@Kaputnik: 'Strategic' means having the authority to set out what should happen, be produced or reported upon, without any of that tedious mucking about with project managers, contractors and performance information.
'Tactical' is an early 2000s buzzword to be applied to generalist consumer goods that have been souped up through aggressive appearance (machined aluminium with strategically-placed rubbery hand grips) and Bear Grylls-style marketing for helping the hardened few survive the zombopocalypse.
I think the case for a cycle expressway along the West Approach Road is the same for why cars get to use it: it's an expressway with few sets of traffic lights and lets you get more quickly to Useful Places, such as the middle of town. Except unlike cars, bicycles don't add greatly to congestion and unlike buses, don't destroy the tarmac. Cycling from the west side of the city to Waverley for example can be a complete nightmare on a bicycle because the New Town is (still) a mess of impenetrable roadworks and jam-packed buses; and the alternative involves hiking up around the Castle, or down into the Grassmarket (and out again), or taking a big diversion through the Meadows. The solution is clearly to sort out a fast way of getting into town, and then a fast way of getting across the middle - about which for non-motorised transport CEC isn't terribly bothered.
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