http://www.scotsman.com/the-scotsman/opinion/letters/cycle-of-life-1-2933774
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PoP press 2014
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Around £25 per head per year needs to be spent to achieve that goal. The actual spend is less than £3. Only a concerted campaign, supported by opposition parties at Holyrood, prevented cuts to the budget for active travel (cycling and walking) last year."
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STV Scotland has, what imagine to be, Paul Wheelhouse's speech to PoP online at:
Paul Wheelhouse is the most junior of junior Scottish Government Ministers, fairly recently appointed to cover Environment.
Also, can I just emphasis that the £58m figure for investment in cycling being proclaimed by Ministers isn't an annual figure - it covers the current "spending review period", which is a three year period (2012/13 to 2014/15) - an average of £19.3m per year.
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Nothing new by the looks of it.
No mention of 10% target or cycling beyond the standard transport and tourism 'silos'- so still no joined-upness involving 'health/wellbeing'.
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Short article, but a nice little photo gallery.
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"nice little photo gallery"
Indeed - need full site not mobile.
Photographer (Pictures: Julie Howden) went to end of ride/Holyrood to get them.
I think there were more photographers at The Meadows (some may have been at both).
The start is better for the 'mass' shot but Julie went for details.
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Just had a quick check through the paper papers. Big PoP photo on the front page of The Times (Scottish Edition), small article and photo on the inside front page of The Scotsman, nothing obvious in The Herald or The Guardian.
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"nothing obvious in The Herald"
Unusual if only online.
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Page 9 of the Herald, according to the PDF Susan Swarbrick sent me. Haven't gone out for the paper papers yet. Might have to break the habit of a lifetime and buy a Murdoch paper
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Whoops - missed the one inside The Herald (thanks Sally). Page 9 though, bit disappointing.
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here's the times article http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/public/cyclesafety/article3769393.ece
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"Might have to break the habit of a lifetime and buy a Murdoch paper."
If you bike out the the airport you can usually get one free with a bottle of water, unless that's just airside.
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Edinburgh reporter's done a nice video
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OO-er, The comments have started already.
Moton bingo anyone?Posted 10 years ago # -
I can see Min!
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You'd think the local paper could have scraped together more than 90 words on this story.
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I'm grateful they didn't. Goodness knows what they'd write if they needed some beefy copy...
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First comment asks how many of the 4,000 rode on the pavements and through red lights to get there. Sheesh.
But yeah, the BBC and the Times and so on manage more on this than the local chip wrapper.
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That video has made me seriously worry about how animated I am when speaking! I think I was just super nervous.
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Could someone don a pair of gloves and a clothes peg and pick up a copy of the Scottish Daily Mail? They seemed interested in covering the McNicoll / Fyfe angle and their website only seems to contain stories about celebrities' battles with eating disorders...
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Still recovering from hearing the sound of my own voice. Tell me they put some sort of a chipmunk filter on it and I don't really sound like that...
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Edinburgh Reporter video features forumers AlanR on his ICE and Niall on his Fuego at start.
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Ah, immortality...
Well done to the PoP team - a really terrific event.
:-)
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My favourite Scotsman comment: "4000 - less than half the number who turned up to a meaningless game at Easter Road and less than 1% of the population of Edinburgh. A truly insignificant minority who should be ignored."
Pot. Kettle. Black! (ironically, I then spot the same person use that phrase towards someone else!)
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"A truly insignificant minority who should be ignored."
Bit like online newspaper commentators then...
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Precisely!
Sometimes I can't help myself, unfortunately (reading, not "contributing").
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