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Jan 11 Budget Protest

Unless the draft SNP budget is amended, cuts in walking/cycling investment look to be even worse than Spokes predicted, with only some 67 pence of every £100 transport spending likely to go to active travel. Please contact your MSPs and join the lunchtime protest on Weds 11 January [click on the graphic and see end of this article].

JAN 9 LATEST – See our new BUDGET PROTEST HANDOUT [pdf 774k]. Over 250 people now signed up to come, including from around Scotland!! Continue reading Jan 11 Budget Protest

Season’s Greetings from Spokes

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Christmas present Scrooge (1) The wise men (and women) Scrooge (2) Paradise

Budget: MSPs support Spokes

In a report on the draft 2012-13 Scottish budget, MSPs from all parties, including the ruling SNP, have forcefully endorsed the outcry from numerous individuals and organisations over the severe proposed cuts to active travel. The cuts come alongside a £100m rise in trunk road spending – a trunk roads increase which is more than 5 times the total of cycling investment. But will SNP Ministers listen? Will they even pay attention to their own 2011 election manifesto? With the budget not finalised until January, make your feelings known now! Continue reading Budget: MSPs support Spokes

Princes Street Paradise [new pics 27 Dec]

For the whole of December, Princes Street is free of traffic and free of tram works!! It’s a brilliant opportunity to do some Christmas shopping by bike, and experience (with your kids if you have some) a small taste of how Princes Street could be in the future! …
Stop Press: It’s working!! – see Evening News article 12 December

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Jan 11 Budget Protest

Season’s Greetings from Spokes

Budget: MSPs support Spokes

Princes Street Paradise [new pics 27 Dec]

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