As you can see, we have supporters from Orkney to Dumfries, we also have support from people beyond Scotland who want to be able to visit a cycle friendly country (although those outwith the UK have not been included on
Personal Thoughts on the Holyrood Cycling Debate
From Dave Brennan: At last. Cycling and active travel has had its own debate in the Holyrood Parliament. It’s been long overdue. Well done to the Green party (Alison Johnstone in particular) for using some of their precious debating time
Updated Motion
The motion for the debate tomorrow has been updated. Here is the up to date version. *S4M-02522 Alison Johnstone: Cycling—That the Parliament welcomes the growing number of cyclists in Scotland and the 12% drop in cycling accident casualties between 2000
One Month to Go
It’s the 28th of March which means in exactly one month we’ll be getting ready to Pedal on Parliament! It doesn’t seem quite long enough for everything we’ve got to do, but we’re sure we’ll get there in the end.
More Politicians’ Responses
We were interested to note the following response from Fiona Hyslop’s office to one of her constituents who contacted her about our manifesto After explaining that she cannot sign the manifesto itself, as she is a minister, the letter goes
Cycle Safety to be Debated in Parliament – 29th March
If you haven’t written to your MSP yet – please do it now! The following motion is to be debated at 9:20 am on the 29th March, lodged by Alison Johnstone of the Scottish Green Party: Cycle Safety That the
Write to Them!
Don’t forget that as well as signing up to our petition – and turning up on the day – we’re asking everyone who supports us to write to their MP, MSP and local council candidates asking us to sign up
Pedal on Parliament – new time announced
Due to circumstances beyond our control, we will be changing the time of our mass ride slightly – we’ll now be gathering at the Meadows an hour later than previously announced, at 2pm, and setting off at 3pm. This will
Lesley Riddoch’s comments, and reflections on where we’re going…
We received a lovely note in support from Lesley Riddoch, broadcaster, commentator, columnist, and (to us cyclists) author of Riddoch on the Outer Hebrides – an account of her cycle journey up the Outer Hebrides. She writes: I hear the
Nice discussion of us in the Washing Machine Post
We’re very pleased to have some supportive comments and discussion of what we’re trying to do by Brian Palmer, who cycling cognoscenti will know from his blog washingmachinepost and his curation of all things Robert Millar and that his blog