roadrage.org.uk 

 the UK road campaign resource centre 

Contents...

1. Road campaigns
2. Anti-speeding
3. Road justice & safety
4. Pedestrian campaigns
5. Traffic calming & Home Zones
6. Oil company campaigns
7. Climate change
8. Anti-car
9. Traffic reduction
10. Cycling
11. Skating
12. Car share / lift schemes
13. Public transport
14. Airports & aviation
15. Other sustainable transport
16. Research & consultancy
17. Road campaign resources
18. Government bodies
19. The enemy
20. More useful links

Our purpose...

Our purpose is to be a point of reference for "green" road transport campaigns (see below).

The immediate aim is to put up loads of links to help people quickly navigate to information on these issues and find out about campaigns.

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We are...

against the welter of road-building schemes coming forward in the UK under the Government's "sustainable transport" policies - which will increase traffic, add to global warming, blight communities and destroy vast areas of countryside including SSSIs and Ancient Woodlands.

For redesigning town centres to reduce traffic out and to create fine public spaces for pedestrians to enjoy

For the adoption of pay-as-you-enter type schemes to reduce traffic coming into inner urban areas
For speed cameras, traffic calming and other measures to slow down traffic - and for making such measures genuine deterrents against speeding

For the creation of low-speed "home zones" in residential areas
For the creation of "green routes", both locally and nationally, for walkers & cyclists

Against the maze of bureacratic obstacles that stand in the way of sustainable transport schemes
Against the differential funding system which provides billions for roads but leaves "green" transport schemes systematically underfunded and marginalised.

1. Road campaigns

• Work has already started on the A701 Edingburgh City bypass, Midlothian, Scotland, with a 100 meter wide roundabout. Campaigners would really appreciate any help...
• JAM74, or Joint Action against the M74, is opposing Scottish Executive plans to build a 6-lane elevated motorway through the southern suburbs of Glasgow at a cost of £250 million.
• The Report Road Rage site allows you to report incidents of road rage and read about other users' experiences. By focusing on anti-social and potentially life threatening incidents the purpose is to improve drivers' behaviour.
• The Road Alert website has been created to provide a forum for those interested in a direct action response to the resurrection of the Government road building programme.
• Save Dibden Bay !One of Britain's finest natural areas on the edge of the planned New Forest National Park is at risk from the biggest port in Europe. This has major implications for roads & road traffic on roads to/from Southampton. In fact, an underlying reason for
• The Schnews protest camp index generally has a good list of anti-road protests, come of which we may not know about. Please submit links to any you think we should include!
• The Government's Swarrms "London to South West and South Wales Multi-Modal Study", which wants "additional capacity" along the A303/A30 corridor from the M3 into Cornwall".
• Bypassing the Truth: The case against the proposed Aberdeen western bypass. A briefing from Aberdeen Friends of the Earth.
• Sink the Link is opposing an evil "£18 million Road to Nowhere" (or is it a Bypass by Stealth?) planned for the environs of Salisbury, Wiltshire.
• The privately-financed BNRR. (Birmingham Northern Relief Road) affects two SSSI's: Chasewater Heath and Blythe valley. Visit the campaign and find out about Labour's betrayal of local people.
• See the Save Stonehenge! site to find out about planned A303 road "improvements" inside the Stonehenge World Heritage Site - part of plan for an "M303" 4-lane dual carriageway from London to the West Country.
• The anti-Wolverhampton / Stourbridge bypass campaign.
• The Bilston Glen anti-bypass campaign is trying to stop the construction of a privately financed road at Bilston, 8 miles south of Edinburgh. Construction work has started on the road, but at the moment the camp remains untouched. The camp now has a kitchen/ cafe and infoshop and welcomes visitors 07986 632429.
• FOE SWMMS briefing (that's the South West Multi Modal Study) on plans for a continuous dual carriageway link from London to Exeter.

