http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: 20mph demo 11th June en Tue, 21 Apr 2026 03:36:20 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19621#post-308582 Wed, 12 Jun 2019 12:41:49 +0000 Rosie 308582@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>There was a mass of media coverage before the event, even in the Powys County Times!</p> <p>Respect to whoever is the communications person.</p> <p><a href="https://www.countytimes.co.uk/news/national-news/17696043.campaigners-to-urge-msps-to-back-move-for-20mph-residential-streets-limit/?fbclid=IwAR0jCXYF_6I__f2gYgX8tgitsavhaeIozPEQZKqWMkQnIFmam-bvZtp7CPY" rel="nofollow">https://www.countytimes.co.uk/news/national-news/17696043.campaigners-to-urge-msps-to-back-move-for-20mph-residential-streets-limit/?fbclid=IwAR0jCXYF_6I__f2gYgX8tgitsavhaeIozPEQZKqWMkQnIFmam-bvZtp7CPY</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19621#post-308581 Wed, 12 Jun 2019 12:19:00 +0000 wingpig 308581@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="https://www.commonspace.scot/articles/14347/activists-protest-safer-streets-ahead-holyrood-vote-20mph-speed-limit" rel="nofollow">https://www.commonspace.scot/articles/14347/activists-protest-safer-streets-ahead-holyrood-vote-20mph-speed-limit</a></p> <p><a href="https://www.pressreader.com/uk/the-press-and-journal-north-east/20190611/281745565893017" rel="nofollow">https://www.pressreader.com/uk/the-press-and-journal-north-east/20190611/281745565893017</a></p> <p>Pre-emptive:<br /> <a href="https://www.thenational.scot/news/uk-news/17696043.campaigners-to-urge-msps-to-back-move-for-20mph-residential-streets-limit/" rel="nofollow">https://www.thenational.scot/news/uk-news/17696043.campaigners-to-urge-msps-to-back-move-for-20mph-residential-streets-limit/</a></p> <p>Social media coverage:<br /> <a href="https://youtu.be/5weqZQ2okpc" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/5weqZQ2okpc</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19621#post-308577 Wed, 12 Jun 2019 11:48:21 +0000 SRD 308577@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>What was the media coverage like? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19621#post-308572 Wed, 12 Jun 2019 10:50:53 +0000 algo 308572@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>thanks for praise but I did very little - bike station folk immensely helpful - shifting 60 chairs from up on a platform with a human chain is remarkably efficient. Well done to everyone for making this statement- later on I was in a 20mph focus group where I conversed with those who do not share our view.... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19621#post-308559 Wed, 12 Jun 2019 07:02:12 +0000 gembo 308559@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Does give the photographers a focus which facilitates the story. Same as the jelly babies measuring the cycle lanes.</p> <p>Well done to the organisers and chair shifters </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19621#post-308555 Tue, 11 Jun 2019 23:00:30 +0000 urchaidh 308555@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Thanks and chapeau to the organisers. I think the chairs were both powerful and poignant, very well done. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19621#post-308551 Tue, 11 Jun 2019 20:58:29 +0000 SRD 308551@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Aside - interest8ng to see that Ross Greer (not a friend of cyclists) turned up. I guess a Green Party three line whip ((if they are such things). </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19621#post-308550 Tue, 11 Jun 2019 20:42:14 +0000 SRD 308550@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@algo I hadn’t appreciated that you and mutual friend were responsible for the chairs. Nicely done. Impressive. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19621#post-308541 Tue, 11 Jun 2019 18:57:21 +0000 Frenchy 308541@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Thanks for helping take them back as well, Laidback.</p> <p>I think you had half of them all by yourself. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19621#post-308540 Tue, 11 Jun 2019 18:36:15 +0000 LaidBack 308540@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Good work by organisers of this event - glad I went.<br /> Media interest was good - felt sorry for the Sudan protest that was going on close by. Ross Greer went over to speak to them afterwards.</p> <p>Credit to @algo and helpers getting a car club (Enterprise) van for the 60 chairs to arrive in time. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19621#post-308535 Tue, 11 Jun 2019 15:43:15 +0000 I were right about that saddle 308535@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Sorry I was late. