Today is the last Mayor’s Question Time before the election so instead of heading to Parliament for PMQ’s we decided to go to City Hall and ask everyone going into the building if they could please ask Boris to bring our air quality within legal limits. We reminded the deputy mayor that gluing pollution to the floor is not a way of solving this problem, but better cycling infrastructure is. You find find out more about our PMQ’s about cycling here or join us at Spring Clean 2012
At Climate Rush we believe that we need safer roads for pedestrians and cyclists in order to reduce our toxic poor air quality and to reduce our carbon emissions so we were keen to join Stop Murder of Cyclists on their second cycling die-in protest outside City Hall with Jenny Jones.
Putting on skeleton masks and positioning ourselves as dead on the pavement we took a stand against the traffic violence that led to the death of 16 cyclists in London last year. Stop Murder of Cyclists is a Southwark based campaigning group. They are demanding that Southwark Council spend one third of their transport budget on cycling infrastructure, for the roads the Mayor is responsible for in Southwark to have Dutch-style traffic-free lanes within 5 years and for a complete re-design of the 9 most dangerous junctions the mayor is responsible for in Southwark, including physical protections for cyclists. We couldn’t agree with them more.
On our way the the tube from City Hall we saw Ken Livingstone and Ed Miliband outside London Bridge tube station protesting against fare rises and we realised that we have seen Jenny Jones, Ken Livingstone, Ed Miliband and the deputy mayor - which leaves us wondering, where is Boris?
Tags: air pollution, air quality, Boris, Climate Change, climate rush, cycling, Ed Miliband, Jenny Jones, Ken Livingstone, MQT's, Stop Murder of Cyclists