Air pollution, Company Greed & Cycle Deaths: Protests in London on Thursday twelfth October 2017.
Roadblocks in opposition to Air Air pollution – Trafalgar Sq.
On the day the the London Meeting have been discussing the issue of air air pollution in London, marketing campaign group ‘Cease Killing Londoners’ carried out a collection of brief protests holding up site visitors in London to attract consideration to the issue. They’d begun the day by a briefly blocking Tower Bridge, near Metropolis Corridor, within the morning rush hour, too early for me to simply cowl. Many had criticised the group for these protests which maintain up site visitors, but it surely proved efficient for getting some media protection for the difficulty, when nearly all protests go unreported.
Their message was easy. The early deaths annually of virtually 10,000 Londoners on account of air air pollution is a well being emergency and the politicians have to prioritise the lives of Londoners over the particular pursuits of the automotive and oil corporations.
In addition to early deaths, air air pollution can be the reason for well being issues that make life miserably for a lot of in addition to being a drain on the assets of our well being system. And highway site visitors is a serious supply of pollution together with nitrogen oxides and particulates that trigger most of those well being issues.
Roadblocks in opposition to Air Air pollution
Prime Minister, Please Sentence – Downing St
As I rushed down Whitehall later I got here throughout this lengthy row of banners alongside the entire frontage of the protest pen reverse Downing Road. They relate to the case of John Marshall (no relative) a former nuclear engineer who alleges he’s a sufferer of company greed which has ruined his profession and his household since round 2010, naming Amec, Sellafield and others concerned together with Derek Twigg MP and calling for justice. Twigg has been Labour MP for Halton in Cheshire since 1997.
There had been an earlier protest with the identical banners right here a number of months earlier than however there was no person current to ask extra concerning the case once I made these footage and it stays one thing of a thriller.
Prime Minister, Please Sentence
Cyclists Kensington Vigil & Die In – Kensington & Chelsea City Corridor
Marketing campaign group Cease Killing Cyclists held a die-in vigil exterior Kensington & Chelsea City Corridor in protest after a younger 36 yr outdated girl died at Chelsea Bridge final week when the motive force of a heavy items automobile turned left crushing her, the second bike owner killed by a HGV within the borough this yr.
The purpose out that Kensington & Chelsea is without doubt one of the worst London boroughs in opposing plans for protected cycle lanes, bus-stop cycle by-passes and 20mph velocity limits. The borough had didn’t construct even a single metre of protected cycle lanes, and cyclists within the borough together with kids and pensioners must share the roads with lorries, automobiles and buses.
The protesters demanded that the borough finish its opposition to safer biking schemes and supply appropriate infrastructure to make biking secure within the space. Additionally they known as on TfL to revamp the Chelsea Bridge roundabout the place 36 accidents had been reported within the earlier yr.
Lots of the cyclists who die annually achieve this when lorries flip left at junctions with the motive force unable to see a cyclists on the left of them who will get crushed below their heavy automobile. The protest demanded that the Transport Minister legislate urgently to introduce the long-demanded laws for safer HGV design which might get rid of the massive blind areas and become old unsafe automobiles off the highway.
TfL had made plans to superb lorries and different automobiles which illegally drive into necessary cycle lanes, however have been held up by doing in order the Transport Minister has not issued to order to permit them to take action. Protesters demaned this be issued instantly.
Amongst those that spoke on the occasion have been Victoria Lebrec, a bike owner who needed to have a leg amputated after a skip lorry didn’t see her, Cease Killing Cyclists co-founder Nicola Area, different cyclists who had survived accidents and Cynthia Barlow OBE whose daughter was killed by a concrete lorry in 2000. She had turn into chair of the charity RoadPeace which empowers and assist the households of those that are killed and injured on the roads and fights and fights to enhance automobile security.
Biking teacher Philppa Robb mentioned that Kensington & Chelsea has a great cycle coaching programme however the borough has completely didn’t proved a secure infrastructure for cyclists and so few residents really feel secure to make use of their bikes.
After the die-in Cease Killing Cyclists co-founders Donnachadh McCarthy spoke and Nicola Area learn out one of many posters that somebody had dropped at the protest, “Why does Kensington & Chelsea give rebates to wealthy f**kers but cheapskates weak suckers? Secure Streets 4 All’“
The council applied {a partially} segregated cycle lane in Kensington Excessive Road in 2020 but it surely was eliminated after vocal complaints from some motorists. In 2023 they consulted on proposals to revive the cycle lanes there and on Fulham Street and located a big majority have been in favour of some restoration. Nonetheless this was just for a dashed line advisory lane slightly than one correctly segregated from site visitors, though this may occasionally later be upgraded.
Extra at Cyclists Kensington Vigil & Die In.
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