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19621#post-308534 Tue, 11 Jun 2019 15:22:30 +0000 sallyhinch 308534@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Thank you everyone who came today (and especially the logistics crew getting the chairs down to Parliament and back). If you haven't already, please do email your MSPs about the bill and ask them what they would support if they can't support 20mph that would save as many lives and do as much to support active travel </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19621#post-308525 Tue, 11 Jun 2019 14:06:37 +0000 gembo 308525@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>worked well I was a tad late but left my little fairy captured in the snow globe on a seat.</p> <p>Saw several of the bike breakfast gang at this plus others so a good dozen CCC types out and about today </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19621#post-308523 Tue, 11 Jun 2019 13:49:18 +0000 Rosie 308523@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Slightly late and breathless for this, but shared a seat with a stuffed toy. I thought it went well and leaving a personal item was a clever and poignant idea. I left a shopping list. Well done the organisers for getting the media attention. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19621#post-308519 Tue, 11 Jun 2019 13:17:11 +0000 wingpig 308519@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Seethe. Popped there to get some photos on a hire bike, then scurried back to the officest dock, ran the rest of the way and up the stairs to find the meeting cancelled a few seconds earlier. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19621#post-308509 Tue, 11 Jun 2019 12:19:58 +0000 EdinburghCycleCam 308509@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I'll be lurking around from 12:45-ish. I'll probably hunt down Frenchy, since he's about the only one I'll recognise. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19621#post-308506 Tue, 11 Jun 2019 11:57:27 +0000 algo 308506@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Chairs have all been deposited now - I'll be back down for 1 </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19621#post-308495 Tue, 11 Jun 2019 10:33:24 +0000 EdinburghCycleCam 308495@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I'll be there, probably without the bike though. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19621#post-308494 Tue, 11 Jun 2019 10:23:00 +0000 SRD 308494@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>see you there </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19621#post-308474 Tue, 11 Jun 2019 06:49:11 +0000 wingpig 308474@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>If my annoying 13:00 meeting gets cancelled in time I'll be along. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19621#post-308467 Mon, 10 Jun 2019 22:45:51 +0000 unhurt 308467@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Final bump. Taking my lunch hour outside Parliament tomorrow. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19621#post-308343 Fri, 07 Jun 2019 20:45:00 +0000 sallyhinch 308343@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Bump.</p> <p>If you're coming, please bring along a personal item that you can leave on one of the chairs, representing a life interrupted (we'll do our best to make sure people are reunited with their possessions at the end). It could be a book, a pair of reading glasses, a dog's lead, a half-finished piece of knitting or sewing, a child's toy - the sort of things people leave behind when they are taken suddenly. Use your imagination!</p> <p>You can sign up on Facebook here <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/308520236728317/" rel="nofollow">https://www.facebook.com/events/308520236728317/</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19621#post-307511 Mon, 27 May 2019 11:15:30 +0000 unhurt 307511@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Am now back from holidays by 11th - I can be a seat person. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19621#post-307509 Mon, 27 May 2019 10:56:46 +0000 I were right about that saddle 307509@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Having shifted and washed 100 of those chairs the other day I recommend a van. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19621#post-307507 Mon, 27 May 2019 10:47:59 +0000 EdinburghCycleCam 307507@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I'll be there - I work basically next to the parliament, so have no excuse not to make an appearance. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19621#post-307472 Sun, 26 May 2019 19:55:16 +0000 sallyhinch 307472@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>We're demonstrating in support of the 20mph bill in Parliament - more info here <a href="https://pedalonparliament.org/support-the-safer-streets-bill-demonstration/" rel="nofollow">https://pedalonparliament.org/support-the-safer-streets-bill-demonstration/</a></p> <p>Ideally we need 60 people to mark each of the lives that would have been saved had this bill been passed when the parliament first started. </p> <p>If anyone has a cargo bike or trailer and can help with ferrying chairs from the Bike Station beforehand &amp; back again after that would save us a van. </p>