CityCyclingEdinburgh was launched on the 27th of October 2009 as "an experiment".
IT’S TRUE!
CCE is 17years 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.
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The fifth Delivery Plan for Scotland’s National Transport Strategy has been published, highlighting the ways in which the Scottish Government is supporting the delivery of a sustainable, safe, inclusive, resilient transport system that is accessible to all.
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https://www.transport.gov.scot/news/driving-progress-across-the-transport-sector/
38 pages
Cycling mentioned 4 times
Active travel 18 times
https://www.transport.gov.scot/media/rkufqaat/nts-fifth-delivery-plan.pdf
Like almost all Scottish Government/Transport Scotland policy documents these days, this is largely bolieprlate text plus a list of things related to transport that have happened somewhere in Scotland over the last year and a few suggestions of things they hope might happen in the future.
No measurable outcomes, timelines, budgets, workforce plans, procurement plans or anything else you might expect in something called a "Delivery Plan".
Why bother writing this? The disparate transport related things will continue to happen without it.
Glasgow has been doing a free transport test. Some passes went out to people dependent on cars and bikes to see if a travel card was attractive (of course! ...surely affordable zonecards should be normal for most cities in 2026?)
https://www.thenational.scot/news/25975934.part-glasgows-free-public-transport-trial/
Launched back in February, the city’s free public transport scheme gave six weeks of free journeys on buses, trains, and the subway to selected Glasgow residents.Participants in the trial include those who regularly rely on cars, along with those who face barriers to travel, such as patients who struggle to make hospital appointments due to the cost.
Those taking part in the six-week trial, which comes to an end on Sunday, received a Zonecard, allowing travel across the city and surrounding areas, including the likes of Erskine, Lenzie and Neilston at no cost.
One of those who took part of the trial, Ellie Gomersall, said it couldn’t come at a better time, seeing as her usual mode of transport, her bike, was out of action due to a fault.
Of course the fire beside Central Station meant lots of train and bus services in and out of city disrupted (@gembo back on rail today)
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