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Action on gyratory

Published: 3 February, 2012

• Prompted by the disabled protest in Oxford Street at the weekend, I’ve thought of the long tradition there is in Britain of taking direct action when that becomes necessary.

That’s how Hampstead Heath was saved, how the suffragettes obtained the vote for women and how the right for all of us to ramble was gained in the 1930s.

The slow walks at King’s Cross aim at the removal of the lethal gyratory and the introduction of cycle lanes, work which was meant to be carried out before but was postponed by Transport for London, with the result that another cyclist was killed last October (Protesters ride too rough for cycling group, January 27).

I am a member of London Cycling Campaign, and see no contradiction between supporting that campaigning group
and participating in the more direct King’s Cross protest (next one is on Monday from 6-7 pm).

Anita Frizzarin
Wedmore Gardens, N19

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