Iain Whyte

On yer bike, and they really are serious

By The Basa ⋅ April 30, 2009 ⋅  Email this post ⋅  Print this post ⋅ Post a comment

They actually surveyed the public about it. The public told them no. Guess what, screw the public, we’re in charge, we’ll just do it.

TRANSPORT bosses are to push on with plans to introduce a bike sharing scheme in the Capital, despite a survey failing to find public support for the project.

First mistake they made was comparing Edinburgh to Barcelona or Lyon. If they had gone back a few years and compared Edinburgh to Amsterdam which has a similar climate they would have found that Amsterdam did it. Everyone in that city rides bikes – but when the Amsterdam Gemeente happily supplied their citizens with beautiful new white bicycles – the citizens promptly stole them and painted them a huge variety of colours.

Conservative leader (just, by the skin of his teeth and his own vote) Iain Whyte who originally had the hair brained idea came out of his sack to suggest that it could be paid by advertising. We can just see it now – Pfizer putting ads on the cross bar with a 50cm ruler and the phrase “You’re willy will be this big when you use Viagra.” At least he had the chukkies to admit “The report is not ultra positive” although that is a bit of an understatement.

The ignoramus quote of the day goes to Councillor “on time and on budget” Wheeler who has obviously lifted it from some green blog somewhere in middle America. We won’t bother wasting bandwidth by putting it here. If you want to read it then head over to the link below.

Interestingly, the Evening Chip Paper does not allow comments on the story, they must have been warned to keep comments away with the threat of removal of council advertising revenue. You can comment below.

More Info: City saddles up to take bike sharing scheme for a spin

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