The Great Lap of London is back but this time the other way round!
“Going Forward: We now await from the Barristers an appraisal as to whether we have grounds for an appeal -- news as soon as!!”
LATEST NEWS UPDATED: 25th August 2010
The campaign lawyers are submitting for permission to appeal the decision from the court case
WMBC: 1st September 2010, meet: Villiers Street (map), at 7:30am for 8:00am departure
WESC: 1st September 2010, meet: Villiers Street (map), at 5:30pm for 6:00pm departure
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For those of you who missed it the last time the M25 demonstration is BACK!
Home printer ink reduced versions: Posters (A3) / Posters (A4) / Fliers (2x2 on A4)
High quality full colour versions: Posters (A3) / Fliers (2x2 on A4)
But this time…
Why?
1. It used to be free to park like that, now they expect us to pay and give us nothing for it, plus you need a mobile phone and credit card to pay.
2. On-street motorcycle parking in Westminster has increased by 35% since 2006 from 4,550 to 6,150 but they also stopped motorcycles from parking on unused pieces of land and footpaths/alleyways where the vehicle was not obstructing pedestrians
3. The Mayor of Paris INCREASED the number of FREE individual marked out motorcycle parking spaces by 18,000, to do this they had to remove 1200 money making car parking spaces
4. Westminster City Council promised secure ground anchors to chain our bikes to… so far they have only installed 140 in 20 bays, there are 500 bays which works out at around 4%
5. From FOI (Freedom Of Information) requests we have worked out that Westminster City Council has generated almost £4million in revenue in 2 years from this scheme
6. Westminster City Council claim to be making a loss of £430,000 a year, costing tax payers money for a scheme which is supposed to be revenue neutral as it is illegal to charge for parking in the sole purpose of generating revenue
7. If the scheme is LOSING MONEY what sense is there in continuing to charge?
8. They have received 8000 objections to this scheme, NO SUPPORT from any Residents’ Associations, and total damnation from the BMF, MAG, and Tax Payers Alliance
9. They now face a costly High Court case which has been funded by donations to the NoToBikeParkingTax Campaign which is costing the tax payer even more money
10. The leader (Danny Chalkly) in charge of the parking scheme recently resigned due to the constant pressure from this campaign and the lack of support from his colleagues
11. The Government gets £50billion in taxes (fuel (a litre of unleaded petrol at £119.9 per Litre = fuel duty at 57.19p, VAT 17.86p, Product 39.85p, per Litre, retailer and delivery 5p), insurance 5% of policy cost, road tax, licenses, speed camera fines) a year which is supposed to cover everything to do with the roads in Britain, they currently only spend £8.3billion of it… hence the state of our roads. Why do local councils need to charge for parking when the Government is sitting on £41.7billion, its time we asked for our money back!
12. Westminster City Council is one of the richest councils in England and gets an annual budget of £1billion, part of which is to cover all road maintenance (signs, road markings, pavements, etc) why then do they charge for painting a white line for motorcycles to park in? They don’t charge cyclists for all the cycle railings to chain their bikes to, and bicycles dont pay towards the up keep of Britains roads. (We are not making a stab at cyclists here, we are just making a point, we think cyclist should get free railings and parking facilities, but then how can the councils be so hypocritical and charge the tax payers even more for something they are already entitled to and have payed for!)
13. Westminster City Council makes £40million a year from council tax, but makes £80million from parking revenue, why does the price of parking a car keep exceeding the rate of inflation for no benefits? When parking meters were first introduced they started in Westminster 50 years ago, it cost back then 5p an hour to park, if the price had increased with inflation it would now only cost 45p an hour to park… but it now costs £5 an hour, which is a 10,000% increase… for what?
Motorcycle and scooter riders will not let this happen to them!
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SORRY IF YOU HAVE BEEN INCONVENIENCED, BUT SO HAVE WE! READ BELOW FOR MORE ABOUT OUR FIGHT AGAINST THE WESTMINSTER CITY COUNCIL CROOKS.
