Joseph plots a green pathway to lead the country out the red

The Campaign for Better Transport is one of the most high-profile voices in UK transport policy. So what does it think of the new Government’s transport record? Andrew Forster caught up with chief executive Stephen Joseph (pictured) and campaigns director Richard Hebditch to find out

11 February 2011

"I’ve certainly seen some fairly desperate stuff ... you know, private emails from bus operators saying, ‘We’re really not sure how we are going to survive this one." Stephen Joseph

The Government should create a cross-departmental funding pot for bus services, says Joseph

Campaigns director Richard Hebditch

When Philip Hammond settled into the transport hotseat at Great Minster House last May, one of the first welcome letters he received was from Stephen Joseph, the chief executive officer of the Campaign for Better Transport. In it, Joseph said the CBT was the UK’s leading transport non-governmental organisation and had worked closely with the Conservative’s shadow transport secretary, Theresa Villiers, to “help develop Conservative party policy”. “We look...