31ST MARCH - 4,000+ AGAINST PARKING TAX DESCEND ON WCC!

The MEGA DEMO happened and it was exactly that... MEGA!

THE FIGHT GOES ON! TO JOIN THE CAMPAIGN GO HERE: http://www.notobikeparkingtax.com

For photos from the demo, you maybe be in one! Go here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/notobikeparkingtax/sets/72157616100642045/

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• london
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• protest
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• westminster city council
• england
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• westminster

[driversalliance]

Great protest and fantastic so many turned up.

If Westminster get away with this, parking taxes for bikes will spread like a cancer across the country. A line needs to be drawn.

Bikes should be encouraged as an efficient and clean form of transport - not taxed off the roads.

Drivers already pay £1.2 Billion each year in parking tax or £45 each

We pay:

- VED

- 70% tax on fuel

- VAT on related products.

Why should we pay for roadside parking when we already pay many times over?

[BBCViewers]

WELL DONE !! AND I WAS THERE !!!

The most important thing is that bikers are waking up. We had been beaten down to become pussycats.

This restors some pride.

We need more and bigger targets. What's next? Parliament? Buckingham Palace?

YEAH !! YES WE CAN !!!

[ShibariShamster]

London the Long Way Round M25 demonstration on Sat, 19th June 2010 departs Ace Cafe, Ace Corner, North Circular Road, London NW107UD

[ShibariShamster]

All motorists who have had enough of draconian parking enforcement and exhorbitant parking fees should stand united with NoToBikeParkingTax, whether or not they support the particular battleground upon which it is being fought. It's time to show them the motoring public has had enough. Google 'nutsville' if you want to know how rotten is the state of Westminster!

[VCRAGE]

@tjolly45 yeah ur right, however.. weren't all motorcycle allowed on all red route bus lanes? They lied to us.

They dont want to encourage motorbikes. They love cars in this damn country.

[stopjunkscience]

Welcome to the wonderful FACISM disneyland implemented by the usual crowd of left brain emotionally stunted civil servants... on behalf of the inbred masters. This comes as no surprise.

[tjolly45]

it's not the £1 charge that bothers me as a biker, it's the fines, twice i've forgotten to pay it and been fined £60 each time, then they close bays without warning and fine everyone £60 and don't get me started on bus lanes, another £60 for driving on a road that went from allowed to banned in the space of 100 yards...another £60 fine...the £1 charge isn't what the council wants, it's the £60 fine they are making money from which they couldn't apply if the bay's continued to be free.

[uktokers]

It was amazing to see how many motorcycles and scooter riders turned up to this demonstration. It was a brilliant demo! 

See you at the next one...

1ST JULY 2009 - OBJECTION WEDNESDAY

[Buttmunch5000]

looked like a good rally against parking charges, i hope it gets changed but somehow with government like it is i doubt it, sorry to be such a glass half empty person it just seems like other citys will just be biding their time before they have a scheme similar to this.

Keep up the fight i hope you can do it

[blacksheepbikers]

Amazing demo, well planned - we're waiting in the wings for the next one!! We cannot let Westminster win this battle...we're fighting for all bikers in the UK - for this year and many more to come!

[documentaryunit]

We are right but we have to prove it.

1) Discrimination against non mobile and card users.

2) Cheap alternative when there should've been more consultation.

3) No changes to bays which creates confusion and traps bikers

4) Changing decades of free parking almost overnight. Smacks as vengeful.

5) They make up their minds and then they consult.

6) No clear indication on how quickly users have to phone. Creates doubt and catches bikers like a bear trap.