Urban Transport G | Analysis, insights and stray thoughts on urban transport
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The Urban Transport Group brings together and promotes the interests of Britain's largest urban areas on transport. We are the UK network of major urban transport authorities. We make the case for urban transport, we are a professional network and we provide thought leadership for the wider sector.
Urban Transport G | Analysis, insights and stray thoughts on urban transport
1y ago
“Child of the First War. Forgotten by the Second. We called you Metro-Land. We laid our schemes. Lured by the lush brochure, down byways beckoned. To build at last the cottage of our dreams, A City clerk turned countryman again ..read more
Urban Transport G | Analysis, insights and stray thoughts on urban transport
1y ago
“Underneath all the commercial activities of the board, underneath all its engineering and operations, there is the revelation and realisation of something which is in the nature of a work of art … it is in fact, a conception of ..read more
Urban Transport G | Analysis, insights and stray thoughts on urban transport
1y ago
For several years, the Urban Transport Group has been promoting initiatives to support our members to recruit and retain a diverse workforce, including in relation to improving gender balance in a sector that has typically been male dominated. Part of ..read more
Urban Transport G | Analysis, insights and stray thoughts on urban transport
2y ago
Is the cost of living the new Covid in terms of the impact it’s going to have on patronage and travel trends? If it’s too early to say yet what the medium and long term implications of Covid will be ..read more
Urban Transport G | Analysis, insights and stray thoughts on urban transport
2y ago
The National Bus Strategy for England has an opinion about everything; from bus shelters to bus numbers – it knows best. However, there’s one topic where it is curiously quiet. And that’s bus safety. Or perhaps I should say dangerously ..read more
Urban Transport G | Analysis, insights and stray thoughts on urban transport
2y ago
I recently read Anita Sethi’s ‘I Belong Here’, a wonderful book about race and belonging in modern Britain, exploring the urban and rural landscapes of Northern England and what it means to be a woman of colour in these spaces ..read more
Urban Transport G | Analysis, insights and stray thoughts on urban transport
2y ago
Before the pandemic struck, one in three rail journeys in Britain were being made on services for which responsibility was devolved in full or in part to city regions, regions and administrations in Wales, Scotland, London, the north of England ..read more
Urban Transport G | Analysis, insights and stray thoughts on urban transport
2y ago
‘It’s like a forgotten world. It makes you feel depressed…we’ve got bus passes – that’s brilliant – I feel like framing mine…But no bus services to use them on. We’re on an estate surrounded by main roads. The whole of ..read more
Urban Transport G | Analysis, insights and stray thoughts on urban transport
2y ago
It’s been a shaky start to the new year for public transport and it could get a lot rougher yet. Let me count the ways… The ‘work from home where you can’ advice has hit public transport’s core commuting market ..read more
Urban Transport G | Analysis, insights and stray thoughts on urban transport
2y ago
Small countries can do big things on transport – look at the public transport paradise of Switzerland. And when Rhodri Morgan was in his pomp in the early years of the Welsh Assembly it felt like Wales was about to ..read more