Eleven Edinburgh schools are getting a great Christmas present, with cars to be banned in adjacent streets at opening and closing times. Another 20 schools wrote to Santa, but sadly missed out this year… Continue reading Santa visits 11 Schools [not by car!]
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[Update Dec 17: Deputy 1st Minister John Swinney MSP agrees to meet Jim Eadie MSP to discuss cycle funding – see tweets & video at end below. Your emails/visits/phones to MSPs are helping – please continue!] New Scottish Government Transport Minister Derek Mackay MSP is honing his skills at skating … around a question … Continue reading New Transport Minister goes skating [Update Dec 17: Jim Eadie MSP asks Deputy 1st Minister John Swinney MSP for some of this cash to go to cycling – see tweets & video at end of our Dec 10 story. Your emails/visits/phones to MSPs are helping – please continue!] Scottish Government Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Sustainable Growth, John Swinney MSP, made a £5m error in his budget speech to MSPs – though by amending the draft budget he could wipe out the mistake… Continue reading £5m Budget Speech Error Something remarkable happened at the Spokes public meeting on Cycling Development in the Lothians … Continue reading Councillor flabbergasted … or … the Importance of Budgets … and … What You Can Do According to the janitor, 140-150 people attended the Spokes public meeting on Lothians cycling development… Continue reading Lothians interest – packed out meeting! All the Lothians Councils are gearing up for our public meeting this Thursday! Continue reading Nov 20: Lothians Cycling Development Out now!! Including – More on the 15/16 government budget mess-up; Cycling development in the Lothians – supplement & public meeting; our annual councils’ funding survey; and masses more… Continue reading Spokes Bulletin 120 : Budget flim-flam Spokes has urged the Parliament’s ICI Committee to take a tougher line on active travel investment… Continue reading Scottish Budget – Spokes submission Edinburgh Council is to raise the priority for road resurfacing on roads important to cycling. No other Council in Scotland – and possibly the UK – has built this in to their calculations of which roads most need resurfacing. Continue reading Road maintenance cycling innovation |
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