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Local transport gets £11m investment

3 April 2012 | No comments

An £11.4million grant for local authorities has been announced by the Transport Minister, Carl Sargeant, that will go towards improving local road networks and help target regional transport issues.

Essex County Council presents awards for green travel

25 January 2012 | No comments

Basildon and Thurrock University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of only two organisations in the past year and the first hospital in Essex to be awarded a prestigious gold award for green travel.

Will escalating fuel prices drive UK economy off the road?

23 November 2011 | 2 comments

The recent E-petition backed by Tory MP Robert Halfon has stirred a massive debate as to where our fuel seems to be taking us in the UK. Although there was some criticism as to the sloppy wording of the petition,

BMA calls for smoking ban to include private motor vehicles

16 November 2011 | No comments

A review of compelling scientific evidence supporting a ban on smoking in motor vehicles is published today in a new briefing paper from the BMA.

Where is the Local Transport Plan taking us?

3 November 2011 | No comments

The Transport systems in the UK have long been problematic. Most of the issues involve profitability, a symptom of the lack of integration and co-operation between commercially run enterprises and government subsidized transport.

NHS spend £30m on patient taxis

20 October 2011 | No comments

Using taxis to transport patients to and from hospital has cost the NHS over £30m since 2008, it has been revealed. Trusts have now announced that they are looking to cut down on this mode of transport.

Storm brewing over biofuel flights

13 October 2011 | No comments

History was made last week as the first British commercial flight to be partly powered by biofuels took off from Birmingham Airport. Thomson Airways’ service to the island of Lanzarote may have seemed like any other to the passengers on board, but the experiment has caused a stern backlash from green groups, some of whom branded the exercise a ‘PR stunt’ and turned up at the runway to protest.

Report on transformation of NHS ambulance service published

16 September 2011 | No comments

The Commons Public Accounts Committee is to publish a report that examines the cost effectiveness of ambulance services.

Free bus passes for elderly may help ward off obesity

12 September 2011 | No comments

Giving free bus passes to the elderly may help ward off obesity, indicates research published online in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health.

The search is on to find the country’s Fleet Heroes

22 August 2011 | No comments

The Energy Saving Trust is about to begin its search for the country’s Fleet Heroes: organisations that have made a successful contribution to reducing their carbon footprint through their organisation’s travel and transport policies

Spotlight on Sustainable Blacon

28 June 2011 | No comments

What is Sustainable Blacon?

Blacon is one of 22 communities chosen by the Department of Energy and Climate Change to lead the way to a low carbon future.

30 Green Miles

23 February 2011 | 3 comments

Environment Officer, David Dowson has pledged to run his usual 30 mile journey to work – instead of drive, in an effort to raise the awareness of a Green Travel Plan for Worcestershire.

Red Letter Day for Blue Light Services

22 February 2011 | No comments

Two NHS Trusts and an Ambulance Service are celebrating after being nationally recognised for their achievements in reducing the carbon footprint of their vehicles.

Barclays Cycle Hire customers cycle to the moon and back 13 times in the first six months

1 February 2011 | No comments

A total of 2.5 million cycle journeys have been made, covering more than 10,000,000km. Barclays Cycle Hire is to be expanded east by spring 2012.

Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust: Saving carbon, improving health

17 December 2010 | No comments

A Sustainable Development Action Plan at a £90 million turnover Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust embraces ten objectives.

Mayor’s flagship Barclays Cycle Hire scheme heads east in time for the 2012 Games

10 November 2010 | No comments

Expanded cycle hire area will extend from Olympia in the west to Bow in the east.

Spending Review 2010 – The Department for Transport

20 October 2010 | No comments

Over the course of the Spending Review period, The Department for Transport will reduce resource spending by 21% in real terms, and capital spending by 11% in real terms. The Department’s Administration budget will be reduced by 33%.