http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/04/hopes-grow-vento-bicycle-path-italy
Looks like this could be goer!
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Meanwhile - Italy plans 422-mile cycle path
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Posted 10 years ago #
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I had intended to brush up my French over winter, but might change those plans to Italian!
Posted 10 years ago # -
Pileri and his colleagues estimate the cost of VenTo's construction at €80m
Now that's value.
..that would be rapidly offset by the tourism-related income the path would generate throughout northern Italy – a figure they put at about €100m a year. The project, they say, would create 2,000 jobs in hospitality and other related sectors.
Anyone listenting at Holyrood?
Posted 10 years ago # -
Looks great, I hope it happens. Maybe it would inspire something similar between Edinburgh and Glasgow.
Posted 10 years ago # -
A visionary project. I hope it happens.
As to the Scottish Government, they'll complacently point to the National Cycle Network and say "Job done years ago! Yet hardly any cyclists are using the paths we built! There's gratitude."
Posted 10 years ago # -
"According to the plans, it would have two lanes and be 2.5m wide – modest measurements that have not, however, prevented it being dubbed a cycle motorway" - let's hope they leave room to widen it later then.
Posted 10 years ago # -
Ahem!
Waste of taxpayers cash, the war on the motorist knows no bounds, fill in potholes instead, cyclists aren't paying for it and they'll knock down old ladies anyway, more big brother EU superstate intrusion on our lives, lycra clad road warriors, they should all be made to have insurance and number plates, I once saw a cyclist open a rift in spacetime that led directly to hell.....etc.
Did I cover everything?
Posted 10 years ago # -
How could you miss 'road tax'? ;-)
Posted 10 years ago # -
(although I guess that could be covered uder 'cyclists don't pay for it').
Maybe I should pay more attention whilst reading!
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Looks like a brilliant idea, if only Scotland had the same sort of vision. As a nation we're actually ideally set up for this kind of idea as you can pretty easily connect most major areas of population in one big line if you were to go Glasgow > Stirling > Edinburgh > Fife > Dundee > Aberdeen > Inverness. Would only really require a few extra spurs to Perthshire, Borders and Dumfries and you'd have covered most of the mainland. Oh well, I suppose we can dream. :(
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