CityCyclingEdinburgh was launched on the 27th of October 2009 as "an experiment".
IT’S TRUE!
CCE is 15years 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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"All or some of these could be possible in an independent Scotland, to create better accountability, and check the imbalances of power resting mainly with central government."
Wrong thread but what's the chances of that happening? With it's freeze on council taxes, Scottish local government finance is more centralised than ever.
Maybe we should take this to the "other" thread?
I think there's a small but genuine chance we'd get more local governance in an independent Scotland, because civic Scotland know that it would be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to radically shift power down to local levels. I think independence would lead to people thinking "ok, now what will we do with it?" And I can see decentralisation as a part of that. I just think there would be an appetite for serious constitutional change.
But there's literally no chance of it at present, because all people here is "more councillors, more bureacracy, more layers of government" and the debate is over.
I don't blame our political leaders for not being radical when most people would be against it and the shreiking loonies in our newspapers would go ballistic.
As for cetnralisation, true, the council tax freeze means even less money being directly raised. But lifting hypothecation in 2007 opened up a lot of freedom for councils. But I wouldn't want more powers or money for the councils as they are - I'd want restructuring to create town, district and community councils first with real power.
Anyway... good luck to all LBSs!
Yeah, can we take this over to the White Paper thread? Ta.
C&G Cycles. Does the G stand for Gregor ?
Out with friends last night, one of whom used Bike Repair man regularly, sad it closed.
On the plus front gave rave review to Cycle Service, also handy for his workplace at council HQ.
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