"Angry and frightened": Could Birmingham safer roads protests inspire Dutch-style cycling revolution in Britain?
Hundreds of protestors lined up at Kings Heath, Birmingham to protest the increasingly dangerous state of roads, with seven hit-and-runs in less than a month, killing four cyclists, including a 12-year-old boy. 13-year-old Hope Fenell was riding her bike when she was struck by an HGV driver in 2011. While the driver got a prison sentence of six months, Hope lost her life. "It was extremely poignant, we went there because of the hit-and-run on Thursday, but opposite the railings where we were, there's a memorial to Hope," Paul Manzotti from Better Streets for Birmingham told road.cc road.cc "It's been 12 years, and very little has changed. |