No To the Bike Parking Tax

In this email:

• Thank you <<First Name>> <<Last Name>>.
• Photos from 11th May Demo.
• Video of LIVE ITV News Coverage, we were on TV!
• Next demonstration Tues, 9th June 09, details.
• Possible "mini demo" Sat 23rd May 09, details.

Thank you, thank you, thank you!

Thanks to everyone that attended the demo the turn out was amazing, thousands of you out on the streets again! It was chaotic. For those that couldn’t make it thank you too for your support in spreading the word and putting the pressure on Westminster via emails and letters, every little helps.

A great selection of photographs from the 11th May demo.

Also some fantastic photos from the demo are up on-line, go here to view them http://www.flickr.com/photos/notobikeparkingtax/sets/72157618034282160/ Thank you to Simon Leigh for the shots.

LIVE: On ITV 6 O’Clock News. Watch video.

We made it live on ITV evening news you can see the press coverage here, watch this vid http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHABoVQIbHg. Chalkley (Spear-head of the parking tax) makes a very brief appearance saying that the tax has been reduced to £1 per day. This is not good enough, plus how does that affect people that have already paid their £150 per year. By doing this he clearly knows that the tax is wrong. We will only stop once the tax is SCRAPPED.

Tues 9th June 09 – Next demonstration.

The next demonstration will be on the Tuesday, 9th June 2009. Clear your diaries, more details on this demo plus fliers, posters and call to arms video coming soon, we need to spread the word now we have 1 month to build up to this demo, plenty of time to make it bigger and better than last night.

Possible "mini-demo" on Sat 23rd May 09.

However if anyone is up for it there will possibly be a "mini-demo" happening on Sat 23rd May 2009 (It will not be a go-slow, it will be "fill a major West End, Westminster Car Park with bikes" demo). more details to follow about that. But it will coincide with an attempt by Danny Chalkley to issue free parking to cars in Westminster run car parks on this day with no option applying to bikes, they still need to pay on that Saturday in bays (hell, we even have to pay in advance!), if that is the case let us fill up 1 or 2 major car parks in the West End, this will obviously be an early demo in time to nab a place! But has purpose and gets Chalkley right in the nuts. Anyone up for that "mini-demo"? Your bike will have less chance of over-heating due to it being legally parked in a car park!

Finally…

So all in all a fantastic demo last night, some things were learnt and the next major one on the 9th June 2009 will be even bigger and better! Thank you for your continued support, we will defeat this parking tax, keep up the pressure and keep spreading the word! You can order hi-viz vests from our suppliers full instructions on how to get hold of a bib are here: http://www.notobikeparkingfees.com/2008/10/20/t-shirts-hi-viz-bibs-for-the-demo-order-now/

See you at the next demo <<First Name>> <<Last Name>>! And for all those that cannot make it, keep on spreading that word, we are growing. We galvanised a lot more supporters last night. An official video report from our man in the studio will be published soon we will let you know when.

– No To the Bike Parking Tax Committee.