About Transport 1650

Transport 1650 is a totally independent national organisation, funded by several public transport operators, founded to campaign for sustainable and integrated transport. We believe that personal transport is the spawn of the devil and is the cause of all the problems in today's society. Our vision is of a world where there is a train station outside everybody's front door, and water-powered buses carry all the happy, smiling people to somewhere that they don't really want to go.

Transport 1650 is named after the 1650's, a decade in which Oliver Cromwell came to power in England. He banned Christmas because he felt that it was allowing the people to have too much fun, and when Parliament did not agree with his thinking, he abolished it and ran the country himself. Here at Transport 1650, we have high regard for Cromwell's achievements and strive to emulate his thinking.