• South Coast, England. Read George Monbiot's article about plans for a South Coast Motorway beginning with the infamous Hastings Bypass. www.roadrage.org.uk/southcoast. Any more information on this please?
• The website for "Nine Miles - two winters of anti-road protest", a book about the campaign against the Newbury bypass and other road protests of the mid 1990s. As told by somebody there.
• The FoE South Coast campaign, to try and stop an motorway being built by stealth that would link the South Coast Ports of England.
• Salisbury bypass. You thought the dreaded Salisbury bypass, Wiltshire, had been defeated but no, it has risen from the dead. Further info on other horrid road schemes in Wiltshire.
• The A6 Alvaston Bypass, Derby will increase noise & congestion for people using the bridle paths & underpass increase traffic into Derby, raise pollution in an Air Quality Management Area, destroy wildlife habitats, and make alternative journey modes longer.
• The campaign to save Save Priory Park, Southend, from a stupid & destructive road widening scheme.
• Just 21 miles up the road from Hastings (now off, phew), the Lamberhurst Bypass threatens an AONB, SSSI, National Trust land, dormice - and there is no congestion in Lamberhurst anyway!
• Report Road Rage is designed to give motorists much needed awareness of what is an anti-social behaviour and potentially life-threatening behaviour on our roads - today known as 'road rage'. Avoid becoming a victim.
• Morecambe Bay RAMSAR site/SPA/SAC is among the sites threatened by the Lancaster Western Bypass. Although the road has been rejected by two government appointed inspectors for this reason, the scheme is being actively pursued in the Local Transport Plan and Regional Planning Gu
• JAM74 - Joint Action Against the M74. The Scottish Executive plans to build a 6-lane elevated motorway through the southern suburbs of Glasgow. The M74 Northern Extension, as it would called, would be raised on 40 feet concrete stilts for parts of its journey and at £375-500 million, it will be the most expensive transport project in Scotland.
• A nasty road scheme at Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk would destroy water meadows near the centre of town, largely to help the Greene King brewery to sell more beer. The scheme has run into legal problems thanks to the intervention of local pensioner Doreen Tilley.
• Cornwall Friends of the Earth has put up this page about its transport campaigns, with special briefing about the proposed widening of the A30 at Bodmin & Indian Queens, Cornwall.
• Don't bypass Bargoed - opposing Caerphilly County Borough Council's plans to build a bypass round Bargoed in the Rhymney Valley, trashing the Country Park & contributing to the town's economic decline.

2. Anti-speeding

• In Speed Cameras - Reality versus Mischief the Slower Speeds Initiative puts the case for speed cameras, countering the car lobby's propaganda.
• Killing Speed - a good practice guide, by Adrian Davis. "I am in no doubt that this guide will prove to be a valuable resource to transport professionals, communities and politicians alike. I would recommend Killing Speed to anyone interested in providing safer, civilised and convivial streets." - Lord Rogers of Riverside. , with intro by Lord Rogers of Riverside.
• Slow Is Beautiful - Speed Limits as Political Decisions on Urban Form - a fascinating essay on the philosophy of speed by Charles Siegel.

• Reducing Speeds in Dropmore & Littleworth in Sth Bucks, England. We have 2 schools here, and 100 of the youngest members of society are exposed to 60 mph speed limits every day. Please join our user group now.
• Village Speedometer (CPRE report, .pdf) - assesses how far local authorities have implemented the Government’s policy of 30mph speed limits for all villages.
• Speed is a major factor in most of the bad things that come from traffic, such as noise, danger, fear and pollution. So well done the Slower Speeds Initiative, created by road campaigners in Norfolk. Main emphasis is on lower speeds where people live.

3. Road justice & safety

• Roadpeace is a small but inspiring organisation which campaigns for justice for road accident victims, and bereaved friends and families. This requires tougher laws, more consistent enforcement, better communication with victims & families, for example about the
• Snapt is a new NZ website to report risky drivers. It's the chance to identify & expose those who abuse rights of others & the road code. Members are invited to publish photos & vent their views not take matters into their own hands.
• Emergency First Aid Training with Violence and Aggression, by people with extensive experience in this field. Tailor-made to compliment the aims and objectives of the organisation.
• The other Roadrage - this is a forum for people who have been victims of road rage, aggressive driving etc... goes to show there's a lot of people out there who should not be driving!
• Global road safety crisis - a report by WHO to the UN General Assembly of August 2003, in which WHO WHO says that 1.2 million people die from road traffic injuries each year; and that by 2020 road traffic injuries will be a greater killer globally than malaria, tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS.
• 4 Callum Campaign - my son aged 16 years died on the way to college. When his scooter hit a defective manhole cover. The site also offers legal advice and support to bereaved parents and also my "4 Callum Campaign" for safer and better road conditions

