Motorcycle groups develop a united response to Oxfordshire County Council’s anti-motorcycle bias
News from the Motorcycle Action Group (MAG) Motorcycle groups develop a united response to Oxfordshire County Council’s anti-motorcycle bias. Many Oxfordshire motorcyclists already know that Oxfordshire County Council is conducting a survey regarding its future Local Transport and Connectivity Plan 5 and asks for responses to 28 papers on various aspects of the plan. The 28th paper discusses motorcycling and appears almost as an afterthought, created only after Cherwell District Councillor John Broad raised issue with a lack of content relevant to motorcycles in the previous strategy document. The original version of the topic paper was so biased that Oxfordshire County Council revised it after significant pressure from Cllr Broad, motorcycle lobby groups and many local motorcyclists. The revised document still shows bias and misinformation, and none of the other topic papers even mention motorcycles. Motorcyclists will be happy to know that, yesterday, representatives...