It's also interesting that the brave MP didn't take to FB to make the same claim about "unnamed Living Streets people, in unknown locations..."
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Dundee Street & Fountainbridge "Improvements"
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Posted 1 day ago #
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Scott Arthur lives in Fairmilehead. If geography precludes commentary, I assume we are now living in the age of gated 15 minute neighbourhoods the tinfoil hats feared were coming for us.
(I've done my best at a provocation on Bluesky. He's been ignoring me recently though).
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“Of course, Blackford Safer Routes exists in its current form to defend active travel provision due to Arthur's sleekit convenorship of the Transport Committee coming for 'their' area...”
SA’s actions over the years have been genuinely shocking.
‘I’m a cyclist (when not on the front seat of a bus)’ hasn’t translated into ‘I’ll do my best to accelerate the sluggish progress (over decades) for people who (try to) get around conveniently and safely by means other than personal motors.
Wasn’t expecting him to become an advocate for road pricing or anything ‘too radical’ but the extent to which he’s pandered to those who want to drive quickly between two points and park outside their houses instead of on their drives is (mostly) unfathomable.
‘I’ll get a few more votes’ isn’t a convincing explanation for his actions and mantras about ‘it’s for local people to decide’.
Posted 1 day ago # -
It is extremely telling to me that a Labour MP is exercising exactly the same rhetoric as Tory counterpart Cllr Munro does constantly - "We need to listen to residents. No, no not those ones - the ones who loudly agree with me."
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"I’m a cyclist" - he's a vehicular cyclist with little empathy. He can't imagine what it's like for a 12 year-old to ride independently, or a mother with an 8 year-old, or a less-confident rider...
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I think he would make a great psychiatric case study
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"I’m a cyclist" - he's a vehicular cyclist with little empathy. He can't imagine what it's like for a 12 year-old to ride independently, or a mother with an 8 year-old, or a less-confident rider...
I had detailed conversations with him in his first term as a councillor about exactly this sort of thing, and it was clear that he is capable of understanding exactly these kinds of issue.
I have no idea if he was just pandering to his audience or if he has had a genuine change of opinion.
Posted 19 hours ago #
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