• Candor - education about risks and prevention of drug driving (licit or illicit) for several target groups, highlights unjust dui drug laws. A victim resource page covers trauma and possible strategies for coping. Site of New Zealand Charitable Trust.
• The DLTR's Road Safety Index, gateway page to many reports, consultation documents etc.
• Plate BREAKER is a vehicle number plate database allowing users to report cars for all kinds of bad driving, etc. It uses data entered by visitors to this site.
• The Parliamentary Advisory Council for Transport Safety (PACTS) is an expert body which provides advice to Parliament and its select committees concerned with road safety issues.
• Brake - the road safety campaign group
• The European Federation of Road Victims - of which Roadpeace is a member.
• The Christian Road Safety Association is a caring and praying road safety organisation. Through our growing membership, we promote the belief that Care and Prayer on roads really can save lives.
• Baddriving.com - a possible cure for road rage!, Name & Shame the UK's worst drivers by recording driving incidents in the Bad Driving database.

4. Pedestrian campaigns

• And its Living Streets campaign to claim back the streets for people instead of allowing cars and traffic to endlessly dominate our public spaces
• The Oxford Pedestrians Association. In constant battle with City and County Councils who are unable to grasp the surprising fact that walking is a means of transport.
• Reclaim the Streets, yes, the people who occupy whole great stretches of street or even motorway & hold wild parties! While the police (well, most of the time anyway) stand by not quite sure what they can do about it...

• The Walk to School Campaign, which wants, well, safe routes for children to use to walk or cycle to and from school. Sounds sensible, so why isnt it happening? Ask your Council or MP what they're doing!
• The Pedestrians Association, the leading organisation fighting for the rights of pedestrians, and for more investment in making the pedestrian experience a positive one especially in our towns and cities.

5. Traffic calming & Home Zones

• The Home Zones International website promotes the creation of urban areas in which motor vehicles are subordinate to pedestrians, cyclists and children at play.
• The Government's pages on Quiet Roads.
• Five Roads Forum is the campaign to create a Home Zone in 5 roads in West Ealing, London - one of the 9 Govt-sponsored pilot schemes. Plus links to nearly 100 other UK Home Zone projects.
• The Childrens Play Council is the main organisation in the UK promoting Home Zones, in order to make residential streets safe for children to play in.

• The TrafficCalming, created by consultants in the US, is an excellent source of technical info on traffic calming, with examples from around the world.
• The Deegan Project - how to Attain Enlightenment on the Major Deegan Expressway by Stewart Bitkoff, Ed.D. Reflections of a New York Commuter. Offers a frank view of the drudgery of commuting everyday. Provides techniques to reduce stress while commuting.

6. Oil company campaigns

• FoE are organising a campaign on the Baku Pipeline intended to bring oil all the way from the Caspian Sea to the Mediterranean. The $3.3 billion project, led by BP, will need funding from MDBs such as the World Bank - that's our taxes!
• The Baku-Ceyhan campaign website...
• The Alaska Action Center is opposing the exploitation of Alaska's wilderness by oil and other companies.
• The Greenpeace France StopEsso is back! Esso / Exxon-Mobil took legal action against GP to shut down the site but in Feb 2003 they lost - and the site went back up. Ha ha ha! The site denounces Esso's role as the world's number 1 climate villain and rounds up the world's news on actions against the company. (But it helps if you understand French)
• Oil matters In a vehicle costing no more than £100, fuelled by veg oil, Kaye Angus set off as part of the 3,500 km Plymouth-Dakar challenge...
• Arctic National Wildlife Refuge Development News "has been established by and for the many concerned Prudhoe Bay BP operators who fear for their lives and the environment due to violations of Government regulations and requirements by BP."
• The Rising Tide Baku-Ceyhan campaign, mainly from a greenhouse gas perspective.
• The BankWatch briefings on the Baku-Ceyhan pipeline, concentrating on the World Bank's role in the project. And we thought the WB was there to "fight poverty"!

• Shell Facts - How does Shell's rhetoric match up to its performance on environment and human rights. Shell Facts is also the website of the book Riding the Dragon.
• Why campaigners oppose the [Baku] pipeline - by Anders Lustgarten of the Kurdish Human Rights Project, the Observer, 1/12/02.
• The Columbia Solidaity Campaign has lots of info about the bad behaviour of oil companies in Colombia, not least BP.
• COPAD is the Citizens Committee on Oil Peak And Decline - all about how oil is running out.
• BP / Baku article from the Observer, 1/12/02, by Nick Mathiason.
• Burning Planet is all about protesting against the links between oil (and oil companies) and war - such as the wars in Afghanistan, the Gulf... and who knows where next. Syria maybe, as oil from northern Iraq reaches Mediterranean ports via... Syria.
• The Stop Esso is attacking Exxon-Mobil as the absolute worst of the oil companies, doing its best to scupper global warming agreements and investing zilch in renewable energy. Join the boycott, get the stickers...
• JATAM is working to expose the massive social and environmental damage inflicted by oil and mining companies in Indonesia.

