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Danny MacAskill backs more cycle lanes

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  • Started 12 years ago by MichaelMacLeod
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  1. MichaelMacLeod
    Member

    Hi folks. Met Danny MacAskill the other day for an interview. He had this to say about bike lanes:

    "I've been really inspired by the success of Sir Chris Hoy, Bradley Wiggins and the whole team at the Olympics.

    "It's a brilliant time for cycling in general and hopefully we start to see some benefits from that. I've not cycled around Edinburgh for a while but cycle lanes anywhere are a good thing. Anything to make it safer."

    Video is here:
    http://local.stv.tv/edinburgh/magazine/149708-danny-macaskill-returns-to-edinburgh-to-ride-on-art-festival/

    Posted 12 years ago #

  2. recombodna
    Member

    Coming from a guy who mostly cycles on railings...... lolz ;-)

    Posted 12 years ago #

  3. MichaelMacLeod
    Member

    Aye! I remember seeing him cycling along Princes St a few years ago and thinking - that's the bravest thing I've seen him do.

    Posted 12 years ago #

  4. Instography
    Member

    What Keith Brown needs is a compilation of cycling superstars all saying the same thing: increased participation needs safer infrastructure.

    Posted 12 years ago #

  5. DaveC
    Member

    Quote Instography, "What Keith Brown needs is a compilation of cycling superstars all saying the same thing: increased participation needs safer infrastructure."

    What Keith Brown needs to do is start using a cycle, driving a car (instead of taking taxi's) driving busses and driving HGV so he has a better understanding of transport. This is highlighted in 'Back to the Shop Floor' program.

    Posted 12 years ago #

  6. crowriver
    Member

    Yes, but he has a chauffeur. He is a Minister after all....clearly he wants everyone to know it too.

    Posted 12 years ago #

  7. kaputnik
    Moderator

    The day we have a transport minister who thinks of either walking or cycling or taking the bus the 2 miles from Holyrood to Victoria Quay, the sooner we might get some progress.

    Posted 12 years ago #

  8. Wilmington's Cow
    Member

    "Quote Instography, "What Keith Brown needs is a compilation of cycling superstars all saying the same thing: increased participation needs safer infrastructure."

    What Keith Brown needs to do is start using a cycle, driving a car (instead of taking taxi's) driving busses and driving HGV so he has a better understanding of transport. This is highlighted in 'Back to the Shop Floor' program."

    I think what Insto was suggesting is someone makes such a video to send to Keith Brown which may, who knows, lead to better cycle infrastructure and therefore Keith doing all those things you mentioned.

    Not that Keith Brown himself should make such a video...

    Posted 12 years ago #

  9. Instography
    Member

    I wasn't think of a video necessarily but if he takes the views of cycling heroes seriously then showing that they all say the same things might have some impact.

    I wouldn't expect a Damascene conversion but it just needs constant chipping away at.

    All they found of him was a muddy set of prison clothes, a bar of soap, and an old rock hammer, damn near worn down to the nub. I remember thinking it would take a man six hundred years to tunnel through the wall with it. Old Andy did it in less than twenty.

    Posted 12 years ago #

  10. Wilmington's Cow
    Member

    I now have a lovely image of Keith Brown walking into a bikeshed and finding a tunnel behind a poster of Victoria Pendleton leading to a sunny segregated bike path to Mexico...

    Have to say, though you didn't mean the way I interpreted, I like the ideo of a headshot video. Kinda like the finger clicking Bono vid from a while back - simple, straightforward, single message.

    Posted 12 years ago #

  11. kaputnik
    Moderator

    Bono; "Every time I click my fingers, a child dies".

    *click*

    *click*

    *click*

    Wag; "Stop clicking your fingers then"

    *cli...

    Posted 12 years ago #

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