{"id":10252,"date":"2013-11-29T20:27:50","date_gmt":"2013-11-29T20:27:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/?p=10252"},"modified":"2013-11-29T20:27:50","modified_gmt":"2013-11-29T20:27:50","slug":"london-cycling-die-in-protest-outside-tfl-offices-on-29th-novembe2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/london-cycling-die-in-protest-outside-tfl-offices-on-29th-novembe2013\/","title":{"rendered":"London cycling die-in protest outside TfL offices on 29th November 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"775\" height=\"580\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_livWHnZDUo\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\nI have been hoping for a protest like this for years and was delighted to be there. Here is my next suggestion: Transport for London TfL should set a target for the percentage of journeys to be made by cycling and then (1) raise the percentage of the transport spent on cycling to that level eg 30%  (2) ensure that the same percentage of TfL staff commute to the TfL office by bike.<br \/>\nHere is an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/iplayer\/episode\/b03jcgfj\/BBC_London_News_29_11_2013\/?t=5m45s\">excellent BBC news report<\/a> on the demo in which Donnachadh McCarthy an organiser of the Stop Killing Cyclists Campaign, calls for 10% of the TfL budget to go on cycling (compared to 35% in Holland) and makes the excellent point that the Board of TfL is &#8216;big businessmen&#8217; &#8211; with no representatives of pedestrians or cyclists. I see this as a key point. It is likely that TfL staff often cycle to work and support cycling. This is less likely to be the case for big businessmen.<br \/>\nBoris: please remember that you are the only politician I have voted for who has ever been elected: now is the time to come good: organise a London Cycling Summit and cram the board of TfL with die-hard cyclists. Please re-read the history of Lloyd George&#8217;s victory over the House of Lords. He asked \u201cShould 500 men, ordinary men, chosen accidentally from among the unemployed, override the judgement \u2013 the deliberate judgement \u2013 of millions of people who are engaged in the industry which makes the wealth of the country?\u201d The 1911 Parliament Act was passed only when King George V said he was willing to pack the House of Lords with Liberal peers to ensure the vote would swing their way. <strong>Bring on the cyclists<\/strong>.<br \/>\nThe November 2013 event could be a great precursor for a full-scale event in The Mall in 2014, remembering Martin Luther King and the March on Washington of August 28, 1963.  The 2014 event should be on the same weekend as another London cycling event eg the Prudential Ride on Sunday 10 August 2014. It is part of the Mayor of London\u2019s annual festival of cycling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been hoping for a protest like this for years and was delighted to be there. Here is my next suggestion: Transport for London TfL should set a target for the percentage of journeys to be made by cycling and then (1) raise the percentage of the transport spent on cycling to that level [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,18,24],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10252"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}