Deal 20's Plenty Campaign news

Good news for Deal: it stands to become a safer, healthier, quieter, richer and more pleasant town!

The Town Council recently passed a Resolution for 20mph limits to be introduced in our residential and commercial districts. Last January, the Department for Transport issued advice saying that if a town wants a 20mph norm, than it should have it. Historically, KCC, whose approval is now necessary, has been rather stick-in-the-mud, but the recent elections may well have changed its attitude fundamentally…

It comes down to this: momentum is on the side of a change for the better for Deal; but in a democracy, a powerful show of popular support is often crucial.

The arguments for 20mph in most areas of Deal have been set out in this newspaper. We now have letters and leaflets, summarising the powerful case in favour, based upon solid evidence, which can be traced through the sources we refer to.

Above all, please sign the petitions on our web site!

We need the support of as many people as possible, and so we are mounting a campaign. Would you consider giving an hour or two of your time to put leaflets through letterboxes? Are you a business and would like a poster for your window: perhaps you can make a small donation to pay for printing leaflets?

Research shows that in most towns 71% of residents want 20mph. Please consider taking positive action to make the necessary change, and write to me at our website below.

Alan Gleave

20splentyfordeal.org.uk

'20s Plenty for Deal' meeting 27th Feb

Speaker Rod King from 20's Plenty

20's Plenty for Deal campaign have their launch this Wednesday at the Deal Town Hall. The meeting starts at 7pm

The key idea of the group is that a lower speed limit for where people live will save lives losted and damaged. The group has an online petition hosted at their website.

This is one of the most shocking maps of Deal - one of road causilities over the ten years to 2010

For more information see the campaign's website or come to the meeting on the 27th Feb http://www.20splentyfordeal.org.uk/

'20's Plenty for Deal' launch on Wed 27th Feb

A new campaign focussed on making our Deal streets safer is launched next week . 

Deal '20's Plenty' campaign has its first public meeting on Wednesday 27th Feb at 7pm at the Town Hall.

The campaign wants to bring in a 20mph limit for traffic in the town. It has setup a online petition to gauge support in the town can be found here

Speakers include Rod King from the national campaign.

 For more information see their website at:
http://www.20splentyfordeal.org.uk/

20mph is plenty for Deal....

20 is plenty for Deal.....

Alan's Letter in this week's EKM:
"
How right Mr. Finney* is in calling for a 20 mph speed limit on all residential roads in Deal.

There has grown up in Deal a culture of quite reckless speeding – a blight on our town, and a real danger to cyclists, pedestrians – and motorists themselves.

Thirty years ago I saw a young cyclist knocked down and killed by a speeding motorist. Regularly, memories of that day come back to haunt me. If I cannot forget, what dreadful sorrow and regret must overshadow both the family of the dead child, and the motorist?

Every age of history, civilised in most ways, has its own moral blind-spot, based on the mistaken pseudo-philosophy of: “Well, everybody else is doing it.”  Remember the use of slaves in the American cotton-fields, and Victorian child chimney-sweeps.  Today, we allow many motorists, largely unchallenged, to drive among us at speeds that spell almost certain death for any cyclist or pedestrian who makes a single false move. Motorists, too, are capable of mistakes, with potentially fatal consequences – perhaps for themselves.

I do understand the problem from both sides. I sometimes drive a car too, and in the past I have not always rigorously obeyed speed limits. But in my best, rational mind I know that it is right for life-saving speed limits to be imposed, and rigorously enforced. Now is the time to remove our blind spot.

I am seeking to form a pressure group to campaign for the introduction of 20 mph speed limits on all the residential roads in Deal. If you would like to join in, please contact me using the email address: alangleave@yahoo.co.uk. 

Alan Gleave

* Mr. Finney’s letter was published in last week’s paper."

 http://www.20splentyforus.org.uk/