The Liberal Democrat Focus glossy A3 delivered through my door in Roseburn has made a great thing on the compromise reached on the cycle path.
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CEC election 2017 (May 4th)
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A great section on Active Travel from Cllr Keil (Labour) through my door.
@karenkeil1 Active Travel by HankChief, on Flickr
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Presumably this is to an Edinburgh Labour template so will be in all candidates newsletters(?)
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@chdot - I hope so - hence the post.
Please all do share the Active Travel quotes you get from your candidates.
#walkcyclevote
@Rosie - could you post a picture of what they say? Intrigued to see how it was pitched.
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LibDem Pamphlet by HankChief, on Flickr
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@ HC
Not sure how much that is exaggerating cause and effect for party advantage and how much it's 'true' that LibDems represented/moderated interests of traders etc. (along with - or against - other factions/interests).
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Hard to say, they did their bit but not sure they did more than other parties...
The August decision to go to a Working Group allowed for further changes to the Option A designs, but there was going to be detailed design stage anyway.
I wasn't at all the Working Group meetings and when I did, I wasn't always on the same table as the LibDem Cllr. From my memory they fed in their views just like everyone else, mainly on the impacts to buses, but we're generally less vocal than the main objectors, but that's no surprise.
They were the ones to put forward the 12 month review at the December approval, although that came as a surprise Cllr Edie at the last MCC who then went on to say he wanted Option B.
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Mail from local SNP candidate after I pointed out Glasgow's 10% commitment;
Hail IWRATS! [I may have made that bit up]
Thanks for your email. You certainly have my support on this. I attended a meeting this week on the party's manifesto for the council elections and, without giving too much away, I suspect you'll be happy with what it says on this subject! In addition, we need to be doing for pedestrians. If elected, I will be doing what I can to advance these causes.
Kind regards,
Derek
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@IWRATS, sounds promising.
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I wonder if the SNP have realised that the 10% commitment will win some votes, lose very few and most are actually indifferent?
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I am thinking maybe all parties except Tories are now pro cycling and were active in getting roseburn sorted which in fact we know was Hankchief.
I cannot wait for the leaflets
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You certainly have my support on this. I attended a meeting this week on the party's manifesto for the council elections and, without giving too much away, I suspect you'll be happy with what it says on this subject!"
Sounds like what Adam was saying on the Roseburn demo ride.
So, sounds like he has got his SNP colleagues to go along with this for the next few years(?)
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Labour manifesto committing to 10% cycle budget and a public bike hire scheme and a dedicated Walking budget.
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Spokes CycleCampaign (@SpokesLothian)
21/03/2017, 12:27
#EdElect17 @EdinburghLabour Manifesto published--->http://edinburghlabour.com/manifesto2017
Budget 10%; City #BikeHire; new fund; Low #emission zonehttp://pic.twitter.com/fakXtNojqJ
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Cllr. Andrew D Burns (@AndrewDBurns)
28/03/2017, 22:00
@SpokesLothian @CyclingEdin @edfoc @walkcyclevote @POPScotland next Council term remains at 5-years: 2017-2022 ;-)"
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Hustings for the Council election (Forth, Inverleith and Almond)
Wednesday 29 MARCH
18:00 - 20:30Candidates will be invited to answer prepared questions followed by open round table discusions.
Candidates who have confirmed their attendanceso far
Gavin Barrie — SNP candidate (and sitting Councillor) for Inverleith
Tim Wight — Liberal Democrat candidate for Forth
Heather Pugh — Labour candidate for Forth
Cammy Day — Labour candidate (and sitting Councillor) for Forth
Jim Campbell — Conservative candidates for Forth
George Gordon — SNP candidate for Forth
Gillian Mackay — Green Party candidate for Forth
Iain McKinnon-Waddell — Green Party candidate for Almond
James Dalgleish — Labour candidate for InverleithPosted 7 years ago # -
Complete list of candidates for all wards:
http://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/news/article/2274/edinburgh_candidates_for_council_elections_announced
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Candidates and agents (with addresses) -
http://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/download/downloads/id/5982/notice_of_election_agents_appointed.pdf
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Quick look at wards and candidates and biro on postit leads to some dubious predictions -
C14, G 10, L 17, LD 3, S 19
I suspect the Green 'possibility' more than the others and a lot relies on people bothering to turn out for Labour.