7. Climate change

• Kyoto2 presents a framework for a second Kyoto Protocol - one which might actually work, unlike the first. The key idea is to auction rights to produce fossil fuels, and to use the money so raised (perhaps $1 trillion / year) to combat both the causes and consequences of climate change.

8. Anti-car

• The RAN's Jumpstart Ford campaign - trying to get Ford to bring its cars' fuel performance into the 21st century (the Ford Explorer does 16mpg).
• Congestion Charging in London - this is to be introduced by the GLA and Mayor of London in order to reduce car trips into London and raise money for public transport.
• What Would Jesus Drive? Probably not an SUV, say Evangelical Christian environmentalists in the US... We all have a duty to use the most energy-efficient vehicle suitable to our purpose. But didn't Jesus choose an eco-friendly vehicle that runs on hay...a donkey?
• noSUV.org is New Zealand and Australia's anti-SUV (4X4) campaign, "dedicated to halting the latest trend in consumer insanity: driving four wheel drive light trucks (urban assault vehicles) about our city streets... ".

• Car Busters are the organisers of World Car-Free Day... and their site is full of useful info for anti-car campaigners worldwide
• Earth on Empty, based in the US, produces "violation" tickets that members stick on SUVs to protest their monstrous CO2 emissions and other hazards. Print out your own and get sticking!
• The Anti Car Show campaign against the well-known annual orgy of car consumerism... The UK's Car Show, the biggest of its kind in Europe.
• The Little Driver - dedicated to the anti-car children's book The Little Driver by Martin Wagner. Ordering info, and extracts to read.
• The Sierra Club global warming campaign, mainly focussed on the incredibly poor fuel efficiency of US vehicles. The UK is not much better.

9. Traffic reduction

• Wise Up & Pay - a pro Congestion Charge site set up to fight the Sod Ken Site. Only 13% of London commuters drive to work, but sod up the whole city for everyone else. Make the +++++++s pay!
• A breath of fresh air - Green Party report (May 2001) on achieving traffic reduction targets in UK local authorities.

• Sprawl Patrol (CPRE report, .pdf) - about how bad planning decisions are causing traffic growth.
• Cutting Your Car Use by Anna Semlyen is Britains best selling guide to driving less. Sales at 65,000 copies. Cost is £3.95 +£1 post and packing, bulk discounts down to £1. Also in Welsh/English.

10. Cycling

• Cycle Maps Directory is a A UK directory of official council cycle maps on the web.
• Wolves on Wheels is Wolverhampton's campaign to promote cycling within the city.
• The Cycle Training site provides information on cycle training for adults & young people.
• Cycling Forums - for people who like to chat about cycling.
• Spokes - The Lothian Cycle Campaign.
• Cycle-n-Sleep has useful information for all long-distance cyclists in the UK - routes, accommodation, and cyclists tales...
• The European Cyclists Federation.
• Sustrans is the organisation behind the National Cycle Network, a charity dedicated to building pleasant & safe long distance routes for both cyclists and pedestrians to enjoy.
• Bike 2 Work - promoting of the benefits of cycling to work.
• The definitive National Cycle Network site
• The Cycle Campaign Network (the UK National Federation of Cycle Campaign Groups) supports cycling locally, regionally, nationally and in Europe.
• Bicycle helmets – review of effectiveness - report by the Dept of Transport. Published 16 April 2003.
• The redoubtable Cambridge Cycling Campaign.
• Thebikezone is a cycle campaigning resource site with a wide range information on best practice in road design. Plus cycle history pages, 'Confessions of a Cycling Officer', off-road cycling information and much, much more.

