Friends, cyclists, campaigners lend us your Timelines!! We need your help to spread the word about the mega grassroots protest against traffic violence and for safer communities that Stop Killing Cyclists and Stop The Killing are organising in November. We would love if you could donate space on your Facebook Timeline to promote the event. To make it easy here is a suggested posting that you can copy and paste (and tweak as much as you personally like!): “Dear Friends – PLEASE share this Protest Notice Announcement. It is about something I am really passionate about. It is about improving the lives of everybody in Britain. A group of committed grassroots campaigners are organising a mega-protest in November calling for an end to traffic-violence on November 15th, 2014. It is called The National Funeral For the Unknown Victim of Traffic Violence. A Hearse will be taken down Oxford Street London and ending with a mass Die-In and Rally at Marble Arch to symbolically mark all those who have lost their lives, or had them destroyed on Britain’s roads from: • Traffic Violence • Air-pollution • Obesity, through fear of walking or cycling • Worldwide effects of climate change. Did you know that the staggering number of deaths and injuries resulting from motorised traffic over the last decade stands at 2,400,000 people. This horrifically equates to the combined populations of Birmingham, Glasgow, Manchester and Cardiff! This National Funeral of the Unknown Victim of Traffic Violence is a clarion call to people across the UK to unite to bring this carnage and environmental destruction to an urgent end. Everybody concerned with pedestrian and cyclist safety, reducing deaths from lung diseases due to traffic pollution, tackling carbon emissions or who simply want a safer world for children to play in are really welcome. Check out the protests 10 Demands below to see its purpose. Please take just one minute to watch the protest announcement video on You Tube and don’t forget to like and share it. youtube/watch?v=V9wyo0ZsIJI Then please take ten seconds to say you are going on their Facebook Event page: https://facebook/events/620158668053003/?fref=ts The 10 Demands The National Funeral for the Unknown Victim of Traffic Violence protest’s 10 Demands are: 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 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%. 6. 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. 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 Climate Crisis caused by CO2 emissions – 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. Please share on Twitter also: #NationalFuneral #StopKillingCyclists # StopTheKilling Many thanks for your help – it means a lot to me and to all our futures”
Posted on: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 08:40:02 +0000
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