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Environmental Transport Association - A campaign and lobby group that also provides breakdown services for car users. Information on services, issues and activities such as National Car Free Day, which ETA founded.
Commission for Integrated Transport - Established to provide independent advice to the Government on the implementation of integrated transport policy and to monitor developments in transport and the environment. The White Paper that established the Commission, details of its activities and of the motorists' forum it has established.
Learn to Let Go - Campaign funded by the Scottish Executive to get people out of their cars. Information about commuting in the UK, replays of television advertisements and information on alternatives to the car.
The House of Commons Committee on Transport, Local Government and the Regions - Reports of the Committee. Full text of the committee's views and of evidence it has taken on transport issues in its capacity as Parliamentary overseer of the Department of Transport, Local Government and the Regions. Details of hard copies available for purchase.
Committee on Transport, Local Government and the Regions: Report on Government 10yr Transport Plan - The Committee's Report, published 21st May 2002, on the Government's 10-year Transport plan.
Aberdeen Transport Forum - Public forum on transport matters in Aberdeen.
The Lochaber Transport Forum - Information on transport services and issues in this area of Scotland, including a forum.
Transport 2000 - Independent national body concerned with sustainable transport. Looks for answers to the problems and aims to reduce the environmental and social impact of transport by encouraging less use of cars.
Guardian Unlimited Special Reports: Transport in Britain - Ongoing coverage about transportation news and issues including analysis, comment and government policies and plans. Includes full coverage on the Potters Bar, Selby, Hatfield and Paddington train crashes.
Pedestrians Association - National charity, promoting and protecting the rights of people on foot.
Trolleycoaches for London - Promoting the reintroduction of trolleybuses to the capital, this site explains the potential benefits of this particular type of transport.
Independent Transport Commission: Homepage - The ITC is a voluntary organisation, comprised of professionals and academics that conducts research on economic, social and environmental aspects of travel, transport and transport policy in the United Kingdom.
Transport Blog - Personal opinion and discussion on transport and related topics. This site covers a range of UK issues from air safety to road pricing.
SoCoMMs Home Page - The South Coast Corridor Multi-Modal Study website. This site details the findings of a study looking into all types of transport within the region, documenting the study's conclusions and transport strategy for the future.
Road Alert :: Campaign against road building - Pressure group website that aims to campaign against road building across the UK.
Transport Issues - University of Nottingham - Produced by the School of Civil Engineering at Nottingham University with students in mind, this website looks at a range of key UK transport issues.
Parliamentary Advisory Council for Transport Safety - PACTS is a registered charity and an associate Parliamentary Group. Its objective is "to promote transport safety legislation to protect human life". Its aim is to advise and inform members of the House of Commons and of the House of Lords on air, rail and road safety issues. This site contains the latest transport safety news and updates on key policy issues.
Transport Ten Year Plan 2000 - Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions, long-term transport plan originally published 20th July 2000. Full text, webcasts of Commons statements, background information and progress reports.
Department of Transport - The aviation site at DTLR. Sections on environmental and noise issues, the future of air transport, the Heathrow Terminal 5 enquiry, air safety and other issues.
British Retail Consortium - BRC's views on transport issues. Position papers on matters such as London congestion charging, the European White Paper on transport and the draft Air Quality Strategy for London. Contact details and links.
Critical Mass - The home of the cycling campaign group; taking to the streets every Friday to promote cycling as a safe and clean alternative to the car.
Transportation Planning Partnership - Manchester based consultancy providing network and development planning, scheme appraisal, and regeneration studies.
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(Christopher Darlington Morley) Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as Brutus loved Caesar. -- Bill Moyers In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled. -- Paul Eldridge Transport Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence. -- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl You can observe a lot by watching. -- Yogi Berra "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides. -- Margaret Thatcher Transport A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you. -- Adlai Stevenson Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of hers. -- Anonymous When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite. - Sir Winston Churchill Transport "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job will cost. -- Anon "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back. -- Henny Youngman Transport There's too much blood in my caffeine system. -- Seen on a bumper sticker I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence. -- Doug MacLeod The soul is healed by being with children. -- Fyodor Dostoyevski Transport If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it. -- Marcus Aurelius The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. -- Albert Einstein Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth. -- Benjamin Disraeli The church is the great lost and found department. -- Robert Short Transport The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. -- Eleanor Roosevelt The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it. -- John Stuart Mill A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top. -- James Reston Transport "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Facts are the enemy of truth. - Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose shoulders we stand. -- Gerald Holton Transport "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and stupid from "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) Transport An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible. -- Alfred A. Knopf If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry. -- Chekhov Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected. -- Oscar Wilde "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history. -- Clarence Darrow Transport Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people. -- Oscar Wilde To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture. -- Anatole France I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject, when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron scumbags dev Transport "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not. -- Aldous Huxley That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing. -- 'Doc' Edgerton "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up. -- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 Transport The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing extraordinary "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it. -- Anonymous Transport When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home. -- Betty Bender May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. Conceit causes more conversation than wit. -- LaRouchefoucauld cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has gone beyond that. -- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Transport Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few. -- George Bernard Shaw To teach is to learn twice. -- Joseph Joubert Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. Transport I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means. - Clarence Darrow, That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny. -- Gloria Vanderbilt "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your girdle when your hips stick. -- Ogden Nash It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion. - Albert Einstein Transport "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay. -- Bill Stern Transport "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead. -- Winnie the Pooh All marriages are happy. 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