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Hi Pete,<br>
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Yeah, you are right, it was a bit unfair of me to have a dig at the CPF
because Newman got an award for furthering the cause of cycling. I
apologise for that. I think I am just grumpy because I am suffering
from politician overload at the moment. With the election coming up,
there is just so much BS being tossed around. I am also very unhappy
with BCC over their handling of dozens of bicycle issues I have raised
in the past. There is little joy.<br>
<br>
I guess its not as much a slap in the face as John Howard's Man of
Steel and Peace award from George Bush.<br>
<br>
The positive thing, tho, is that there were plenty of good nominees all
doing real work to promote the cause of cycling and I know that there
are people within the BCC who are doing good work too.<br>
<br>
cheers<br>
<br>
kim<br>
<br>
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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 <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:kim@teegee.com.au"><kim@teegee.com.au></a>
Subject: Re: [bikeqld] CanDo and Altone Do It for Brisbane Cycling
To: BikeQld <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:bikeqld@bikeqld.org.au"><bikeqld@bikeqld.org.au></a>
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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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