CityCyclingEdinburgh was launched on the 27th of October 2009 as "an experiment".
IT’S TRUE!
CCE is 16years old!
Well done to ALL posters
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.
RULES No personal insults. No swearing.
Obviously not just about diet/exercise (or bicycles).
As part of the discussions before the ATAP was formalised, there was discussion about the merits of improving cycle paths in areas with low cycling rates or high (eg mostly central Edinburgh).
As the process was primarily about "transport" the latter won.
As the process was primarily about "transport" the latter won.
Who'd have thought that might happen? Although to be honest, I was reviewing all the Scottish data on cycling today and concluding that promoting cycling is a lost cause (without major change in infrastructure). If commerce and politics allow I'll post it some time.
We were reading the Scotsman paper version article at work - the way it was presented there was that there was an 11 year gap between richer/poorer areas across Scotland as a whole, not just restricted to Edinburgh.
It's amazing that you can have an elephant in the room like our appalling national health and wellbeing record and yet active transport is paid such lipservice.
Kind of helps inform any voting intentions I have.
The infrastructure for eating vegetables is in place but everyday when I go through Coatbridge I'm convinced that many people are not taking advantage of it.
A similar longevity situation obtains in the west. Men in Shettleston aren't expected to pick up their pension.
"concluding that promoting cycling is a lost cause (without major change in infrastructure)"
I don't entirely agree with that - well I would say that, I've been involved in various attempts.
I certainly agree that some/many of the the more formal/big campaigns are unlikely to be 'cost effective'.
I think various initiatives involving schools have worked, BUT if there is not decent 'safe' infrastructure available it certainly reduces the opportunity (and parental willingness) to try any new-found enthusiasm.
The Black Report showed the links between poverty and ill-health very clearly decades ago. It's not news. What should be news is why so many people are still in poverty.
"What should be news is why so many people are still in poverty."
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For as the maps reveal, this is not, except in the most superficial sense, a “health care” problem.
It is, rather, a slow-motion human disaster, driven by economic and historic factors far beyond the reach of any health system
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