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DO YOU WANT TO BE CHARGED £70  FOR DRIVING OVER THE MILL ROAD BRIDGE? This is what we at FoMRB – Friends of Mill Road Bridge –  are fighting against!  Help us in (y)our legal battle, happening NOW.

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The GCP and County Council want us to drive a long way to avoid a £70 fine, which just creates congestion on Coleridge Road, Coldham's Lane, Devonshire Road... Mill Road only has moderate traffic now. We feel this £70 toll is a cynical money grab disguised as  'green' and 'active travel'. Where this case leads, will influence freedom of movement in our city. Coldham's Lane Bridge might be next, even Hills Road after that...  it's happening fast! NEW: COURT DATE FOR FoMRB's  INTERIM INJUNCTION APPLICATION   11 October 2023 at High Court in London

against starting bus gate works on the Bridge till final Court decision re quash

First step WON!

SUPPORT OUR FUNDING! The first legal costs ( filing, solicitor and barrister) for filing a pre-action protocol letter, were £6726 incl VAT, now covered by all of you! Taking it to court (twice) will be about £15,000, plus publicity costs,  so we’ve adjusted the funding total  to £20,000. WE CAN'T DO IT WITHOUT YOU! Any unused funds at the end of all proceedings will be returned to donors on a pro-rata basis.  Want to know more?  Write fomillroadbridge@gmail.com

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NEW! You can donate by  bank transfer! Metro Bank, Friends of Mill Road Bridge,   email us for details.

RECENT MEDIA We have also been covered by  BBC News, MSN, and BBC radio.

We feel that the reasons given for the June 2023 Traffic Regulation Order 'closing' the Bridge only disguise a grab for money by local authorities. Residents, workers and traders all across the county need to be able to drive over the Bridge without incurring £70 fines! Train station, carers, hospital visits – the vital local needs filled quickly by free Bridge access are as many as there are individual lives inside – and outside – Cambridge. Re-routing drivers to Coldham’s Lane, Coleridge Road and Hills Road will only snarl up traffic nearby, causing needless pollution and huge time-wasting. Local traders will suffer 20+% losses in turnover, as in previous closures; some will be forced to cease trading because of this last-straw blow to revenues. Please don't sit by and let this happen to us all! Join us by writing to County Councillors, and the newspapers, and by alerting others, both online and in person. Thank you all. FoMRB Chair Pam Wesson About us: Friends of Mill Road Bridge is a small volunteer team dedicated to keeping the Bridge open on Mill Road, a major transport artery in Cambridge, UK. We are an official Community Group with a constitution and bank account and we have hundreds of supporters on Facebook at Friends of Mill Road Bridge, Mill Road Community and Traders, and other groups.

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KEEP THE  BRIDGE OPEN! So far, since March, Friends of Mill Road Bridge delayed implementation of the TRO (Traffic Regulation Order) to install a bus gate, but we want the bus gate quashed entirely. So the FoMRB launched a statutory review in July 2023 against the  Cambridgeshire County Council.

Cambridge Independent  13-18 July 2023 (TAP to enlarge)

NOW WE NEED YOUR HELP.

Cambridge Independent  18-24 Oct 2023 (TAP to enlarge)

Friends of Mill Road Bridge A constituted community group Cambridge UK fomillroadbridge@gmail.com https://fomillroadbridge.com Tel. 01223 485110 The FoMRB Committee is acting independently of any other group, association or political party, although we might be current members or officers of them.  To see our accounts or constitution, write us. © Friends of Mill Road Bridge 2023 Updated: 30 Oct 2023

EVEN MORE NEWS! Here's our initial Claim  application, pages and pages. HAPPY BEDTIME READING!