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British Regional Transport Association (BRTA)
The British Regional Transport Association (BRTA) a voluntary unincorporated membership based association seeking to restore strategic missing rail links and improve the environment as a result. We advocate passenger and freight by rail, unblocking our roads and improving air quality we all have to breathe! Enquiries can be sent to E. richard.erta@gmail.com
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- British Regional Transport Association (BRTA)/Richard Pill
- Bedford, Bedfordshire, United Kingdom
Saturday, 29 March 2025
Concern Regarding Withdrawal of Paper One Day Bus & Tram Pass by TfL
Friday, 28 March 2025
Press Release BRTA flabbergasted by Lower Thames Crossing Decision by Government
Press Release
Saturday, 22 March 2025
Transport for the South East (TfSE) needs the public to support BRTA's rail agenda!
TfSE - please read and engage. Please email your local MP via
https://members.
and give support for BRTA's principal calls which are chiefly:
Tuesday, 11 March 2025
Development and Planning synergies around Bedford?
BRTA is concerned that the government pressure and targets, dire need and weakness of planning systems to avoid cost at all cost including legal issues which can also be protracted, that development infill across our green and pleasant lands is going a-pace without adequate infrastructure, rail-based access public transport to facilities like shops, better buses, social housing for local people mix in both urban and rural locations.
Thursday, 6 March 2025
London Orbital Airports, has the government really thought it through?
The government's push for growth via airport expansion beit Heathrow, Gatwick, Stansted and Luton, needs a jolt to ensure they coincide with more and better rail links first as follows:
Tuesday, 4 March 2025
Bedford East West Rail and Thameslink Meeting 01-03-2025
Bedford East West Rail and Thameslink Meeting 01-03-2025
Wednesday, 26 February 2025
Bedford to Northampton (B2N) new creation rail link for greater sustainability and connectivity!
Update at 03-03-2025:
Ransome Road development as is some others to the rail idea if it does not leave adequate corridor land and with space for:
1. 25KV OHLE Electrification for Thameslinks/other link-up modern traction and gantys.
2. adequate space for perimeter fencing and a cycle way alongside with lighting
3. Consideration of the congested London Road, Northampton, air pollution and whether this development is sustainable or just quotient infill housing for its own sake without wider contextual considerations superimposed by people located in greener rural areas on urban situations?
If you support our rail aspiration, please write to you local MP - find them on https://members.parliament.uk/members/commons
The local MP for Northampton South is Mike Reader MP, but he can only entertain emails for his own constituents, but if other MP's can contact him and work towards accommodatiung the railway verifiedly, that bodes better. If the railway is rebuilt, a station halt serving both Delpare Abbey, Northampton South and the Waterside Northampton University Campus can be implemented and benefits serivative thereof. New housing tend sto be flimsy and needs barriers and space from close proximity to a railway and sowe do question whether Ransome Road development is the best location given these other agendas or a blocking of the rail idea via a fig leaf of 'everyone needs homes'? Let us have your own feedback via richard.brta@gmail.com and join our loop for updates and other newes related to reopening railways.
Our excellent webmaster, Andy Purves has spruced up and issued a new campaigns page about the idea of reopening the Bedford-Northampton Rail Link anew, not the old route per se, as is blocked at Olney. However, support would be welcome at a strategic council, agency and upwards level as well as public interest in the idea. Please see the page: