Transport 2009
This award is for campaigners working anywhere in the UK to improve access at a local level or creating alternative solutions to meet the transport challenges of our time.
This award is sponsored by Dr Simon Norton.
Winner
Laura Ferguson
‘A well used, safe, Princess Mary Gate to schools cycle route', Get Wendover Cycling
Laura is campaigning for a safer cycle route to school, for parents and children in the new housing development in Wendover. She wants the route to be installed so that it complies with national good practice guidelines and is sufficiently promoted so that it is used by a high proportion of residents in the development. The campaign also advocates for safe rural cycling routes and local leisure routes for people in the area.
Finalists
Sandra Hooper
‘End discrimination in transport East Renfrewshire’ (EDITER)
Sandra wants to put a stop to the discrimination that people with learning disabilities face when using public transport. The campaign aims to raise awareness about the refusal and other difficulties some young disabled people face when using their concessionary travel-card. Sandra and her group have been successful in securing the support of local councillors and they have engaged in talks with Strathclyde Passenger Transport.
Jo Slee
‘Save Bathampton Meadows’
Jo is campaigning to stop Bath and North East Somerset Council from turning the historical and ecological site of Bathampton water meadows into a 1,400 space ‘park and ride’ facility. Jo believes this initiative will not meet its stated objective to reduce traffic congestion and CO2 emissions. The campaign has gained lots of support locally, but they hope to raise the profile of the campaign nationally and internationally, in order to involve and influence the Secretary of State in the decision.
Award judges
Simon Norton
Simon is a mathematician at Cambridge University with a particular interest in sustainable transport. In particular he is Co-ordinator of the Cambs & West Suffolk branch of Transport 2000, the national environmental transport campaign.
Vaughan Lindsay
Vaughan is on the Board of Trustees for The Sheila McKechnie Foundation. Vaughan has been Chief Executive of the Dartington Hall Trust since February 2004. The Trust is committed to helping people realise inspired ideas through several strands of activity, from the arts and education to ecology, social research and commercial enterprise.
After graduating from Oxford University with a BA in Geography and obtaining an MSc in Demography from the London School of Economics, Vaughan went to work for Procter & Gamble, though moved quickly to the Kings Fund where he was sponsored through an MBA at the London Business School. His next move was to join Sheila at Shelter, spending six years as Director of Resources, before becoming Deputy Director of NCVO. Headhunted by the internationally renowned strategic management consultancy McKinsey while at NCVO, Vaughan then spent six years advising blue chip organisations on their strategy, marketing and sales. He is married with a daughter and lives in Devon.
Stephen Joseph OBE
Stephen has been Executive Director of Transport 2000 since 1988. He has previously worked for a range of organisations, including the British Youth Council, the Civic Trust and the Town & Country Planning Association. He was awarded the OBE in 1996 for services to transport and the environment. In July 2004 he was given a Lifetime Achievement Award as part of the National Transport Awards.
