Cambs Campaign for Better Transport – Newsletter 124, Mar 2017

Coordinator and Treasurer: Simon Norton, 6 Hertford St, Cambridge CB4 3AG tel. 01223 569623 (home) 764243 (office) email [email protected] (note that outward emails may come from a different address, but they are all equivalent and inward emails will get through at any of the relevant addresses) Chair and Buses representative: Alan Quick, 43 School Lane, Toft, Cambridge CB3 7RE tel. 01223 262188 email [email protected] Secretary and representative for issues not mentioned elsewhere: Susan Jourdain, 18 Millcroft Court, Mill Rd, Cambridge CB1 3PE tel. 01223 246791 Deputy coordinator and Light Rail representative: Martin Thorne, 53 High Barns, Ely CB7 4RR tel. 01353 615872 email [email protected] Cycling representative: Jim Chisholm, Cambridge Cycling Campaign, PO Box 204, Cambridge CB4 3FN email [email protected] website hhttp://www.camcycle.org.uki tel. 01223 690718 Railways representative: Ben Walsh, 14 Cunningham Close, Cambridge CB4 4DN tel. 07790 567143 email [email protected] European representative and website hhttp://www.cambsbettertransport.org.uki maintenance: Franck Arnaud, Metzer Strasse 27, 10405 Berlin, Germany email [email protected] Campaign for Better Transport HQ: 16 Waterside, 44-48 Wharf Road, London N1 7UX tel. 0207 566 6480 fax 0207 566 6493 website hhttp://www.bettertransport.org.uki. Contacts for nearby branches follow. Suffolk branch: B. Moore, 3 Station Rd, Claydon, Ipswich IP6 0HS tel. 01473 831168 email [email protected] Leics branch: T. Kirby, 25 Mount Avenue, Barwell, Leicester LE9 8AJ tel. 01455 842891 email [email protected] London branch: C. Barker, 46 Redston Rd, London N8 7HJ email [email protected] Notts branch: D. Thornhill, 3 Shadwell Grove, Radcliffe on Trent, Nottingham NG12 2ET tel. 0115 9334714 email [email protected] Cambs CPRE representative: I. Ivanovic, 3 Elm Drive, Offord Cluny, St Neots, Cambs PE19 5RN tel. 01480 811027 email [email protected] CAST.IRON: 198 Gilbert Road, Cambridge CB4 3PB email [email protected] website hhttp://www.castiron.org.uki Bus Users UK: Victoria Charity Centre, 11 Belgrave Road, London SW1V 1RB tel. 0300 111 0001 email [email protected] website hhttp://www.bususers.orgi Railfuture East Anglia: Paul Hollinghurst, 110 Catharine St, Cambridge CB1 3AR email [email protected] Bedford Area Bus Users Society (BABUS): website hhttp://babus.org.uki Disclaimer: contents of articles do not necessarily reflect Campaign for Better Trans- port policy at either national or branch level. Please give us your thoughts on any transport related topic, however small. This will help us develop our policies. We will try to pursue any complaint or suggestion or advise you how to pursue it yourself. Subscription rates: £5 per year standard, £4 per year concessionary (senior, student, disabled, unwaged, Campaign for Better Transport national supporter), £6 per year household/affiliate. Cheques to be made payable to “Cambs Campaign for Better Transport”. 1 and 2 year subscriptions are accepted. Members will receive renewal slips when (and only when) their subscriptions are due for renewal.

1 EUROPE AND TRANSPORT

As this is bring written, the attention of the UK is focused on the triggering of Article 50 which is to lead to our withdrawal from the EU. There has also been talk of the UK withdrawing from the European Convention on Human Rights (which is quite separate) and repealing the Human Rights Act which incorporated much of it into UK law. Will these moves have any major implications for transport? There will almost certainly be indirect implications. Withdrawal from the EU will affect our economy, as will the consequent changes in exchange rates. So will a new immigration regime. There may also be changes to people’s travel patterns (including foreign visitors). It is hard to assess whether these will help or hinder the cause of transport sustainability. Disengagement