Harry Burr
Harry Burr is a 15 year-old sustainable transport promoter/campaigner. He’s currently Chief Executive at Sustainable Transport Midlands, as well as Young Persons Ambassador at Rail Forum Midlands, a transport industry body. Harry is also a Director at STM.
Harry grew up in Canterbury, South East, before moving to Northampton, East Midlands, where he now calls home. He has ambitions in the future to move back to the South East.
Harry writes in his local village newsletter on a frequent basis, initially to share his experience of living in a canal boat in Northampton Borough, but more recently, he writes to keep the community up-to-date on STM’s projects in West Northamptonshire.
This person IS a member of the Sustainable Transport Midlands Board of Directors.
Northampton’s regional predicament
Northampton is in, let’s say, an awkward location. Most people will classify it as in the East Midlands, and they’d be right. According to the Office for National Statistics, West and North Northamptonshire are in the East Midlands region. But
High Speed One: The success of domestic high speed
As some of you may know, I used to live in Canterbury, which is home to two stations. Canterbury East, for services southbound to Dover Priory and northbound to Faversham and London Victoria,
A trip around the West Midlands: Is there enough investment?
In July, I took a trip around the West Midlands county, where Transport for West Midlands, a public body “responsible for coordinating transport services in the West Midlands metropolitan county” operates. There’s been a high level of investment in the