CityCyclingEdinburgh was launched on the 27th of October 2009 as "an experiment".
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How about emigrating to NI?
I've had nothing but good times in Northern Ireland. Had to sneak out the back of a pub once to avoid being plied with compulsory free drink. I'm fond of quite a few Northern Irish people.
That said I'm not sure I'd ever fit in there. It genuinely would be emigration, in a way that moving to Glasgow could never be.
As for my degree of certainty, it's heartening that gravity is holding up. Everything else seems to be shimmering.
@Iwrats What's the provision for cycling like in NI? Any guesses on how much of the £1 billion infrastructure grant/bribe will go towards cycling?
I hear the cycle paths of Belfast are pretty good. [Insert psycopath/cycle path reference here.]
The bribe will be paid in the form of cycle infrastructure ripped up and bodily transported to Ulster from the rUK. Like when the Iraqis stole the traffic lights from Kuwait or my grandad stole a set of engineer's tools and a batterie de cuisine from the Luftwaffe.
Belfast talks the talk but has yet to quite walk the walk on cycling infrastructure. There are a few lively blogs / campaigns - see https://nigreenways.com/ and Bikefast http://bikefast.org/ - plus a hugely successful 'Election Cycle' campaign that got something like 80% of Assembly candidates to sign up to some decent pledges on cycling. Unfortunately the assembly was dissolved before they could actually act on them but there has been a big announcement on building more greenways which will hopefully see some of the cash.
Here endeth the silver lining ...
@sallyhinch
Belfast definitely Walks The Walk (as did Fauldhouse last Saturday when I was stuck for minutes waiting on many humans of the species out that way to parade)
"Coalition of Chaos"
Too kind -
http://www.politico.eu/article/theresa-may-relaunch-after-election-fiasco-conservatives/
pressure from within the Conservative Party to adopt more traditional free-market policies
What tradition might that be? British tradition is for very tightly controlled markets (Empire, wartime, European Union) and a tightly controlled social hierarchy. Free market policies would be revolutionary.
IWRATS, I think what Tories mean is the Thatcherite "tradition" i.e.. free for Them, but not for Us. We must pay for everything, and everything Must be decided by The Market.
If anyone thinks that sounds like a jolly good idea, just look at rail privatisation. Or water privatisation. Or the demutualisation of building societies: that turned out well (not).
@crowriver
Indeed. I'm always amused by the horror shown by most free-marketeers for the freest market we have: Class A drugs.
No regulation, no taxes, no contract law. Just suppliers and consumers.
There's a crowdfunding campaign now to fund a bid to prove that the deal with DUP contravenes the Good Friday Agreement:
Yes, hard to see how the DUP bribe sits easily with Para 5 of the Declaration of Support.
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