The Petition for a No Stopping Zone on Beach Road Is up and Running! Michael Forbes
All,
As some of you would be aware, I have spoken at a couple of council meetings to try to assist with getting a no stopping zone on Beach Rd in the Bayside council area. Currently, attempts by many people have failed, but voting by councillors is currently split 3-3. In order to try to sway this, we need to convince 1 councillor to vote for the no stopping zone.
Please find attached the petition to be sent to Bayside Council relating to a request to implement a no stopping zone on Beach Road from 6am -10am Saturday and Sunday. This is where I need your help.
In as little as three weeks the council will be meeting again on this issue and I would like to present a petition with thousands of signatures to sway the councillors voting against the no stopping zone with the power of democracy. I am calling on you to assist in whatever way you can with your own contacts – particularly in Bayside council area - to get them to sign the petition or (better still) to download a copy of the petition, fill it out with valid signatures and send them back to me. The details of how to do this is on the website. As an example, take along the petition to the next group ride or coffee. If you head to your local bike shop, take a couple of copies, ask them to get signatures and send them back too.
Although cyclist users of Beach Rd are an important component, we need to work really hard to get Bayside residents (cyclists and otherwise) to support the idea that the no stopping zone will assist with traffic flow on Beach Rd, and with changes to beachside parking will have no impact to beachside and retail access.
For those of you with websites, please feel free to create a link to my website to allow others to read of the petition aims and download copies. Here is the link: http://www.michaelforbes.org/cycle-safety/
Cheers,
Mike.
View and print the petition here
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Posted: Tue, 20th April 2010
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