CityCyclingEdinburgh was launched on the 27th of October 2009 as "an experiment".
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CCE is 15years old!
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@ARobComp, people have the right to be there. Absolutely they do.
I also have the right to go walking around the back streets of Craigmillar, Pilton or Wester Hailes* in the middle of the night, if I want to. Doesn't mean it's a good idea!
* - I lived in Wester Hailes as a kid in the early 1970s. It was okay then, but I wouldn't hang about there these days.
Further west on that route (between the golf courses) I almost got taken out by a section of fishing line strung across the path.
Fortunately for me I saw it glint in the sun and I was able to stand up at the last second which meant it hit me in the chest and broke. It was aimed at face/neck height though.
(This was nearly 25 years ago)
There used to be a cycle workshop in one of the units in Roseburn Street - about 10 years ago. The bloke who ran it told me he had been taken down by some teenagers holding a cord or wire across a cycle path. He had been permanently damaged.
I was speaking to a friend tonight who once cycled through Craigmillar and saw some kids pulling a cord across his route. Fortunately he had enough time to cycle round them.
It's odd how these stories get picked up by the press. This sort of thing isn't terribly unusual. I'm amazed that it has made the BBC website.
The likes of the Beeb may have contacts who search for local stories or may even useweb technology (such as "bots") to scour for certain keywords or topics. Then it's just a case of an editor saying yay or nay to using the story. That's assuming nobody who was involved didn't simply get in touch of course.
@stiltskin is it a terribly wrong thing that it did though?
The main reason I was keen to get this on a few news outlets is that it is a classic example of something that targets cyclists but in reality effects everyone that uses those paths. As the Spokes chap said the more people using the path network the better it is.
In this day and age of "lower crime rates" it's worth reinding people that people still do horrible things - often to target cyclists - and it's barely noticed. The only way to get it into peoples heads that cyclists are people is to do things like this and show the pictures of the 50year old who thank goodness only hurt his face (could have been much worse)
Yes. As has already been mentioned, if someone had dropped a brick from a motorway bridge, it would have been in the paper. What is the difference here?
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