http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Meanwhile - Italy plans 422-mile cycle path en Sun, 17 May 2026 12:17:04 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11070#post-124165 Fri, 06 Sep 2013 15:52:42 +0000 ianfieldhouse 124165@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Looks like a brilliant idea, if only Scotland had the same sort of vision. As a nation we're actually ideally set up for this kind of idea as you can pretty easily connect most major areas of population in one big line if you were to go Glasgow &gt; Stirling &gt; Edinburgh &gt; Fife &gt; Dundee &gt; Aberdeen &gt; Inverness. Would only really require a few extra spurs to Perthshire, Borders and Dumfries and you'd have covered most of the mainland. Oh well, I suppose we can dream. :( </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11070#post-124144 Fri, 06 Sep 2013 13:28:03 +0000 threefromleith 124144@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>(although I guess that could be covered uder 'cyclists don't pay for it').</p> <p>Maybe I should pay more attention whilst reading! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11070#post-124143 Fri, 06 Sep 2013 13:26:59 +0000 threefromleith 124143@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>How could you miss '<strong>road tax</strong>'? ;-) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11070#post-124016 Thu, 05 Sep 2013 17:23:09 +0000 allebong 124016@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Ahem!</p> <p>Waste of taxpayers cash, the war on the motorist knows no bounds, fill in potholes instead, cyclists aren't paying for it and they'll knock down old ladies anyway, more big brother EU superstate intrusion on our lives, lycra clad road warriors, they should all be made to have insurance and number plates, I once saw a cyclist open a rift in spacetime that led directly to hell.....etc.</p> <p>Did I cover everything? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11070#post-124015 Thu, 05 Sep 2013 17:16:06 +0000 slowcoach 124015@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"According to the plans, it would have two lanes and be 2.5m wide – modest measurements that have not, however, prevented it being dubbed a cycle motorway" - let's hope they leave room to widen it later then. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11070#post-124009 Thu, 05 Sep 2013 16:58:42 +0000 crowriver 124009@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>A visionary project. I hope it happens.</p> <p>As to the Scottish Government, they'll complacently point to the National Cycle Network and say "Job done years ago! Yet hardly any cyclists are using the paths we built! There's gratitude." </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11070#post-124007 Thu, 05 Sep 2013 16:52:35 +0000 gibbo 124007@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Looks great, I hope it happens. Maybe it would inspire something similar between Edinburgh and Glasgow. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11070#post-124004 Thu, 05 Sep 2013 16:27:54 +0000 PS 124004@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>Pileri and his colleagues estimate the cost of VenTo's construction at €80m</em> </p> <p>Now that's value.</p> <p><em>..that would be rapidly offset by the tourism-related income the path would generate throughout northern Italy – a figure they put at about €100m a year. The project, they say, would create 2,000 jobs in hospitality and other related sectors.</em></p> <p>Anyone listenting at Holyrood? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11070#post-124002 Thu, 05 Sep 2013 16:22:31 +0000 kaputnik 124002@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I had intended to brush up my French over winter, but might change those plans to Italian! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11070#post-124000 Thu, 05 Sep 2013 16:14:27 +0000 tarmac jockey 124000@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/04/hopes-grow-vento-bicycle-path-italy" rel="nofollow">http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/04/hopes-grow-vento-bicycle-path-italy</a></p> <p>Looks like this could be goer! </p>