25k - shameless BUMP!
26,350
More than a quarter of the way there, but the sign up rate is now only 845 an hour.
Get as many folk involved as you can.
Done and 'liked' and shared and tweeted...
27266
Word spread as well
29K - and creeping up the first page of petitions:-)
Signed.
Can this not be a sticky? I'm a little disappointed its not on the news page really. Many mountain bikers cycle to the trails 🙂
30k and another cheeky bump
done
Done and bumped
Just had a look at the e-petion home page. A lot of people are keen on Badgers.
Personally, I'm more partial to a bit of beaver
I'll set 'em up. You knock 'em down.
Morning bump.
ooh, we should overtake the Save Mallory Park Race Circuit and David Cameron and George Osbourne should Resign campaigns soon 😀
done
David Cameron and George Osbourne should Resign campaigns
Whoo there. Not sure we want to be overtaking that one.
[quote=fozzyuk ]Can this not be a sticky? I'm a little disappointed its not on the news page really. Many mountain bikers cycle to the trails I guess if it's not a sticky it'll only remain on page 1 if folk keep posting to it....
[img] 
[/img]
"It's called a bicycle, Prime Minister"
"Oooh, like poor people use?"
[url= http://www.bikebiz.com/news/read/prime-minister-visits-hope-technology/014730 ]Prime Minister visits Hope Tech in a vague attempt to appear interested in cycling[/url]
Signed.
Signed by the entire household so five closer!
Number of signatures:
33,005
Signed by the entire household so five closer!
Good work - I've been trying to persuade the cat but he remains indifferent.
Get the cat an email address and away you go! 😉
I think you'll find that the PM used to cycle to work.
Signed.
I think you'll find that the PM used to cycle to work.
Yessss.... with a car full of armed secret service following him of course. Not exactly a true taste of the challenges faced by normal cyclists I suspect.
[img] 
[/img]
[img] 
?w=450&h=417[/img]
Leading the way in edgy cycling chic there Dave. 😆
Is he wearing a skirt in the top picture?
signed
Yep - he's wearing his wife's old skirt in the top one, and her old helmet in the bottom one.
[url= http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/gtr-manchester-riderscommuters-velocity-back-the-bid ]Psst[/url]
Interesting story in Evening Standard about [url= http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/police-stop-and-search-lorries-to-cut-london-cycle-deaths-8589770.html ]Police Stopping and Inspecting HGVs to protect cyclists[/url]
According to one guy in the comments:
Inspector Aspinall told the meeting about a day of City of London spot checks on HGVs, carried out on 30 September 2008 as part of the Europe-wide Operation Mermaid, which is intended to step up levels of enforcement of road safety laws in relation to lorries.On this one day, 12 lorries were stopped randomly by City Police. Five of those lorries were involved in the construction work for the 2012 Olympics. All of the twelve lorries were breaking the law in at least one way.
[b]Repeat: a 100 per cent criminality rate among small random sample of HGVs on the streets of central London.[/b]
The offences range included overweight loads (2 cases), mechanical breaches (5 cases), driver hours breaches (5 cases), mobile phone use while driving (2 cases), driving without insurance (2 cases) and no operator license (1 case).
😯
That's me done. If you haven't I hope you have some well formed arguments why not.
Can this not be a sticky? I'm a little disappointed its not on the news page really. Many mountain bikers cycle to the trails
+1 every other website with anything to do with cycling is promoting this with articles and links.
Y U No Help Cyclists Singletrack?
Signed 🙂
There's more hits on the forum than the webpage I imagine.
Can I sign it despite no longer being resident in the UK?
I'll forward it to my mum (she now rides M&S since I bought her a bike 16 months back). She'll sign it and get her sisters to do the same...
Another cheeky bump
bump
This looks interesting: [url= http://www.bikebiz.com/news/read/gov-t-to-create-office-for-active-travel-to-get-brits-out-of-cars/014736 ]Office for Active Travel[/url]
Weekend Bump
That stuff about OAT is a good spot too - interesting
Sign it?
What?
People will still park on the cycle lanes, cycle lanes will be put in squashed/shared spaces. Etc. Its money for contractors.
How do you stop women who overtake you by sharing the same lane and stressed out males who think your an easy target?
More painted cycling lanes and an overpayed for TV/print campaign to follow. Even in France you get a dicks attitude to cycling (Paris etc).
On a country road yesterday I was overtaken at 70+ within a metre of my right arm. ****er-gesture, he makes to stop but decides safer for him not to.
Would this latest iniative have put him in jail for life if he had hit me?
Doubt it.
Thats the iniatitive that you need. The thing that will get people cycling. Massive punishments. The fear of new draconian punishments. Then you could have a cycle lane on a motorway and people would fearfully carefully drive round you.
Not the current range of actual punishments handed out.
@hora, all true, I couldn't agree more HOWEVER it is a step in the right direction.
Hopefully it will gather momentum and become something unstoppable which WILL change the current motorists-rule climate.
Have you actually read the recommendations hora?
(See the infographic 2 pages back for a good summary)
They go beyond just "money for contractors".
20 zones, less HGVs, updated traffic regs, proper national cycling targets.. All good.
They also mention stricter enforcement and greater punishment for drivers endangering cyclists - which seems to be exactly what you are asking for.
But yeah - probably best not to sign it eh?
You wouldn't want political types thinking any of this was a good idea or had our support.
signed
