{"id":5261,"date":"2011-10-13T09:15:35","date_gmt":"2011-10-13T08:15:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/?p=5261"},"modified":"2011-10-13T00:48:40","modified_gmt":"2011-10-12T23:48:40","slug":"bike-parking-tax-protest-central-london-12th-october-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/bike-parking-tax-protest-central-london-12th-october-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Bike Parking Tax protest, central London 12th October 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/bike-parkimg-tax-protest-01.jpg\" alt=\"Bike Parking Tax protest, central London 12th October 2011\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There was much a-tootin&#8217; of horns around the streets of Trafalgar Square last night, as a bevy of\u00a0motorcyclists\u00a0from the\u00a0\u201cNo To the Bike Parking Tax\u201d campaign group headed into town.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/bike-parkimg-tax-protest-02.jpg\" alt=\"Bike Parking Tax protest, central London 12th October 2011\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The group describes itself as a non-political action group representing &#8220;motorcyclists and scooterists who object to [the] illegitimate introduction of parking levies by Westminster City Council and any other authorities.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/bike-parkimg-tax-protest-03.jpg\" alt=\"Bike Parking Tax protest, central London 12th October 2011\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The campaigners are\u00a0lobbying\u00a0for the\u00a0withdrawal\u00a0of parking taxes and a full refund of all fees stumped up to date by riders, and have already already raised nearly \u00a390,000 from supporters for a legal fund.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/bike-parkimg-tax-protest-04.jpg\" alt=\"Bike Parking Tax protest, central London 12th October 2011\" \/><\/p>\n<p>More protest are planned &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/notobikeparkingtax.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">check out their website<\/a> for updates and news.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was much a-tootin&#8217; of horns around the streets of Trafalgar Square last night, as a bevy of\u00a0motorcyclists\u00a0from the\u00a0\u201cNo To the Bike Parking Tax\u201d campaign group headed into town.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7239,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[194,17,193],"tags":[10,19,35],"class_list":["post-5261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-london-features","category-photos","category-places","tag-london","tag-protest","tag-trafalgar-square"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/bike-parkimg-tax-protest-01.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQI7P-1mR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5261"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5263,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5261\/revisions\/5263"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}