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Stop the A38 Expansion

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We're a group of concerned local residents who have been taking our government to court since 2021 to stop the A38 Derby junctions road scheme. A38derbychaos.org

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Stop the A38 Expansion @stopa38expansion.bsky.social · 1h
We don't need bigger roads; we need transport infrastructure that works for people and planet. The alternatives to road expansion are available and pretty obvious. We included the suggestions of more than 200 supporters in our response to the DfT consultation.
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Stop the A38 Expansion @stopa38expansion.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Last week, we submitted our formal response to the Departmemt of Transport consultation on cancelling the A38 & A46 schemes. We’re publishing the full response because the evidence should speak for itself.
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Stop the A38 Expansion @stopa38expansion.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
The Department Of Transport is consulting on saving hundreds of millions of pounds by potentially cancelling the A38 scheme (as well as the A46 Newark Bypass).
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Transport Action Network @transportaction.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Help get the A38 Derby Junctions @stopa38expansion.bsky.social and A46 Newark Bypass scrapped for good! The Department for Transport is consulting on cuts to roads funding, and is proposing to scrap these two destructive schemes. Please support their cancellation actionnetwork.org/letters/lets...
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Let’s get damaging road schemes cancelled and save active travel!
The Department for Transport (DfT) is consulting on cutting its road investment strategy (RIS3), to fund defence. They are currently consulting a small number of stakeholders but we want to make sure ...
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Stop the A38 Expansion @stopa38expansion.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Pressure is building on Mayor Claire Ward and other representatives to put people and planet before short-term profit. 🧵
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Stop the A38 Expansion @stopa38expansion.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
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Stop the A38 Expansion @stopa38expansion.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
🧵 True or False?
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Stop the A38 Expansion @stopa38expansion.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
It's not over yet! Government may decide to axe the A38 scheme in favour of military spending but until the blade has officially fallen, the fight goes on. 🙏🏼 If you haven't yet sent a letter to decision-makers demanding for its cancellation please do so here: actionnetwork.org/letters/a38-...
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Stop the A38 Expansion @stopa38expansion.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Fixed it for you, Mayor Ward. A new study reports that there were 2,700 excess deaths due to extreme heat across May and June with scientists estimating that the climate crisis added between 3-4°C to maximum temperatures.
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Stop the A38 Expansion @stopa38expansion.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
The Department for Transport has confirmed the A38 Derby Junctions scheme faces potential cancellation, as the Government consults on reallocating roads funding toward national defence. 🧵
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Stop the A38 Expansion @stopa38expansion.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
The UK faces a growing climate and nature emergency, yet most people have never been fully briefed on what it means for our lives and future. A new film from the National Emergency Briefing explains the risks and the credible, positive responses available. 📍Derby QUAD
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Stop the A38 Expansion @stopa38expansion.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
The UK is facing another dangerous heatwave, yet the Government is still pushing ahead with the climate-wrecking A38 expansion. More emissions. More traffic. 11.8 hectares of mature trees lost. This is what climate failure looks like.
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Stop the A38 Expansion @stopa38expansion.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
🚦The A38 expansion is being sold as a solution to congestion but during the scheme's planning examination, Derby City Council identified significant increases in traffic on local roads as a direct consequence of the scheme.
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Stop the A38 Expansion @stopa38expansion.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Have you sent letters yet? The case for expansion is weak and now is the time to apply collective pressure! It takes less than 2 minutes and could make all the difference 🙏🏼 actionnetwork.org/letters/a38-...
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Stop the A38 Expansion @stopa38expansion.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
The A38 scheme's economic case is collapsing. Now is the time to apply pressure! It takes just 2 minutes to send a pre-written email to tell decision makers to use their common sense. The A38 scheme is a disaster waiting to happen. Cancel it NOW! l1nq.com/f1ddshm
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Stop the A38 Expansion @stopa38expansion.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
🚚🚛 A new report from the Union of Concerned Scientists warns that powerful highway, trucking, oil and roadbuilding lobby groups have spent decades pushing road expansion in the US while public transport was neglected.
