@Wilmington's Cow
I have experienced this state of affairs in Rome on New Year's Eve/Day whilst squashed into the back of a Fiat 500. I confirm that your idea is excellent.
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Posted 8 years ago #
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Wasn't there a town in Wales where all parking enforcement was abandoned, and the result turned out to be drivers fighting in the streets? I don't remember the town's name.
Hmm, after trying to google it I gather that fighting on the streets is not unknown in parts of Wales.
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@cc yes - aberystwyth
i'm not sure if there were fights, but i'm sure there was 'traffic chaos'.
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"The situation has gone from everyone celebrating the end of traffic wardens to incidents of road rage, huge traffic jams and residents not being able to move their vehicles from their driveways. It seems strange to say but a growing number of people will be happy to have the wardens back."
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@Stephan Matthiesen
"Free unlimited parking in city centres is quite a good idea. Will stop all traffic completely, because all spaces will be taken by long-term parkers."
As cyclists, maybe we should be in favour of this?
It would certainly be fun if it was introduced for a month.
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"As cyclists, maybe we should be in favour of this?"
The big question is whether a free-for all reduces overall traffic. From an environmental point of view, the only outcome that counts is how much greenhouse gases and how many local pollutants are emitted, basically the total amount of motor traffic.
One would think that if people can't find parking in town, they would use a different mode of transport. But this is apparently not what happens, instead people are happy to sit in the car for longer or drive in circles until they find parking.
I really can't make up my mind on that and wonder if the Aberystwyth case produced any data on how driving changed. That there was congestion doesn't really tell us much. Perhaps the number of cars went down but without rules the roads became so inefficient that there was still chaos. And perhaps people just drove more to the out-of-town shopping centres then.
I agree it would be great fun and I always laugh when drivers pile into the Cameron Toll junction and block each other (I stop laughing when an ambulance comes along though, which happens every half hour or so...).
But I think too many people are so fixated on the car as their only means of transport that there needs to be a lot of other changes too before people change.
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"too many people are so fixated on the car as their only means of transport"
This is such a problem. Not just in Scotland of course, but Scotland seems to have a particular dependence on the infernal combustion engine that is not going away, but rather increasing.
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I came home from the Pentlands to find the LibDems' election leaflet had been delivered. I read it closely as I am interested in the election. Key points;
It is dated Jan/Feb 2016 and names a prospective rather than actual candidate. Perhaps their activists are struggling to get round all of the houses or possibly our area wasn't a priority for the party?
Key section for us;
LibDems wish to refocus Scotland's energy policy on wind and tidal technologies.
Cool, but Scotland's energy policy is the responsibility of Her Majesty's Government in London, of which LibDems were a part between 2010 and 2015. Why are they exercising themselves about this issue now?
We want to make it easier to take advantage of public transport while investing in the expansion of our cycle and footpath network.
Cool, transport is devolved, but the LibDems were part of the coalition Scottish Executive between 1999 and 2006. This Executive handed back £1.2 billion of unspent block grant because they couldn't think of anything to spend it on. Puts the Union canal path in perspective, doesn't it?
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IWRATS that is curious, the lib demos love a leaflet.
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@gembo
True, but they will have already printed their classic 'ONLY THE LIB DEMS CAN BEAT XXXXXX IN THIS TWO HORSE RACE' leaflet but XXXXXX can only be the Monster Raving Loonies and they don't seem to stand no more?
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IWRATS, yes that is one of their best.
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That's an appaling stance for someone who used to work for EUSA. She needs to get the cue parallel to the table bed, right elbow in line with the cue and right foot underneath the right hand, parallel to the cue. And she's playing that with left hand side, which isn't very Blairite.
Chin on the cue and half decent bridge though - all is not lost
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Aw c'mon she is wearing her fast Eddie Felson hustler pinstripes. I am hoping spats and machine gun in her fiddle case?
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The QM looks to have been done up since I used to go. Not the sticky, beer stained dive that it used to be. I'm not sure that's a good thing.
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Maybe she's going for a curl shot, trying to put a wee bit of spin on the ball? I guess we'll never know...
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A politician putting spin on, that would never happen.
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Spokes CycleCampaign (@SpokesLothian)
12/04/2016, 5:57 pm
First #SP16 manifesto out, by @scotgphttp://www.spokes.org.uk/2016/03/holyrood-election-5-may-2016/#Manifestos
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If I'm not much mistaken there are now more Scottish Green posters up in the Inch than there are Labour ones. (I have seen none of the latter.)
This is a really odd election.
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We're into the "politicians doing photo-ops on bicycles" stage of the campaign. Kezia Dugdale kicked things off today.
https://mobile.twitter.com/scottishlabour/status/720228077410852864
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"there are now more Scottish Green posters up in the Inch than there are Labour ones"
Check the addresses of candidates/agents.
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Scottish Environment LINK is organising “Environment Matters”, a national hustings event, on Wednesday 13 April 2016 at 18.00 in Edinburgh.
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Live streaming -
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Some great chat about cycling from Edinburgh Western Candidates
Alex Cole-Hamilton (from 18.35) says the LibDem manifesto will include £100m for cycling! More than doubling current levels.
Toni Giugliano (from 25.17) says he'll push for more national spending and wants to see more protected cycle lanes. He also referenced a cycle tour he did with a constituent looking at good and bad infrastructure :-)
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Well done - positive campaigning hopefully having an effect.
If the Roseburn plans do come off then I propose it's named the HankChief Highway, and the ceremonial opening involves a family ride along with the big rig.
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Attendees might have been forgiven for thinking they had attended the launch of the Ruth Davidson Party.
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