Campaigning & Advocacy

The object of the Light Rail Transit Association is campaigning and advocacy:

 

The Memorandum of Association of the Light Rail Transit Association says -

The Association shall be a non profit-making and financially and politically independent body, whose objects are:-

3.1 to advocate and otherwise support the retention, extension and development of efficient public transport, and especially of light rail transit and tramway systems;

3.2 to encourage research into, and to support the development and adoption by transport authorities and the light rail and tramway industry of, improved and more efficient technological and commercial planning, construction and operation of such systems;

3.3 to publish regularly a magazine (which shall be the Official Journal of the Association) and other periodicals and books dealing with the foregoing objects and with the technical and historical aspects of such systems; and

3.4 to collate and maintain an archive and library devoted to all facets of such systems.

This website will, hopefully, help to achieve both the principal and the secondary object of the LRTA, and, of course, the Association has its traditional library and archive and its "official organ" - its monthly magazine Tramways & Urban Transit as the mainstay of that effort, to which, as yet, this website is but a junior partner!

However, the LRTA does feel that this website is a good way to foster and encourage campaigning and advocacy for more and better public transport, especially light rail and tramways. So this page will carry details of campaigns under way and how to make contact with the person who is leading each particular campaign.

To contact the LRTA's Development Officer, Brian Lomas - bslomas@lrta.org

The LRTA has Area Officers, who organize local campaigning and arrange local meetings, in most large urban areas of the U.K. as well as a few outside the U.K.
 

 

Position	Name	Address	Phone	Email/Fax
AO Bristol	Brian Lomas	7 Crofton Avenue,  Horfield,  Bristol BS7 0BP	0117 9517785	See Link above  0117 9517785
AO Cambridge	Martin Thorne	53 High Barns   ELY,  CB7 4RR	01353 615872
AO Cleveland	John Wiggins	Manless Garden Farm,  Boro'gate Lane,  Saltburn,  Cleveland TS12 2DJ	01278 650879
AO East Anglia	John Woods	89 Welsford Road,   Eaton Rise,   Norwich NR4 6QE	01603 507631
AO Edinburgh	George Murray	22 Muir Wood Crescent, Currie, Edinburgh, EH14 5HD	0131-5382375
AO Glasgow	Douglas Sutherland	27 Hawthorne Ave.,   Erskine,  Paisley PA8 7BU	0141 8122866
AO Ireland	Clifton Flewitt	6 Waterloo Avenue,  Dublin 3 EIRE	00353 1 8554081
AO Leeds	Melvyn Reuben	38 Westcombe Avenue,    Leeds LS8 2BS	0113 2662968
AO Liverpool	Peter Jackson	101 Thingwall Road,   Liverpool L15 7JX	0151 7223005
AO London	Alan Pearce	26 Rothschild Road,   Chiswick Park,  London W4 5HS	020 8747 0026
AO Manchester	Tony Williams	110 Mellalieu Street,  Middleton,  Manchester M24 5SB	0161 290 1933
AO New Zealand	Brent Efford	PO Box 2626,   Wellington 6015   New Zealand	(0064) 801 9331	(0064) 801 9344
AO Northern Ireland	Mike Maybin	9 Church View Cottages    Bangor  County Down BT20 3EJ	028 9145 8363
AO Nottingham	Position Vacant
AO Sheffield	Paul Abell	13 Station Road, Treeton, Rotherham S60 5PN	0114 269 2742
AO Southampton	Martin Petch	23 Meadowmead Avenue,   Regents Park,   Southampton SO15 4LW	01703 774186
AO South Wales	Bill Riggs	18 Station Road,   Church Village,   Mid-Glam. CF38 1AH	01443 208266
AO Tyne & Wear	Graham Jellett	20 Beaumont Drive, Whitley Bay, Tyne & Wear NE25 9UT	0191-251-1356
AO West Midlands	Mike Ballinger	36 Seven Acres,  Aldridge,  Walsall WS9 0EY	01922 627171	See Link above
Convenor Light Rail Scotland	Alistair Gunn	41 Ravelston Garden,  Edinburgh EH4 3LF	0131 3374073

 
# Note: this position has fallen vacant, and a successor is sought.  

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