Am loving the simple effectiveness of the new special Profile Pic Icame Isawi Steve has created for our Stop Killing Cyclists Die-In and Funeral Protest. This is the text I added to mine to explain the image: November 15th Die-In!! The Stop the Killing coalition in partnership with Stop Killing Cyclists is organising a major protest on November 15th, 2014 in London. It is called The National Funeral of the Unknown Victim of Traffic Violence.goo.gl/QBm9Wc It will follow a symbolic hearse from Bedford Square, London WC1 (meeting 12 noon) down Londons Oxford Street and stage the UK’s largest ever Die-In under Marble Arch. Our traffic culture is truly damaging to our health. Over 2 million people have been killed or injured in UK traffic-collisions over the last 10 years. 30,000 more are dying from lung and heart diseases caused by traffic pollution every year. Child Alert says that a child is killed or seriously injured every ten minutes on our roads. A Lancet study states that traffic pollution stunts lung development in young children. One in five primary school kids are clinically obese, often due to fear of cycling to school due to no cycle-lanes. The protest’s list of 10 Demands are below. They are also on stopthekilling.org.uk They include home-zones to make streets safer for children, longer pedestrian-crossing timings, lower residential speed-limits, elimination of pollution and a national cycling network fit for 8 year olds to 80 year olds and parents with babies. Sign-up on the event Facebook page National Funeral for the Unknown Victim of Traffic Violence. To add your local group to those supporting the event, email [email protected] This protest is a clarion call to end traffic’s carnage and environmental destruction and make our roads fit for humans. National Funeral for the Unknown Victims of Traffic Violence Our Ten Demandments 1. Stop the Killing of Children – set up national multi-billion pound programme to convert residential communities across Britain into living-street Home Zones to abolish dangerous rat-runs. 2. Stop the Killing of Pedestrians – establish a national programme to fund pedestrianisation of our city and town centres, including the nation’s high-street – Oxford Street. 3. Stop the Killing of Pensioners from excessive speed. Introduce and enforce speed limit of 20 mph on all urban roads, 40 mph on rural roads/lanes and 60 mph on all other trunk roads. 4. Stop the Killing of Cyclists. Invest £15 billion in a National Segregated Cycle Network over the next 5 years. 5. Stop the Killing without liability – introduce a presumed civil liability law on behalf of vehicular traffic when they kill or seriously injure vulnerable road-users, where there is no evidence blaming the victim. 6. Stop the Killing by HGVs. Ban trucks with blind spots by making safety equipment mandatory and strictly enforce current truck-safety regulations, to reduce levels of illegally dangerous trucks down from estimated 30% to less than 1%. 7. Stop the Killing from Lung, Heart and other Diseases caused by vehicular pollutants. Make it mandatory for particulate filters that meet latest EU emission standards to be fitted to all existing buses, lorries and taxis. 8. Stop the Killing at Junctions. Introduce pedestrian crossing times long enough for elderly disabled to cross. Legalise filtered junction crossings by cyclists with strict legal priority for pedestrians and carry out urgent programme of physically protected left-hand turns for cyclists. 9. Stop the Killing from CO2 emissions from impacts of the climate crisis. All transport fuels to be from environmentally-sustainable renewable sources within 10 years. 10. Focus on Life! Transport governance must make safety and quality of life the top priority. Reform all council transport departments, the Department of Transport and Transport for London into Cycling, Walking and Transport Departments with formal pedestrian and cyclist representation.
Posted on: Tue, 23 Sep 2014 06:02:11 +0000
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