Downing St petition

langsett

Hi

Please circulate info and get supporters to sign a new petition on the downing st web site

Govt deliberately didn't protect old rail lines when tthey passed the rail white paper, so we need to lobby hard to get common sense

Your petition has been approved by the Number 10 web team, and
is now available on the Number 10 website at the following
address:

http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/old-rail-lines/

Your petition reads:

We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to instruct
Ministers to ensure all former rail corridors are protected
for use as transport corridors.

To ensure countrywide protection in planning and development
legislation of disused rail corridors.

To provide for their re use as rail lines should circumstances
permit.

To facilitate their development as 'Greenways', or transport
corridors for cyclists, walkers, horse riders and wheelchair
users.

To extend nationally the network of successful routes which
have been developed by Sustrans in conjunction with Local
Authorities and other bodies, such as the Spen Valley Greenway
in Kirklees, West Yorkshire.

eternal_headwind

I will sign.

Saying that these petitions are ignored will not get our voice heard. We must keep up the background pressure.

Shadowduck

Signed.

Parkey

Absolutely signed.

Don't know if it will do anything about the great British railway taboo though. The one that means that even though 2/3 of the population are now in favour of better public transport instead of new roads, and railways ticking all the right boxes economically, socially and environmentally, government still won't consider laying even a metre of a new railway line.

eternal_headwind

Good work. I was worried that this thread would just become a mindless whinge about how no one out there is listerning.

Keep signing, it only takes a few seconds