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2005
Dec 1	Aberdeen western bypass: Bypass "bad and unnecessary whichever route is chosen"
Sept 26	New report shows increasing demand for 'Home Zones' in residential areas [Home Zones for Scotland Network news release]
May 19	Edinburgh Airport announcement: Plans "incompatible with protection of the environment"
May 3	Scottish environment group says: "Don't vote Lib Dem if you value the environment"
Apr 29	SECOND FORTH ROAD BRIDGE PLANS: GROUPS WELCOME RE-THINK: Cost of new road bridge increases by 50% in just nine months [ForthRight Alliance news release]
Apr 19	Transport Bill: Call for traffic targets and for business sector to be removed from transport decision-making [news release issued jointly with Friends of the Earth Scotland]
Apr 15	Tolled Bridges Review: Support for buses to be exempt from bridge tolls
Mar 24	M74 decision: "Hundreds of objectors to this road have signed our 'beat the bulldozer' pledges and we will challenge this decision in the courts" [JAM74 news release]
Mar 24	M74 decision a "scandal"
Mar 14	Borders rail announcement: "welcome if long overdue"
Mar 4	Aberdeen western bypass consultation: Scottish Executive policies "unbalanced and environmentally irresponsible"
Feb 22	EDINBURGH CONGESTION CHARGE REFERENDUM: Environmental groups respond to 'no' vote [Get Edinburgh Moving news release]
Feb 7	Transport Edinburgh referendum: Environmental groups condemn political opportunism of SSP and Edinburgh Lib Dems
Feb 2	Transport Edinburgh referendum: Yes campaigners vindicated over placards [Get Edinburgh Moving news release]
Jan 17	Ken Livingstone visit to Edinburgh: 'YES' SUPPORTERS OUTNUMBER 'NO' PROTESTORS TEN TO ONE [Get Edinburgh Moving news release]
Jan 17	Ken Livingstone congestion charge conference: Retailers' conservative response unsurprising
2004
Dec 13	Get Edinburgh Moving: Launch of civic coalition for 'yes' vote in Transport Edinburgh referendum [Get Edinburgh Moving news release]
Dec 2	Transport Edinburgh referendum date set: "No hope" for reducing Edinburgh traffic without congestion charging
Dec 2	Scottish Executive climate change strategy consultation: "No hope" for strategy unless action is taken on transport
Oct 18	Congestion charge result welcomed: Scottish Executive & Alastair Darling should stop sitting on the fence
Oct 4	'Taking Charge' conference on road pricing: Congestion charge critics told to 'put up or shut up'
Sept 24	Executive spending plans for transport fail to target tackling traffic growth
Sept 17	M74 motorway: Campaigners call for motorway to be ditched & money diverted to contaminated land clean-up [JAM74 press release]
July 20	ROAD PRICING AND SCOTLAND Time for Darling to back Edinburgh congestion charge [issued jointly with Friends of the Earth Scotland]
July 5	ANGER OVER FORTH ROAD BRIDGE 'HYPOCRISY' Public transport users being 'unfairly penalised' say groups [ForthRight Alliance news release]
June 16	Transport White Paper welcomed
June 15	New report calls for focus on walking as way to tackle obesity epidemic
Apr 19	New Scottish transport planning policy ignores public health and the environment [issued jointly with Living Streets Scotland]
Feb 11	Green Transport Bill "will move Scottish transport policy in a more civilised direction"
Feb 10	Fancy losing another working week a year stuck in traffic? If not, tell the Government the Way to Go ... ['Way to Go' campaign news release]
Feb 9	New report shows demand for 'Home Zones' to become the norm for new-build residential developments [Home Zones for Scotland media advisory]
Feb 5	'Better Places to Live' Home Zones conference, 09/02/04: keynote speakers Nicol Stephen & Wayne Hemingway [Home Zones for Scotland media advisory]
Jan 15	Astronomical cost of M74 attacked: Mission to Mars would give better value than five miles of elevated motorway [JAM74 press release]
2003
Dec 16	Air Transport White Paper: No new runways in Scotland "the only realistic option"
Dec 03	Protest to First Minister in response to his "biased remarks" in advance of M74 Public Local Inquiry [JAM74 press release]
Nov 30	Adjournment of M74 public inquiry to be sought following "biased remarks" of First Minister [JAM74 press release]
Nov 23	Official complaint to be launched on handling of M74 public inquiry [JAM74 press release]
Sep 11	Edinburgh's congestion charge plans welcomed: Scottish Executive must stop sitting on the fence
Aug 07	'Crossrail 2' - New proposal for reopening Edinburgh rail services [CRAG press release]
Jul 01	Royal Mail withdrawal from rail freight: "short-sighted and environmentally irresponsible"
Jun 20	Scottish Executive cash handout for airlines & airports branded "unacceptable" -ÒUnfair state aidÓ complaint to Brussels by environment group
Jun 19	Government computer says no new runways needed in Scotland - results welcomed
May 12	Greens and Socialists unite to oppose Glasgow's M74 urban motorway [JAM74 press release]
Apr 30	Major new report on transport: Labour public transport spending claims called into question
Apr 27	Transport manifesto analysis: Main four parties' transport policies bad for the environment
Mar 05	Transport Minister Iain Gray's statement: Scottish Executive transport policy again neglects environment
Mar 04	Edinburgh tram announcement: Congestion charge needed to complete city transport package
Jan 27	Jack McConnell announcement on Aberdeen Western Bypass: Labour road-building obsession "worse than the Tories"
Jan 22	Central Scotland Transport Corridor Studies announcement: Executive's road-building plans spiral to almost £800 million

