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From www.transport2000.org.uk/
National Day of Action on Traffic Speed on Wednesday 10 December 2003
ALL OVER the country communities and individuals are taking a stand against fast and speeding traffic in December. Transport 2000’s Streets for People network and the Slower Speeds Initiative are co-ordinating the National Day of Action on Traffic Speed on Wednesday 10 December 2003 and groups from many places have already signed up to take part. Whether by making fake speed camera signs or scarecrow policeman, or by putting up signs asking motorists to slow down, communities will be tackling motorists who create danger, fear and intimidation by driving too fast.
One example of where people have been prompted to take action themselves is at Beckenham School in Bromley, Kent, where the children made signs saying “20mph!” “Reduce speed now” and “Please look out for us and slow down”, as a means of educating drivers about the impact that speed can have. The children felt they had to do something when last summer nine child pedestrians were injured on the roads in one month, double the usual casualty figures. The children wanted to be able to play safely outside in the long summer evenings and felt this was a way of achieving that. Bromley Council’s road safety unit has encouraged the initiative.
The day of action will show that the line taken by some national newspapers that speed cameras are universally unpopular and breaking speed limits is acceptable is far from the truth. Up and down the country there are countless communities calling for traffic calming, lower speed limits, speed cameras and safe routes to schools.
Transport 2000 has produced the Speed Campaigners’ Toolkit to empower local communities and make a difference on road safety locally. Available are large colour posters for window or front garden use saying “Kill your speed… not my child”, “20 Now!” and “Please drive slowly”. There are also leaflets that spell out the impact that speed can have on local communities and ask drivers to “Pledge to drive slowly”. The signed pledges can be collected by local residents and then used to lobby their local authority for a lower speed limit for example.
The Speed Campaigners’ Toolkit also includes:
•A model press release that can be used to raise awareness of the event locally and encourage the press to run a story.
•A briefing sheet on the national Safety Camera Partnerships.
•A briefing sheet on what other communities have done to successfully educate drivers and tackle speed.
•Tips and advice on how to run a street event safely.
These items are included automatically when you buy posters or leaflets.
If you would like to register an event for National Day of Action on Traffic Speed contact Transport 2000’s Julia Samson on 020 7613 0743 extn 124 or at julias@transport2000.org.uk You can find out more about the Speed Campaigners’ Toolkit by returning to the menu for the change your streets section.
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National Day of Action on Traffic Speed on Wednesday 10 December 2003
ALL OVER the country communities and individuals are taking a stand against fast and speeding traffic in December. Transport 2000’s Streets for People network and the Slower Speeds Initiative are co-ordinating the National Day of Action on Traffic Speed on Wednesday 10 December 2003 and groups from many places have already signed up to take part. Whether by making fake speed camera signs or scarecrow policeman, or by putting up signs asking motorists to slow down, communities will be tackling motorists who create danger, fear and intimidation by driving too fast.
One example of where people have been prompted to take action themselves is at Beckenham School in Bromley, Kent, where the children made signs saying “20mph!” “Reduce speed now” and “Please look out for us and slow down”, as a means of educating drivers about the impact that speed can have. The children felt they had to do something when last summer nine child pedestrians were injured on the roads in one month, double the usual casualty figures. The children wanted to be able to play safely outside in the long summer evenings and felt this was a way of achieving that. Bromley Council’s road safety unit has encouraged the initiative.
The day of action will show that the line taken by some national newspapers that speed cameras are universally unpopular and breaking speed limits is acceptable is far from the truth. Up and down the country there are countless communities calling for traffic calming, lower speed limits, speed cameras and safe routes to schools.
Transport 2000 has produced the Speed Campaigners’ Toolkit to empower local communities and make a difference on road safety locally. Available are large colour posters for window or front garden use saying “Kill your speed… not my child”, “20 Now!” and “Please drive slowly”. There are also leaflets that spell out the impact that speed can have on local communities and ask drivers to “Pledge to drive slowly”. The signed pledges can be collected by local residents and then used to lobby their local authority for a lower speed limit for example.
