Transport
Transport
A Safer Way? CPRE's response to the Government's Road Safety Strategy
CPRE's response welcomes the continued commitment to increase road safety but highlights the need to tackle the intimidation by traffic of walkers and cyclists, while showing that increasing road safety can help tackle issues like climate change and obesity.
Back-pedalling London's cycling revolution?
Transport for London's analysis of the potential for more cycling was flawed and a new approach to planning for cycling is needed, integrating wider land use and transport issues. London should aim for much higher cycling levels, in particular in outer London where cycling levels have dropped. A big shift to more cycling would not just reduce pressures to build new roads and spaces for car parking, it could help reconnect Londoners' to the surrounding countryside.
CPRE's Guide to Quiet Lanes
Following CPRE's successful campaigning, local authorities are able to designate country lanes as 'Quiet Lanes' in rural areas, under the Transport Act 2000. This accessible and informative guide will explain what Quiet Lanes are, their benefits and, step-by-step, how to promote them in your area.
Developing a Strategy for Smart and Integrated Ticketing
A response by CPRE to the Department for Transport consultation
This response explores how increased levels of smart and integrating ticketing can be rolled out across rural areas, incorporating existing best practice such as 'demand responsive' bus services, and facilitating investment small rural operators.
Developing a sustainable framework for UK aviation: Scoping document
A Response by the Campaign to Protect Rural England to the Department for Transport's Consultation
CPRE believes that there are a number of fundamental problems with the assumptions used to justify the very significant increases in aviation that the Framework seeks to provide for. There is a pressing need for a further fundamental revision of forecasts for aviation, which are likely to mean at most a far lower rate of growth.
Getting back on track
Why new thinking is needed about High Speed Rail
The debate on High Speed Rail (HSR) offers a once in a generation opportunity to achieve a more countryside friendly transport system. The potential benefits of HSR are not, however, a foregone conclusion. The Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE) therefore supports the principle of HSR but believes the detail, including the context, of proposals such as High Speed 2 (HS2) needs to be carefully planned.
Government's strategic framework for road safety
Memorandum of evidence by the Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE) to the inquiry by the Transport Committee
This document has been submitted as written evidence to the House of Commons Transport Committee and is now the Committee's property.
Guidelines for Road Signing in Rural Areas
Joint guidelines to suggest how rural communities and highway authorities can curb the growth in unnecessary road signs in the countryside, produced by CPRE jointly with the motoring charity the RAC Foundation.
High Speed Rail
Next steps for the new Secretary of State
This report by Right Lines Charter signatories recommends next steps on High Speed Rail for the new Secretary of State, Justine Greening, ahead of the imminent decision on phase 1 of High Speed 2 (HS2).

