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"Nick Clegg announces multi-million pound boost for cycling in 8 major cities"
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Posted 9 years ago #
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No disrespect to Cambridge, Norwich, and Oxford, but they kind of struggle to justify the "major city" moniker.
Alan Partridge might disagree.
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"Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg said:
We are in the midst of a cycling revolution in the UK..."
Okay, I stopped reading after that bit of guff.
Posted 9 years ago # -
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg said
I stopped reading there...
Posted 9 years ago # -
I didn't even start reading the article... Do I win? ;-)
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What article? :-p
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Or £38m per year, for three years. The cities involved have a combined population of around 3.6 million (that's for the local authority areas - Greater Manchester and the area around Newcastle have pretty big populations).
So that's £10.55 per head of population, per year - for three years. Less than half of what Amsterdam spends annually on cycling per head of population - every year.
I reckon it's going to take a bit more than this to realise those £17bn savings to the NHS.
Posted 9 years ago # -
"£38m per year, for three years"
Approximately £1m more than Scotland's 5.3 million population will receive for cycling next year. Just imagine if the Scottish government made a firm commitment to spend that amount on cycling every year for the next three.....instead of the usual "oh, what baubees have we doon the back of the sofa?" approach...
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