‘More cycle cash won’t guarantee more cycling’

Scottish Transport minister Stewart Stevenson appears to have ruled out a major increase in spending on cycling, telling MSPs that investment so far has shown only patchy success.

Stevenson said cycling investment in 2008 by Scotland’s 32 councils ranged from a low of just 8p per capita (in Midlothian) to £1.35. But he said that there seemed to be “no identifiable relationship between outcomes and expenditure”.

“The high variability of outcomes per pound...

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