Public Service Announcement #3

The following message just received from Transport for Greater Manchester...

"TfGM is requesting your feedback regarding proposals for cycle parking facilities 

Following our successful bid to the Local Sustainable Transport Fund, Transport for Greater Manchester would like to ask for your thoughts regarding additional and improved cycle parking facilities for Manchester City Centre and other towns throughout Greater Manchester.

Your assistance will again take the form of a survey, this time regarding cycle centres and cycle compound cycle parking proposals. These new facilities will be in addition to the cycle parking facilities that are currently in place.

Your feedback will help us to determine the content of proposed cycle centres and compounds in more detail.   Both the survey and information on the proposed cycle parking facilities are available via this link

The survey will be available for completion until Friday 7^th October 2011."

So what are you waiting for.... !

Ignorance you should ignore...

This little snippet appears on the backpage of the latest Greater Manchester Cycling Campaign (GMCC) newsletter.

Penned by Andrew Grimes (byline: Opinions you can't ignore) in the Manchester Evening News.

LET'S GET 'EM OFF THEIR BIKES
"I AM heartened by a survey that claims fewer people are cycling to work. The more fashion-conscious among them - mainly but not  exclusively women - don't like the idea of developing helmet hair styles or of turning up at their desks in a sweaty and smelly condition.  This is good news for all road users, pedestrians not excluded. Anything that smashes the greenie cult of the pestilential peak-hour bike is good for the environment."
(Manchester Evening News, Friday 9th Sept 2011, Page 8) 

No idea what survey he is referring to - as all the research I have seen recently has shown increasing numbers of people cycling, even in Manchester !

So here's the double challenge.....

1) Anyone know why Mr Grimes seems to have such a downer on people who cycle?

2) Suggestions welcome for a more apt byline for his column... in true Blue Peter style here's one we prepared earlier to get you started...  "Ignorance you should ignore".