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I wanted to share this, having completed a letter to Cycling UK adding my support. Feel free to do the same..
https://www.cyclinguk.org/cyclesafety
SnG
https://www.cyclinguk.org/cyclesafety
SnG
Phone book.They want my name address and e-mail, S*d that fer a game of soldiers
Ex-Directory and 'number withheld' when I ring out on my landline.Phone book.
Well, I did mean use the phonebook to pick a name & address.Ex-Directory and 'number withheld' when I ring out on my landline.
I'm also very careful about not bandying my name about on t'internet to all and sundry (No facefark,tinder or twatter for me)
I don’t know if you fully read the piece and it’s detailed supporting pages, but one thing appears to be very intelligible, nd novel, in as much as it is a written goal. Indeed many threads here have often questioned much of what is within this review. Things like enforcement recognising severity of injury to cyclists, and changes to highways.This is the usual bland puff from Cycling UK. All worded very carefully so as not to upset their major funders (HM Government).
If CyclingUK wanted to reach a wider audience, don't you think it could at least acknowledge those who have already been saying this for some time? Maybe work with them? Or at least let sympathetic groups know that this was coming, so there could be some sort of coordinated/agreed push of similar messages, but CUK seems to do its own thing more and more and we only hear about it after it's too late to do much. Since sidelining the "club" bit, CUK seems to be heading off down a path towards wishy-washy good-looking-at-first-but-muddled-and-ineffective as BC national office has.Ok, I accept I may not be as widely read as you are, but bland regurgitation of popular desires, shouldn’t necessarily mean it’s a waste of time, surely?
And whilst those you mention may have been saying this for some time, I don’t care if CyclingUK is attempting to gain a wider audience for these things.... I read much, and have been involved a very little, in trying to change local cycling issues, and I applaud Cycling UK and all the other groups trying to raise these issues, and solutions, whichever methods might succeed.
It may be that the lack of success, could be overcome by CyclingUK reaching a wider audience, and it was this that I chose to consider my OP.