CityCyclingEdinburgh was launched on the 27th of October 2009 as "an experiment".
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CCE is 15years old!
Well done to ALL posters
It soon became useful and entertaining. There are regular posters, people who add useful info occasionally and plenty more who drop by to watch. That's fine. If you want to add news/comments it's easy to register and become a member.
RULES No personal insults. No swearing.
Thanks all for the photos and the timelapse is really good Allebong. I particularly liked the mist rolling across Arthur's Seat in the background.
Various texts / calls from family members and colleagues who had their tea time interupted by us, so that's great because it means many people were having their tea time interrupted by something important. (Not by the "does it have red hair?" question)
'Coming soon' on iPlayer:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b037b05v/Reporting_Scotland_22_07_2013/
Well done all!
So I passed by this evening and snapped this.
Really good work. Sorry I couldn't be there this morning. I was running late for work but I did discuss the topic with my taxi driver as we drove passed parliament. His thoughts? "We [drivers] all need to do better..."
iPlayer version of the 18:30 bulletin now working. Impressed that BBC Scotland ran it as the top story. Very sad though to see the remains of the bike from today's tragedy.
Kappers came across well, as did the woman from Cycle Law Scotland. I hope the 'right' people were watching.
Aaah, sorry Bruce - would have gladly taken you up on your offer and then could've gone for a swift pint afterwards but have only just seen your post.
Andy: a few more photos for postcard consideration on my Flickr feed. The below is probably the best of the four. Let me know if you want to use any of them and I can touch up as necessary.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/roamingview/9346358924/
Plenty of tourists and locals alike interested in the bikes, actively reading the laminated sheet on each. Sadly for them, I got the distinct impression that many thought they were street art installations... Still, all exposure can only further our cause.
MeepMeep - in a way, they are art, of a sophisticated form. Art should make us stop, think, review what we believe and go and tell someone else about what we felt.
Completely agree, LivD - some of the most rewarding art is that which makes us consider, and/or provokes or elicits a reaction.
I meant "sadly" in the way that it's a shame for the message to be so sombre when there's so much more that the custodians of our fate (to an extent) could be doing to protect us.
Good blog post from Green Cllr Gavin Corbett, who attended this morning:
http://www.edinburghgreens.org.uk/site/blog/ghost-bikes/
Cumnock, been there three times, once for infer school basketball game. Once to buy tenants lager when on school geography trip to Glaisnock, outside Cumnock, and once during miners strike when uni chums thought I should order thefishsuppers. Good to know councillor Corbett. Cycling there at roughly same time.
Couldn't see it on iPlayer as a non-licence fee paying colonial commoner, but good work folks.
Is on BikeBiz here: http://www.bikebiz.com/news/read/ghost-bikes-at-scottish-parliament-in-protest-over-road-deaths/015141
Nice to hear the 'slower speeds where people live, work and play' line being trotted out on the BBC - word for word from the POP manifesto :-)
Catching up on some free wifi. Well done.
@Instantocommunication
When you come back, perhaps you'll have something to say on how SG/TS adds up its 'spending on cycling'.
Rumour has it you're somewhere they 'do things differently'.
Hope your camera is working.
It's a bit old now, but Drawing Rings did a comparison of KSI and distance travelled for several cities - I know Kaputnik was comparing Scotland to London so this may give further ideas for comparison.
Robert
Sorry I missed this.
Forced into posting as saw this on the news last night. Made my entire family sit up and pay attention. My mum said "scary" perhaps more in relation to the fact her youngest pedals the town streets every day
I could even have made it with youngest tigermoth in tow as I had the day off and the house work could go $cr£w itself.
If SRD had facebooked me I would have offered another bike to ghost... in fact there's about a dozen rotting in the garage under my flat for a decade, can anyone cut D locks? Need a pressure hose to remove the pigeon guano. Half of them missing saddles or other parts but nothing that couldn't be scavenged form the others (and remains given to bike station as I have often emant to post posters on them all to see who claims them before calling TBS in to remove, never got round to it though)
Good work all, thanks for doing this.
"Just got a call from an excited cousin who'd seen my brilliant acting skillz on the news. I didn't know the combination for the cable I was fiddling with, so had to mime locking it up when in actual fact I had merely shoved it in one notch."
From -
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b037b05v/Reporting_Scotland_22_07_2013/
Seems 'we' discussed ghost bikes a year ago -
Ghost bikes: memorials to road victims blamed for putting people off cycling
Interestingly I never mentioned PoP to the STV man, and when he asked "who did I work for" he thought I was with an organisation in an official capacity, but I explained it was a "citizen action" and not the work of an organisation. Of course, PoP did put out eh press release, so never mind, close enough, no harm done and good to build the link to the "action group" that is PoP.
Interesting reading that old Ghost Bike thread. I did start simply playing devil's advocate, but did convince myself that, to some extent at least, ghost bikes reinforce the opinion that cycling is dangerous, rather than conveying to drivers that they are dangerous.
However, the Operation Tombstone bikes are something a bit different. A political statement that is very much targeted, with a message that has been backed up with media coverage, and notices on the bikes that back up that message for anyone walking by.
Yup - I still stand by my thought that cyclists should make it known if they would want a ghost bike or not. I still would want one for me...
With or without skull-shaped valve-caps?
If I'm toast I'm not going to care though I reckon someone would pretty quickly nick them. Points for style though.
Ghost bike memorial in the states: http://i.imgur.com/5mXbWco.jpg
Nick that!
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