CityCyclingEdinburgh was launched on the 27th of October 2009 as "an experiment".
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CCE is 15years old!
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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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Numbers of pupils cycling to school in Scotland fell slightly in 2009, down by 0.5%, mean while the number of children being delivered by car increased by 1%.
OK so the change is not statistically significant, it is just noise in the data, but it does show that the current initiatives to encourage "active travel" to schools is failing.
That's worrying.
My own thought is that this is a legacy of another new generation of parents that virtually live in their cars.
If we wanted to promote a sedentary life style you couldn't do any better than the modern pattern of 'hopping in the car' to go shopping etc.
The kids that sat in the back of their parents car in 1990 are about to be the parents of the future.
My daughter isn't driving yet but cycling around as she doesn't consider it unusual or hard work. Her friends parents don't like them cycling and will probably get them driving lessons sooner. These children though will have spent many years in the back seat watching mum and dad driving so will feel very much at home I'm sure. Human nature I'm afraid.
My feeling is that the way in which people are constantly being told how dangerous cycling is (when it isn't) doesn't help either. It really is time to ditch the "road safety" campaigns aimed at the pedestrians and cyclist, then considerate on the real problem, the drivers!
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