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Posted 14 years ago #
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lively debate as to how the overall funding of £22.8 should be spent
I think the budget was too small (or an 'm' got left off BBC's blurb).
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"Bristol disputes BBC Cycling City failure claims"
http://road.cc/content/news/31938-bristol-disputes-bbc-cycling-city-failure-claims
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There are cyclists who are yet to be born who will benefit from what we are doing, given that some of this cycle inftrastructure will be here for many decades to come, possibly even a hundred years.
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Snigger, I can't see £22.80 lasting too long.
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The problem lies with badly designed cycling specific infrastructure, as has been shown in Barcelona, get it wrong and it can have a negative impact on cycling numbers. Good cycling facilities will increase the number of cyclists but poor ones can discourage those who are already cycling.
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The link above shows how Barcelona initially got things badly wrong, but they learned from their experiences and so here is a video to show some of how they then got it right.
http://www.naden.de/blog/bbvideo-bbpress-video-plugin -->
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the Guardian‘s radio critic Elisabeth Mahoney once again revealed the bizarrely muddled thinking of a nation so thoroughly addicted to its car culture.The Cycling City project, in which a mere £22 million was given to the city to invest in cycling infrastructure and projects, was, she said, a “large state intervention in lifestyle issues”.
The implication is that the billions we spend designing our roads and streets for motor vehicles does not amount to a large state intervention in lifestyle. Or perhaps Mahoney thinks that the inner-Bristol ring road has always been there, that the M32 arterial motorway is a natural geological landform laid down in the last ice age
"http://waronthemotorist.wordpress.com/2011/03/14/state-intervention
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