Where? 1:30pm in Easton Community Centre - to learn some simple uplifting songs, then we’ll join the procession as it passes about 2:45pm

Come and join your voice to the chorus – let’s make a chorus! - it’s good for your body & soul – bring songs to share or just come and make a noise – it’s a living tradition, let’s keep it alive.

Wear: any combination of purple, pink, blue (but especially purple)

If you get stuck … shout for help. Or call John 07877 999764.

At Easton Community Centre, Kilburn Rd, Easton on Tuesday 5^th February 2008 at 7.30 prompt . If you know people who plan to come, please pass this on. Tea and Coffee will be available. Donations will be welcomed to cover hire and refreshments costs, so please bring what you can afford. Volunteers are needed to collect donations, etc. The petition now stands at 3250, well done everyone for publicising this issue. The LibDem leader has received 800 emails on this topic and the Green party website has a large article about it, crediting Bristol Cycling Campaign with making this information public (unlike the first Evening Post article 10 days ago). If you scroll down, you will find a large amount of new information. It will be up on the website shortly www.bristolcyclingcampaign.org.uk. Happy reading!

If you haven’t already done so, tell the council to reject the plan by signing the e-petition at http://epetitions.bristol.gov.uk/petition.php?id=161 In the meantime, to register your interest, contact savethecyclepath@bristolcyclingcampaign.org.uk or savetherailwaypath@yahoogroups.com

…….The West of England Partnership, composed of local councillors, are submitting plans to Whitehall for funding to use it for a rapid transit bus route from Emersons Green to Ashton Vale, one of three in the scheme. The Bath end of the path is under similar threat. (more…)

Post Peak Agriculture/ From the USA without FlyingTransition Bristol Talk with Patrick Holden, Director of the Soil Association and Josh Hart of the Chooseday movement.

The talk is on Post-Peak Food & Farming and the subject is ‘Fossil Fuel Depletion: Agriculture and the Soil Association’. Josh famously came to the UK to study without using an airplane. Here his story.

Wednesday 14th November at Redland Friends Meeting House 126 Hampton Road at 7pm

This Tuesday (Oct 30th) sees the start of something different in Bristol, as Tuesdays become ‘Choosedays’ and people, employers and organisations across the city come together behind a citywide initiative to promote ‘Tuesdays without cars’. (more…)

Don’t forget- this Friday October 26th: meet 1730, leave 1800 from City Centre fountains along St. Augustine’s parade–A Halloween Ride - In Solidarity & Celebration (more…)

We are all becoming very aware of climate change, but how can we do anything about it? It all seems too big and complex. Something needs to shift.

How would it be if Tuesdays became a focus across the Bristol region for us all to re-imagine our lifestyles - a day on which we choose to live differently.

This is Chooseday — why don’t you join in ?

Chooseday will begin with the challenge that every Tuesday we ‘choose’ to leave our cars at home and experience what a day without cars feels like.

Are you up for it?

A Halloween Ride - In Solidarity & Celebration

It’s been a while since Bristol saw a Critical Mass bike ride, now its time for one!

Solidarity: with the monthly CM in London that the police are trying to shut down after 12 years of rides – see www.criticalmasslondon.org.uk for more info

Solidarity: with all those killed and affected by the murderous oil/car culture & its side-effects, ruining our cities and planet.

Celebrating: the sustainable culture & economics of cycling. You are one less car!

Celebrating: the excitement of Halloween weekend. Let the devil in you ride out!

Bring whistles, flags, music, witches hats, ghostly masks, theatrics, smiles, friends, flyers, toolkits, and more. Lets party!

Bikes, skateboards, roller blades, wheelchairs, pogo sticks etc – all self-propelled transport forms are welcome

Thank you for not driving

A critical mass ride is a coming together of like-minded people travelling collectively in any particular direction. We do not block the traffic, we are the traffic, and we are held up & polluted by cars and the oil-petrol-car culture.

The Walk to School Campaign for October 2007 is focussing on children enjoying their local environment by walking to school

Do we want children to be a part of their local community, and to respect their local environment? Or are we happy for them to become “goldfish children” - separated from the real world by a glass bubble?

Recent research has shown that children are more restricted in their freedoms than ever before (read more on BBC…) and this is having a detrimental effect on the children’s sense of place and understanding of their local community.

The Walk to School campaign wants to reverse this trend, by asking parents and children to Walk to School, and use the opportunity to get to know their local environment.

You can use the walk to school to:

A week last Friday around 80 people from all over Bristol met up on a beautiful sunny afternoon at the fountains for Critical Mass. Formerly very popular in Bristol, Critical Mass involves lots of people getting together on bicycles and using the space they create together to take over the roads for the length of a bike ride.

Some motorists honked supportingly, others tutted. (more…)

 …when a driver mounted the pavement on the A4 Bath Bridge near Temple Meads. I’m a Totterdown resident who regularly uses this bridge on foot and by car.

The existing pavement is low and narrow, inches away from four lanes of traffic steaming in and out of Bristol. It’s a very unsafe route for pedestrians and cyclists.

I’ve set up an online petition to try and get the council to do something about it. I’ve never tried anything like this before, but it would be great to see how effective ‘e-democracy’ can be.

Please sign the petition, publicise this petition if you work in the media, and forward it onto as many of your Bristol colleagues as possible. It’s not over-dramatic to say that I think this could save someone’s life.

http://www.bristol.gov.uk/item/epetitionview.html?PetitionID=165

What’s wrong with the bridge:

* The east pavement is too narrow, and is split to include a bike path
* The east pavement is too low, making it very easy for a car to mount it
* There are breaks in the east pavement where there are disused entrances to the industrial site
* The traffic drives too fast - many drivers are trying to change lane, which encourages speeding
* There is nowhere for pedestrians to escape to if a car does mount the pavement - they are trapped between the billboards and the road
* The west pavement is inaccessible due to there being four lanes of traffic to cross to access it

Possible fixes:

* Building a pedestrian / cyclist bridge
* Installing a high containment kerb
* Installing railings along the whole route from Three Lamps to Temple Meads
* Reducing the speed limit to 30mph / other traffic calming measures.

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More info on the accident here: http://tinyurl.com/2n9qkx
Location of the bridge: http://tinyurl.com/2qd8vw
Sign the petition: http://www.bristol.gov.uk/item/epetitionview.html?PetitionID=165

http://www.bristol.gov.uk/item/epetitionview.html?PetitionID=165

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