Dan Rogerson, MP for North Cornwall joins the campaign and becomes a member of the Action Group. Sandra Amy, Vice-Chair, receives Dan’s £5, watched over by Kim Roscoe, Press & Communications Officer.
Traffic queues back beyond the Bolventor / Jamaica Inn turn westbound on the A30.
29th June 2007.
Bodmin Heritage Day, 7th July 2007. From left to right the Arthur Ludgate (Secretary), Henry Kendall (Treasurer) and Mick Martin (Chairman) of the Temple to Bodmin A30 Action Group standing adjacent to the Group's stand.
They collected over 350 signatures from supporters of the campaign calling for dualling of the A30 from Temple to Bodmin ASAP. These will be added to those signatures already collected at the Royal Cornwall Show.
Action Group appear on TV! Opening of the Goss Moor By-Pass. The new dualled section of the Goss Moor by-pass was opened on Wednesday 11th July. Click here to see the BBC News Spotlight report - the Action Group demonstration is about 1 minute into the video. (Broadband users only !!)
18th July - Bodmin Moor Protestors Battle On - read the report in the Cornish Guardian here.
1st August 2007 - Letter to the Cornish Guardian from TBA30AG - read the letter in the Guardian here.
8th August - TBA30AG meets Shadow Minister for Cornwall - read the article in the Cornish Guardian here.
8th August - Rallying Call to support the Campaign - read the article in the Western Morning News here.
30th August 2007 - Fatal Accident.
Tragically a female driver from Bodmin was fatally injured on Thursday morning in the single carriageway section of the A30 close to Temple Fisheries.
Our thoughts and sympathy go out to her family and friends.
30th September 2007 - Petition signing at Morrisons, Bodmin.
In two hectic days (29th & 30th) supporters of the A30 Action Group collected over 1750 signatures for the Dual the A30 Now petition. The petition will be handed to the Secretary of State at a meeting later in the year.
14th April 2008 - Traffic Jams: 5m Wasted Hours. Drivers on Westcountry roads wasted
almost five million hours stuck in jams last year, sparking fears congestion could
hit the region's economy.
Read the article from the Western Morning News here
20th June 2008 - A30 Group to canvas business community. The campaign group battling for improvements to the A30 at Temple is to canvas Cornwall's business community on how the trunk road presently impacts on commerce in the county.
Read the article from the Cornish Guardian here
December 2008 - Chairman’s Update
The Committee have been extremely busy again on behalf of the ongoing campaign.
Read the full report here.
January 2009 - No Cornish Voice on Transport Body - WMN - Fears are mounting that
the far South West will lose out on vital government investment ....
Read the full report here
23rd January 2008 - A30 Action Group's Anger at Strategy Plan Snub. The action group
campaigning to get the final stretch of the A30 dualled between Temple and Higher
Carblake says it is disappointed to learn that a recently published report from the
Government of the South West (GOSW) makes no reference to the bottleneck.
Read the article from the Cornish Guardian here
February 2009 - Road Improvement Scheme is back - CG -The campaign to force the Government
to prioritise a vital road improvement scheme along Cornwall's main trunk road is
back on track after an 11th-hour reprieve.
Read the full report here.
February 2009 - Regional Minister Pressured for Answers - CG - Pressure has been
put on Government minister Ben Bradshaw to investigate why improvements to Cornwall's
main trunk road are likely to be delayed for a further 10 years.
Read the full report here.
