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It's 'official' - there will be PoP3
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Posted 12 years ago #
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Wonder if there is any 'desire' for a Pop2.5?
Weekday when MSPs will be at SP.
September?k
Bit like PoP-1 (lunchtime ride to meet Keith Brown at St. Andrew House).
Posted 12 years ago # -
Bit like PoP-1 (lunchtime ride to meet Keith Brown at St. Andrew House).
That was organised by Stop Climate Chaos with vocal support from Spokes, Living Streets, etc. Planted the seed for PoP perhaps, but a different kind of demo. At least Broon was there to be heckled...
Posted 12 years ago # -
heh - I'm not promising anything. But realistically I think we're in this for the long haul.
We learned last year that we have just about the capacity to do one big PoP a year, if we're not going to kill ourselves. Attempts to do smaller events with a local focus(Pedal on Postbox) just didn't work. That doesn't mean they shouldn't be done - just that we (well, I, anyway) can't do them and maintain our sanity, jobs, and marriages. We'd love love love to see mini PoPs springing up locally and I'm sure we'd do everything we could to support them (she says airily without consulting fellow poppers) short of actually organising them.
That said there would be mileage in doing something around the time of the budget discussions in September.
Posted 12 years ago # -
One POP per year should be enough to remain effective - as it was a number of Bromptonites were torn between POP and the Brompton Urban Challenge (an Alleycat for folding bikes) both on 19th.
In September we already have Pedal for Scotland and I think that the measures called for will be aired in a slightly different way, and FWIW PfSc might provide an fine platform to promote POP3 in 2014 - in the run up to the Glasgow 2014 Games. Odd that today I met up with someone who passed me as I was stopping for a break at Bathgate having followed my route over the summit at Kirk'o'Shotts.
With a few neatened up connections the Old A8 makes a brilliant route for the central section. I think perhaps next time I'll use the London Road route via Auchenshuggle rather than the Edinburgh Road via Baillieston, as the M73, and the A8(M) has destroyed almost all traces of the original route.
Same deal basically heading in to Edinburgh - would be nicer to stay South and pick up the A71 but such a mess getting there through Livingston.
Posted 12 years ago # -
German POP -- Sternfahrt 2013 -- is on this sunday.
This year's rally has the slogan "More space for bicycles", and is the world's largest bicycle demonstration.
The publicity posters / postcards are worth a look:
http://www.adfc-berlin.de/images/stories/Sternfahrt/2013/Sternfahrt-2013.pdf
Posted 12 years ago # -
Me, me, me! Can I go to POP3 please, please, please?
Posted 12 years ago # -
Worth finding out events that KB will be attending in advance (is it possible to do such a thing for a minister?) and organising small Pedal on Minister events?
Posted 12 years ago # -
Danger of that becoming known as the Whingeing POM... ;)
Posted 12 years ago #
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