The Speed Campaigners’ Toolkit also includes:
•A model press release that can be used to raise awareness of the event locally and encourage the press to run a story.
•A briefing sheet on the national Safety Camera Partnerships.
•A briefing sheet on what other communities have done to successfully educate drivers and tackle speed.
•Tips and advice on how to run a street event safely.
These items are included automatically when you buy posters or leaflets.
If you would like to register an event for National Day of Action on Traffic Speed contact Transport 2000’s Julia Samson on 020 7613 0743 extn 124 or at julias@transport2000.org.uk You can find out more about the Speed Campaigners’ Toolkit by returning to the menu for the change your streets section.
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www.transport2000.org.uk/communityaction/maintainNewsArticles.asp?NewsArticleID=47
Dear Ms Simpson,
I would like to register an event with you for this day. I, and some of my like-minded friends, will be taking issue with any do-gooders we see by the side of the road. I will generally rev my engine, sound my horn, be abnoxious to your lentil-eating, sandal-wearing minions and I may, heaven forbid, even speed!
I fully expect the wrath of God to strike me down if I dare hit 31mph in a 30mph limit, but it's a risk I'm willing to take.
Oh, and I shall teach some children the Green Cross code and how to correctly use properly signalled crossing points, maybe this well help prevent accidents?
Dear Ms Simpson,
I would like to register an event with you for this day. I, and some of my like-minded friends, will be taking issue with any do-gooders we see by the side of the road. I will generally rev my engine, sound my horn, be abnoxious to your lentil-eating, sandal-wearing minions and I may, heaven forbid, even speed!
I fully expect the wrath of God to strike me down if I dare hit 31mph in a 30mph limit, but it's a risk I'm willing to take.
Oh, and I shall teach some children the Green Cross code and how to correctly use properly signalled crossing points, maybe this well help prevent accidents?
.."making fake speed camera signs"
Que deltaf and a bic lighter...
Im intend to get so distracted by the protesters, I will plough into the back of the protestors galaxy (isnt it always?) which will undoubtley be parked up a pavement, near a junction, obscuring the visibility of the childrens school crossing.
Que deltaf and a bic lighter...
Im intend to get so distracted by the protesters, I will plough into the back of the protestors galaxy (isnt it always?) which will undoubtley be parked up a pavement, near a junction, obscuring the visibility of the childrens school crossing.
puggit said:
www.transport2000.org.uk/communityaction/maintainNewsArticles.asp?NewsArticleID=47
Dear Ms Simpson,
I would like to register an event with you for this day. I, and some of my like-minded friends, will be taking issue with any do-gooders we see by the side of the road. I will generally rev my engine, sound my horn, be abnoxious to your lentil-eating, sandal-wearing minions and I may, heaven forbid, even speed!
I fully expect the wrath of God to strike me down if I dare hit 31mph in a 30mph limit, but it's a risk I'm willing to take.
Oh, and I shall teach some children the Green Cross code and how to correctly use properly signalled crossing points, maybe this well help prevent accidents?
Duely sent.
I have driven past the local school a couple of times at 15mph in first gear. My reasoning is that it makes so much sodding noise any child should spot the car and not leap out in front of it.
The kids love it.
The thing is, we probably share some of their views. We would also like to see careful (I agree not necessarily dead slow) driving "in communities", "near schools", etc.
The problem is that these people's aims get twisted -- by themselves? by others like Brunstrom? -- into "drive slowly everywhere". The specific situation of speed limits in residential areas is generalised into the lowering of limits on good A-roads, clear M-ways, deserted country lanes, etc.
And honestly, having seen the way people drive through my village when I'm walking my 5-year-old to school, I'd sometimes like to put out stingers, nails and wrecking balls, not just fake speed camera signs and cut-out police. My wife's arm was recently hit by a car that got too close to the pavement when walking to school. And the driver wasn't insured (oversight apparently, not deliberate).
