Its unfortunate and very sad when a person loses their life for no reason. Most if not all road cyclists have had a close shave at some time or other. The challenge is to get ALL road users to respect each other and be more tolerant. Without this nothing much will change. There has been a lot of speculation on the HUB regarding what does PPA do with its funds and what should it be doing. As a PPA committee member I am proud to share what PPA has and is doing in respect of making our roads safer for all cyclists. PPA last year launched a Safe Cycling campaign which is incrementally being rolled out country wide. The campaign "Cyclist stay alive at 1.5m" incoporates visible bright yellow cycling jerseys (available online at PPA at a susidised cost), print, radio, social media, moving advertisements on busses (last year) as well as awareness stickers and licence disks (over 70 000 distributed to date). Over R500 000 has been spent to date with another R1000 000 in this years budget for the Safe Cycling Campaign. PPA has also funded a masters student at UCT to study and recommend what would constitue a safe passing distance. In addtion PPA has lodged a civil claim for damages against the motorist who killed the unfortunate cyclists outside Outshoorn a few years ago. The purpose being to sensitize the public to the fact that we as cyclist also have rights! This is only part of what PPA does on behalf of all of us cyclist. For more information please contact the PPA office, website or talk to one of our committee members.