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Simon Ferrigno @brexcyclopaedia.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
We drove - nay, crawled - past these t'other day, and my daughter asked why they were closed up. So I explained, it's to enable more road building instead of investment in public transport and city housing. We're leaving a terrible legacy
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Stop the A38 Expansion @stopa38expansion.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
🏚 The biggest reason the expanded A38 will eventually fill up is simple: it is being used to enable thousands of new car dependent homes in the wrong places.
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Stop the A38 Expansion @stopa38expansion.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
🚧 The A38 expansion reflects the same failed transport logic that reshaped much of the US into a deeply car dependent society.
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Stop the A38 Expansion @stopa38expansion.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
🚧 The A38 scheme is being sold as a fix for congestion, growth and safety but National Highways’ own evidence does not support it.
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Stop the A38 Expansion @stopa38expansion.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
🚨 Is this the future for the A38? Aerial images of the A47 works in Norfolk show the scale of destruction: trees and habitats lost, rising emissions, and years of disruption for residents.
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Stop the A38 Expansion @stopa38expansion.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
It’s not the first time the Derby Telegraph has misrepresented information or made incorrect claims about the A38 Expansion. 🚩 We’re setting the record straight on the latest "announcement." ⬇️ 1/5
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Simon Ferrigno @brexcyclopaedia.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
"The A38 is not a victim of vexatious legal challenges. It is a project repeatedly exposed for weak appraisal, unlawful approval and economic obsolescence, problems of the Government’s own making both under Conservatives and Labour."
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Stop the A38 Expansion @stopa38expansion.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
£600M A38 Derby Junctions “upgrade” hides spiralling costs, governance failures, authorities ignoring warnings and secrecy. No full business case, outdated scheme, collapsing BCR and hidden economic assessments. Read the full analysis: www.a38derbychaos.org/news/a38-der...
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A38 Derby Junctions Road Upgrade: £600M Contract and Market Engagement Overshadowed by Project Failures — Stop the A38 road expansion
National Highways has issued a £600M market engagement notice for the long-delayed A38 Derby Junctions scheme, offering a ten-year design and build contract. Despite this, the project faces major cost...
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Stop the A38 Expansion @stopa38expansion.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Have your say on transport in the East Midlands 🚍 Mayor’s Transport Plan consultation is open until 8 Feb 2026. A key chance to oppose destructive, wasteful road schemes and support public transport and active travel. 👉 Please complete the survey (10 mins): eu.surveymonkey.com/r/EMCCA-indi...
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The Mayor's Transport Plan - Feedback Questionnaire: Individual
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Simon Ferrigno @brexcyclopaedia.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Still time to respond to the East Midland Mayor's transport consultation and ask for public transport not more roads eu.surveymonkey.com/r/EMCCA-indi...
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The Mayor's Transport Plan - Feedback Questionnaire: Individual
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The Ecologist @theecologist.org · 01/12/2025
'This is no longer a risk, it is an emergency,' explain climate experts to more than a thousand British MPs and civil society leaders. theecologist.org/2025/dec/01/...
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'If we take action, we might survive'
'This is no longer a risk, it is an emergency,' explain climate experts to more than a thousand British MPs and civil society leaders.
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Stop the A38 Expansion @stopa38expansion.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Before/after visual of the A38 expansion at Kingsway roundabout. It would fell thousands of trees, cut into Mackworth Park, damage Bramble Brook, destroy a local wildlife site, and worsen noise, light & air pollution. More: www.a38derbychaos.org
A pair of aerial maps labelled “Before” and “After” showing the impacts of expanding the A38 at Kingsway Junction. The before image shows dense woodland, Bramble Brook, Mackworth Park and a Local Wildlife Site. The after image shows large brown areas of vegetation clearance, a widened road layout, land removed from the park, damage to Bramble Brook, loss of the wildlife site, access road closures, thousands of trees felled, and increased pollution risks.
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Stop the A38 Expansion @stopa38expansion.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Over 5,450 letters sent demanding Govt stop throwing £100s of millions at destructive road schemes & invest in rail electrification instead. ✅ Cleaner & less harmful ✅ Improves train services ✅ Shifts freight off roads ✅ More jobs than roadbuilding Write today: actionnetwork.org/letters/take...
