How can Edinburgh Council meet its ambitious Charter of Brussels target of 15% of trips to be by bike in 2020?
Continue reading Mobility Week Sep 16-22 including Spokes public meeting with Richard Armitage
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ScotRail’s first cycle information board, produced by Spokes at ScotRail’s initiative, was unveiled at Linlithgow Station on Friday 11 September by the Convener of the Scottish Parliament’s Transport, Infrastructure and Climate Change Committee, Patrick Harvie MSP. Continue reading Linlithgow Station Cycle Info board “The government sets the target (10% of all journeys in Scotland to be by bike by 2020) – therefore they have the primary responsibility for achieving it.” Continue reading CAPS – Scottish Cycling Action Plan – Spokes responds Edinburgh Council is consulting on major proposals for higher bus priority between Cameron Toll roundabout and the new Edinburgh Royal Infirmary. Comments must be submitted by 27 August, and there will also be a staffed exhibition on Sat/Sun 15/16 August. The Scottish Parliament Information Centre (Spice) has published a briefing paper on cycling in Scotland. The document incorporates the summary table from our Spokes 2009 Funding Survey, which it calls, “the most comprehensive analysis of funding for Scottish cycling projects.” The third edition of the Spokes cycle/walking map for Midlothian has just been published. Employees who cycle regularly to work are less frequently ill, with on average more than one day per year less absenteeism than colleagues who do not cycle to work. See Netherlands TNO report for details.
The Spring Spokes Bulletin is out, highlighting the failure of the Scottish Government to take bike use seriously in its 2009/10 budget – despite the all-party evidence-based recommendation of the Parliament’s own Transport, Environment and Climate Change Committee. Yet big new money is going into trunk roads. So – a huge question mark over the government’s much-vaunted aspirations for ‘sustainable’ economic growth and over its intentions on early action towards meeting Climate Change Bill targets. Continue reading Scottish Government snubs cycling whilst boosting trunk roads – Bulletin 103 |
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