2002
Nov 29	Scottish air expansion plans undermine rail strategy - says Government's leading environmental advisors
Nov 14	Public Transport Fund announcement: still a long way to go in delivering high quality public transport
Nov 12	'Airport Watch' challenge to Scottish Executive to end "predict and provide" agenda on air transport
Sep 18	Edinburgh's congestion charge plans welcomed: Scottish Executive must stop sitting on the fence
Sep 12	Scottish Executive spending review & transport: More money for public transport - but commitment to stabilising traffic levels dropped
Sep 11	Scottish spending review & transport: Executive must end double standards in transport delivery
Sep 09	Scottish Executive air transport conference: Environment issues not even on their radar!
Aug 29	Edinburgh support for congestion charging welcomed: Time for the Scottish Executive to support Edinburgh's plans
Aug 01	Scottish Executive Reporter for A78 Bypass public inquiry referred to Audit Scotland
Jun 13	Scottish Executive report demonstrates that planned M74 elevated motorway will worsen congestion in Glasgow
Jun 12	Edinburgh's congestion charging plans "the only way" the city's transport problems can be tackled
Jun 11	Central Scotland transport study criticised for failing to recommend short-term improvements to railways
May 02	Scottish Executive M74 Northern Extension photo opportunity: How will new motorways reduce traffic in Glasgow?
Apr 19	Conference on transport and the economy asks: "Is Transport Good for Your Wealth?"
Mar 21	Scottish Executive transport plan repeats failed road building strategy of the 1960s
Mar 21	Wendy Alexander report on transport must switch funds from destructive road-building programme to public transport
Feb 17	McConnell speech on environment must deliver environmental audit of Executive road-building programme and commitment to road traffic reduction
Feb 06	Wendy Alexander on transport: Executive's promises on public transport do not match commitments on road-building
Feb 01	Executive announcement on M77 & Glasgow Southern Orbital: road building programme "out of control"
Jan 24	Euro 2008 bid: Scotland needs to match Irish commitments on public transport investment
Jan 17	Scottish Executive Central Belt transport study: call for "strict scrutiny" of traffic-generating developments in west of Scotland
Jan 11	National railways plan to be published on Monday: will Scotland's rail network be stuck in a siding?

