Showing posts with label petition. Show all posts
Showing posts with label petition. Show all posts

8 Apr 2011

Petition to HCC on Safe Cycle Routes/Paths to Schools

Thanks to those 36 STACC members who responded to my email circular of 5th April @23:28.
This brought the total of responses to 270 by the close of the petition on 7th April.
If I had not delayed and circulated the the details when I was first asked to do so, many more of the 200 households circulated would have had time to respond.

Reminder - the petition text & results are to be found [HERE]

Future petitions of this type will be posted in this Blog, rather than being emailed, so you need to visit the Blog at (say) weekly intervals in order to keep yourself up to date.

16 May 2007

Highway code revision threatens your safety- ACT NOW!

Last year the highway code came up for review. Some of the wording changes will put cyclists in increased danger, and cyclists need to act now to have their voice heard.

If you don't want (presumably) well-intentioned but badly framed legislation to force you to use substandard cycle lanes then join the 13,000 cyclists who have already objected by signing the online petition here. It only takes a moment and shows the level of cyclists' opposition to these changes.

Once you've done that, please spend a few minutes writing to Anne Main, asking her to support Early Day Motion 1433 "That the alterations in the provisions of the Highway Code proposed to be made by the Secretary of State for Transport, dated 28th March 2007, a copy of which was laid before this House on 28th March, be not made.". Please also Mrs Main to talk to her colleagues in the Lords who can 'pray against' the rewording, since the most effective challenge is likely to take place in the Lords.

There's more information on the CCN site here, including a sample letter. If you have time, please write in your own words, since personal comments are more effective than just sending 'yet another form letter'. This site allows you to send a message direct to Anne Main without a stamp- from experience you should have some sort of reply within 48 hours.