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Cycling Action Plan for Scotland
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Posted 9 years ago #
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Not me. I spend too long editing at work to spend my spare time doing it too. My one piece of advice, which everyone at work routinely ignores and which I then have to reassert later, is to start by writing your whole argument in no more than three short sentences. If you can't do it in three sentences, you're not clear about what you're trying to say. These days I'd probably say if you can't tweet it, it's too complex.
But people don't want to plan, they just want to get stuck in and write so they literally lose the plot.
Posted 9 years ago # -
Just in case anyone needs to remind themselves about Caps but wants to avoid reading the entire thing, I’ve finally finished that summary:
http://www.darkerside.org/2014/07/cycling-action-plan-for-scotland-summarised/
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Agree with @Insto - as someone who has to read several hundred blog posts a week, ideally a blog post should be possible to sum up in a sentence (if nothing else it makes my life much easier) ... one topic per post is golden.
Posted 9 years ago # -
@Ds
Useful piece of work.
I should find it hard to believe that anyone (committee?) wrote this -
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the cycling vision is a challenging aspiration that requires clear and committed shared ownership by all its stakeholders,
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but...
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It's that lack of ownership that really breaks it. Without a single person being accountable, a change programme will only succeed through luck.
On blog summaries, hum of the city (http://humofthecity.com/) generally includes a six word precis at the beginning of each post. My homepage is just a list of headlines and article summaries, but the latter isn't carried through into the article itself (and most people come straight to the article from links elsewhere).
Hmm.
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Scotland currently has a cycling mode share — the proportion of journeys made by bike — of just one percent, a figure that hasn't budged since the 1980s.
The Scottish Government's Cycling Action Plan sets out a vision for that 10 percent target.However, some cycling advocates have expressed scepticism about the achievability of the goal, and the Scottish Government's level of commitment. In a discussion on the City Cycling Edinburgh forum, poster Morningsider commented: "I'm certain the Scottish Government could ensure the 10% target was met. I'm sure they would like it to be met, just not enough to really do anything about it."
Irving thinks it can be done. "I feel it is ambitious but achievable," he told the Herald. "There is no doubt it does require a step change in the amount of effort required to help achieve it.
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http://road.cc/content/news/148185-head-cycling-scotland-calls-cycle-superhighways
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The first edition of CAPS was published in June 2010, effectively five years ago. With a few honourable exceptions, especially Edinburgh, cycling modal share has remained static across Scotland over that period. I think we can see a decent increase in cycling modal share over the next five years, particularly if investment is made in high quality cycle networks, as suggested in the article.
However, I think the 10% Scotland-wide target for 2020 is impossible to achieve in just five years. Such a change could be possible in a single city - but not an entire country, particularly one with a large rural area with very low population densities.
It is worth remembering that in the five years since CAPS was published, the Scottish Government has tried to cut cycle expenditure on at least two occasions. It is only sterling work by PoP, SPOKES and others that has managed to stop this from happening.
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