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- "Public Transport Innovation Needs More Cash Now!" - FOEC Response to Assembly Funding Plans
- A40 Upgrading May Be Single Carriageway
- Airport expansion plans 'grounded'
- Assembly control over GM weakened
- Assembly Opportunity to Spark a Green Industrial Revolution
- Blair to take back Assembly Planning Powers?
- Bmibaby Announcement - Silver Linings Come With Global Rain Clouds
- Don't get lost in the GM Maize! - FOE Cymru urges farmers to boycott GM Trials
- Energy Efficiency Campaigners Spotlight Meacher on Commitments to Fuel Poor
- English GM test contamination shows Assembly is right to keep GM crops out of Wales
- English recycle 50% more than Welsh
- Environmentalists Call For Assembly PFI Roads Investigation
- Environmentalists Welcome 20 Years of Nuclear Free Wales Declaration
- European Commission plans "could scupper GM Free Wales" warns Friends of the Earth Cymru
- FOE Cymru welcomes GM Free Wales in 2002
- Friends of the Earth Cymru consults on its draft Welsh Language Scheme
- Friends of the Earth Cymru launch new web site
- Glamorgan GM Scientist: Right on commercialisation Wrong on test sites
- Government's Planning Bill: "Bad for Democracy and Environment in Wales"
- Greens Call on Passengers to Press for a First Rate Rail Service
- Group calls urgent discussions on planning reforms
- Invest in Road Safety Not Faster Roads to Reduce Crashes
- Keep Wales GM free!
- Landfill linked to Down's Syndrome
- Large Majority Support More Onshore and Offshore Welsh Windfarms - Independent Phone Survey
- Leaked report shows Government scrambling to change GM law
- Lib Dems "selling out" on GM issues
- Major airport proposal challenged
- Ministers told: come clean on GM seed rules
- Morgan should stand up for a GM free Welsh environment
- New power station given cautious welcome
- Newport SDR - Flood by A thousand road contracts and six billion people
- No GM Crop Trials in Wales - Reward for Assembly Stance
- North Wales Windfarm Welcomed
- Offshore Windfarm Go-Ahead, Fingers Crossed for Many More Say Environmentalists
- Opposition to Porthcawl Offshore Windfarm Premature and Unfair
- Planting of the genetically modified (GM) maize variety Chardon LL
- Renewable energy target welcomed
- Renewables could produce 30 per cent of Welsh electricity 2010
- Rhodri Morgan Must Demand Fair Trade at Earth Summit (and sort out the Assembly when he gets back)
- Severn Barrage Outperformed By Tidal Lagoons, Greens Advise Assembly
- Stop Trying to Delay Windfarms - Environmentalists Rebuke Tactics of Conservation Groups
- Terrorism Threats Reason Enough to Abandon Any New Nuclear Power Programme
- Welsh Anti-GM Campaigners take to streets of Brussels
- Welsh Rail Users Hit Back!
Invest in Road Safety Not Faster Roads to Reduce Crashes
Responding to the AA's report, announced today, on the most dangerous roads in the UK, Friends of the Earth Cymru (FOE Cymru) said that targeting the roads budget on road safety not major road building would secure the best safety benefits.
Neil Crumpton, transport spokesperson for FOE Cymru said,
"Hundreds of miles of A roads in Wales are below what are current design recommendations and it would cost a fortune to upgrade them. Especially so to the fast designs which encourage speeding, that are currently favoured by some local authorities.
Rather than major road upgrading or dualling, the realistic option is to target roads budget cash to resolving design problems at crash cluster sites together with measures to tackle excessive speed and poor driving.
This would ensure that more of the available transport budget can be directed to the comparatively more modest rail network and bus service improvements, which are much safer ways of transport than increasing road traffic."