1st Wednesday Evening Supper Club (31st March 2010)
3rd Wednesday Morning Breakfast Club (24th March 2010)
2nd Wednesday Morning Breakfast Club (17th March 2010)
First ever Wednesday Morning Breakfast Club (10th March 2010)
Multimedia from previous demonstrations
Demand for a public inquiry report:
Watch a classic video from one of the demos!
R.AT.S Group formed, watch their first protest
Photos from past demos
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Dave (15 July) – following your logic, are you going to ban cars (other than taxis) motorcycles and presumably bicycles and lorries from London streets, to only leave buses and taxis! No bicycles or motorcycles would be a recipe for massively increasing the CO2 emissions, which are already way too high! Motorcycles and bicycles are part of the SOLUTION to congestion and CO2 emissions. The above would also ruin the London economy!! Just because cars already have to pay WAY too much (to basically prop up Council funds) to park, doesn’t make it right to also charge other vehicles – two wrongs don’t make a right. The way things are going, it will start to be bicycles, and even pedestrians, in the future, as they, too, use the streets, don’t they Dave?
As for no cars in Central London, what about the RESIDENTS. Why should they not be allowed to have a car??
Unfortunately, is that not the nature of demonstrations? How many would have voted against the picket lines of Wapping or the coal mines? How many object to the Gay Rights or Anti-Nazi demonstrations and the inconvenience they cause? What about the Lord Mayor’s show? And who knows how much inconvenience will be caused by the London Olympics? And, so as to invoke the age old WWII loss making argument, I wonder how much support the French Resistance lost through their active campaign of disruption?
It is a difficult balance to achieve – gaining publicity and support for your cause without distancing people through inconvenience.
I am new rider and came across this terrible Westminster plans to rip people off again even in this rescission where we are all struggling to live on basics. If this is not over at then i am in and i will to bring in more of my mates to support this further. Good work you all. Please let me know when is the next one and i will be there……
i mean we all be there …….
Hi Gokul,
Welcome to the wonderful world of powered two wheels! Please feel free to come along to the next Breakfast or Supper Club. They happen every Wednesday and we meet at Villiers Street near Embankment tube station. 07.30 for an 08.00 departure and 17.30 for a 18.00 departure respectively. Please tell your mates and bring them too. Hopefully see you there soon!
Looks like they forgot to remind me that my years parking permit had run out!!!!! Now I have a ticket stuck to my bike. Thanks WCC
If they failed to issue a reminder that may be grounds for appeal, if you register on the forum the people there are a number of people who have contested tickets that would gladly offer you some advice
More information on Brussels please.
Prefer tunnel option, its only 40 minutes and one stays with bike.
Barry
I understand your point but this is getting little bit over the edge and makes loads of inconveniences to so many people. This is really selfish.
You might have fun and find it exciting to be circling around the roundabout and beeping your horns but we get stuck in the buses and then miss out trains home which means instead of 7 we get home 11 – 12.
No thank you! If it was one off strike maybe Westminster Council would take it seriously but with strikes every Wednesday twice a day you most probably found the way how to annoy them as well as people trying to get home to spend at least little bit time with their families after a long day at work.
Last Wednesday there was a pregnant women on a bus sitting next to me and had a little one in a bus. The little one was hungry and was tired, thanks to you guys she missed 2 trains and she only has 1 each hour. I can not imagine being in her shoes.
This is ridiculous so please stop it and find some more direct way how to talk to Westminster Council than through innocent people.
Or maybe hop on a bus and you will hear everyone swearing at you and calling you like you wouldnt like.
Thanks for reading,
Lucie
Well done guys, I wish mini cab drivers could do the same. I work for Addison Lee and I’m out for 10 hours a day. Westminster Council expect us to pay and display between jobs. When paked for 2 minutes on single yellow you get PCN and all thanks to CCTV. When you have pick up it is the same, and their answer is that there was no activity around the car for 2minutes. Who is on time when getting pre-booked cab??? Just before yesturday I have received PCN because that bunch of thieves(Westminster) recorded my car when I went to toilet near Victoria. It is all about money. Keeeeeeep going guys