"JENNY JONES TO ATTEND 9 JANUARY "BIKES ALIVE" DEMONSTRATION"

Hmm! Support seems to be growing and I like the anti-car aspect of
this and the agenda is much less diffuse than with Critical Mass and
includes pedestrians and those with disabilities.

"Jenny Jones, Green Party leader at the Greater London Authority, has
announced that she is joining a cyclists' direct action event at Kings
Cross on Monday. The event, initiated by cycling campaign group Bikes
Alive, is to demand a change in the balance of power on London's roads
and an end to the official policy of giving priority to the speed and
volume of motor vehicles above the safety and sanity of everyone else.

Jenny Jones said, "London’s roads must be fixed urgently if we are to
make them safe for cyclists and all other road users. This is the
Mayor’s responsibility, and I hope that if we make a statement through
peaceful, direct action he will start to listen."

Bikes Alive has called for cyclists and pedestrians to take active
steps to calm the traffic outside Kings Cross station from 6pm to 7pm
on Monday, if possible by closing the road to motor vehicles
completely.

DISABILITY CAMPAIGNERS' SUPPORT

The priority given to motor traffic affects pedestrians, as well as
cyclists, and Bikes Alive demands changes which would improve the
safety of all slow-moving and vulnerable road users, including the re-
timing of traffic lights at junctions and crossings to allow much
longer periods between successive green-for-traffic phases.

Lianna Etkind of Transport for All (which campaigns for safe and
accessible means of travel for everyone, irrespective of their
abilities or disabilities) has also spoken out in support of the
demonstration, and will be present with other Transport for All
activists. She said, "The Mayor's insidious talk of 'smoothing traffic
flow' covers an agenda of prioritising impatient motorists over the
safety of pedestrians. Disabled and older people's safety and
independence is being put at risk by shortsighted streetscene
policies, particularly the removal of crossings."

"BRING YOUR DANCING SHOES..."

Bikes Alive was set up in reaction to the almost hysterical support,
in many circles, for the divine right of motorists to delay, poison
and terrorise cyclists and other non-motorised road users.

Albert Beale, speaking on behalf of Bikes Alive, said today, "Monday's
event is the first step in a campaign to stop - by whatever nonviolent
means needed - the completely unnecessary level of deaths, injuries
and fear inflicted by motorists on the more vulnerable. I urge
cyclists to join us on Monday. And if you don't have a bike, bring
your dancing shoes..."


ENDS


Notes:

1) Media enquiries about this will be dealt with by Albert Beale, on
020-7278 4474.

2) For more details of this initiative, see bikesalive.wordpress.com

3) For the previous Bikes Alive press release on this topic, see
bikesalive.wordpress.com/press-releases "

On 07/01/2012 07:02, Doug wrote:
Hmm! Support seems to be growing and I like the anti-car aspect of
this and the agenda is much less diffuse than with Critical Mass and
includes pedestrians and those with disabilities.

"Jenny Jones, Green Party leader at the Greater London Authority, has
announced that she is joining a cyclists' direct action event at Kings
Cross on Monday.

And the public will think "its that silly cow again, now she's involved
with the lycra clad weirdo's".



--
Dave - Cyclists VOR. "Many people barely recognise the bicycle as a
legitimate mode of transport; it is either a toy for children or a
vehicle fit only for the poor and/or strange," Dave Horton - Lancaster
University

On Fri, 6 Jan 2012 23:02:02 -0800 (PST), Doug
wrote:

"Jenny Jones, Green Party leader at the Greater London Authority, has
announced that she is joining a cyclists' direct action event

For heavens sake Doug - she is the token green - she objects to
everything and joins anything which generates publicity (as long as it
isn't nuclear or practical).

On Jan 7, 9:28*pm, Peter Parry wrote:
On Fri, 6 Jan 2012 23:02:02 -0800 (PST), Doug
wrote:

"Jenny Jones, Green Party leader at the Greater London Authority, has
announced that she is joining a cyclists' direct action event

For heavens sake Doug - she is the token green - she objects to
everything and joins anything which generates publicity (as long as it
isn't nuclear or practical).

Nevertheless she has a voice at City Hall and on the mainstream media.
If Bikes Alive is to grow into something it will need all the help it
can get. I'm surprised she is supporting a direct action though.

-- .
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http://www.zing.icom43.net
A driving licence is a licence to kill.

On 08/01/2012 07:00, Doug wrote:

Peter wrote:
wrote:

"Jenny Jones, Green Party leader at the Greater London Authority, has
announced that she is joining a cyclists' direct action event

For heavens sake Doug - she is the token green - she objects to
everything and joins anything which generates publicity (as long as it
isn't nuclear or practical).

Nevertheless she has a voice at City Hall and on the mainstream media.
If Bikes Alive is to grow into something it will need all the help it
can get. I'm surprised she is supporting a direct action though.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5f2RMc4e5s

On Sun, 08 Jan 2012 12:28:05 +0000, JNugent wrote:

On 08/01/2012 07:00, Doug wrote:

Peter wrote:
wrote:

"Jenny Jones, Green Party leader at the Greater London Authority, has
announced that she is joining a cyclists' direct action event

For heavens sake Doug - she is the token green - she objects to
everything and joins anything which generates publicity (as long as it
isn't nuclear or practical).

Nevertheless she has a voice at City Hall and on the mainstream media.
If Bikes Alive is to grow into something it will need all the help it
can get. I'm surprised she is supporting a direct action though.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5f2RMc4e5s


Stick with it.

Excellent.

On 08/01/2012 12:28, JNugent wrote:
On 08/01/2012 07:00, Doug wrote:

Peter wrote:
wrote:

"Jenny Jones, Green Party leader at the Greater London Authority, has
announced that she is joining a cyclists' direct action event

For heavens sake Doug - she is the token green - she objects to
everything and joins anything which generates publicity (as long as it
isn't nuclear or practical).

Nevertheless she has a voice at City Hall and on the mainstream media.
If Bikes Alive is to grow into something it will need all the help it
can get. I'm surprised she is supporting a direct action though.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5f2RMc4e5s

I nearly wet myself.....

ROFLMAO

--
Dave - Cyclists VOR. "Many people barely recognise the bicycle as a
legitimate mode of transport; it is either a toy for children or a
vehicle fit only for the poor and/or strange," Dave Horton - Lancaster
University

On Sun, 08 Jan 2012 16:00:55 +0000, Dave - Cyclists VOR
wrote:

I nearly wet myself.....

Have you tried incontinence pants?

On Sun, 08 Jan 2012 16:19:12 +0000, Tom Crispin wrote:

On Sun, 08 Jan 2012 16:00:55 +0000, Dave - Cyclists VOR
wrote:

I nearly wet myself.....

Have you tried incontinence pants?



Have you looked up the word "nearly"?

On 08/01/2012 16:19, Bertie Wooster wrote:
On Sun, 08 Jan 2012 16:00:55 +0000, Dave - Cyclists VOR
wrote:

I nearly wet myself.....

Have you tried incontinence pants?

I wear them whenever cyclists try to deny helmet wearing, or whenever I
read posts from ****wits like you & Mason.

Its just so funny....

--
Dave - Cyclists VOR. "Many people barely recognise the bicycle as a
legitimate mode of transport; it is either a toy for children or a
vehicle fit only for the poor and/or strange," Dave Horton - Lancaster
University