http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: New Epetitions Forum en Sun, 31 May 2026 15:31:41 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3554#post-37268 Thu, 04 Aug 2011 16:14:48 +0000 kaputnik 37268@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I don't know. Sometimes I start new threads without searching if one already exists. Other times I start a new thread on a completely unrelated subject :) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3554#post-37264 Thu, 04 Aug 2011 16:07:04 +0000 Wilmington's Cow 37264@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>It shows a drawback as well actually - <strong>forty</strong> petitions on the same subject? Do people not search to see if a petition laready exists on the subject that they could sign? I would suggest that the more duplicates there are of a particular subject for petition, the stupider the people who are proposing it, and therefore the stupider the idea... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3554#post-37262 Thu, 04 Aug 2011 16:04:20 +0000 mgj 37262@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@kaputnik, despite what the BBC would have you beleive, the most popular petition calls for the <strong>retention </strong>of the ban on capital punishment. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3554#post-37260 Thu, 04 Aug 2011 16:02:43 +0000 PS 37260@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"Cyclists ... are too long"? Well, that's one downside (?) of cycling I've not heard before. ;)</p> <p>There may be some worthwhile epetitions out there, but they are almost certain to be lost in a tide of dross. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3554#post-37259 Thu, 04 Aug 2011 15:59:56 +0000 kaputnik 37259@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Oh so this thread is not about <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-14400246">the death penalthy</a> then </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3554#post-37257 Thu, 04 Aug 2011 15:54:00 +0000 Wilmington's Cow 37257@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"<em>The Government to debate passing a law imposing strict liability upon motor vehicle drivers when they injure a cyclist, in line with the model adopted in the Netherlands. <strong>In the spirit of equality</strong>, the Government ought also to impose higher penalties for cyclists who flout road laws.</em>"</p> <p>My bold... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3554#post-37255 Thu, 04 Aug 2011 15:50:00 +0000 mgj 37255@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>There's one on h****ts too, which is so badly worded it makes it look like children can have motorbikes as long as they have a h****t on. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3554#post-37253 Thu, 04 Aug 2011 15:48:40 +0000 Wilmington's Cow 37253@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"<em>Please, review the highway code in relation to cyclists they are too long and you cannot possibly adhere to all of them, there are so many...We need to encourage more cycling and l feel this would help so that it is clear to cyclists and other users the rules and therefore reduce aggression.</em>" </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3554#post-37250 Thu, 04 Aug 2011 15:46:19 +0000 Wilmington's Cow 37250@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>It's certainly strange.</p> <p>"In order to encourage cycling we need to have less rules!" basically... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3554#post-37248 Thu, 04 Aug 2011 15:42:48 +0000 mgj 37248@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>UK Government has a new epetitions forum (which in volume terms all seems to be about showing F1 on the BBC) but this petition relates to cycling; <a href="http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/1271" rel="nofollow">http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/1271</a></p> <p>Can anyone tell me what it is supposed to mean? </p>