Was thinking along the lines of "Down With this sort of Transport Policy" (Minister?) and "Careful Roads, Now" as a placard for PoP.
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Politicians coming to PoP
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Posted 10 years ago #
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get the eggs ready for Lesley Hinds :)
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"get the eggs ready for Lesley Hinds :)"
Why?
At least she is trying to understand 'the issues'.
You wouldn't get me walking from the Meads to Holyrood!
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Please, please, please - no eggs. Apart from anything else it's a terrible waste of food...
If you have an issue you want to take up with Lesley or anyone else, the politicians will be making themselves available before the speeches for people to come and talk to them individually. Your words will be much more persuasive than a missile.
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See also the story in this week's EBC newsletter linked to POP but about a set of traffic lights. Big GED wrote to Lesley Hinds asking do for a set of traffic lights to be re calibrated so that they could be triggered by a bike. This was done in a few days (timing for year end budget might have helped?). GED points out if you have an issue you want a response from a politician, the first thing to do is to inform them of the situation.
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Posted 10 years ago #
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Oh, those are the only lights I always go/went through on red... because they only see/saw buses. If bikes do trigger them now, that would be a result!
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'Final' list -
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From my blog post:
"I started off with my question about will politicians ever have the political courage to take road space away from cars – I don’t think I ever got a really clear answer to that (I am struggling to remember every detail of the conversation and I don’t want to misrepresent what was said). However what he did say is that he doesn’t have a car but walks or uses public transport, and that he would use a bicycle if he felt it was safe (he said this again on Twitter later). He also made the point that just as the Scottish Parliament would not be happy if the Westminster Parliament started trying to influence policy on devolved matters, the Scottish Parliament can only do so much to influence policy at a local level (I still think that they could do more, but it is a valid point). I asked what “we” as campaigners could do, then, and the interesting thing that he said was that I/we should try and get people who live in constituencies where the MSP is not “on side” to write to them. I will write to Mr Biagi anyway, because I guess it will be useful to keep up the contact, I might write to my list MSPs as well."Posted 10 years ago #
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