BeST (Better Shrewsbury Transport) comprises a group of organisations and individuals that is keen to engage positively with the council to promote active and sustainable solutions to the town’s transport challenges. We are campaigning for urgent action to promote active and sustainable modes of transport that are the only effective ways to reduce congestion, poor air quality and road deaths/injuries in the town whilst transforming all our lives for the better.
The following organisations are members of the alliance:
- Shropshire Wildlife Trust
- CPRE – Campaign to Protect Rural England
- Friends of the Earth Shrewsbury Branch
- Extinction Rebellion Shrewsbury Branch
- Sustainable Transport Shropshire – campaigning to try and get Shropshire Council to take alternatives to the private car seriously
The campaign is also supported by the Green Party, Shrewsbury and Atcham Liberal Democrats and the local branch of the Labour Party.
The proposed road is not an effective or sustainable way to improve transport in and around the town and will have significant impacts on traffic congestion, wildlife, air, noise and water quality and the council’s budgets for other more important projects. More details on why the road is a bad idea are here