May 23, 20202 min readWhen the Train Becomes a Bus. May 2020There are some strange events taking place during this unprecedented time of lockdown. A significant one is the fact that our railways...
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 7, 20207 min readUltra-Light Rail: Financing & Deliverability in a Small City Environment. May 2020Innovation and the Track to Net Zero 1. Introduction Mark Naysmith, Chief Executive Officer of WSP Consultancy remarks in the foreword to...
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,...
Nov 15, 20193 min readWhen a Relief Road Becomes a Bypass - The Hereford Transport Package. November 2019(for “Transport” read “Road”) The two most notable points about the Hereford Transport Package are: What was previously labelled a...
Oct 25, 20196 min readThe Air We Breathe. October 2019‘Air pollution is associated with a number of adverse health impacts. It is recognised as a contributing factor in the onset of heart...
Sep 26, 20193 min readHereford City Bus Services. September 20191. The Present A majority of people consider the current bus service to be poor and unattractive for a city the size of Hereford. Why is...
Sep 11, 20196 min readThe Country Bus: Its place in our future. September 20191. The Background Old fashioned, outdated, unreliable, archaic, a thing of the past—that was the view of one local Herefordshire...
Sep 6, 20195 min readWe talk about electric cars. What about electric buses for Hereford? September 2019Progress in electric bus technology is rapid and operators now have more than one method of charging their vehicles. Overnight charging...
Jul 18, 20192 min readSustainable Public Transport for Hereford. July 2019Following our submission to the Department for Transport on Light Rail Opportunities in May 2019, HSTG prepared a detailed...
May 3, 20195 min readHSTG Response to the DfT Consultation on Light Rail. May 2019In February 2019 the Department for Transport issued a consultation document entitled: Light Rail (and other rapid transit solutions) A...
Sep 14, 20184 min readOur Blueprint. September 2018Transport is a vital ingredient of our economy, our society and our future. But our current transport system is unbalanced and as such...
