No – we aren’t telling you who to vote for! But hopefully giving you some guidance how to use the somewhat complicated Holyrood voting system to vote for the result you’d like…
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How we rate the manifestos on cycling, active travel and related transport issues… 1st Green 2nd= Labour/LibDem 4th= Conservative/SNP 6th UKIP For detailed comments see our elections page and its manifestos/candidates section. The biggest & best PoP ever … literally thousands of people, all calling for proper investment in cycling as an everyday means of transport … photo: beqi at flickr.com […] What the political parties are promising … click here and here What you can do about it … click here … including Saturday 23 April, Pedal on Parliament 2016!! Why?? Because this and this and the lovely PoP video* here… *the video is from last year, so has a different date – the 2016 […] Our March 21 public meeting gave the 100 people who came along a great chance to interact with politicians standing for the Holyrood Parliament, and many lessons emerged from the meeting … […] Our tweet about Transport Scotland’s bike/rail cuts is now easily our most popular ever, with 95 retweets already Update 28 March: nearly 150 retweets and many appalled comments (a selection below). Also in the national press… The Herald online 29.03.16. Full story in Herald printed paper. […] [Update – ‘Opposition mounts‘] Spokes has written to Derek Mackay MSP, Minister for Transport and Islands, about plans by Transport Scotland which will worsen cycle carriage capacity on two of Scotland’s key routes for bike/rail travel – Edinburgh-Falkirk-Glasgow main line and the West Highland Lines – including a drastic capacity cut on the latter. […] The Holyrood election is approaching and is critical to cycling/transport policies/budgets for the next 5 years. We’ll tell you here how to make the most of the opportunity in Edinburgh and the Lothians … […] Out now!! Including: Bikes are good for business, large or small; Edinburgh Bike Life report; Government transport priorities; Holyrood election + many local and national issues … Read on!! … […] With no changes in the finalised budget, the Scottish Government has set the ground for a retreat on walking and cycling by Councils across the country… […] |
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