http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Tag: keith brown - Recent Posts en Sun, 05 Apr 2026 18:49:25 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11153#post-125186 Tue, 17 Sep 2013 23:51:58 +0000 Cyclingmollie 125186@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I don't get the connection with the book. Doesn't the titular kraken herald rising sea-levels and worldwide devastation? Okay, got it. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11153#post-125171 Tue, 17 Sep 2013 21:22:55 +0000 kaputnik 125171@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Someone taught Keith Brown to tweet.<br /> <img src="http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2869/9789626173_f2acec6a3c.jpg"><br /> Let's hope he waded through a few of the 10,000-or-so #Nicewaycode tweets. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10637#post-117432 Tue, 09 Jul 2013 12:24:46 +0000 DaveC 117432@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I'm just waiting for Alex Salmon's autobio/world domination entitled 'Mein Banff'. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10637#post-117429 Tue, 09 Jul 2013 12:02:45 +0000 sallyhinch 117429@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>'walk'?? Surely some mistake... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10637#post-117396 Tue, 09 Jul 2013 09:27:58 +0000 cb 117396@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>How about a picture of KB heading off for the day, walking down his dualled garden path? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10637#post-116821 Thu, 04 Jul 2013 11:43:27 +0000 Wilmington's Cow 116821@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"<em>... I usually imagine him as a bit of a simpleton, who whiles away his days playing with toy cars in his ministerial office, making broom-broom noises...</em>"</p> <p>Given me a brilliant idea... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10637#post-116796 Thu, 04 Jul 2013 10:43:00 +0000 kaputnik 116796@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>You dual the high road and I'll dual the low road </em></p> <p>Ha! Love that one.</p> <p>When I am very exasperated and angry with the man, I usually imagine him as a bit of a simpleton, who whiles away his days playing with toy cars in his ministerial office, making broom-broom noises, occassionally taking a crayon to a map of Scotland and drawing a new route, stirring only when an aide comes in with a cheque for him to sign. Then the anger fades away into something more like frustrated pity.</p> <p>Now I will imagine him humming Dual the Highroad to himself as he does so. </p> <p>I assume they all listen to Highland Cathedral on loop anyway in the Government offices at Holyrood. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10637#post-116779 Thu, 04 Jul 2013 09:58:28 +0000 Wilmington's Cow 116779@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Keith Brown MSP*</p> <p>*Minister for Speedy Progress </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10637#post-116778 Thu, 04 Jul 2013 09:53:14 +0000 Cyclingmollie 116778@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Hello, my name is Keith and I'm a roadaholic. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10637#post-116775 Thu, 04 Jul 2013 09:50:40 +0000 fimm 116775@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"my name is Keith<br /> I like building roads<br /> ... to nowhere ..." </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10637#post-116763 Thu, 04 Jul 2013 08:47:04 +0000 steveo 116763@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>When you go will you send back town planers from America. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10637#post-116754 Wed, 03 Jul 2013 22:45:32 +0000 Instography 116754@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>You dual the high road and I'll dual the low road ... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10637#post-116753 Wed, 03 Jul 2013 22:42:55 +0000 gembo 116753@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Scottish. Roads for Scottish people? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10637#post-116751 Wed, 03 Jul 2013 22:23:15 +0000 cc 116751@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Lovely picture :)<br /> I can just see him suddenly snap open those wee eyes and cry "Vroom! Vrooommm!"</p> <p>Roads. Our own wee Darien Scheme for the 21st century. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10637#post-116735 Wed, 03 Jul 2013 19:26:48 +0000 kaputnik 116735@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7432/9200518833_48c7e75357.jpg"></p> <p>Can't think how to caption this for comedy effect.</p> <p>Over to you all. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9437&page=2#post-99639 Fri, 08 Feb 2013 22:15:02 +0000 Wilmington's Cow 99639@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Yes. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9437&page=2#post-99621 Fri, 08 Feb 2013 18:04:57 +0000 neddie 99621@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>My roof bar mounted rack and bike carriers are basically permanent attachments</em></p> <p>Doesn't that increase your fuel consumption and CO2 emissions? (By around 5 - 10% I believe) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9437&page=2#post-99563 Fri, 08 Feb 2013 12:38:04 +0000 Uberuce 99563@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>There's a Cthulhu fish as well. It looks about as much like a fish as you'd imagine, but it's a bumper sticker in that style, anyway. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9437#post-99554 Fri, 08 Feb 2013 12:29:56 +0000 kaputnik 99554@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Some people put little stickers of symbolised fish on the back of their car to represent Jesus. I had a lecturer at uni who had one, but they had drawn little feet on the fish and written Darwin inside the body. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9437#post-99553 Fri, 08 Feb 2013 12:29:00 +0000 Wilmington's Cow 99553@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Snap.</p> <p>My roof bar mounted rack and bike carriers are basically permanent attachments. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9437#post-99547 Fri, 08 Feb 2013 12:18:56 +0000 Instography 99547@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I leave a bike rack permanently attached to the back of my car. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9437#post-99459 Thu, 07 Feb 2013 21:39:15 +0000 neddie 99459@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>And here's a pic of said stickers:</p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bonsai_bonus/8454402526/"><img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8233/8454402526_4b48842be3.jpg"></a><br /> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bonsai_bonus/8454402526/">car stickers</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9437#post-99458 Thu, 07 Feb 2013 21:26:22 +0000 neddie 99458@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>In New Zealand (and the US I think) it is common to put stickers of 'white stick men' on the back of your car to represent your family (you know a man, woman and a couple of kids &amp; dog...).</p> <p>The thing is, you can also get 'stick man' stickers of man, women and child on bikes.</p> <p>Wouldn't that be a great way to indicate your cycling allegiance? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9437#post-99454 Thu, 07 Feb 2013 20:41:31 +0000 crowriver 99454@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>So the 10% target is officially dead.</em></p> <p>Not only that, the extra Forth bridge is officially a "spare" for "resilience". Just in case, because who knows, eh? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9437#post-99453 Thu, 07 Feb 2013 20:39:48 +0000 crowriver 99453@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Something like: "My other car's a bike". </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9437#post-99447 Thu, 07 Feb 2013 20:00:21 +0000 Cyclingmollie 99447@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I wish politicians who thought of people in binary terms either cyclist or motorists could be seen as dinosaurs but I suspect Keith Brown knows he's safe politically as long as he assumes his voters always drive and never cycle. Everyone favourably disposed towards cycling should display a sticker to that effect on their cars. Maybe that would get the message across. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9437#post-99445 Thu, 07 Feb 2013 19:46:42 +0000 Instography 99445@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>So the 10% target is officially dead. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9437#post-99439 Thu, 07 Feb 2013 18:02:11 +0000 minus six 99439@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>just heard keith's "contentious" interview on the radio</p> <p>the tone could not have been clearer:</p> <p>"I know cyclists moan, but they ought to live in the real world. We need more motorways. That's where all the moneys going. End of." </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9437#post-99435 Thu, 07 Feb 2013 17:56:26 +0000 SRD 99435@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>it certainly doesn't occur to him that bikes and buses reduce congestion and make it possible for him to zip around in his car. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9437#post-99430 Thu, 07 Feb 2013 17:43:19 +0000 bdellar 99430@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@o_0: You've hit the nail on the head there. He regards cycling infrastructure as there to help out the 0.1% of the population who cycle and complain about how bad it is, and NOT to help everyone else cycle. </p>