BCAG is campaigning about many things. Our newsletter contains lots of information about them. They include:

• Cycle-Friendly Infrastructure (bike lanes, safe cycle parking, etc)
• West Yorkshire Cycleway
(when, oh when?....)
• Health Issues - Ride A Bike and Get Fit(ter)
• Pollution (particulates, etc)
• Bicycle User Groups (see the link)
• Integrated Transport (e.g. bikes on trains)
• Road Schemes (watching out for 'improvements' that mean dangerously higher car speeds)

The " What Can I Do?" slot

You're busy. Work is up to here; the kitchen needs re-decorating; the kids have to be taken here, there and everywhere, etc., etc. You can't make meetings, but you want to do your bit. Here's how:

• Write to and ring your local councillor or one who's in the news on a cycling or traffic related subject. Find out who runs your Area Panel. Ditto your health authority or hospital management. Items can include potholes (751000 [that's the phone no., not the number of them]), W. Yorks. Town & Country Cycleway, damaged railway cycle lockers, lack of facilities such as cycle stands, rat runs, local traffic calming safe routes to school and so on.
• We'd appreciate copies of letters/calls and any replies so that we can follow them up.
• Write to the T&A or your local paper - Mike Healey's printer is wearing out. It'll keep the adrenalin going when the weather's too foulor a bike ride. Keep an eye on issues coming up like car parking, car taxes and, especially, anything in the media on the usual anti-cyclist drivel. Remember, letters and phone calls add political weight to our actions and… We need far more facilities, BUGS, bike lanes, access, money - go to it!
• Write an article on something that bugs you about provision for cyclists in Bradford - and send it to us for publication in Bikerights.

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