• The World Naked Bike Ride - go "bare as you dare" to protest oil dependency and "celebrate the power and individuality of our bodies". Annual events around the world.
• National Cycle Network Events
• The London Cycling Campaign - founded in 1978, it is now the world's largest urban cycling organisation with some 10,000 members!
• The Ecotopia Biketour is coming to the UK this summer 2002, and will be doing actions and giving workshops along the way.
• Fill that hole is a service run by CTC to report potholes and other hazards faced by cyclists to the people we pay to maintain our roads. You can also view hazards already reported and their status.
• The CTC is the UK's national organisation for cyclists.
• Re~Cycle - Many bikes are thrown away or lie rusting in garages in the UK, while people in Less Developed Countries are without transport apart from their feet. Re~Cycle’s mission is to collect and ship second hand bicycles and parts to LDCs.
• The Weird Cycle Lanes of Brighton and Hove - a small gem of a website describing the strange, peculiar and generally useless cycle lanes of the area.
• The Department for Transport's National Cycling Strategy, with its very own website. Can this mean they are finally taking cycliing seriously?

11. Skating

Skating as a means of transport? Why not? It's clean, a lot faster than walking, great exercise and fun!

• Join in the Friday Night Skate - a weekly 'rollerblade' around town. 2 hours, approx 12 miles long, 80-1000 people! Organised by Citiskate.

12. Car share / lift schemes

• CarPlus, the car club network. "Our vision is for an integrated national network of car clubs linked into the wider transport network with each club operated with concern for the views of their members, the environment, quality, safety and value for money".
• EuroLift car sharing Europe-wide.
• North London Transport - "This site offers you free membership to North London's car share scheme and brings together all the transport support services that you may need to aid your journey planning in North London and its surrounding area." Fast, efficient site, supported by local authorities.
• car-sharer.com, the "key to finding your ideal journey mate". puts together people who need lifts to work, children taken to school and so on with drivers with empty seats in their cars. Covers UK.

• National CarShare.
• Freewheelers - the National Lift Share Agency.
• shareAcar - to help the environment & stop gridlock on our roads. "by holding an up to date national database of journeys... shareAcar provides a unique opportunity to make contact with individuals travelling a similar route to yourself.".
• MyLifts.com - free, easy-to-use automated journey matching. SMS Alerts, Maps, Public Group, Company Travel Plans. Inline Messaging Centre for the ultimate online security. Flexible service with 100% coverage across the UK using cutting edge technology...
• London Car Share matches drivers & lift-seekers across the Greater London area.
• Lift Share - "the easy way to share a car", anywhere in the UK. Free to use - simply share travel costs. Claims 30,000 members and a million journeys registered

13. Public transport

• North London Transport - "This site offers you free membership to North London's car share scheme and brings together all the transport support services that you may need to aid your journey planning in North London and its surrounding area." Fast, efficient site, supported by local authorities.
• The National Federation of Bus Users.
• Public Transport Information covers "all travel by rail, air, coach, bus, ferry, metro and tram within the UK, (including the Channel Islands, Isle of Man and Northern Ireland) and between the UK and Ireland. Plus all rail, ferry and coach travel between the UK and mainland Europe. This is THE definitive index to timetables, fares, ticket-types, passenger facilities and lots more. If it's not here, it's probably not on the web."

• The Rural Thoroughbred - (CPRE report, .pdf) - about how buses provide a lifeline for isolated rural communities and improve transport choice.
• saveourrailways.com, the rail campaign resource centre
• The Green transport revolution and how to pay for it - Green Party report (May 2001) proposing the UK's biggest ever public transport plan.
• trainpain.com the rail complaints site

14. Airports & aviation

The Government seems determined to embark on a massive new round of airports and runway construction - perhaps an even bigger blight on both the UK and the global environment that roads. Here are some of the campaigns taking shape in response...

• The Manchester Airport Environment Network.
• Stop Avon Valley Airport.
• The Campaign Against the Third London Runway.
• The No Third Runway Action Group (Heathrow).
• FoE Birmingham aviation campaign - "Spaghetti Junction In The Sky... Mickey Mouse Economics and Corporate Welfare is the real debate on Aviation."
• Green Party Response to ‘The Future of Aviation’ - Green Party, April 2001.
• Wolston Village is situated in the heart of the Warwickshire countryside between Rugby and Coventry... where the Governmentwants to build an airport bigger than Heathrow.
• The East Midlands Airport Action Site(WINGS).
• The Anti Rugby Airport Committee.
• HACAN ClearSkies - stands up for all the all those affected by the increasing number of aircraft flying in and out of Heathrow airport. "Successive UK Governments, both Conservative and New Labour, have bowed their heads to the agenda set by the British Airports Authority plc (who operate Heathrow) and British Airways (its principal user)..."
• Church Lawford & King's Newnham are two villages that are in danger of being completely destroyed to make way for a new airport in the East Midlands.
• Stop Stansted Expansion - Campaigning to oppose the Government's SERAS proposals for three extra runways at Stansted - making it twice the size of Heathrow!!
• Air traffic congestion charging: The potential at Heathrow - Green Party report, July 2002.

