{"id":2364,"date":"2015-09-03T19:00:11","date_gmt":"2015-09-03T19:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/transform.scot\/?p=2364"},"modified":"2015-09-04T10:17:58","modified_gmt":"2015-09-04T10:17:58","slug":"national-transport-strategy-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/transform.scot\/blog\/2015\/09\/03\/national-transport-strategy-debate\/","title":{"rendered":"Transform debates the National Transport Strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/transform.scot\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Invite-graphic.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2377\" src=\"https:\/\/transform.scot\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Invite-graphic.jpg\" alt=\"Invite graphic\" width=\"700\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/transform.scot\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Invite-graphic.jpg 600w, https:\/\/transform.scot\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Invite-graphic-300x150.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>With the Scottish Government carrying out a &#8220;Refresh&#8221; of the National Transport Strategy, we thought it&#8217;d be worth asking some of our Member groups to debate how the Strategy could be improved, and what the next Scottish Government administration &#8212; whatever party or parties end up forming it &#8212; can do to make place sustainable transport at its heart.<\/p>\n<p>The debate will be held at <strong>Edinburgh&#8217;s City Chambers on Thursday 1 October from 7pm-8pm<\/strong>, and will be followed by a drinks reception.<\/p>\n<p>We are very pleased to be joined at the debate by Cllr Andrew Burns (Leader of <strong>The City of Edinburgh Council<\/strong>) and Prof. Tom Rye (Director of <strong>Napier Transport Research Institute<\/strong>), alongside some short pitches from our members about what should be included in the Strategy:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Alistair Kirkbride, Executive Director, <strong>Carplus<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Emilia Hanna, Air Pollution Campaigner, <strong>Friends of the Earth Scotland<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Steven Stewart, Director of Corporate Communications, <strong>Stagecoach Group<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>David Livey, Policy and Media Advisor, <strong>Sustrans Scotland<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Paul Tetlaw, Rail Campaigner, <strong>Transform Scotland<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To register to attend the debate, please email &lt;<a href=\"mailto:events@transformscotland.org.uk\">events@transformscotland.org.uk<\/a>&gt;. We look forward to seeing you on Thursday 1 October.<\/p>\n<p><em>Transform Scotland members and supporters are also invited to join us for the Transform Scotland annual general meeting, which will be held immediately before the debate (from 6.15pm-6.45pm).<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the Scottish Government carrying out a &#8220;Refresh&#8221; of the National Transport Strategy, we thought it&#8217;d be worth asking some of our Member groups to debate how the Strategy could be improved, and what the next Scottish Government administration &#8212; whatever party or parties end up forming it &#8212; can do to make place sustainable&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"_expiration-date-status":"saved","_expiration-date":0,"_expiration-date-type":"","_expiration-date-categories":[],"_expiration-date-options":[]},"categories":[70,1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.7.1 - 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