Infrastructure

News: 23-24/11/05 - NGO workshop on European legislation and sustainable transport infrastructure

The European Advantage: How NGOs can benefit from recent European Legislation in their work for Sustainable Transport Infrastructure. Organised by CEE Bankwatch, T&E, BUND, Friends of the Earth Europe, Hnuti DUHA (Friends of the Earth Czech Republic). 23-24 November 2005, Prague.

September 28, 2005 | Infrastructure

News: France and Italy under fire after Mont Blanc verdict

The lack of a coherent transport policy to shift goods traffic from road to rail has been criticised following the French tribunal investigating the 1999 fire in the Mont Blanc road tunnel in which 39 people died.

September 15, 2005 | Infrastructure | T&E Bulletin

News: New Alpine tunnel fire brings pressure for shift

The EU transport commissioner Jacques Barrot has called for an “urgent rebalancing of road and rail” after the latest fire in a road tunnel through the Alps.

July 15, 2005 | Infrastructure | T&E Bulletin

News: EBRD bank projects ‘unsustainable’

The leading NGO monitoring the activities of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development says the bank is ignoring environmental requirements in its charter and is continuing to invest in unsustainable transport projects in Central and Eastern Europe.

June 15, 2005 | Infrastructure | T&E Bulletin

News: Commission Risks Fast-Tracking Unviable Transport Projects

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March 9, 2005 | Infrastructure | Press Releases

Publications: T&E Input to the TEN-T Public Consultation

T&E's response to the public consultation on the extension of the major Trans-European transport axes to the neighbouring countries and regions. For further information, please see the European Commission website.

March 6, 2005 | Infrastructure

News: EU risking billions of euros on ‘unviable transport projects’

T&E has said the Commission is risking large sums of money being spent on transport projects that have not been properly thought through.

February 15, 2005 | Infrastructure | T&E Bulletin

Publications: Sense and Sustainability: Smart thinking to restart European transport policy (T&E 04/06)

Timed to coincide with a new European Parliament, Commission, and an enlarged EU, this publication offers policy makers considered solutions to help restart sustainable transport policies.

News: Swiss choose sustainable transport, again

Swiss citizens yesterday overwhelmingly voted for sustainable transport by rejecting in a referendum an initiative that would have expanded the road transport system in Switzerland’s environmentally sensitive alpine area. Analysis of the results shows that not a single Swiss Canton was in favour of the initiative. Available in htm or pdf.

February 9, 2004 | Infrastructure | Press Releases

Publications: Investing for a sustainable future - a Manifesto

Manifesto for sustainable investment. A manifesto by the European Platform of Social NGOs, European Trade Union Confederation and the European Environmental Bureau. T&E supports the manifesto and prepared the transport section.

December 17, 2003 | General Transport | Infrastructure