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Take Action: Write to Politicians – Demand Rail Investment, Scrap the A38 Expansion
The Government’s recent spending review paused Phase 3 of the Midland Mainline electrification—despite clear evidence it would deliver nearly £400 million in local economic benefit, create 5,000 skill...
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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Almost 46C in Cadiz Only a matter of time before 50C mark is smashed for the first time in Europe And the heat won't stop there.... www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
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Wildfires rage in Spain and Portugal amid searing heat
Extreme temperatures exacerbated by carbon pollution fuel fires in southern Europe as green policies are rolled back
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Stop the A38 Expansion @stopa38expansion.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
At 23:50 in this transport podcast, our campaign is mentioned: calling for the electrification of the Midlands Mainline to be funded by scrapping the now £646 million+ A38 expansion. Take action now using our letter tool: actionnetwork.org/letters/take...
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Take Action: Write to Politicians – Demand Rail Investment, Scrap the A38 Expansion
The Government’s recent spending review paused Phase 3 of the Midland Mainline electrification—despite clear evidence it would deliver nearly £400 million in local economic benefit, create 5,000 skill...
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Calling all Stations - The Transport Podcast @callingallstations.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
The next episode of CaS is about to arrive! In S3E19 our hosts @christianwolmar.bsky.social and @markwalker59.bsky.social discuss #TheGreatestGathering and Mark’s trip on #TheBelmondBritishPullman, plus Christian interviews Darren Caplan of RIA Catch it here: markwalkerg.podbean.com
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Calling All Stations - The Transport Podcast | Christian Wolmar & Cogitamus Ltd
Christian Wolmar, Mark Walker and guests keep you up to date with the most engaging news stories, policy developments and interviews from across the world of transport. You can find more from Christi...
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Transport Action Network @transportaction.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
You can read about National Highways' KPIs including on road safety in our latest post transportactionnetwork.org.uk/national-hig...
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National Highways not being held to account
There was a flurry of publications just before Parliament broke up in July, three of which directly related to National Highways. These reports are quite revealing about what National Highways has and...
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Transport Action Network @transportaction.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Strange that there is nothing in the ORR's blog post about how National Highways failed to achieve one third of its key performance indicators (KPI) over the RIS2 period, and is likely to fail on its road safety KPI when the figures are published next year www.orr.gov.uk/search-news/...
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A decade working for better highways | Office of Rail and Road
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Simon Ferrigno @brexcyclopaedia.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Imagine this invested in buses and public transport. Look around you and imagine every 30 cars was a bus, and imagine how quick your journey would be...
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Jeremy Bartlett @jeremybartlett.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
"This is the definition of bad governance: approving a project you know is outdated, overpriced, pointless and destructive, just because it’s already in the pipeline".
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Stop the A38 Expansion @stopa38expansion.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
The A38 Derby Junctions road scheme is now set to cost £646 million – above the £500m threshold that saw the A1 dualling scrapped. Authorities refused to reveal the true costs before approval. Read more www.a38derbychaos.org/news/a38-der...
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A38 Derby Junctions costs leap up to over £646m — Stop the A38 road expansion
Stop the A38 Expansion campaign has discovered the cost of the A38 Derby Junctions scheme has leapt up 200% to over £646 million, a staggering rise from the £200 - £250 million forecast in 2019. They ...
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Transport Action Network @transportaction.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Fantastic to see Sam Carling MP pushing for average speed cameras and better infrastructure for cyclists to improve road safety. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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MP sets up A47 group after dualling near Peterborough is axed
Sam Carling says the group will push for improved safety measures on the road near Peterborough.
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Transport Action Network @transportaction.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Is the Office for Rail and Road (ORR) the right regulator to hold National Highways to account and to ensure public money is well spent delivering across all government priorities? transportactionnetwork.org.uk/national-hig...
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National Highways not being held to account
There was a flurry of publications just before Parliament broke up in July, three of which directly related to National Highways. These reports are quite revealing about what National Highways has and...
