CityCyclingEdinburgh was launched on the 27th of October 2009 as "an experiment".
IT’S TRUE!
CCE is 14years old!
Well done to ALL posters
It soon became useful and entertaining. There are regular posters, people who add useful info occasionally and plenty more who drop by to watch. That's fine. If you want to add news/comments it's easy to register and become a member.
RULES No personal insults. No swearing.
By Laura Laker, using Wheels for Wellbeing research: https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/half-of-disabled-cyclists-fear-being-seen-on-their-bikes-in-case-they-lose-benefits_uk_5c0118c4e4b0d04f48b30d83
"John, who is in his late 50s, was born with cerebral palsy, and struggles to walk. He has cycled since the age of six, but he stopped four years ago when a neighbour started photographing him on his bike. He feared he would be reported and his benefits taken away."
Depressing, in so many ways
There is a lot of this around "blue badge" shaming as well. People with non-obvious disabilities getting shouted at for using a blue badge space.
Must admit to being finding myself at Tesco the other day with sprog and, not being able to find space in the parent-child section, I took a roundabout route to the front door so I could investigate all the cars inn the spaces for evidence of childs (they were all legit).
This makes me so furious and despairing - He feared he would be reported and his benefits taken away.. This is a broken, awful, dehumanizing "support" system. Rule 2 to that revolting neighbor.
Disabled bus pass shaming too - hi people guess what you can't see a serious heart condition, or epilepsy, or a hundred other conditions.
How crappy this is on all levels. My brother-in-law can only shuffle a couple of hundred meters after his stroke, and can't carry things, but gets about in style on his adapted three-wheeled recumbent. He'd be wretched without it, totally dependent on my sister for getting about. It's saved him from severe depression.
And what a horrible neighbour. It's no skin off his/her nose whether he gets benefits or not. I can understand colleagues getting annoyed that someone is skiving, pretending to be sick, but how does it affect the neighbour?
Somebody once told me there's no such thing as an aggressive dog, there are just frightened ones.
The closer we all get to the cliff edge the keener we are to find someone to push over first.
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