Mark Murphy’s Post

We support the Better Buses for Strathclyde campaign 🚌 ✍ Sign the petition before 9.30am this Friday 23rd February to show your support too: https://lnkd.in/ePHtpW86 Why is it important? Transport is one of the greatest contributors to carbon emissions in the UK and world wide. In the UK, private cars take the top spot for biggest contributor. We must therefore reduce our private car usage to reduce our emissions. Active travel and public transport should be the answer. Yet if active travel and public transport aren't the convenient, accessible and affordable choices, people will continue to choose private cars as their mode of transport. Our expensive, unreliable and uncoordinated public transport network is holding us back. Sign the petition to show your support for positive change.

We're taking part in Better Transport Week with Campaign for Better Transport to highlight the environmental and local benefits of sustainable transport: https://lnkd.in/eJYyeksa We are committed to playing our part in green transport provision; as a sustainable railway network with an entirely electric fleet of trains, we want to encourage everybody in our local communities to climb aboard our trains more often. Did you know: making a train journey train produces nine times less carbon emissions than the same trip made by petrol or diesel car?

🚆🌿 #FunRailFriday: Even trains need their dose of green to remain the most efficient and eco-friendly transportation! Let’s feed the transport of the future! 🌿🚂 Follow us! LIMMAT #SustainableTransport #FunRailFriday #GreenMobility"

An infographic as old as the hills, to some of us! How many times have we calculated just how many lorries to claim?! When I worked in freight policy, I learned that the benefits of rail freight growth and investment must be articulated compellingly to the communities (and politicians!) where road traffic causes most harm. I found myself working with road safety, walking and cycling ‘allies’ with whom I discovered I shared common ground. It was a key failure of ‘Railway PLC’ not to truly frame HS2 in the public’s perception, as a scheme which relieved the M1, M40, M6, A38, M62… even the A34 and A14, and the localised consequences of that traffic. The ‘non-user’ benefits of modal shift (reduced danger and congestion on the roads) were bigger than ‘Joe Public’ ever came to realise - and it was largely related not to fast business travel, but to releasing freight capacity. As an example, at Kettering, the A14 forms the town’s de facto bypass. To use it, and stay out of the town centre, motorists must ‘mix it’ with high density HGV traffic, much of it coming from Harwich and Felixstowe and bound for the M1 and M6. It’s a really unpleasant road to drive, and people keep dying on it. Did Kettering’s residents realise that HS2 could ultimately reduce traffic in their town centre? I doubt it. It’s an old adage that nobody wants the railway, but everyone wants a station. If we don’t sell the benefits of rail, to those (including ‘non-users’) who stand to benefit the most, what hope have we of tipping the balance when NIMBYism comes into play?

While train travel is often considered old-fashioned, it provides a more sustainable transportation solution. Discover more benefits of rail transportation: https://hubs.ly/Q02B9ggk0

Intercity public transport by coach should be considered a public service, and planned and financed as such, in order to offer a sustainable alternative to the private car, according to a new study made public on Monday.

A brave public transport initiative is showing results in Germany. The €49/month tickets have increased passenger numbers up 25% on local train services. . #SDGs Target 11.2: Affordable and sustainable transport systems in action.

Peninsula Transport launches its 2050 regional transport strategy Peninsula Transport, the Sub-national Transport Body for Cornwall, Devon, Plymouth, Somerset and Torbay has released its regional transport strategy. Approved by the Peninsula Transport Board earlier this year, the strategy brings together the findings of a robust evidence base which has been developed over the last five years. Consultation on the draft strategy, opening in December 2023, invited feedback from government, industry, businesses, and local communities to ensure the strategy addresses the diverse needs of those travelling within the peninsula. The resulting strategy aims to give people in the south west a more resilient, reliable and accessible transport system, boosting economic growth while supporting more sustainable ways to travel. Overcoming some specific regional transport challenges such as network resilience, seasonal variation and rural accessibility will be vital. The strategy sets out key outcomes as well as a route map to achieve a strategic transport network that works for everyone – including businesses, communities and visitors. By 2030 the desired outcomes are: - Easier journeys: an integrated public transport system that focuses on the needs of the customers, making travel easy and accessible as well as better active travel connectivity with the bus and rail network - Going electric: affordable zero-emission transport through a reliable electric vehicle charging network and alternative fuel choices for road freight and buses - A connected peninsula: safe, reliable, resilient and sustainable links to and throughout the peninsula, allowing for climate adaptation These outcomes will ultimately lead to the key objective by 2050 of “completing the transport network: improving connections within a safe and fully integrated transport network on a path to net zero.” .. Find out more 👉 https://buff.ly/3S938ub #transport #netzero #publictransport #sustainablity #connectedtransport #infrastructure

Slowly but surely, the dial on public transport policy across Europe is shifting. The pandemic – and the apparently long-term change to working patterns it triggered – has played a part, as has the cost of living crisis. Prior to both, the environmental need to rely less on cars had already begun to chip away at longstanding assumptions about how we get around. https://lnkd.in/e7VMmkkR

Encouraging to see sanity prevailing by avoiding a delay in the implementation of Dublin's new City Centre Transport Plan 2023. Albeit watered down, especially with regard to proposed bus gates. Outside of major capital projects delivered by national agencies (MetroLink, Luas Finglas, BusConnects etc), measures to facilitate modal shift through restricting vehicular access to identified streets is one of the few options with material climate positive impact within the direct control or influence by the local council. Delay or even rejection of the plan would have set a chilling precedent for the regional cities and other county councils' developing Local Transport Plans and Town Centre First Plans in facilitating Ireland's National Climate Objective. This action is even more critical considering the decarbonisation lag in the transport sector as illustrated by the EPA's most recent national GHG inventory.