centre for the middle Welsh Marches (Borderland) since medieval days. It holds a unique position...

1. Background In 2015 Herefordshire Council presented its Local Transport Plan 4 (2016-2031). The plan identified a core network of...

The brightness to come out of the country’s present strange situation is there for all to see. People, communities, businesses, local...