Latest updates from BSTA.
Can an image be more convincing than this? Reading University have plotted the temperature from 1900 to 2021 for each country of the world. The colours showing change from the average 20th century temperature in the country. There’s no doubt about it. It’s up to us and our representatives to bring the red back to blue. Click on the image for the full story.
All are welcome at our monthly planning and action meetings, held at Tambourine Café on Bingley Road. The next is on Thursday 12th May at 7pm.
At this meeting we’ll be planning consultation and campaigning in Frizinghall and Manningham, and low income areas of Shipley.
The meeting after that is Wednesday 15th June at 7pm.
Our consultation on alternatives to ‘Shipley choked with traffic’ has given a great boost to solutions that make healthy ways of travel easier.
Held all day on 5th March 2022 at Shipley’s Kirkgate Community Centre, more than two hundred people came to cast their votes and make their comments on the Bradford-Shipley Travel Alliance (BSTA) proposals.
A full report gives the results of the consultation and more pictures. We will be giving voice to the views in coming weeks.
Thanks to all who took part and those who volunteered their time and energy to make the event such a success. It was jointly organised with Shipley Town Council.
We are turning our attention to new priorities for the coming weeks, and will welcome your involvement. Please join us at the Tambourine café on Gordon Terrace (BD18 4RU) at 7pm Wed 16th March.
Our priorities are:
If you cannot make it to this meeting let us know you want to lend a hand by emailing Ludi at admin@bsta.cleanairbradford.uk.
In February these reports added to the case for a better approach to make travel easier and healthier:
Create Streets has published Computer Says Road, challenging the unhelpful fixation on roads in what it calls the crude urban planning process. Support for the report was reported here.
DeCarbon8 issued its Policy Briefing: Everything Counts: Why transport infrastructure emissions matter for decision makers.
Rail Business Daily reports on a study of 37 European cities, in which Birmingham, London and Manchester emerge as the worst three in terms of affordability. And they are far ahead of Wet Yorkshire.
