http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Meanwhile in Iceland en Mon, 18 May 2026 22:20:13 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11935#post-138020 Mon, 23 Dec 2013 19:12:24 +0000 sallyhinch 138020@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Of course the modern elf <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/business/economics-blog/2013/dec/22/santa-elves-living-standards-surveillance">has it quite tough these days</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11935#post-137985 Mon, 23 Dec 2013 14:40:32 +0000 kaputnik 137985@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Elves and Safety gone mad! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11935#post-137960 Mon, 23 Dec 2013 12:15:22 +0000 cc 137960@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><img src="http://bicycledutch.files.wordpress.com/2013/12/protest.jpg?w=547&amp;h=307"></p> <p><a href="https://bicycledutch.wordpress.com/2013/12/12/amsterdam-children-fighting-cars-in-1972/">Amsterdam children fighting cars in 1972</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11935#post-137955 Mon, 23 Dec 2013 11:44:48 +0000 Wilmington's Cow 137955@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>And if they'd been listened to in the early 70s we might have been closer to the likes of Copenhagen by now! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11935#post-137954 Mon, 23 Dec 2013 11:43:14 +0000 chdot 137954@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"<br /> Right now I am amassing information about the wave of pedestrian activism that took place in the 1970s and early 1980s. For example: the ELF (Edinburgh Liberation Front), was active around the time circa 1970-1973. They used to give tourist walks around the slums of the city, and were one of the first groups to campaign for the streets of Edinburgh to be pedestrianised. </p> <p>"</p> <p><a href="http://www.libr.org/isc/articles/15-Lowe.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.libr.org/isc/articles/15-Lowe.html</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11935#post-137938 Mon, 23 Dec 2013 06:06:25 +0000 sallyhinch 137938@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/22/elf-lobby-iceland-road-project">Elf lobby blocks road project</a></p> <p>"Elf advocates in Iceland have joined forces with environmentalists to urge authorities to abandon a highway project that they claim will disturb elf habitat, including an elf church.</p> <p>The project has been halted until the supreme court of Iceland rules on a case brought by a group known as Friends of Lava, who cite both the environmental impact and the detrimental effect on elf culture of the road project." </p>