Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/1999-10-25-Speech-1-071"

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dcterms:Date	"1999-10-25"^^xsd:date2
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dcterms:Language	"en"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.19991025.5.1-071"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:1999-10-25-Speech-1-0722
lpv:speaker	lp:Bill Miller2
lpv:spoken text	"Mr President, I congratulate Mr Harbour on his first report. For a new Member he has done very well on this. He gave a clear explanation of what the report is about. I would like to pick up on a couple of the aspects he touched upon. These relate to the question of safety. Safety was pertinent to this report all the way through. At the very end it picks up the question of safety of two-wheeled vehicles. Perhaps not many people here realise that there are more accidents involving motorbikes in the vicinity of roundabouts than anywhere else on motorways or roads. Why is that? It is because of diesel spillage. Mr Harbour recognises that in his first amendment. He states quite clearly that diesel spillage is a danger to users of two-wheeled vehicles. So we have to look at why there is more spillage of diesel around motorways. It is because of missing caps or ill-fitting caps on fuel tanks. As these commercial vehicles go round roundabouts the fuel tends to spill out and motorbikes following closely behind skid on the greasy surface that diesel leaves. Therefore, the second amendment tackles this whole question of the ill-fitting caps and, sometimes, no caps at all. I congratulate him on that. I should also like to point out that motorcycling is enjoying a boom at the moment. There is a revival in motorcycling. I do not know why. I look around this room and see that most of us are probably approaching middle age. Maybe some of us hanker back to our younger days and fulfilling the role of Dennis Hopper in the film . I do not know, but anyway motorcycling is enjoying a revival. I welcome that, and if there is increasing usage of motorcycles on the roads, then we have to make those roads safer. Therefore my group will fully support Mr Harbour’s report."@en1
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; Committee on Industry, External Trade, Research and Energy (1999-07-22--2000-02-15)3 unknown; Labour Party (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; PES (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; Committee on Legal Affairs and the Internal Market (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Easy Rider"1 "Miller (PSE )."1

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