Our Thames River Boats campaign has reached 400 knots (signatures)!
Folks,
We have reached 400 knots (signatures), a little over a month after reaching the 300-signature mark and despite the five-month gap between reaching our 100 and 200 signature milestones due myself focusing on another concurrent campaign which struggled to reach its own 400-signature milestone, our signature count has more than doubled since July and have made decent progress throughout the autumn.
This is only the third time any of my campaigns on the platform has successfully reached and surpassed the 400 signature mark, after one of my other prominent campaigns reached that milestone earlier this year and an unrelated past successful campaign that went on to reach 1,569 signatures.
According to all my previous campaign updates, we reached each milestone on the following dates listed below
- · Launch – 9th February
- · 100 signatures – February 20th
- · 150 signatures – March 9th
- · 200 signatures – July 20th
- · 250 signatures – September 8th (almost exactly 6 months after hitting 150)
- · 300 signatures – September 30th
- · 350 signatures – October 13th
- · 400 signatures – November 7th (today)
I have set a realistic goal of reaching 500 signatures by the end of the year, 600 by the anniversary of our launch on 9th February and 700 by time boat services restart in the spring.
The current six-month shutdown is where we need the most support and if upgrades were made to the pier at Hampton Court Landing Stage, maintenance schedules at Teddington Lock were revised and boat operators had more available rolling stock, winter/Christmas sailings will be perfectly possible.
Turk Launches services that do not go through the lock and operate solely just between Kingston and Hampton Court, with proper infrastructure and rolling stock, could run properly year-round andprovidea good transport alternative to using trains and buses.
400 signatures is a decent result so far, not a bad start, and my long term goal is to reach 1,000+!