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Liberal Democrat climate emergency spokesman Liam McArthur said: “This is an absolute embarrassment for Patrick Harvie and the Scottish Government. A much-trumpeted scheme has been drowned in a mixture of government bureaucracy and incompetence.
“When government schemes unravel as badly as this, is it any wonder that next to no progress has been made over the past decade towards achieving Scotland’s cycling target?”
A Transport Scotland spokesman said: “This was a trial scheme. The very nature of a trial scheme is that some approaches will work better than others.
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