{"id":45462,"date":"2019-02-17T17:07:02","date_gmt":"2019-02-17T17:07:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/derbycyclinggroup.org.uk\/site\/?p=45462"},"modified":"2019-03-24T18:13:29","modified_gmt":"2019-03-24T18:13:29","slug":"media-coverage-of-stripping-away-our-safety-protest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/derbycyclinggroup.org.uk\/site\/2019\/02\/media-coverage-of-stripping-away-our-safety-protest\/","title":{"rendered":"Media Coverage of Stripping away our safety protest"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Great media coverage for the protest on Friargate objecting to Derby City Council&#8217;s ridiculous approach to improving air quality by removing cycling infrastructure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Derby Telegraph gave some <a href=\"https:\/\/www.derbytelegraph.co.uk\/news\/derby-news\/cycling-protest-naked-city-centre-2549853\">publicity for the event<\/a> the day before and then reported on the actual event a week or so later &#8211; see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.derbytelegraph.co.uk\/news\/derby-news\/angry-derby-cyclists-try-force-2667626\">here<\/a> (and ignore the normal moronic comments which are nothing to do with the subject matter of the article.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Coverage on the BBC <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-derbyshire-47264927\">web site<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Saturday&#8221;s East Midlands Today news round up led with the protest. A clip of the program can be seen <a href=\"\/documents\/East_Midlands_Today.mov\">here<\/a> (you might need to download this file and then open an appropriate video playing app on your computer &#8211; about 50MB to download).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>National coverage from the<a href=\"https:\/\/road.cc\/content\/news\/256357-derby-cyclists-strip-protest-scrapping-bus-and-cycle-lane\"> road.cc news website<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lots of photos to be seen on the Derby Cycling Group <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/26263186271\/\">Facebook page.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Twitter included a lot of coverage including tweets from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DerbyChrisW\/status\/1096764057863053312\">Chris Williamson MP<\/a> and Councillors <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MartinRawson\/status\/1096731133918801925\">Martin Rawson<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NadinePeatfield\/status\/1096784174097276928\">Nadine Peatfield<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Excellent work by all the organisers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Great media coverage for the protest on Friargate objecting to Derby City Council&#8217;s ridiculous approach to improving air quality by removing cycling infrastructure. Derby Telegraph gave some publicity for the event the day before and then reported on the actual event a week or so later &#8211; see here (and ignore the normal moronic comments&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/derbycyclinggroup.org.uk\/site\/2019\/02\/media-coverage-of-stripping-away-our-safety-protest\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Media Coverage of Stripping away our safety protest<\/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-45462","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\/45462","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=45462"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/derbycyclinggroup.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45496,"href":"https:\/\/derbycyclinggroup.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45462\/revisions\/45496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/derbycyclinggroup.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derbycyclinggroup.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derbycyclinggroup.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}