About Us

The North West Transport Activists Roundtable (NW TAR) is one of eight regional roundtables run under the auspices of the Campaign for Better Transport (formerly Transport 2000). We are an umbrella organisation whose purpose is to promote sustainable transport and sustainable land use to regional agencies and local authorities. We operate mainly by engaging in transport and planning policy work and by serving on a number of regional and sub-regional bodies, but we also hold about three open meetings a year.

What's New?

NW TAR's contribution to the first inquiry of the new parliament by the Business, Innovation and Skills Committee into Local Enterprise Partnerships can be viewed on the documents page.

Following a three page article in the mid July edition of Local Transport Today, promoting the case by Halton BC for the Mersey Gateway Bridge, LTT carried a rebuttal letter from Lillian Burns in the following edition. Read our summary case against the bridge on our 'perspectives' page.

A submission by NW TAR on Cumbria County Councils' draft Local Transport Plan can be viewed on the consultations page.

The North West Behavioural Change Study has got underway with consultants posing a series of questions. NW TAR's response can be viewed on the documents page.

What's On?

The TravelWatch NorthWest (TW NW) AGM will take place at 9:45 a.m. at MerseyTravel in Liverpool on Thursday, October 7th, followed by a conference starting at 11 a.m. Louise Ellman, M.P., Chair of the House of Commons Transport Committee, will be the keynote speaker. Details will be posted in due course on the TW NW website. www.travelwatch-northwest.org.uk.