Should health trust team up with fizzy drinks giant? #bbcnolan
£100,000 from the Belfast Health Trust is to be spent to bring the Belfast Bikes to our major hospitals. The popular Bike scheme launched last year in conjunction with Coca Cola. The trust will foot the bill for the initial set up expense and the first years running costs. This will be at the Royal, Mater and City hospital. The bikes are branded with the Coke logo.
But does it fall flat and ultimately lead to advertising a soft drinks company with health funds?
OR does this provide the fizzy lift needed to promote cycling, AND link our hospitals to a scheme that will get us out of our cars? On the line - commentators Emma Woolf and Fionola Meredith...