{"id":45430,"date":"2019-02-07T20:13:43","date_gmt":"2019-02-07T20:13:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/derbycyclinggroup.org.uk\/site\/?p=45430"},"modified":"2019-02-14T17:57:37","modified_gmt":"2019-02-14T17:57:37","slug":"stripping-away-our-safety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/derbycyclinggroup.org.uk\/site\/2019\/02\/stripping-away-our-safety\/","title":{"rendered":"Stripping away our Safety"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Derby City Council are planning on degrading and removing cycling infrastructure on Friargate between Brick St and Bridge St.<\/p>\n<p>The plans will see the removal of a bus\/ cycle lane to create space for two lanes of cars.<\/p>\n<p>The plans will increase the number of cars, increase pollution and increase the danger to road cyclists.<\/p>\n<p>We want you to join us at this protest. Bring a bike, a placard, an instrument or just yourself.<\/p>\n<p>We are going to organise bike rides around the infrastructure and have invited local councillors to join us.<\/p>\n<p>We want to inform the public of these dangerous changes that will strip away our safety. Protest starts at 11am and at 11:30 members of the group&#8217;s committee and anyone else who wants to join us will strip down to their underwear in protest. Protest likely to end around 12 noon.<\/p>\n<p>Surprisingly the media will also be invited. Meet before 11am on Saturday 16th Feb at junction of Friar Gate and Vernon Street.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The council&#8217;s plans are unacceptable and dangerous.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"960\" src=\"https:\/\/derbycyclinggroup.org.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Friargate_protest_19.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-45432\" srcset=\"https:\/\/derbycyclinggroup.org.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Friargate_protest_19.jpg 720w, https:\/\/derbycyclinggroup.org.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Friargate_protest_19-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Derby City Council are planning on degrading and removing cycling infrastructure on Friargate between Brick St and Bridge St. The plans will see the removal of a bus\/ cycle lane to create space for two lanes of cars. The plans will increase the number of cars, increase pollution and increase the danger to road cyclists.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/derbycyclinggroup.org.uk\/site\/2019\/02\/stripping-away-our-safety\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Stripping away our Safety<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/derbycyclinggroup.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/derbycyclinggroup.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/derbycyclinggroup.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derbycyclinggroup.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derbycyclinggroup.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45430"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/derbycyclinggroup.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45455,"href":"https:\/\/derbycyclinggroup.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45430\/revisions\/45455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/derbycyclinggroup.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derbycyclinggroup.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derbycyclinggroup.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}