http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Guardian wants bad cycle lane pictures en Tue, 19 May 2026 14:42:33 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19665#post-309065 Wed, 19 Jun 2019 12:53:06 +0000 neddie 309065@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>The BBC aired a very similar article on the 10 o'clock news last night, with the headline of "millions wasted on cycle infrastructure".</p> <p>Except that instead of showing rubbish painted-on cycle lanes, they showed pictures of really rather good segregated lanes.</p> <p>Completely misleading in that the average person would take that to mean that money is wasted when spent on segregated infra.</p> <p>More anti-cycling bias from the BBC, I'm afraid </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19665#post-308903 Mon, 17 Jun 2019 12:10:47 +0000 gembo 308903@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>fit aboot Dundee? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19665#post-308899 Mon, 17 Jun 2019 11:22:08 +0000 Morningsider 308899@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@ejstubbs - I think local authorities factor in estimated parking income (including penalty charge income) when setting their budget. So in that case, it's not necessarily extra money. </p> <p>Outside of Edinburgh, Glasgow and Aberdeen, surplus parking income is so low as to be effectively meaningless in the grand scheme of Scottish local authority budgeting (<a href="https://www.racfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/Local_authority_parking_finances_Scotland_2016-17_Leibling.pdf">See page 10</a>). </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19665#post-308890 Mon, 17 Jun 2019 10:39:19 +0000 ejstubbs 308890@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@morningsider: Is there anything to stop councils from just putting the penalty charge income towards what they were planning to spend on the local transport strategy anyway? To put it another way: is it guaranteed <u>extra</u> money which could e.g. be used to help realise the strategic local transport goals sooner, or can it be used to reduce what was going to come from the council's overall budget for that purpose, thus freeing up some of that general budget for other stuff? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19665#post-308884 Mon, 17 Jun 2019 09:46:15 +0000 Morningsider 308884@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>The cycling commissioners have conflated decriminalised parking enforcement, where penalty charge income must be spent on furthering he aims of the local transport strategy (after covering administration of the scheme), and police enforcement - where fine income goes to the Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service and eventually into the Scottish general fund. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19665#post-308883 Mon, 17 Jun 2019 09:31:30 +0000 dessert rat 308883@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I'm mostly thankful that the Guardian have turned comments off. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19665#post-308882 Mon, 17 Jun 2019 09:30:07 +0000 neddie 308882@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>This is a "good" series (although seems to have stopped posting recently)</p> <p><a href="https://twitter.com/bollocksinfra" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/bollocksinfra</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19665#post-308880 Mon, 17 Jun 2019 09:10:53 +0000 ejstubbs 308880@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@iwrats: Precisely my thought. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19665#post-308876 Mon, 17 Jun 2019 07:41:27 +0000 I were right about that saddle 308876@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>English councils urged to follow Scotland in spending money from traffic fines on road safety</em></p> <p>Whit? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19665#post-308874 Mon, 17 Jun 2019 01:22:44 +0000 chdot 308874@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jun/17/painted-bike-lanes-waste-money-cycling-commissioners" rel="nofollow">https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jun/17/painted-bike-lanes-waste-money-cycling-commissioners</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19665#post-308870 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 22:25:24 +0000 Snowy 308870@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Surely they are aware of the artwork that is the Cycle Facility Of The Month website?</p> <p><a href="http://wcc.crankfoot.xyz/facility-of-the-month/">http://wcc.crankfoot.xyz/facility-of-the-month/</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19665#post-308857 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 17:03:24 +0000 chdot 308857@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="https://mobile.twitter.com/helenpidd/status/1140226022257942529" rel="nofollow">https://mobile.twitter.com/helenpidd/status/1140226022257942529</a></p> <p>Put them here if you don’t have a Twitter a/c. </p>