Smart woman not sure why she is so against cycling and so against encouraging people to return to the city centre by making it more pedestrian friendly?
Unless she is paid a consultancy by Ford or Shell?
CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Infrastructure
Today’s Susan Webber Warbling
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Posted 4 years ago #
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maybe not too smart, gembo-san
happy to attend murrayfield in march when i was already down with the rona
Posted 4 years ago # -
interesting hash tag she uses in that tweet, of course it's only with hindsight that a hastag starting #Scov... sounds like a reference to sars-cov-2.
Posted 4 years ago # -
Thought then it was Scottish Conservative Verbals
But is Scotland Versus France rugger
Who would have guessed
Posted 4 years ago # -
to be fair, many public figures naively attended sporting events in early march, but not many also had the gall, two months later, to cynically retweet that lockdown should have started much earlier
Posted 4 years ago # -
She's not very good at hashtags - serious misjudgement on the one she used a couple of days ago, but she did at least apologise
Posted 4 years ago # -
She's in the EEN with some total guff today.
Not suitable for those with a tendency to get heated with Tory ramblings
Posted 2 years ago # -
That’s quite a shocking article/POV.
Full of half-truths, untruths and ‘I don’t like change’, ‘I’m right’, ‘anyone who agrees with me is right’ plus ‘I KNOW what the majority WANT’.
Even IF the last is true, I wonder if it only covers a narrow demographic?
Once again I applaud/congratulate all those involved in promoting/running bike buses, and especially this one.
She imagines it’s all a plot because some people ‘came from outside’ - those who had done it before and were there to support and give confidence to those wanting a bike bus at the local school
JUST LIKE HAS BEEN DONE ELSEWHERE
Ms. W will have to get used to the idea there will be more of them.
ESPECIALLY if infrastructure is suitable.
Oh….
The idea that children enjoying a safe ride to school are just innocent pawns in an adult political game is distasteful.
Posted 2 years ago # -
Frankly disgusting and quite demented. Some parents arranged and promoted a communal cycle to school.
They did not need to consult with anyone. They did not need permission from anyone. They did not need to conduct a risk assessment.
Are the Tories arguing that parents should not be free to choose how their children travel to school? Are they arguing that people should not use the infrastructure provided at taxpayer expense? Are they arguing for parents to conduct risk assessments on home-school travel?
Claims that parents were "exploiting children" are simply foul.
Posted 2 years ago # -
As Gerry Cinnamon would say, "she's a belter" ...
... as in "an outstanding example of" pandering to clickbait.
Posted 2 years ago # -
Equally he might say "it could all be a canter".... Applies to most torys...
Posted 2 years ago # -
Don’t know why she didn’t speak about politicising children when the kids from James Gillespie appeared at the Transport Committee. She did however say this:
https://twitter.com/algorhythmica1/status/1541375469974700032
Posted 2 years ago # -
Any parents who took part in the Juniper Green Bike Bus want to comment?
https://www.edinburghlive.co.uk/news/edinburgh-news/msp-faces-backlash-after-claiming-24340749
Ms Webber said: "If Councillor Macinnes had read the article properly, she would have seen I did not criticise bike bus schemes per se, but raised the legitimate concerns of parents that children were being used as part of a highly-politicised campaign to preserve a scheme she forced through which made an already busy road more dangerous.
"She might be struggling with her irrelevance after years of her high-handed policies ignoring community concerns, but it's pretty desperate stuff to be arguing that it's fine for adult activists to attempt to manipulate impressionable youngsters."
Posted 2 years ago # -
I am not and have never been involved in a bike bus of any kind, but I would make this comment: yet another example of classic, and rather despicable "Won't somebody please think of the children?" whataboutery.
Does Ms Webber really think that she knows what's good for the children of Juniper Green (safe active travel to school, in this instance) better than their parents do?
Strikes me as a typical Tory trying to tell other people how they should be living their lives.
Posted 2 years ago # -
The only people who have politicised the Lanark Rd lanes are Webber and her hinger-ons.
Posted 2 years ago # -
Is there any evidence that the Juniper Green bike bus was arranged as part of a campaign to secure the long-term future of the Lanark Road cycle lanes? If not then it is troubling that an MSP is directly impugning constituents taking part in a lawful activity that is encouraged by national and local policy.
Posted 2 years ago # -
Is there any evidence…
Posted 2 years ago # -
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How to object and for it actually to break through.
I get no sense that officers or Admin elected members (labour) are interested in listening
The legitimacy of SfP has gone. These bollards should be removed
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Posted 2 years ago # -
Ungrateful b1tch. She was standing in the middle of the road, sort of stranded in hope she could stop the 44 bus with her mind. I slowed and was already in primary and the bus driver noticed her platinum Bob (white actually) and started to draw into the stop. As I passed I declared. a cyclist helped you MSP
Posted 2 years ago # -
(In response to her!)
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Despite time you spent on the Transport committee you clearly still have not understood that adding segregated cycling infrastructure has been a significant factor in increasing safety. But, from yr consistent opposition to progress, that doesn’t seem to matter to you.
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Posted 1 year ago # -
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Webber trotting out all the old cliches:
Militant cyclists!
Segregated lanes aren’t safe!
Avid cyclists don’t want them!
Water of Leith is a good cycle route!Also: she voted for the Roseburn-Canal link and praised it as a good project. Opportunist hypocrite.
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https://twitter.com/pidginposting/status/1702602990245367943
Posted 1 year ago # -
Article in the EEN where Webber is calling for increased enforcement action against people using (illegal) e-bikes and e-scooters, apparently following someone "buzzing" her on the Water of Leith pathway.
"The behaviour is illegal, but there's not enough police todo anything about it."
Wait till she hears about drivers.
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Posted 2 months ago #
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I see her walking her dug quite often on the WoL Path. I remain civil due to my extreme Zen training. There are a few motorbikes these days maybe a few more than there used to be. They are not great.
Posted 2 months ago # -
“There are a few motorbikes these days”
Electric?
Food deliverers?
Posted 2 months ago # -
Two-stroke/gasoline Radge Cats
Posted 2 months ago # -
Warbly Webber has turned her big guns onto the Tiny LEZ. My band mate the Professor of Climate Justice Big Davie was in a hired car in Edinburgh recently and doing a U turn to avoid the LEZ [he works London where they have proper LTN/LEZ].
I am like - it is ok,it is a pretend LEZ
But even a tiny pretend LEZ is too much for Sassy Sue.
Posted 2 months ago # -
"Delighted to be appointed to the post of @ScotTories Shadow cabinet for Transport"
Posted 1 month ago #
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