All are welcome to join a remembrance cycle ride on Sunday, April 8, which will name and remember all the cyclists killed in Southampton this century.
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Organisers say the reasons for the ride are to:
- remember all cyclists killed by motor vehicles in the city, thinking especially of the two cyclists killed in the last weeks of 2017;
- highlight the vulnerability of cyclists in a transport system that continues to prioritise motor vehicles over other road users;
- encourage drivers to "think bike" and remember that they should slow down and take extra care around cyclists and other vulnerable road users.
“We will be a very visible group and we hope serve as a reminder to motorists that they must look out for cyclists and take extra care around them”, says Southampton Cycling Campaign, which is hosting the event.
If you want to join in, the Cycling Campaign says the route is as follows:
We will meet at Woolston Stn. After stopping at the Itchen Bridge to remember the recent tragedy (John Morris) and Derek Witt (also Amber Mattingly killed on Bitterne Rd West), we will take a quiet route via the parks and Common to the Regents Park Rd/Millbrook Rd junction, where we will remember cyclists killed on Millbrook Rd, Mountbatten Way and Thomas Lewis Way (Greg Dear, Jordon Wickingham, Robert Lee); from here via Second and Third Avenues, crossing at Redbridge roundabout, we will stop at Brownhill Way to remember Richard Gardner,the cyclist killed there in December, then returning to the city centre via quiet roads, the Common and the parks, stopping at the New Road/East Park Terrace junction to remember Sandro Filipik.
Timings: Wooston 1.45 pm; Regents Park Rd/Millbrook Rd 3 pm; Brownhill Way 3.35 pm; New Rd 4.30 pm
It will finish with tea/coffee at the cafe in the park.
Organiser Katherine Barbour (also Green Party candidate for Portswood in the May local elections) said: "I love this city and enjoy cycling around it - no one should feel scared of taking to two wheels. I call on the City Council to redouble its efforts to create safe cycle routes in Southampton."
The Facebook event is here https://www.facebook.com/events/177630283029701/
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