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

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