Radley Lakes: Join the protest march on legs and cycles on 10 March

Join a Cycle Ride and March to Say No to NPow­er’s “Crim­i­nal Dam­age” to Radley Lakes on Sat­ur­day 10 March

Repost from Live Jour­nal:

You are invit­ed to join cyclists from across Oxford­shire in a bicy­cle ride in sup­port of the cam­paign to “Save Radley Lakes” next Sat­ur­day. Cyclists in Oxford are invit­ed to con­gre­gate in Broad Street, Oxford City (OX1 3AS) out­side the Oxford Cam­pus Store, at 12.45pm on Sat­ur­day 10th March, 2007, while walk­ers from Abing­don and Did­cot are invit­ed to con­gre­gate at 1.10pm in Abbey Mead­ow (OX14 3JE) in Abing­don to hear speak­ers, then walk to Thrupp Lake. The cyclists will pro­ceed toward Radley Lakes, with bells, whis­tles and ban­ners, coin­cid­ing with a march by Save Radley Lakes the same day at Thrupp Lake at 1.55pm.

Join a Cycle Ride and March to Say No to NPow­er’s “Crim­i­nal Dam­age” to Radley Lakes on Sat­ur­day 10 March

Repost from Live Jour­nal:

You are invit­ed to join cyclists from across Oxford­shire in a bicy­cle ride in sup­port of the cam­paign to “Save Radley Lakes” next Sat­ur­day. Cyclists in Oxford are invit­ed to con­gre­gate in Broad Street, Oxford City (OX1 3AS) out­side the Oxford Cam­pus Store, at 12.45pm on Sat­ur­day 10th March, 2007, while walk­ers from Abing­don and Did­cot are invit­ed to con­gre­gate at 1.10pm in Abbey Mead­ow (OX14 3JE) in Abing­don to hear speak­ers, then walk to Thrupp Lake. The cyclists will pro­ceed toward Radley Lakes, with bells, whis­tles and ban­ners, coin­cid­ing with a march by Save Radley Lakes the same day at Thrupp Lake at 1.55pm.

Every­one is wel­come to join the cycle ride as a planned show of sup­port for the cam­paign, and the ride will end at the lakes. Bring bells, whis­tles and ban­ners if you can.

The ride will take place at a leisure­ly pace. Radley Lakes have been used by Oxo­ni­ans for over 30 years as a leisure site to walk, cycle and enjoy the envi­ron­ment. Npow­er has filled all the lakes east of the rail­way with ash, and now it wants to destroy the remain­der in the same way, com­plete­ly destroy­ing habi­tat for many species of birds, fish, ani­mal, and plant. News of the cycle ride is being broad­cast to Cyclox, Crit­i­cal Mass, Sus­trans, CTC, and of course Save Radley Lakes. Cyclists are angry that the Npow­er’s dam­age to the lakes will also ruin the beau­ti­ful views of the lake envi­ron­ment on the Sus­trans cycle route than runs between two of the lakes, and there are reports that Npow­er’s site work­ers are already tak­ing lib­er­ties with the cyclists “right of way” block­ing the path to cyclists.

An expe­ri­enced cyclist will lead the ride along an offi­cial cycle route from Oxford to Thrupp Lake (dis­tance 5 miles). Feel free to for­ward this mes­sage to peo­ple or groups who you think might be inter­est­ed, or email jon.rees@gmail.com Please send me an SMS on 07970 893371 if you intend to join us.

See you Sat­ur­day

Route: http://www.sustrans.org.uk/webfiles/leaflets/Hanson%20Way.pdf