• rugbyairport.com - no, its not the official site of the airport promoters, the protestors nabbed the name...
• LADACAN - the Luton and District Association for the Control of Aircraft Noise. "The Government's July 2002 Air Transport Consultation plans envisage a 5-fold expansion of Luton Airport capacity over and above its current throughput of 6 million people per annum..."
• SOAR - Solihull Opposing Additional Runways
• The Dunmow Broadcaster has all the latest news of the local campaign against Stansted expansion.
• The No Third Runway Campaign (Heathrow).
• AirportWatch - the campaign to oppose unnecessary, unsustainable and irresponsible airport expansion across the UK.
• Luton FoE - campaigning against new runways etc at Luton Airport.
• The Transport 2000 aviation campaign.
• Longford is a village near Heathrow, fighting for its life against the impacts of Terminal 5, a possible third runway, and the demand for yet more hotel and office space around the airport.
• No Airport At Cliffe Action Group - the local campaign against a new air-hub in the Kent marshes.
• The Aviation Environment Federation.
• A New Airport for the Midlands? Highly informative site about all the damage that would involve.
• Harlington Village Association, campaiging against a 3rd runway at Heathrow.

15. Other sustainable transport

• World Transport Policy & Practice quarterly journal, editor John Whitelegg, free pdf downloads
• The Don't Choke Britain Campaign
• Greener cars - yes, some cars are greener than others...
• Going Green are the UK's importers of the G-Wiz electric car from Bangalore, India. Range 40 miles, top speed 40mph, 2.6m long, 4 seats (2 adult, 2 child), charging time 3-6 hours.
• AgotoB is all about better vehicular options to ease congestion, educate people, facilitate change within our city streets and link engineers/designers, government and the general public. Interesting range of unusual vehicles on sale...
• TransportEnergy PowerShift is working to establish a market for alternative, clean fuel vehicles in the UK, creating the conditions for clean fuel vehicles to be practically and economically viable.
• Fuelling Road Transport - report funded by DfT, by IEEP, NSCA, EST, about displacing fossil fuels in the UK vehicle fleet with H2 and methanol generated from renewable sources.
• The Friends of the Earth transport campaign pages, well worth a look.
• Green vehicles by the US EPA, a guide to vehicles that do less damage to the environment.
• The Environmental Transport Association is competing with the AA & RAC as a rescue service, using its surplus funds to campaign, not for more roads, but for sustainable transport alternatives.

• Founded in 1930, the Institution of Highways & Transportation is the UK's foremost learned society concerned with the design, construction, maintenance and operation of sustainable transport systems and infrastructure.
• The Electric Vehicle Association, campaigning for electric and hybrid vehicles in the UK.
• Clean Vehicles is "the UK's leading independent source of information on low emission vehicles, equipment, fuel and the companies that supply them".
• Running to Stand Still (CPRE report, .pdf) - in which Prof Phil Goodwin analyses the Government’s Ten-Year Transport Plan. Conclusion? Must try harder...
• TRANSform Scotland - campaigning for sustainable transport in Scotland.
• The British Horse Society is representing the interests of horses and their riders who are threatened across Britain by idiotic drivers who go too fast, too close.
• CPRE (the Campaign for the Protection of Rural England) is promoting the designation of suitable country lanes as "quiet lanes" for safe use by walkers, horse riders and cyclists.
• Transport 2000 - the leading UK organisation campaigning for sustainable transport policies

16. Research & consultancy

• CILT - the Centre for Independent Transport Research in London.

