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Getting involved in dialogue with this clown legitimises his self-appointed role as "spokesman" for an organisation that can raise only 500 signatures for something that people feel so strongly about.
I suspect the tack incident will marginalise his group further, even though he may well not have been involved
BBSB, completely agree. I am a local in the Aberfeldy area - my house access is directly on to the route.
ACRE is quite right that in the first year the event was imposed by P+K council against local wishes, and in that first year ACRE probably represented a good proportion if not the majority of local sentiment. The feeling was that we had the inconvenience but Pitlochry area gaining all the benefits.
However, since then local sentiment has changed completely. It is clear that the event brings huge benefits to the area both for the event weekend and during the rest of the year, so the roads being closed for half of one Sunday a year is trivial compared to the benefits.
I personally know no-one locally who is against it, and most of them are not cyclists. I also personally know people who locally run pubs, restaurants, deli's, a bookshop, B+B's and holiday cottages and can categorically state that they all believe the ETAP is hugely positive for business.
In summary Peter Hounan and ACRE were relevant 3 years ago but now represent a very tiny minority