Safe Streets for Everyone
7 June @ 14:00 - 16:00
In the last 9 months in Reading 6 people have tragically lost their lives while walking or cycling. All were hit by a driver of a car.
In March alone there’s been 3 accidents where a driver has hit someone walking or cycling and changed their life.
We know there are so many people impacted by how our roads are dominated by cars, from families to scared to walk to school, or cross the road outside their houses for speeding cars. Wheelchair users who can’t get to Uni, because their route to the bus stop is inaccessible due to broken glass and cars.
We know the answers aren’t simple, that not everyone has the same problems but we think there’s a lot of people fighting as part of residents groups, junctions, cycle groups who all have a lot in common.
Please join us to walk, wheel, scoot, skate from locations across Reading to converge at Forbury Gardens for a picnic, connections and chance to share all our concerns and wants.
Our voices matter, and hopefully by coming together we can create a louder voice for Safer Streets for all of us.
Once we have a list of people involved we’ll set up a series of smaller events to celebrate people coming from various parts of Reading by whatever means of transport they prefer.