{"id":3118,"date":"2016-06-13T12:26:50","date_gmt":"2016-06-13T12:26:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.harbug.org.uk\/?p=3118"},"modified":"2020-04-02T18:49:35","modified_gmt":"2020-04-02T18:49:35","slug":"petition-for-new-law-minimum-passing-distance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.harbug.org.uk\/?p=3118","title":{"rendered":"Petition for New Law &#8211; Minimum Passing Distance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HarBUG has\u00a0been asked to draw your attention to a petition which would require parliament to consider\u00a0a new law requiring vehicles to leave a minimum safe distance when overtaking cyclists.<\/p>\n<p>The petition is at:<span style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';font-size: 10pt\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><a title=\"https:\/\/petition.parliament.uk\/petitions\/128190\" href=\"https:\/\/petition.parliament.uk\/petitions\/128190\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">https:\/\/petition.parliament.uk\/petitions\/128190<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Former Team GB star Chris Boardman, now a policy advisor to British Cycling, said the new law should be brought in &#8216;without delay&#8217;:\u00a0 <span style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';font-size: 10pt\"><a title=\"http:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/news\/uk-news\/motorists-could-face-100-fines-8102754\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/news\/uk-news\/motorists-could-face-100-fines-8102754\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">http:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/news\/uk-news\/motorists-could-face-100-fines-8102754<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>More information is available at:\u00a0 <span style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';font-size: 10pt\"><a title=\"http:\/\/www.roadsafetygb.org.uk\/news\/5080.html\" href=\"http:\/\/www.roadsafetygb.org.uk\/news\/5080.html\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">http:\/\/www.roadsafetygb.org.uk\/news\/5080.html<\/span><\/a> <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Report with additional details:\u00a0\u00a0<span style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';font-size: 10pt\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.harbug.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Passing-law-research-paper.pdf\">Passing law research paper<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Guy W<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HarBUG has\u00a0been asked to draw your attention to a petition which would require parliament to consider\u00a0a new law requiring vehicles to leave a minimum safe distance when overtaking cyclists. The petition is at:\u00a0\u00a0https:\/\/petition.parliament.uk\/petitions\/128190 Former Team GB star Chris Boardman, now a policy advisor to British Cycling, said the new law should be brought in &#8216;without [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1-latest-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.harbug.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.harbug.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.harbug.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.harbug.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.harbug.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.harbug.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.harbug.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.harbug.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.harbug.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}