10 per cent cycling in Scotland – a target or a vision?

only the 45 would say thats brilliant

half wits couldn't put a nut in a monkeys mouth.

One of the curious things about the Long Term Vision for Active Travel in Scotland 2030 is that the Pedal on Parliament was deliberately excluded from the initial consultation. Make of that what you will...

"A target or vision?" - hallucination more like.

27million is nothing compared to the budgets being spent on the a9 dualling and the a96 dualling - and looking at those plans for those routes there has been the absolute minimum, even less than that, catering for cycle lanes, or consideration for cycle routes, cycling priorities. The recent A96 plans shows us cyclists are going to have to detour 4-5k's around certain spots just to get over the thing, no concession for underpasses or anything!!!!

that 27million will be spent on useless ads' and the great cover all statements about teaching cycling school ...

its all utter tosh , westminster or hollyrood - they are all the same...

More SNP blether that they'll never deliver.

Oh wait, it's Westminster's fault, isn't it

mobile phone companies are obliged to cover something like 90% of the population, so all they do is saturated towns and cities. I suspect the same principle will apply in this situation - there'll be a huge fanfare around initiatives in Edinburgh and Glasgow and next to nothing done in rural areas.

In total agreement with giff77

Roads are terrible in Scotland, councils don't care about cyclists in any town, its always just about now they come out spouting about all the money there going to spend .. this is just vote hunting as far as i am concerned, until you starting acting on it rather then spouting about it i just just don't believe what an MP has to say about spending money on cycling.

Your priority should be

1. Tell councils to fix roads based on cyclist going on them not cars etc

2. Bring in the presumed guilty law against vehicles having accident with cyclist .....they might give us more room and take care overtaking.

3. The cyclebox is there for a reason to protect us for other vehicles but i have yet to see a law enforcement in Scotland stopping this from happening - you hear about in England but not here why is that.

That's a start for you Scottish Transport Minister Keith Brown

I remain to be cynical on anything that Keith Brown and his cronies have to offer in regards to sustainable transport here in Scotland. We continue to be held to ransom by certain bus companies none of which offer a 21st century service for the public. Motorists continue to be treated with leniency in regards to traffic offenses involving the vulnerable. While infrastructure is reasonable between towns (I speak for Renfrewshire and InverClyde). Once you spin off these routes there is absolutely nothing to protect you once you start to negotiate the streets of various towns.

Paisley. A large busy town has ONE cycle box in the town centre and this has been allowed to fade away to nothing. There is a couple of others but they are on a road that personally I dont think warrants their existence.

As Oldstrath says. The current govt would rather through money at bridges and widening roads to alleviate traffic volume.

Oh glorious. A future in which "rural and suburban minor roads have low speed limits". Meanwhile in the real world average speed cameras were installed on the A9 in an attempt to stop the fuckwits killing themselves and other people. So what happens - the fuckwits jump onto the parallel minor roads, knowing that even the ridiculous 60 mph limit won't be enforced.

A government of liars. Shame, but typical.

'David Middleton, chief executive of Scottish Government agency Transport Scotland, is said to have told Cycling Scotland’s annual conference last week that this figure was a target, while his officials later described it as merely a “vision”.'

A fantasy would be about right. The SNP are still chucking money at road building, fantasising about having only electric cars in Scotland, and now dreaming about 10% modal share for cycling. If they could even get the police to enforce the rules for motons it would be a start.

And remember this is the party that gave us the Niceway idiocy, and recently rejected a proposal to introduce presumed liability.

Lots of noise in fantasy land, take a look a the Scottish cabinet.