Greens hit out over velodrome
GREEN councillors today attacked the city's ruling Lib Dem/SNP administration for showing a "lack of willingness" towards building a new track cycling facility in Edinburgh.
Many of the Capital's young cyclists train at Meadowbank's velodrome, which is earmarked for demolition.
The city council has promised to find an "affordable and practicable solution" for providing replacement facilities, but Green councillor Alison Johnstone said this did not go far enough.
"I am absolutely astonished at the lack of willingness to commit to the provision of a new track cycling facility," she said.
City sports leader Deidre Brock replied: "Cllr Johnstone has either missed the point or is playing on semantics here. We want to provide a new cycling facility, but quite rightly we need to know what Scottish Cycling and other key groups see as a priority before we move forward."
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