Changes to the Highway code which will affect YOU - Please ALL read

Ashf

Ashf

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I saw this on the boards a couple of weeks ago and looked to see if anyone had got a petition together on the 10 downing st website - There wasn't one so I've set it up. If the changes go through, then the legal implications if you have an accident whilst shadowing an inexperienced horse could leave you liable just by trying to shield it from the traffic.

A further amendment to the highway code being proposed is to ban access to Cycle paths for horses. The law to stop Horse riding on them is unworkable at the moment even though cyclist have access to Bridleways and the changes will bring a total and watertight ban on horse riding on cyclepaths which will obviously bring you before the courts if you flout it.

These Petitions do work if they get a sizable amount of people signing, so please follow the link to the Downing st website and help to protect the rights of horse riders in the UK.

Thanks Ash

http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/Horseriding/

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The BHS is asking for last-minute amendments to the new Highway Code, which could be in force in August. The BHS suggested amendments to the new Highway Code to the Secretary of State back in February 2006. But according to BHS director of access, safety and welfare Mark Weston, some have apparently been ignored. The Code will forbid riding two horses abreast on narrow and busy roads and when riding around bends. It will also exclude horses from all cycle tracks. There can be many valid reasons for riding two abreast: groups of riders, nervous horses, novice riders, and defensive riding on winding country lanes where there is insufficient room for a car to pass a single horse safely. Breaches of the Highway Code could potentially be used in evidence in any court proceedings under the Traffic Acts in order to establish liability in an accident. There are many cycle tracks which have been specifically designed for use by horse riders, and the loss of these would be very serious for those who rely on them.

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Petitions will have no effect. Ridign is considered elitist by this government and they have demonstrated their contempt for us on enough occasions to convince me that if they have decided to do this, they will do it whatever we say.

If you want to stop attacks like this on us in the riding community, vote these self-seeking townies out of office at the next General Election.
 
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Petitions will have no effect. Ridign is considered elitist by this government and they have demonstrated their contempt for us on enough occasions to convince me that if they have decided to do this, they will do it whatever we say.

If you want to stop attacks like this on us in the riding community, vote these self-seeking townies out of office at the next General Election.

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I'm sorry, but I think you are wrong in respect of the government listening to the 10 downing st hosted petitions.

The petition which was organised and hosted on the 10 downing st website to oppose pay per mile road taxing (GPS spy in the car) forced the government to abandon this policy (replaced with £400 per year VED on gas guzzlers I know), and also more recently, the amendments to this latest version of the highway code to abandon new guidlines which were worded to imply that if a cyclist doesn't use a cycle path, that they would be responsible if a car ran them over on the adjoining road will be rehashed to suit cyclists who petitioned against it.

Please can you get behind this and tell all your friends to add their name as they (the present government) will listen if the weight of feeling is shown to be strong enough !

Thank you

Ash

PS, if anyone posts on other forums, or has any connections with the press, could you let them know of this or copy and paste it where people are affected by this proposal.
 
we have a briddlepath out the front of our property which the county council without informing us opened it up and turned it into part of a 'cycle highway' and laid down road chippings. we told them that cars would now use it meaning that it would become dangerous for horses and cyclyists and asked them to put some kind of bollard there to stop the cars which they said they couldn't do because of health and safety issues. Of course we now have 17yo in there supped up novas rallying on it making in dangerous for horses an of course the cyclists who it was opened up for. So will it now be illegal to ride horses on a bridleway that has been turned into a cycle path?
 
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Have signed up, and hope you don't mind but have copied your post to another site I go regularly on and ask them to join in.

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Thank you very much. I swiped it off here anyway so I've only borrowed Mark Westons article anyway to make the petition up.
 
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