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Changing people and their behaviour is one aspect of road safety campaigns, but the real key to reducing death and injury is in understanding why this behaviour occurs in the first instance, and tackling these tragedies by removing flaws in…
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After a useful and hopeful meeting with Police and Crime Commissioner’s deputy, we reported here, our hopes were quickly squashed for Northumbria Police to adopt a real, honest and fair attitude towards city cycling any time soon. It appears that…
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A delegation consisting of RoadPeace the national charity for road crash victims supported in the Northeast by Thompsons Solicitors Sustrans national charity for sustainable transport us (campaign for better cycling provision in Newcastle and surroundings) met the Deputy Police and…
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We will meet our Police and Crime Commissioner Vera Baird, jointly with our partners Sustrans and RoadPeace NE – and take your concerns to her, which are condensed in this letter we sent to the PCC candidates last year, and…
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“Thank you for your email. “Personally I am in the favour of supporting cycling. I am a local councillor in North Jesmond and as you know we are doing local consultation here about how to improve cycling access through Jesmond….
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“Thanks for writing. I can agree with all the concerns you have in the attachment and am sympathetic generally as an occasional cyclist myself. It would be good to meet soon, if I am elected to discuss how to progress…
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“Really appreciate you getting in touch. Hopefully you will be aware that I’m a massive cycling fan? Keen to discuss this further locally if we can? I like the idea but what about the Sustrans people they have local volunteers?…
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We’ve sent a letter to the three main candidates for Police and Crime Commissioner. And we said we’d let you know who’s supportive of our call for a cycle liaison officer. And here are their answers. In alphabetical order… Peter Andras…
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We are in the process of writing to candidates for the Police and Crime Commissioner. We will ask them to support our call for a liaison officer. There’s so much to be sorted out when it comes to policing transport…
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