Another First?

[maggiebee]

First Six Pilot Projects Selected to Offer Free Bicycles for School Age Children.

As part of a series of commitments delivered by the Scottish Government within its first 100 days, the new pilots will test their approaches across the next 12 months and will be fully evaluated. They will test delivery models in urban and rural locations, across primary and secondary schools ages and trial various procurement models. The pilots seek to include local bike shops and will explore opportunities to maximise benefits for the local supply chain, including recycling bikes and encouraging a circular economy approach.

The pilots will test a variety of ownership, loan and subscription models and undertake various methods of assessing need to ensure inclusion and accessibility. Pilots are linked to existing community networks across schools, charities, cycling clubs and active travel hubs – all helping to determine what the best models of local delivery could look like. Full article here.
http://graemedey.info/new/free-bike-pilots-announced/?fbclid=IwAR2lvoqa4_kWyQtCLNzYZsVa-F7kU1nEVLy0C45-FOXWGf0sQd5kLdLFoQw

[ynnafymmi]

Free bikes now eh.Good thing the English taxpayers have plenty of money to splurge around for Virgins free handouts.There is still £600,000 missing from the SNPs accounts.It would be better if Sturgeon addressed this issue first,one would think.

[anneasquith]

Maggie, thank goodness we have England to thank for this new initiative.

[THECORBYLOON]

Is it only English folk paying taxes? You must be saving a wee fortune, YNNAFYMMI!

[ynnafymmi]

No,but Scotlands tax income wouldnt cover Mrs Murrells bar bill.No,we have to rely on the English taxpayer to bale us out.

[ynnafymmi]

I doubt if Mr Murrell is on AB,but if he is-"where is the missing £600,000,mate".

[gulliver1]

Don't get spending tax payers money on those fried Mars Bars, Nafy.

[ToraToraTora]

no need to peace about with all that just make it illegal to take kids to school by vehicle (yes with the obvious exceptions) - then it will be exactly like it was when I went to school. No one was ever taken to school in my day.

[Mozz71]

Seems like a good idea to me. Get kids out and about this, enjoying the fresh air and getting some exercise instead of playing Minecraft and eating deep fried mars bars.

Of course, nothing Sturgeon is responsible for will never find praise from you will it Ynna?

[THECORBYLOON]

"No,but Scotlands tax income wouldnt cover Mrs Murrells bar bill"

I think you need to take more than a wee bit water with whatever you're drinking at the moment...

[naomi24]

Another first! Yes, world leaders, the Scots. Got to laugh. ;o))

[anneasquith]

Or at least take a half tablet .

[ynnafymmi]

Yeah,me and Mr Murrell are just going through a £600,000 bar bill at the moment.

[New Judge]

//No one was ever taken to school in my day.//

Nor mine. Perish the thought! We would rather poke our eyes with hot needles than be seen being "delivered" to school. My grammar school was 100 yards inside what is now the London Congestion Zone so it would cost my mum or dad £75 per week to drop me off - if they'd owned a car, that is. I was lucky, I only needed one bus to get to school and the journey was 15-20 minutes. Some of my classmates commuted from the suburbs, involving lengthy tube or train journeys. A free bike? I saved up for my first full size model from the proceeds of my paper round (salary, 14 shillings (70p) a week).

[teacake44]

I spent hours looking /searching tip sites, and there were many, picking up the rusty frame from one site, wheels from another, it would take weeks before I had all the bits to try and build one. I could walk up the road now and find whole ones in good working order that are just put out for collection by anyone. Disgraceful really.

[Zacs-Master]

Pure Genius and a well thought through scheme (he said with as much sarcasm as he could muster). Watching Scotland's downward political spiral would be quite amusing were it not for the fact I'm helping fund it!

[ynnafymmi]

Does anyone on here know how much kids bikes you could get for £600,000?Just asking like.

[vulcan42]

I wonder if the parents are quite so keen. It sounds good on a clear warm day but what about cycling home on a frosty cold dark night? My Grammar school was 16 miles away, that's 160 miles a week carrying home work and sports gear. All the children where I live travel to schools, even a mile away by bus, private car or taxi, not one cycles or walks. Thousands of children cycling to and from school sounds like a recipe for disaster especially in pouring rain, I doubt they will provide shower and drying facilities which some companies, who encourage cycling to work, do.

[ynnafymmi]

Just another ill-thought out scheme(scam)dreamt up by the nationalists up here in poor old benighted Scotland.Just another sop to their work-shy unemployable voter base.

[webbo3]

Free doesn't actually mean free, its only free to the recipient it doesn't mean nobody pays.

Can they afford it.
https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/politics/gers-figures-scotland-records-huge-24782879

[ynnafymmi]

No,Webbo,we cant.The English taxpayer will pick up the bill.....again...