{"id":45440,"date":"2019-02-08T19:03:50","date_gmt":"2019-02-08T19:03:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/derbycyclinggroup.org.uk\/site\/?p=45440"},"modified":"2019-02-08T19:03:55","modified_gmt":"2019-02-08T19:03:55","slug":"keep-the-friar-gate-cycle-lane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/derbycyclinggroup.org.uk\/site\/2019\/02\/keep-the-friar-gate-cycle-lane\/","title":{"rendered":"Keep the Friar Gate Cycle Lane"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The safety of vulnerable road users must be paramount<\/strong><\/h1>\n\n\n\n
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This cycle\/bus\/taxi lane on Friar Gate is to be removed by Derby City Council and turned into a second, faster, lane for cars and lorries as part of their Air Quality Preferred Option.

These changes will increase the risk to cyclists using this route into Derby and that is not acceptable.
Derby Cycling Group objects to these proposals in the strongest possible terms.<\/strong>
Please help us to keep this cycle lane and the right-turn protected space in front of the traffic island,<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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and this right turn facility which is also to be removed,<\/strong>
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E-mail or write to the local councillors to object to the removal of these cycle facilities:<\/strong>

Please write before 15th<\/sup> February, 2019.<\/strong>

The councillors below represent the two wards where the facilities are located. They do not necessarily support the removal of the cycling facilities.

Mackworth Ward:
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Darley Ward:
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Please also contact the council cabinet members most involved with decisions regarding Derby\u2019s clean air proposals
Council Leader Chris Poulter christopher.poulter@derby.gov.uk<\/a>
Deputy Council Leader Matthew Holmes\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 matthew.holmes@derby.gov.uk<\/a>

Full contact details for all councillors are on the council website: Derby City Councillors<\/a>

If you use either of these facilities, then please tell the councillors why it\u2019s important for them to be retained or, even better, improved and tell them why NO highways scheme should make cycling (or walking) infrastructure worse and more dangerous.

If these facilities are not in your area, think that your<\/em> local cycle path or lane could be next to go. Please inform your local councillors, or the councillors above, that you think they should be retained and why.\u00a0

Some of Derby Cycling Group\u2019s opinions:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n