IF final figures anything close, then SNP/Lab coalition could continue - with SNP leading.
Slight variation could see SNP/Tory alliance.
Who knows!
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Local issues for local elections.
Or is that local elections for local issues?
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Buoyed by their Holyrood performance, the Conservatives are in confident mood. “Although it is a local election, people are asking where candidates stand on another referendum and it can only help that the Conservatives are the only major party which is rock solid on Scotland remaining part of the UK,” Tory group leader Cameron Rose told The Scotsman.
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Scottish Greens field 219 candidates for council elections
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Possibly the worst loss of this election cycle will be the weekly Lesley Hinds / Chas Booth twitter barneys. All appear in good humour.
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He said: “He was never one to baulk at a fight. After Labour swept to power on the council in 1984 a lot of people got a bit scared, but Paul just took them on and led from the front. That reinvigorated the Tory group.
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Not sure we had this confirmed before, but David Key's campaign leaflet is saying the SNP will commit 10% of transport budget on Cycle Infrastructure.
Good news.
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SNP vying to to take over Glasgow CC and become 'more European' and/or compete more with Edinburgh (or maybe co-operate if they are largest party in both councils?)
This article doesn't mention cycling (mentions Copenhagen) but SNP in both cities now back '10% for cycling'.
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GLASGOW needs to be remodelled. On this, almost everyone from the public through to urban designers agrees. The city needs to be more walkable, greener, more liveable, more attractive to tourists. It needs to fill up its vacant spaces and empty wastelands. It needs to populate its city centre with a wider demographic, and create a truly 24-hour life city. It needs to make the Clyde and its quays the kind of centre point, the public heart, that rivers provide in so many other European cities. Abandoned lanes need to be turned into thriving hubs for restaurants, bars, artists and entrepreneurs.
As the Sunday Herald reported exclusively last week, Susan Aitken - the SNP politician, tipped to take over as leader of Glasgow City Council if she ousts Labour, as suspected, in May's local elections - wants to see the city become the next Barcelona, Berlin of Copenhagen. Some big changes are already being planned through the Glasgow City Centre Districts Regeneration Framework. Currently leading this vision are Winy Maas, architect at the innovative Rotterdam-based MVRDV studio, and Graham Ross of Austin Smith Lord, Glasgow-based architects. They speak of a Glasgow in which a “great linear park” might run along the Clyde, in which wasteland and vacant spaces are put to use, in which there are markets, street food festivals, buzzing city lanes.
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Members have voiced their dismay on Facebook with one posting: “Three candidates we as a branch had not chosen – so much for local democracy.” Craigentinny/Duddingston is one of only two wards where the SNP is fielding three candidates.
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The supporter also dismissed any harm to the party’s campaign in the area. “I don’t see why anyone would care – do you think your average voter cares about this?”
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The clydeside expressway was the last successful thing to go along the river.
I think it would be great to make it a linear park bit like the water of leith but with more than just the cafe at slateford visitor centre.
I would like to know the timescale as the WoL path happened maybe twenty years after the industries all went though maybe the last paper mill clung on Balerno? Was it opened in the late 1980s? So the green spaces have taken hold.
In Glasgow the clydeside in the centre of the town has always been extremely risky place to be hanging out, day or night, north of the river. South of the river they have tried a wee bit but remains largely gated communities. Cycling out toe SECC is a laugh.
You can cycle up the Clyde to Uddingston through some of the Most derelict bleak post industrial landscape on offer. Nearer the city centre there is a rowing club.
South of the river going to tramway Or citizens always an adventure.
My cycle from Uddingston to Parkhead last month was phenomenally bleak and I have cycled that way before. The signage is better given the commonwealth village.
Quite a long term task and looks like they are trying to do something with the environment before they start building the hotels whereas Edinburgh is just building hotels and resting on the laurels of the old town and the new town?
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