ComedyPilot
Secret Lemonade Drinker
- Location
- The Kingdom of Yorkshire
Folks, this is a thread whereby I would like to ask for the whole of CC membership to support a petition on No. 10 Downing Street. The petition will be to ask that the government act to reduce the number of cycling fatalities on our roads.
It has become too often an occurance that a cyclist is killed and a motorist hides behind the excuse, "I didn't see him/her". Also, too often in these cases a driver flees the scene and fails to stop; an abhorent action which surely makes the incident aggravated?
This is then made worse by the media allowing people to enter into degenerative dialogues on newspaper comment pages, where instead of constructively discussing the incidents, it spirals into a farcical tirade about road tax and red light jumping.
I am led to believe that a petition with 100,000 signatures will be deemed worthy to be debated in the commons.
So there it is.
I would like you all to gather behind this issue, lend your support to a petition that must surely resonate with you all, and then gather further support through friends, family, work colleagues and other cycling forums, twitter, facebook etc.
I will pledge that if this is a successful petition, then I will gladly ride with a CC delegation carrying the petition to No. 10 Downing Street.
I need a little help to structure the petition, so it is succinct, yet covers the vital points of safety, justice, driver and cyclist responsibility and future casualty reduction. So if anyone can help and is willing to hop on board then feel free to post here.
As well as seasoned vets of the forum, I especially welcome any newcomers to chip in; your voice is just as important.
I need people to gather road traffic casualty data, cycling use data, and any available information to help create an impactive and action-inducing petition that will hopefully ensure the sad (and needless) loss of peoples' lives need not be in vain.
Kind regards
ComedyPilot
It has become too often an occurance that a cyclist is killed and a motorist hides behind the excuse, "I didn't see him/her". Also, too often in these cases a driver flees the scene and fails to stop; an abhorent action which surely makes the incident aggravated?
This is then made worse by the media allowing people to enter into degenerative dialogues on newspaper comment pages, where instead of constructively discussing the incidents, it spirals into a farcical tirade about road tax and red light jumping.
I am led to believe that a petition with 100,000 signatures will be deemed worthy to be debated in the commons.
So there it is.
I would like you all to gather behind this issue, lend your support to a petition that must surely resonate with you all, and then gather further support through friends, family, work colleagues and other cycling forums, twitter, facebook etc.
I will pledge that if this is a successful petition, then I will gladly ride with a CC delegation carrying the petition to No. 10 Downing Street.
I need a little help to structure the petition, so it is succinct, yet covers the vital points of safety, justice, driver and cyclist responsibility and future casualty reduction. So if anyone can help and is willing to hop on board then feel free to post here.
As well as seasoned vets of the forum, I especially welcome any newcomers to chip in; your voice is just as important.
I need people to gather road traffic casualty data, cycling use data, and any available information to help create an impactive and action-inducing petition that will hopefully ensure the sad (and needless) loss of peoples' lives need not be in vain.
Kind regards
ComedyPilot
