[bikeqld] CanDo and Altone Do It for Brisbane Cycling

[Peter Whittle]

Kim

Chris has kindly posted the nominations and it would be worth looking at these to see just what it was that CAN'T did for his award, who nominated him etc. I for one am highly sceptical about his epiphany as a bike lover.

I thought you were a bit unfair extrapolating from supposition about that point, to take aim at CPF in general. I have glanced at their work in the past and can't cite it, but I don't think they are merely sycophants and instruments of business and consumerism with no value to the rest of us as you imply.

Pete

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> Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 13:33:21 +1000
> From: kim <kim at teegee.com.au>
> Subject: Re: [bikeqld] CanDo and Altone Do It for Brisbane Cycling
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> The pats on the back might sound nice, but in reality the Cycling
> Promotion Fund is just a body representing business and trying to sell
> more product, it is not an 'on the ground' research body weighing and
> measuring the merits of bicycle infrastructure and Government spending,
> it probably wouldn't matter to them who got the awards. I am a little
> surprised that Newman's signing up a foreign company to fit out and run
> his bike hire scheme went down so well with local businesses. I think I
> would be more impressed by a 'people's vote' type of award. Perhaps we
> could take a vote among ourselves of just what and who is responsible
> for, the best/best value bicycle infrastructure around Brisbane of
> recent times. Perhaps a category too for the biggest lemon or white
> elephant project might be worthwhile to put things in perspective.
> k
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