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Transport Action Network @transportaction.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
National Highways was on course to fail to meet its target of no net loss on biodiversity. Somehow it has turned that around... --> How reliable are these figures? --> Can we can trust the ORR to really be on top of this? transportactionnetwork.org.uk/national-hig...
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National Highways not being held to account
There was a flurry of publications just before Parliament broke up in July, three of which directly related to National Highways. These reports are quite revealing about what National Highways has and...
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Carlton Reid @carltonreid.com · 06/08/2025
“If drivers had to pay the full and true costs of motoring the only people who could afford to drive would be multi-millionaires.” My letter about the hidden costs of motoring is in the latest @privateeyenews.bsky.social
Spinning your wheels
Sir,
R.L. Vickers ("Freight of history", Letters, Eye 1654) asserts that "public transport eats taxes, private transport provides tax revenues.”

In fact, the hidden costs of motoring's many downsides far outweigh the tax receipts. These socialised costs - gridlock, air and noise pollution, emergency services costs, road damage, public health impacts from sedentary lifestyles and deaths from road crashes - are met only partially by motorists.
Motoring taxation raises about £40bn per year, while a recent report from the Royal College of Physicians estimates that the annual cost of air pollution alone is as much as £50bn.

If drivers had to pay the full and true costs of motoring the only people who could afford to drive would be multi-millionaires.

CARLTON REID,
Motoring journalist and author of "Roads Were Not Built for Cars", Newcastle on Tyne.
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Gregory Norminton @gregorynorminton.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
It would be a good investment to act on climate even if it were financially burdensome. Given that doing so can deliver $21 for every $1 invested, it is pure folly not to press ahead. Unless you're a petrostate or a fossil fuel company. In which case, populist politicians are your last bastion.
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'Disclosure dividend': Study shows how acting on climate data can deliver up to $21 for every $1 invested
New CDP report details how companies that accurately report on their carbon emissions can unlock significant financial benefits
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Stop the A38 Expansion @stopa38expansion.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Write today to demand funds from polluting road schemes like the A38 are diverted to electrifying the midlands mainline: actionnetwork.org/letters/take... www.newcivilengineer.com/latest/campa...
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Campaign demands A38 Derby scheme funds be redirected to Midland Main Line electrification | New Civil Engineer
The MML runs from St. Pancras to Sheffield, servicing many cities in the Midlands. Its electrification has been ongoing for some years, having started at
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Simon Ferrigno @brexcyclopaedia.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
4 and X38 - and the fewer services there are, the fewer people will use them - just like the more roads you build the more cars congest them. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Derby: Two Sunday bus services axed over passenger numbers
Two services will cease at the end of August as part of a revision of timetables by Arriva.
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Transport Action Network @transportaction.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
So true, and yet here we are :( It's great to hear @stopa38expansion.bsky.social enjoyed lots of supportive conversations when handing out leaflets in Derby on Friday and Saturday.
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Steve Chambers @planningtransport.co.uk · 04/08/2025
We shouldn't need to campaign to have an electric railway in 2025.
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Simon Ferrigno @brexcyclopaedia.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Keep the pressure on. Rail, and better local buses. It's crazy two Sunday bus routes are being cancelled in Derby
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Stop the A38 Expansion @stopa38expansion.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Outside of Alstom's railway event, we handed out hundreds of leaflets. Many people want to see money spent on clean, reliable rail not destructive, polluting road schemes like the A38 expansion. Let’s keep up the momentum, write to key decision makers now: actionnetwork.org/letters/take...
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Simon Ferrigno @brexcyclopaedia.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Derby folks - unless you want more road congestion and disruption
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Stop the A38 Expansion @stopa38expansion.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Join our demo! 🚆 Protest for Rail, Not Roads – Stop the A38 Expansion 🚧 📍 Location: Litchurch Lane, Derby (on the pavement) 🕘 Friday 1 August, 9:30am – 11:00am 🕙 Saturday 2 August, 10:00am – 11:30am 📍 Map link: maps.app.goo.gl/6dbuhQ2RBZH1...
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