How many people need to drown crossing the river before we decide to build a bridge?
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New cycle lanes blamed for crash on Milngavie Road (Bears Way)
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Posted 8 years ago #
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But the bridge will cause people to drown?
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But no one is crossing the river now so no one is drowning so we don't need the bridge.
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@Stickman - ah. Maybe the Cllr uses a different format of logic.
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And for crossings rather than segregated lanes this is also true (the river being traffic) -
"But no one is crossing the river now so no one is drowning so we don't need the bridge."
Posted 8 years ago # -
"Thus far, the vast majority of people who have been swept off their feet and carried down the river have washed up on the bank still breathing so we don't need the bridge"
Posted 8 years ago # -
'Most people are not crossing the river, only a tiny minority of weirdos and idiots even attempt it. So why should we spend money building a bridge for that stupid minority?'
Posted 8 years ago # -
Humza was asked about Bearsway in Holyrood yesterday.
"Neil Bibby (labour):You mentioned a cycle project that is near your home. On the other side of Glasgow, there is another cycle project—the bears way project in East Dunbartonshire.
The Scottish National Party Government in Edinburgh has a policy of promoting cycling, but SNP councillors have rejected that expansion in East Dunbartonshire.
Would you like to comment on that?
Humza Yousaf:
The member would be the first to be up in arms—rightly—if I tried to overturn decisions that a local authority had made. We trust councillors to make the decisions that are pertinent to their local wards and to the councils that they represent.
Notwithstanding that, I think that segregated cycleways are an important part of realising our vision for active travel journeys and for 10 per cent of journeys to be by bicycle by 2020.
On the back of not just the bears way but a couple of other examples, we could work more closely with local authorities to ensure that they help us to realise our ambitious targets.
The member will understand that I cannot intervene in individual local planning decisions, and he would not expect me to do so, but I put on record my commitment and my belief that segregated cycleways are an important part of realising our vision, and I commit to working more closely with local authorities to see how we can help to achieve that. I have the active travel summit coming up in a week’s time, when I hope to give more information about how I will look to do that."
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Given SNP control most of a LA's budget I'm sure they have the levers to get what every they want done, If they'd actually stop playing purely lip service.
This is what really irks me about the SNP Executive, they've spent years centralising power, despite decades of calling for Westminster to decentralise, and with all their centralised powers they muck around the edges of stuff and pretend to show a real desire for change all the while collecting more powers and doing nothing but build more roads and produce populist BS all the while waiting for Westminster to put a foot wrong and attempt to embarrass them and eventually call for another bloody referendum.
/off topic rant.Posted 8 years ago # -
I was looking in to the Bear Way and I don't think I've been this annoyed in a while: https://www.milngavieherald.co.uk/news/phase-2-of-bears-way-is-not-going-ahead-1-4245341
“People work hard to own a car and run it and they should not be penalised for that.“
“It’s also extremely frustrating for motorists that 8 per cent of cyclists still use the main carriageway.“
“Some traders fear this [reduction of paring] could put them out of business.“
“Prior to the Bears Way cyclists and motorists existed alongside with no real problems.“
“We can’t ignore the 18,000 cars use this road every day.“
All of that from an SNP councillor for <rule 2> sake.
Posted 4 years ago #
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