CityCyclingEdinburgh was launched on the 27th of October 2009 as "an experiment".
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Alas, not in something useful, but in it's own front door...
New £6m Scottish Parliament security hall given final go ahead
No money for cycling, but the parliament is so overawed by its own sense of self-importance that it can justify this sort of spending on itself. Something to be remembered for the next time Keith Broon or any other MSP tells us there's no money.
I believe David Steel called it "beyond bonkers"?
The whole Parly went massively over time and budget because they had to change the design to bomb proof it following 9/11 and the same 'advice' from shadowy security service types...
Is it a full body scanner they're installing like the ones planned for Edinburgh Airport?
Just wait until the 'security' industry gets its hands on the train stations...
There is a whole sub-industry within the security industry that is on a permanent tour around the big organisations (public and private) telling them that they "need" to spend millions on the latest security toys to mitigate against the latest security threats. And by a fortunate coincidence, their company just happens to be in a position to sell them the latest toys at a very reasonable number of millions.
Such snakeoil salesmen are always accompanied by slick powerpoint presentations with videos and photos of 9/11 or the London tube bombings or (to parochialise it to the Scottish audience) the Glasgow Airport "bombing". They conveniently overlook the fact that none of their toys would have made a blind bit of difference in any of the above tragedies.
But the salesmen remind companies of their obscure legal obligation to buy their toys (there isn't one to invest beyond what can reasonably be predicted for) and so they buy them. They prey on the poor concept of risk management in such organisations, overlooking the incalculably low probability and random nature of such force majeure events viz. the potentially very high impact.
Once they have sold all the companies as many toys as they can afford to buy, then they send in the "integration management" salesmen who point out that none of these toys speak a common programming language so if you just happen to by their security integration management platform, you can have them all talking to each other and sit at your workstation in London and open the stationery cupboard in Manchester at the click of a mouse. And you can sleep much sounder at night because of this...
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