Prospect BUG launches campaign for keeping bike lanes on Arterial Roads in Prospect

The recently reformed Prospect Bike User Group has just launched a new campaign, including a petition, to prevent the removal of bike lanes from arterial roads in Prospect. The Prospect BUG co-ordinator Heather believes there is an important precedent involved and encourages cyclists from across SA to read up on this issue and get involved.
Find out more at the Prospect BUG group @ Adelaide Cyclists, http://www.adelaidecyclists.com/group/bugprospect
From the notes on the issue prepared by Prospect BUG:
The Prospect City Council proposes in its Prospect Masterplans for a
section of bicycle lanes on Prospect Road be removed and the
carriageway narrowed. We believe this would be a retrograde step for
cycling safety. In A Cycling Strategy, strategy 2.1 includes to “include in all
new urban road projects or road upgrades; safe, direct and attractive
cycling facilities”.

The State Government and all local councils within the Adelaide Greater
Metropolitan Area, including Prospect City Council, have a duty of care to
cater for safer bicycle transport. In A Cycling Strategy, objective 3
includes: “The legitimacy of cycling still needs to be reinforced in the
community. Two-thirds of casualty crashes and three-quarter of fatalities
of cyclists occur on arterial roads. Greater focus needs to be made to
cater for the safety of cyclists on both arterial and local roads”.
Will you help to prevent a proposed precedent for removing bicycle lanes
from arterial roads?
1. Sign the petition Cycling Arterial Roads.
2. Letters are more valued than a petition. Please also write a short letter
   to the Minister for Transport, and post or email.
   Hon Patrick Conlon, Minister for Transport, 136 North Terrace,
   Adelaide SA 5000, minister.conlon@saugov.sa.gov.au
3. Consider collecting signatures for the petition. (If you do, take with you
   a printout of these notes, intentionally in larger font.)