Hora just pull your finger out and sign it, have a moan if you want but what have you got to lose? its hardly a great effort it probably took you longer to complain. No one says its the solution or there will be an overnight change but its a step in the right direction.
40k now
road.cc is covering the OAT stuff now too.
http://road.cc/content/news/82003-government-reportedly-set-create-new-office-active-travel-budget-%C2%A31-billion
Potentially a good thing, especially with Boardman involved. I'm always impressed by how much sense that man talks.
If you haven't already then [b]SIGN[/b]:
> http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/49196 <
@hora, all true, I couldn't agree more HOWEVER it is a step in the right direction.
Absolutely. It's not just about the immediate effects. Slowly it will help increase awareness and adjust attitudes. Rome wasn't built in a day, and all that. We're building a society for our kids, grandkids, nieces, nephews...
Get it signed.
We're building a society for our kids, grandkids, nieces, nephews...
[b]SIGN THE 'FESSION[/b]
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41,337 - still a LONG way to go.
A sign of things to come perhaps? [url= http://www.bikebiz.com/news/read/dutch-roundabouts-and-eye-level-signals-on-trial-in-uk/014743 ]Dutch roundabouts on trial.[/url]
signed it early on, but I believe a bump wouldn't hurt.
I believe a bump wouldn't hurt.
I agree.
Signed!
this needs some more impetus injecting - sign and share it
the signing rate has dropped and I cant see it reaching the 100,000 target at this rate
the signing rate has dropped and I cant see it reaching the 100,000 target at this rate
Yep, down to just 65 signatures in the last hour. That's pretty poor.
I suspect many more people [i]would[/i] support it, but either haven't heard about it or are disillusioned about the effectiveness of e-petitions in general. 🙁
Apathy is the enemy of democracy.
it just needs Chris Boardman (or similar) to talk to the press again. Wiggo maybe?
I suspect many existing cyclists have already adapted to the quirks of riding in the UK (crap infrastructure, drivers getting a slap on the wrists for killing entire Sunday club runs, etc) and think "why bother".
Meanwhile for many ordinary people cycling isn't even on their radar as a practical means of transport, and their bikes are destined to be carried to Centre Parcs on the roof of a car once a year.
I can't help but feel like the original focus of the Times campaign (which was all about "cyclists", those freakish lycra-clad annoyances) continues to haunt this.
Still. I'll be pimping it as much as possible. It's all you can do, innit...
I suspect many existing cyclists have already adapted to the quirks of riding in the UK
Yep - a topic that comes up repeatedly in cycle campaigning is existing cyclists saying they don't need lanes, facilities, segregated paths, etc etc
They miss the point. They are not the target audience. They have already adapted, and cycle in the UK [i]despite[/i] the crap facilities and hostile attitudes.
The target audience is the people that don't cycle, but might like to if the conditions were better and they perceived them as safer.
Good tactic for Facebook users: post a link to the petition then explicitly name any facebook friends who cycle in the comments.
Their names should auto-complete and go blue, like this:
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or like this on mobile:
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That way they get a notification that they have been mentioned in a comment and come check it out.
(bit cheap but hey, it gets more signatures!)
You'd think/hope everyone on this forum would sign it.
44K seems a bit low considering all the cyclists in the UK.
46,256 now.
[url= http://road.cc/content/news/82314-get-britain-cycling-petition-heads-towards-halfway-point-help-spread-word ]Front page story on road.cc again today[/url].
Still no official coverage on Singletrack.
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yes the rate of signing has picked up a bit again now 🙂
Good to see BC and the Times getting behind it...
[url= http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/public/cyclesafety/article3754509.ece ]Times article with BC video.[/url]
Aye, it was Kaya Burgess from The Times that started this petition in the first place.
You need to pop over there -----> to the 'chat forum', there are loads of cyclists chatting away that never visit the 'bike forum' 😉
Good point Bunnyhop, but I've already had [url= http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/psa-please-sign-the-get-britain-cycling-e-petition ]one duplicate thread[/url] closed down by [i]The Man[/i] so I'll leave that to someone else 😀
Sod it - [url= http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/psa-please-sign-the-get-britain-cycling-e-petition-1 ]cross-posted to Chat Forum[/url].
[i]*prepares for a banning*[/i]
48K now - not too bad
53,274 signatures. Still got a long way to go!
[i]Weekend Bump[/i] - Get It Signed!
Currently at 56,321
BUMP:-)
57,325
[b][UPDATE][/b]
So... the petition has reached 58,728 signatures and [url= http://road.cc/content/news/83485-government-issues-response-get-britain-cycling-e-petition ]the Department for Transport have issued their initial handwavey response[/url].
As expected it offers lots of platitudes, repeats announcements about existing cycling budgets, and details how they are already striving to ignore every single recommendation in the report and come up with their own instead.
If this is going to get any further then it MUST be debated properly in open parliament where the DfT can't just sweep it under the carpet.
So if you haven't signed already...
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[b][url= http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/49196 ]SIGN NOW!!![/url][/b]
http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/49196
Wot GrahamS said
If not for me, then for Jon Snow:
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Done and Facebooked.
