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Lol @ geex 🤣🤣🤣
AFAIK Lee's job is about activity, not just cycling.
Another campaign just popped up:
https://www.bikebiz.com/features/making-our-roads-safer-needs-a-fresh-approach
I’ve been cycling to work for 38yrs now and not seen an increase in cyclists commuting.
I've got to say it's the opposite for me. There was a time there was one active bike in the bike shed and that was mines to now seeing the shed full in the summer and a significant amount during the winter. Same for recreational cycling, I could easily go road biking and see not one single other cyclist, now it's half a dozen before I've left the town. And I'd say the same about running too, when I started running there were a handful of folks you'd see, now it's like sauchiehall street. Locally we have a sizable athletics club and a well turned out park run. Conversely the pubs are all empty.
As for the kids, looks like wee lucky in that respect also. Load of free after school stuff and in a school stuff.
Edit: my point being I do think things are significantly better and someone else stoking the fire has to be a good thing.
Conversely the pubs are all empty.
Agree with everything else K, but no here they ain't, pubs are rammed, all the time.
Aye it's probably misleading, the sots are more than likely in the house.
Tj - Or going for a walk in your lunchbreak
Just so long as that’s not a school lunch break, the kids should be locked up in the school with forced meal choices and prescribed activities - because that will have a long lasting effect as soon as they are free to make their own decisions.
I was reading a thing about data from an activity app. Turns out 52% of UK folk with that app walked less than 850m a day.
That would be me. I cycle 11 miles to work, walk less than 50m to my work station; repeat in the reverse direction going home. Not many days during the week that I walk 850m.
Great news about Lee though; even if it only makes a small difference and improves the lifestyle of just a few people it will have been worth it.
There are about 370k primary school kids spread over 2k primary schools across Scotland. If she can get to visit all kids at some point during their time at primary school, I think she would inspire enough of them to make a noticeable difference in the space of a decade.
Obviously thats a lot of schools to get around but in heavily populated areas they can be done mnultiple schools at a time by booking out venues. A TED type talk, an expo type setup with all sorts of activities demonstrated that the kids might not even have heard of.
Just needs the investment, whilst this would be a lot, the payoff would make it look like pocket change.
Cheers, looks good, apart from having to listen to McNeish... 😊
Could have came up with another name, that one is already taken with the Wild Atlantic Way in Ireland. Fairly popular it is too so it's a bit of a fail not to have noticed, or noticed but went ahead with it anyway.