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Bikers at IAM Conference Call for More Bus Lane Access
03 July 2008
Motorcyclists at the IAM (Institute of Advanced Motorists) bike conference this week (30th June 2008) called for greater access to bus lanes. A delegate survey of 130 motorcyclists, representing the IAM’s 19,000 motorcycle members, overwhelmingly supported bus lane access for bikers (92 per cent). The move could have significant improvements for the safety of motorcyclists, say the IAM.
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Gerrymandering – No Bikes In Bus Lanes
12 March 2008
The Motorcycle Action Group (MAG UK) condemns today's announcement by London Mayor Ken Livingstone that motorcycles would not be permitted to use bus lane on roads controlled by Transport for London. In a report published today, Transport for London rely on the Tanner Test to 'prove' that there would be no safety benefit to either motorcyclists or other vulnerable road users if motorcycles were allowed to use Transport for London bus lanes. This same Tanner Test was described in internal documents, leaked to MAG, as unreliable and incapable of delivering sound statistical analysis.
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Motorcycle Action Group - Safeguarding Our Future
04 March 2008
The Motorcycle Action Group safeguards the future of motorcycling with practical recommendations to the Parliamentary Transport Select Committee. The Parliamentary Transport Select Committee, chaired by the Honourable Gwyneth Dunwoody MP, is to hold a review of road safety and has invited interested parties to submit evidence. The review is likely to take place in either March or April and will consider what more can be done between now and 2010 when the current targets end, and what considerations should be made for beyond 2010.
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London Mayor’s Dithering Puts Road User Lives At Risk!!
04 February 2008
The Motorcycle Action Group, (MAG UK), is very concerned that the safety of vulnerable road users is being put at risk by the procrastination of London’s Mayor Ken Livingstone and the blocking by the Mayor’s office of the publication of the ‘Transport for London PTW in Bus Lane Study’. The report was completed in April 2007 and was first due to be published in October 20007, then January 2008. It has still to be released.
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Consultation & Motorcycle Prejudice
10 September 2007
The Motorcycle Action Group (MAG UK) has been invited by the Department of Transport to comment on the Government's Draft Local Transport Bill. The Local Transport Bill is a key part of the Government's strategy to meet the transport challenges of not only today, but in ten and twenty year’s time. The three key areas of the strategy, addresses public transport, the governance for managing local transport and the issue of road pricing. MAG have worked relentlessly to persuade Government of the advantages and benefits which motorcycling offers to ease traffic congestion, improve the environment as well as enhancing social mobility and the economic prosperity of the nation.
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Motorcycle Use Closer For Bus Lanes Say BMF
30 March 2007
Is this the news that we bikers in London have all been waiting for? Are we going to be allowed to use the Bus Lanes and when? The Government is finally pulling it's finger out of the proverbial, and hopefully soon we'll get the go ahead, here's what the BMF have to say...
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Bus Lanes - Motorcycling In The Right Lane
07 March 2007
The Motorcycle Action Group welcomes the Government’s Traffic Advisory Leaflet in which it expresses support for facilitating motorcycling as a choice of travel within a safe and sustainable transport framework. The document lists all the positive points that MAG has repeatedly made about the advantages of motorcycling to society in general and now revises former guidance that was biased against the principle of access to bus lanes by motorcyclists.
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Elusive Excess To Bus Lanes In London
27 September 2006
The Motorcycle Action Group (MAG UK) says the long awaited results of bikes in bus lanes trials discussed at a seminar yesterday with Transport for London have left riders somewhat frustrated. MAG has been working closely with Transport for London (TfL) through the London Motorcycle Working Group to push for a definitive answer on permanent motorcycle access to bus lanes which have been trialled on three routes since 2002.
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Drive The Debate On Bikes In Bus Lanes With Industry Campaigns
23 May 2006
The Motor Cycle Industry Association (MCI) is urging people to help drive the debate on bikes in bus lanes by supporting its online lobbying activity. The MCI is carrying out a poll to generate public support to influence policy so that all Local Authorities will allow motorcycles in bus lanes to help reduce casualties.
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Motorcycle Community Welcomes Debate On Bikes In Bus Lanes
27 April 2006
The MCI and the motorcycle community have welcomed a debate, which took place this week in the House of Commons, on the opening of bus lanes for motorcycles. The debate, responded to by Minister for Transport Dr Stephen Ladyman MP, highlighted that there have been no negative effects caused by bikes in bus lanes and that unless there is any special reason Local Authorities should be permitting and encouraging this practical and safe use of bus lanes.
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Greater London Borough Updates
14 March 2006
At present, the City Corporation have no plans to allow bikes into their bus lanes, and are awaiting the results of the Transport for London trial. The City only has seven bus lanes in the Square Mile, four of which are 'by-pass' lanes for security checkpoints which would not be open to motorcycles under any circumstances. More news to follow once their draft LIP is published.
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