The City of Edinburgh Council [CEC] has produced its Cycle Action Plan [CAP], as part of a wider Active Travel Action Plan [ATAP]. The process has been guided by an ATAP Board on which Spokes was represented.
Overall we are very pleased with the Plan, although not all our points were included and there are a few disappointments. Also speed of implementation post 2010/11 will depend critically on future funding decisions by the Scottish Government and by the Council – it will be up to Spokes and concerned individuals and other organisations to lobby hard on this.
The Action Plan, the Committee Report, and other related documents are downloadable below…
1103 CEC Active Travel Action Plan [pdf 4.1MB] – incorporating the Cycle Action Plan – as approved by CEC Transport, Infrastructure and Environment Committee 21 Sept 2010. Committee ATAP report [pdf 1.6MB] including notes on the funding and staffing necessary to implement the plan.
1007 Spokes response to draft ATAP. Our response comprises a letter [pdf 87k], our detailed response [doc* 1207k], and an appendix seeking answers on certain main points [doc, 38k]. *Our detailed response is a complex document prepared in Word, using the track changes and comment facilities. It can be read using Open Office, but this unfortunately results in a few layout differences, including in page numbering.
1006 Draft ATAP [doc 1240k] The ATAP includes a proposed ‘Family Network’ – a map of this will be in the final plan, but at present it is in 2 separate files, map 1: City [pdf 829k] and map 2: West [pdf 471k]. Comments on the draft (including any comments on the maps) must be submitted to the council by 25 July – see news item 27 June.
1004 Suggested CAP action points submitted by Spokes. ATAP Board members were asked to suggest action points, for themselves and/or others, for inclusion in the plan.
1003 Spokes public meeting on the ATAP, addressed by CEC Transport Convener Cllr Gordon Mackenzie – report in Spokesworker 20 April 2010. The report begins with a brief history of how we reached this point in the development of a CEC CAP. At the public meeting 85 people completed a questionnaire [pdf 110k] to help inform the Action Plan, and the results are in this public meeting survey report [pdf 345k].
0909 Transport consultant Richard Armitage was invited to Edinburgh by Spokes to discuss with members and with top council decision-makers how the City could meet its ambitious Charter of Brussels target for 15% of trips to be by bike by 2020. A paper of action-ideas prepared by Spokes after RA’s visit has been submitted to the CAP. There is also a report of the Spokes RA public meeting in Spokesworker 27.10.09.
