alanTDM
28-06-10, 04:51 PM
Hello everyone.
So we have a new government and the MAG successes don't seem to stop.
We've already had meetings with the new Under- Secretary of State for
Transport, Mike Penning, who has announced an enquiry into the DSA new
motorbike testing fiasco and now also that he is reopening the
consultation into Britain's interpretation of the new EU Driving Licence
Directive (3DLD) (due to be enacted Jan 2013).
It had been decided that a new young rider would sit a total of 8 tests
(many of them identical) to get their full licence, when infact they
could have just been offered training at intervals as they progressed to
bigger bikes. Mr Penning has acknowledged the stupidity of this idea and
agreed to reassess the situation.
These are incredible results so early in the life of a government but
there is yet more news and an opportunity to get involved too.
Sammy Wilson MP has tabled an Early Day Motion (EDM 208) promoting
motorcycles that I hope you will ask your MP to sign.
An EDM is a tool used in Parliament to draw attention to an issue and is
something that MPs only sign if their constituents ask them to. EDM 1002
which so many of you got your MPs to sign in the last Parliament, was
vital to achieving the review into the motorcycle test that Mike Penning
MP has just announced.
EDM 208 reads
> That this House notes the positive impact that motorcycling can have both as an alternative
to the private car and as a way of reducing congestion in towns and
cities; is concerned that
these benefits and the views of motorcyclists are often overlooked in
the development of transport policy;
and calls on the Government to give greater attention to these issues
during the course of this Parliament.
Please ask your MP to sign this and if you aren't sure who your new MP
is, please visit www.ridersarevoters.org to find out.
There are currently 23 signatories, lets see if we can get a full house!
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Kind regards
Paddy Tyson
Campaigns Co-ordinator
MAG (UK) - Motorcycle Action Group
Tel: 01926 844064
Mob: 07717 345605
www.mag-uk.org
www.ridersarevoters.org
So we have a new government and the MAG successes don't seem to stop.
We've already had meetings with the new Under- Secretary of State for
Transport, Mike Penning, who has announced an enquiry into the DSA new
motorbike testing fiasco and now also that he is reopening the
consultation into Britain's interpretation of the new EU Driving Licence
Directive (3DLD) (due to be enacted Jan 2013).
It had been decided that a new young rider would sit a total of 8 tests
(many of them identical) to get their full licence, when infact they
could have just been offered training at intervals as they progressed to
bigger bikes. Mr Penning has acknowledged the stupidity of this idea and
agreed to reassess the situation.
These are incredible results so early in the life of a government but
there is yet more news and an opportunity to get involved too.
Sammy Wilson MP has tabled an Early Day Motion (EDM 208) promoting
motorcycles that I hope you will ask your MP to sign.
An EDM is a tool used in Parliament to draw attention to an issue and is
something that MPs only sign if their constituents ask them to. EDM 1002
which so many of you got your MPs to sign in the last Parliament, was
vital to achieving the review into the motorcycle test that Mike Penning
MP has just announced.
EDM 208 reads
> That this House notes the positive impact that motorcycling can have both as an alternative
to the private car and as a way of reducing congestion in towns and
cities; is concerned that
these benefits and the views of motorcyclists are often overlooked in
the development of transport policy;
and calls on the Government to give greater attention to these issues
during the course of this Parliament.
Please ask your MP to sign this and if you aren't sure who your new MP
is, please visit www.ridersarevoters.org to find out.
There are currently 23 signatories, lets see if we can get a full house!
--
Kind regards
Paddy Tyson
Campaigns Co-ordinator
MAG (UK) - Motorcycle Action Group
Tel: 01926 844064
Mob: 07717 345605
www.mag-uk.org
www.ridersarevoters.org