Manchester Friends of the Earth | Archive of website content

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Our website contains a variety of items dating back to 2001. You can use this archive to explore by year, campaign theme, specific campaign, and category. See also our new releases, our media appearances and our newsletters.

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Ask your Councillors for on-street cycle storage!

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10th Jun 2020

Read on to find out how to get secure cycle storage on your street.

Urgent: get your council to do more on Active Travel

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24th May 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has turned our lives upside down, wreaking havoc on health and jobs. As a result, many of us are spending far more time at home – prompting traffic levels to drop, along with air pollution and carbon emissions. Restrictions on travel and movement mean roads are now being used more by walkers and cyclists.

Petition: Make streets safe for social distancing & save lives (Playing Out)

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20th May 2020

All of us – including children and vulnerable people – are having to frequently step into the road to follow the 2m rule, as most pavements are too narrow to pass safely. We’re also being encouraged to walk and cycle more as lockdown eases.

Ask the Government to give the green light to “implied zebras”

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1st May 2020

Crossing roads can be a lottery at the best of times, never mind if you have limited vision or mobility. But there’s a simple way to make our neighbourhoods safer for everyone - implied zebra crossings.

Ask your council to reallocate road space for walking (Living Streets)

transport

23rd Apr 2020

Under the current Covid-19 guidance, it is vital that, when we take our permitted daily exercise outside, we are able to do it safely. It is also important that keyworkers are able to travel safely.

Show support for the Transport Select Committee’s report asking for the Government to change the law on pavement parking (Guide Dogs)

transport

12th Feb 2020

When cars are parked on pavements, people with a vision impairment may have to risk their lives by walking into the road just to get by them.

Scrap dangerous ‘smart motorways’ (Petition – Change.org)

transport

8th Feb 2020

The BBC’s Panorama programme found that there have been twenty times more near-misses on the M25 since the introduction of so-called ‘smart motorways’.

Add your name: A child’s right to clean air shouldn’t be a postcode lottery (The Air Team)

transport

16th Jan 2020

In the UK's biggest cities, air pollution is dangerously high – and it’s putting our children’s health at risk.

Demand clean air now (British Heart Foundation)

transport

13th Jan 2020

Each year, up to 11,000 UK heart and circulatory disease deaths are attributable to air pollution. We need your help to change this.

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