2001
Oct 11	Scottish Executive promotes new elevated motorway as it comes under attack on environment policies
Oct 03	"Grave reservations" about Scottish Executive study into central Scotland transport network
Sep 21	UK finally pledges support for European Car Free Day - call for Scottish Executive to follow
Sep 04	Edinburgh's public transport plans welcomed - but further delays in getting there criticised
Jun 18	Travel awareness campaign welcome - but undermined by Boyack's road-building programme
May 18	SNP roads and petrol addiction gets worse
May 11	Tory transport policy an insult to Scottish public transport users
Mar 07	Budget: Gordon Brown "rewards road haulage industry for blockading Grangemouth"
Mar 05	Reversing the unsustainable? First report on Scotland's Local Transport Strategies published
Jan 11	International conference on tram systems: "an opportunity for Scotland to catch up with best transport systems in Europe"

2000
Dec 20	Scottish Transport Bill passed: some useful measures - but many missed opportunities
Nov 21	Boyack urged to legislate on Home Zones
Nov 08	Pre-Budget Statement: Gordon Brown correct not to cave in to truckers' selfish demands
Nov 07	Transport Bill: Transport Committee must rein in out-of-town retail development
Oct 29	Reshuffle: Executive must deliver on public transport promises
Oct 25	M74 planning permission expires: call for better public involvement in planning process
Oct 04	Trams to return to Edinburgh streets?
Sep 28	U-turn on M74 shows Executive transport policy in collapse: Boyack's legacy will be one of motorway-building not public transport.
Sep 27	Transport spending announcement: Boyack must deliver on demand for quality public transport.
Sep 20	Spending plans announcement: Executive's plans make welcome move in direction of public transport.
Sep 20	Spending plans announcement: Executive must tackle historic under-investment in public transport.
Sep 13	Transport Bill debate: Executie must come out fighting in defence of its congestion-busing proposals.
Sep 12	Truckers Demo Criticised.
Sep 10	New M74 Report Criticised as 'Short-sighted'.
Jun 06	Transport Bill welcomed - but needs to be toughened.
May 25	Safe Routes to School announcement by Scottish Executive.
Mar 21	The Budget and transport.
Feb 15	Call for wider funding for Borders Railway.
Feb 10	Transport Bill welcomed - but needs to go further.
Feb 02	A701 given go-ahead: Midlothian given permission to rip up transport policy.

1999
Nov 29	'Home Zones for Scotland' conference.
Nov 09	Brown's capitulation on Fuel Duty Escalator.
Nov 04	Executive gets transport plans back on the road.
Nov 04	New motorways would undermine Executive's credibility in delivering transport reforms.
Nov 03	Executive's retreat on trunk road charging.
Oct 07	McConnell gets spending priorities wrong on transport.
Sep 08	A701 road proposal to be decided upon by Midlothian.
Jun 16	Legislative programme: Transport Bill.
May 25	'Slow Down!' A conference to examine the issues of speed and the case for slower speeds.
Apr 27	On track for Holyrood: party manifestos compared.
Mar 11	Public Transport Fund announcement: a welcome boost.
Mar 08	Budget 1999.
Feb 14	Member groups issue challenges to political parties.
Jan 22	Midlothian road plans on A701 a Trojan Horse to greenbelt developments.

1998
Dec 04	Announcement on Larkhall train line re-opening expected today.
Nov 23	Queen's Speech: Government's fine words not backed up by action.
Oct 16	Planners congratulated, Road builders slated.
Aug 27	Transport challenge issued to Scotland's political parties.
Aug 25	Transport campaign travels into cyberspace!
Jul 30	Keeping Glasgow Moving: but in the right direction?
Jul 22	Prescott's Transport White Paper "watered-down" for Scotland
Jul 20	The Transport White Paper: now put the words into action!
Jul 19	John Prescott to put Britain back on the rails?
Jun 17	New Parliament building to promote car culture?
Jun 12	Treasury urged to reject new road spending plans
May 11	The M74 - not a good way to create jobs
Feb 24	Rail revolution for Edinburgh
Jan 08	Campaign urges car clampdown for Scottish Parliament site

1997
Nov 10	New transport action group launched
Sep 15	Campaign urges rejection of Leith site for Scottish Parliament
Jun 29	New campaign group calls for Scottish Office to pursue alternative to M74 Northern Extension