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NEPTUG Newsletter – Summer 2025
Our Summer 2025 newsletter is now available via the link below. This issue features: – Campaigners from across the region working together – Pollution concerns – The social benefits of public transport – Meeting ‘the Metro Bashers’ – Calls for the Northumberland Line to be extended – Level boarding and other accessibility problems – A…
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Transport Secretary faces MPs.
Transport Secretary faces MPs on rail reform, decarbonisation and airport expansion Evidence session Work of the Secretary of State Wednesday 23 April, 09:15, Committee Room 16, Palace of Westminster Watch live on ParliamentTV Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander MP will face the Transport Committee for the first time since taking up the post. The cross-party Committee…
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We’ll be at the ‘No Time For Waste’ Environmental Gathering, 16th March.
The North Tyneside branch of NEPTUG will be at the ‘No Time For Waste’ Environmental Gathering on Sunday 16th March, at the Linskill Centre, North Shields, 10am-4pm. Why not drop by and say hello!Entry is free, and the event includes environmental films & talks, information stalls, crafts, workshops, and small local businesses.For more information, visit…
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Sunderland bus priority measures consultation
Sunderland City Council is consulting on its plans aimed at getting more people using the bus by improving service reliability across key bus corridors. You can view the schemes and feedback (by 5 March 2025) here: https://www.sunderland.gov.uk/BSIPChesterRoad https://www.sunderland.gov.uk/BSIPDurhamRoad
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Our response to the North East’s Local Transport Plan
Our response to the Local Transport Plan (LTP) consultation can be found below: For information on the North East’s LTP, please visit: https://www.northeast-ca.gov.uk/localtransportplan
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Newcastle bus priority measures consultation
Newcastle City Council is consulting on its plans aimed at getting more people using the bus by improving service reliability across key bus corridors. You can view the schemes and feedback (various deadlines up to 9 March 2025) here: https://www.newcastle.gov.uk/bsip https://www.letstalknewcastle.co.uk/consultations/538/participate
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Let there be light, in Teams, Gateshead!
In a previous newsletter we covered a North East bus user who had been reporting broken bus shelter lights in Teams, Gateshead, for several years but to no avail. During the hours of darkness the bus shelters were uninviting and it was difficult to read the timetables.Overgrown and low hanging tree branches were also obstructing…
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Service 599 survey
The 599 Bus service started running in July 2024 to provide a new link to major employment sites and local communities. The bus has strengthened links with Sunderland Royal Hospital, the International Advanced Manufacturing Park (IAMP), the Nissan car plant, Sunderland city centre, and Jarrow and Hebburn town centres. Now, eight months on from the…
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Go North East service change consultations
Go North East are planning service changes in North Tyneside, Newcastle and South East Northumberland, set to launch on Sunday 23 March 2025 – this includes some new services, some changed routes, timetable changes and withdrawn services. Consultation events are being held between 30 January and 4 February and they will also be attending the…
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NEST’s response to Local Transport Plan consultation.
The North East’s ‘Local Transport Plan’ consultation closes at midnight on Sunday 26 January 2025: https://www.northeast-ca.gov.uk/localtransportplan Following NEPTUG’s Transport Bootcamp event in November, various sustainable transport groups & campaigners from across the region agreed to come together and set common priorities to feed into the Mayor’s consultation. Together, informally known as the ‘North East Sustainable…