17. Road campaign resources

• Check out all these NVDA campaign resources at the Tekno Punx site.
• roadkillbill.com has comics and artwork aimed at reducing automobile dependency and encouraging walking, cycling and mass transit. Non-profit anti-highway campaigns are welcome to re-use RKB artwork. To see how art can be used: www.stride-mn.org.
• Tactics and Self-Defence for the Modern Protester, at Bodyhammer. The pdf download has 22 pages about shields, helmets, body armour and self-defence tactics for street protests.
• Regional Transport Strategies (CPRE report, .pdf) provides advice on how to reduce the detrimental impacts of transport on urban and rural areas, using the Regional Transport Strategy process.
• Route Management Strategies (CPRE report, .pdf) advises campaigners on how to influence the Highways Agency’s Route Management Strategies to ensure they make better use of existing roads.
• Find out all about tunneling as a way of blocking road building at Disco Dave's Tunnel Guide.
• See CRASH's road map of road schemes all over Britain.

• The Sheila McKechnie Foundation offers campaign development awards for Transport Campaigners. The package includes one to one coaching sessions, shadowing decision makers and a residential weekend focusing on campaigning skills.
• Road Raging: Top Tips for Wrecking Roadbuilding is the online version of the classic road protestors manual published by campaigners from Solsbury Hill and the Newbury Bypass...
• Information for Action ... A lobbying facility. A database of leaders, and environmental groups. An environmental quiz with cartoons and animations. Articles, poems, lyrics and MP3s. A newsletter. Volunteers needed. A powerful tool.
• FoE Scotland - doing a grand job fighting the road obsessed Scottish Executive and local authority dinosaurs.
• Detour's UrbanSource - a source for over 200 books and multi-media resources focusing on sustainable transportation and urban ecology. Ideal for research, advocacy and education.
• Fair on Fuel, Fair on the Future - Green Party report (Nov 2000) putting the the social, environmental and economic case for higher fuel taxes.

18. Government bodies

• Scottish Natural Heritage
• The Countryside Agency - the government agency for a sustainable countryside in England
• The Joint Nature Conservation Committee
• The Department for Transport - it says all the right things, but does it do them?
• The Countryside Council for Wales
• The Commission for Integrated Transport.
• The DLTR's pages on Local Transport - "The Government is committed to modernising local transport as part of its overall strategy to create a sustainable and integrated transport system...".
• The Department for Transport is the UK transport department, devolved out of the unwieldy DETR.
• Transport and Social Exclusion - "Two-thirds of the poorest fifth of the population have no car and depend on public transport. If transport is unavailable or doesn't meet their needs this is a real barrier to inclusion."

• The DLTR's Road Safety Index, gateway page to many reports, consultation documents etc.
• The Commission for Integrated Transport, which is meant to "provide independent advice to Government on the implementation of integrated transport policy, to monitor developments across transport, environment, health and other sectors and to review progress towards meeting our objectives".
• The Department for Transport's National Cycling Strategy, with its very own website. Can this mean they are finally taking cycliing seriously?
• The Forestry Commission
• English Nature
• The UK's Transport Research Laboratory (TRL), which advises the Government on many road transport issues.

19. The enemy

• EVO is a magazine dedicated to the thrill of driving - "it is possible to enjoy driving without killing people or giving sunflowers asthma, road safety is not just about drivers but about pedestrians, what happened to the green cross code man?"
• Keep London Free - against London's road pricing scheme.
• Sod U Ken - against London's road-pricing scheme.
• The Association of British Drivers represents the Jeremy Clarkson end of British motorists - they want: no speed cameras; faster speed limits; no traffic calming; cheaper fuel; more motorways; no road pricing... and they don't believe that cars have anything to do with global warming, children's asthma or lung cancer.

• Pistonheads - a website for, well... pistonheads just about sums it up really. All very sad.
• The Car Party is a new political party seeking to represent the 32 million "motorists" of the UK. Don't they realise that every "motorist" is a pedestrian when they are not in their car? Or are some of them really biomechanically fused to their cars, Dalek-like?

20. More useful links

• Pinter & Martin publish Martin Wagner's anti-car book for children and adults The Little Driver.
• Eco - a green online newspaper.
• A very useful page of Green Electricity links - where to buy it, how to compare different company offerings, etc.
• Bridleways and Quiet Lane Riding Circuits - an internet database of national routes suitable for horse riders. These routes take advantage of bridleways and quiet lanes throughout the UK and are accessible to the entire equine community.

• London Mayor Watch - used to be anti-Mayor, anti-congestion charging, but now seems to have gone with the flow...
• Wildberry's is an independent web-site founded to promote eco-transport, Fairtrade, environmental awareness and sustainable living.
• saveourrailways.com, the rail campaign resource centre
• wildfile.co.uk, the wildlife portal
• nationalpark.org.uk the National Park portal