Riders Rights in Northern Ireland
For those that don’t visit our websites regularly or follow us Facebook, below is a round up of our articles and some extra information from last week. The supporters events for 2013 are still coming in: from the Ancestors St Paddy’s Party; N.I. Bikers & Trikers Riding For Charity – Quiz Night – In Aid [...]
In the latest BMF (British Motorcyclists Federation) members’ magazine – Motorcycle Rider, Right To Ride is featured in a full page article. The article gives a run down on myself and Elaine and Right To Ride, with mention of our previous background in riders rights and our on-going work at Right To Ride www.righttoride.co.uk The [...]
On Monday the 11th June Michelle McIlveen MLA hosted a presentation of the Northern Ireland Motorcycle Fatality Report 2012 at Stormont’s Parliament Buildings. Having assaulted Stormont with an uphill walk to the top of the hill Right To Ride’s Elaine Hardy presented the report, which was a study of “Motorcycle Fatalities in Northern Ireland between [...]
Motorcycle Friendly Crash Barrier Standards – The Mystery of EN1317-8 On Thursday, June 16, the CEN (European Committee for Standardization) technical committee on road equipment (TC226) held its annual meeting in Stockholm. The draft standard for a road restraint protection system for motorcycles (EN1317-8) was on the agenda. At the meeting, the committee chose to [...]
FFMC – the Fédération Française des Motards en Colère (The French Federation of Angry Bikers) are getting hot under the collar, in fact they are getting very angry. The reason is that their government is planning to introduce a raft of legislation in the name of safety that will not only affect motorcyclists in France, [...]
Risk and Motorcycles – Dammed If We Do – Dammed If We Don’t! Right To Ride has published a report on “Risk and Motorcycles”, it is a critique of a report published by the Scottish Executive in 2006 entitled “Risk and Motorcyclists in Scotland”. Right To Rides’ Elaine Hardy says, “the authors of the Scottish [...]
Right To Ride publishes the Near Miss Riders Survey report. The findings of the survey have identified situations that appear to be more prevalent for motorcyclists, which are the potential for collisions between motorcycles and other vehicles, followed by problems with the conditions of roads and road infrastructure. Read more
Motorcyclists could be paying less VED (Vehicle Excise Duty) – Road Tax – if the same CO2 emissions based VED scheme was introduced for motorcycles that is already in place for cars – and from April 2010, for new car purchases. But they won’t unless the motorcycle manufacturers supply CO2 emission information. Read the Right [...]
Thanks to all those who filled in the survey. The next steps are to analyse the data, put together a focus group and then publish the results in a report. Read the published report. Read more
Right To Ride has published “Motorcycling in Northern Ireland – the Rider’s Perspective”, a document offering the views of motorcyclists as a point of reference for a Motorcycling Strategy in Northern Ireland. At the start of April 2009 we circulated a consultation document to Agencies, Government Departments, Politicians, Interested Parties and Individuals, which covered all [...]
High on the European Road Safety agenda is focus on passive and active Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) to reduce road casualties. Drawing together stakeholders from within Europe: from the Europe Union (EU) Commission through to user organisations, an initiative called e-Safety claims that: “eSafety brings together the European Commission, industry, public authorities and other stakeholders [...]
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