Make your voice heard - Changes to Highway Code !!!!

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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.
 
You might as well sign a petition against the recent heavy rains.

The current labour government could not give 2 hoots about people who ride horses as we are "class enemies". In fact, a petition against it just confirms to them that they have hit their intended target...
 
Our council owns a big country park and they have made the route round it a cycle and horseride, this is where I ride and I'm wondering if this will be affected by the proposals, or not as it is land owned by the county council?
 
Oh well, it wont make any difference to me. Ill be riding two horses abreast on the road if they like it or not, i doubt police will go out of their way to educate horse riders when they see them riding on the road, they have more important things to do.
 
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You might as well sign a petition against the recent heavy rains.

The current labour government could not give 2 hoots about people who ride horses as we are "class enemies". In fact, a petition against it just confirms to them that they have hit their intended target...

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Cyclists were calling the same tune a few months ago, if they had not opposed it, then there would have been no hope of a rewrite.

Cycling is also a niche hobby and very working class, but they very definitely felt under threat !
 
I don't think this government will be happy until no-one at all has horses or rides. This bloody class thing gets on my wick, as the majority of horse owners I know are normal, working folks who just happen to spend their spare cash on horses. It's time perceptions were changed, but how to go about it I don't know. I don't ride on roads anymore, due to one too many close shaves - I'm lucky because my yard provides off road hacks round their fields. I feel for anyone who has to use the roads, cos they're just not safe.
 
So this goverment is good at taxing us, saying what we can and can't do and inflicting its PC views over the bland masses of this once great country.

BUT UNLESS WE STAND UP TO THEM, THEN THINGS WILL NOT CHANGE.

Sign it now

Even if you just tell all the people you know about this proposed change and get them to sign the petition against it or even push the BHS into doing somthing, for its many members and the rest othe the riding public, it is better than nothing !!!!
 
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