Unfortunately, these people do have a point, even if they take it to extremes. But then, isn't that what the ABD does on the other side? Oh for a reasoned debate rather than megaphones at dawn.
The problem is that these people's aims get twisted -- by themselves? by others like Brunstrom? -- into "drive slowly everywhere". The specific situation of speed limits in residential areas is generalised into the lowering of limits on good A-roads, clear M-ways, deserted country lanes, etc.
And honestly, having seen the way people drive through my village when I'm walking my 5-year-old to school, I'd sometimes like to put out stingers, nails and wrecking balls, not just fake speed camera signs and cut-out police. My wife's arm was recently hit by a car that got too close to the pavement when walking to school. And the driver wasn't insured (oversight apparently, not deliberate).
Unfortunately, these people do have a point, even if they take it to extremes. But then, isn't that what the ABD does on the other side? Oh for a reasoned debate rather than megaphones at dawn.
[quote=^Slider^]All of this driver education business may be all well and good but it wont reduce pedestrian casulties unless there is pedestrian education as well.
Why not rename it.. pick on the motorist day as its all our fault. for everything.
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Now when I was a kid there were adverts on the telly during childrens programs with some wierd looking bloke in a shiny suit telling us to use the Green Cross Code, to cross well away from parked cars and other obstructions where we wouldn't be seen by motorists and "Stop, Look, Listen, Think"...
...now it all seems to be adverts for Pokemon.
GET SOME BLOODY EDUCATION INTO THE KIDS FFS!!!
(I do my damndest to try to instill a little survival instinct into my own son and when he's out with us he does do it properly on the whole but I bet when he's away from us and with his mates it all goes out the window.)
Phil
Why not rename it.. pick on the motorist day as its all our fault. for everything.
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Now when I was a kid there were adverts on the telly during childrens programs with some wierd looking bloke in a shiny suit telling us to use the Green Cross Code, to cross well away from parked cars and other obstructions where we wouldn't be seen by motorists and "Stop, Look, Listen, Think"...
...now it all seems to be adverts for Pokemon.
GET SOME BLOODY EDUCATION INTO THE KIDS FFS!!!
(I do my damndest to try to instill a little survival instinct into my own son and when he's out with us he does do it properly on the whole but I bet when he's away from us and with his mates it all goes out the window.)
Phil
Bassfiend said:
[quote=^Slider^]All of this driver education business may be all well and good but it wont reduce pedestrian casulties unless there is pedestrian education as well.
Why not rename it.. pick on the motorist day as its all our fault. for everything.
Now when I was a kid there were adverts on the telly during childrens programs with some wierd looking bloke in a shiny suit telling us to use the Green Cross Code, to cross well away from parked cars and other obstructions where we wouldn't be seen by motorists and "Stop, Look, Listen, Think"...
Phil[/quote]
Thats exactly what i remember, Also in school they would show a series of adverts and short programs in groups with someone usually a police officer asking questions and reinforcing the info on the screen. Why dont the road saftey partnerships do it instead of the police??
If they really want to save lives then thats the way to go.. worked for me.
Gareth
Ah transport 2000 that unbiased underfunded group not. Have a look at their website and see who supports them, not really an unbiased lot to say the least. And the day of action is a Wednesday, clever really, everyone who objects to this action is at work, so they will rely on mums and Oaps and the usual suspects of lentil munching ban everything brigade to disrupt us making money to pay for their retirement and their broods. They will use the same sad parents who lost loved ones trotting out the usual tear jerk terrorists who explode in to spontaniuse grieve at the slightest hint of TV exposure. But clearly they are now fighting back because public opinion has changed. If you see any of this action stop and ask how many protesting have got points on their licences you will be amazed how the most ardent zealot shuts up when you ask that one.
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