The Campaign for Better Transport Charitable Trust (formerly Transport 2000) is a transport policy and environmental pressure group. Founded on 6 February 1973 by Sidney Weighell, deputy general secretary of the National Union of Railwaymen, in collaboration with the Civic Trust, the Conservation Society, and the Council for the Preservation of Rural England, the group is responsible for addressing transport issues in the UK and abroad. In 1980 their business location was 40 James Street, then Walkden House at 10 Melton Street in London until c. 1997, when their business domicile moved to The Impact Centre in London. The organisation is still active as a charity (1101929) and company limited by guarantee (49 43428), and currently based in The Print Rooms, London. In its early years, Transport 2000 Limited was governed by a Board of Directors, who consisted of elected representatives from partner environmental organisations and two representatives from each local group of Transport 2000, guided by a Chairman. Local groups were governed independently and required a license to use the branding of Transport 2000. The first chair was Eric Robinson and the first secretary Michael Harris, the latter being the director of the Railway Industry Association. The organisation received funding from British Rail from 1978, which was used to employ its first staff members: Mick Hamer, a transport campaigner from Friends of the Earth, who was director from 1978, and Nick Lester, co-creator of the London Cycling Campaign. Directorship changed many times throughout the campaign’s history; the role was held by Harley Sherlock, Michael Palin, Stephen Joseph, Susan Hoyle, and Keith Buchan, among others. From 1991 to 2006, strategy and the administration of strategic initiatives were divided between two organisations: Transport 2000 Limited and Transport 2000 Trust. According to Stephen Joseph’s presentation to the Limited Board of Directors in 1992, Transport 2000 Limited set the pace for strategic operations of the group, including ‘to promote a coherent and sustainably viable transport policy’, whereas the Trust was tasked with the development of alternatives and ‘spearheading’ proactive political and social initiatives, working to the strategy set by Limited. The Trust and Limited organisations each had their own chair, who reports to the Board of Directors and Board of Trustees. The Board and Trustees were tasked with approving measures, setting the Annual General Meeting agendas, moderating finances, approving and appointing staff changes, and fundraising. The Trust was registered 08 April 1992 and its operations lasted until 04 August 2005, when it was merged with Transport 2000 Limited following the amended stipulations of the Charities Act 2006. The Campaign took its current name in 2007. The Campaign for Better Transport aimed to address key issues of transport on both local and national levels. Activities centre around three main objectives: public transport, traffic reduction, and environmental sustainability., though focus has shifted over time to address timely aspects of transport in the United Kingdom. Tactics have included lobbying, drafting consultation responses to government green and white papers, stunts, funding research, publishing reports, newsletters, and briefings, and coordinating toolkits for local groups to administer campaigning strategies in their local communities. Notable actions include commenting on the Serpell report, main line electrification, and the Railways Bill, implementing communications infrastructure for building awareness of the effects of deregulation of buses and trains on local constituents, contributing to the Women’s Charter for transport safety and accessibility, funding research on door-to-door and integrated transport, supporting Local Transport Days, researching and lobbying privatised railways and drawing attention to rail line and station closures, as well as celebrating reopenings. Campaign for Better Transport have been especially instrumental in addressing issues such as rail privatisation, climate change, road safety, pedestrian safety, rail reform, transport taxation, bus line retention, fare caps, speed limits, and infrastructure planning, as well as implementing a Company Car Tax. Social inclusion and quality of life are key principles underpinning their work, evidenced in their campaigns to support women and mothers, wheelchair users, economically disadvantaged populations, and inhabitants of rural areas.