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.
 
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 !!!!
 
Signed!!!Feel this will cause MAJOR problems to alot of people,not to mention the possible adverse affect this will have on people with youngsters that rely on the encouragement of an older horse by their side when first travelling out onto the roads!
What is this world coming to?I live in north lincolnshire were bridlepaths are few and far between(If they wasnt i would most definately be avoiding rmain roads)and have no option but to use roads for my horses fitness!Am sure most people in my area have the same views!Fortunately my boy is 100% in any traffic on his own but sure there are LOTS of horseowners out there that have to rely on a friend to give confidence and support!x
 
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