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Cycle on Parliament - England stylee ?
hatler:
What happened in Scotland to prompt the Pedal on Parliament event ?
Why isn't there anything similar happening in Westminster ?
fimm:
To answer the first question: there was a protest ride in London, and some bloggers in Scotland decided London was too far to go, so decided to organise their own.
I can probably dig up some more history in the form of blogs and forum posts, if you are interested?
hatler:
wisob, thanks for that. It was a moment of idle curiosity rather than a detailed research project. If you do happen upon any info then please do post a link to it here, but don't go out of your way. Cheers.
fimm:
Well, here's a blog post about the first year's PoP from one of the organisers:
https://cityexile.wordpress.com/2012/04/29/paddle-on-parliament/
going backwards in her blog from that will give you some history.
I'll see what else I can find when I need a break from doing what I'm supposed to be doing...
fimm:
A very early thread on organising the first one, from the City Cycling Edinburgh forum;
http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=5573
note the quote "... we're aiming (ambitious this one...) for about 500 riders ..."
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