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 government, sub-regional bodies 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?

The Railway Doctor, Paul Salveson, examines what Localism could mean to rail on this month's 'perspectives' page.

NW TAR's views re. the environmental reports on the revocation of the Regional Spatial Strategies and particularly the NW of England Plan are here.

NW TAR Convenor Lillian Burns says that the Manchester Airport Link Roads given the go-ahead by government are nonsensical. See her guest blog on the Campaign for Better Transport's website.

Halton Borough Council has consulted on proposed modifications to the Mersey Gateway scheme that NW TAR has been a leading opponent of. Our response to the latest consultation can be viewed here.

What's On?

The next TravelWatch NorthWest conference will be held on Thursday February 9th 2012 at Wigan. Keep an eye on the TW NW website 'events' page.