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Guardian wants bad cycle lane pictures
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Posted 5 years ago #
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Surely they are aware of the artwork that is the Cycle Facility Of The Month website?
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English councils urged to follow Scotland in spending money from traffic fines on road safety
Whit?
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@iwrats: Precisely my thought.
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This is a "good" series (although seems to have stopped posting recently)
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I'm mostly thankful that the Guardian have turned comments off.
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The cycling commissioners have conflated decriminalised parking enforcement, where penalty charge income must be spent on furthering he aims of the local transport strategy (after covering administration of the scheme), and police enforcement - where fine income goes to the Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service and eventually into the Scottish general fund.
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@morningsider: Is there anything to stop councils from just putting the penalty charge income towards what they were planning to spend on the local transport strategy anyway? To put it another way: is it guaranteed extra money which could e.g. be used to help realise the strategic local transport goals sooner, or can it be used to reduce what was going to come from the council's overall budget for that purpose, thus freeing up some of that general budget for other stuff?
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@ejstubbs - I think local authorities factor in estimated parking income (including penalty charge income) when setting their budget. So in that case, it's not necessarily extra money.
Outside of Edinburgh, Glasgow and Aberdeen, surplus parking income is so low as to be effectively meaningless in the grand scheme of Scottish local authority budgeting (See page 10).
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fit aboot Dundee?
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The BBC aired a very similar article on the 10 o'clock news last night, with the headline of "millions wasted on cycle infrastructure".
Except that instead of showing rubbish painted-on cycle lanes, they showed pictures of really rather good segregated lanes.
Completely misleading in that the average person would take that to mean that money is wasted when spent on segregated infra.
More anti-cycling bias from the BBC, I'm afraid
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