CityCyclingEdinburgh was launched on the 27th of October 2009 as "an experiment".
IT’S TRUE!
CCE is 16years old!
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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.
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City transport and environment convener Lesley Hinds, said Edinburgh is part of a pan-European push for better air quality.
She added: “We’re making it even easier to swap your commute-by-car for cycling or walking thanks to our continued and much-praised commitment to invest a significant proportion of our transport budget towards active travel improvements. This will certainly have a further positive impact on air quality.
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This is the same Edinburgh Council whose traffic engineers and planners try and MAXIMISE the flow of polluting motor vehicles in an effort to REDUCE pollution, through the twisted logic that they pollute more if they aren't moving qute as fast, right?
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Right...
So the key initiatives are:
It's as if only council workers work in Edinburgh!
Other (minor) initiatives are...
We don't need more pedestrian crossings to coral pedestrians across 7 lanes of traffic in hops of 2 lanes at a time e.g Brougham St to Earl Grey St. What we need is to eliminate the need for such crossings, by reducing the traffic lanes to 1 in each direction, with motorised traffic treated as the guest, rather than the pedestrians.
It's great that the Council are investing 6% of the transport budget in cycling, but I don't think you can claim 6% is a significant proportion.
Right...
So the key initiatives are:
That's according the EEN of course. What they call 'highlights'. If you have read the transport strategy there's a lot there that the article barely mentions, including cycling initiatives, 20mph zones, etc. (Though in fairness some of the quotes further down the page note these in passing).
"Long lengths of guardrail on shopping streets are to be ditched as they’re seen as a nuisance to shoppers."
Rip it all out!
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