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South West Edinburgh 20 Minute Neighbourhoods

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Positive, sustainable changes. Live well locally. #streetsNOTroads

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🛠️Tool Library: @sw20etl
🏃‍♀️Helped setup: Kids Park Run @ Hailes Quarry Park
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Utrecht (city of 377k population) receives €562 million (NZ $1.1 billion) from the government to build tramlines to Merwede.

As the council says; “because without a tram line the city would be one massive traffic jam”.
November 11, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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A busy Monday session improving the Balerno stretch this morning.

Bavelaw burn tributary cleaned of rubbish, walkway swept of leaves , cherry laurel brash fence created to reduce rubbish being blown into the river.

A great start to the week
November 10, 2025 at 2:15 PM
We’ve got you covered: hire one of ours for free.
November 9, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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Welcomed 60 young runners (5 newly signed up and 3 first timers here), joggers, & walkers 🏃 completing the 10th Hailes Quarry Junior Parkrun😃
🌪Big shout out to the 20 runners who set their personal best times today.🌪
💪💪🫵We salute Angus Maclellan who earned his half-marathon wristband⚡️
November 9, 2025 at 2:29 PM
The best thing for #A720 #Edinburgh City Bypass capacity & safety would be to introduce variable speed limits with average speed cameras.

It would save the NHS, fire & police money, reduce emissions and save lives.

Bypass crashes are the main cause of diversions through SW Edinburgh neighbourhoods
November 9, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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If you’re media covering bike-lanes, watch this news story.

If you’re a downtown business association discussing bike-lanes, watch this news story.

If you’re anyone hearing the LIE that bike-lanes are bad for business, watch this story.

And please SHARE THIS STORY so others can watch it too.
WATCH: Seriously, if you’re following ANY bike-lane debate, you HAVE TO WATCH this news story. You actually can’t make this up. Ford claims without evidence that bike-lanes are bad for small business, and THE ACTUAL BUSINESS ASSOCIATION obliterates him with data.

Safe bike-lanes mean business.
November 8, 2025 at 7:48 PM
This thread shows the evil cycling lobby doing evil things again….

…. like engaging with #VoIBikes to make sure bikes are better and more safely parked in #Edinburgh.

Just wicked. The lot of them.
Does anyone @spokes.org.uk @edi.bike know if there's some better point of escalation for bad (read, dangerously) placed Voi bike locations than the very generic support@voi.com email address?
November 8, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Unpopular opinion: the no motor vehicles sign is confusing and needs changing
November 7, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Post-Tram Extension Newington?
Ferdinand Bolstraat, Amsterdam in 1979 and today. Not only has car parking been removed but all cars have too, this busy shopping street is now for bikes, pedestrians and trams only
November 6, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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Good news for Edinburgh’s city car club members. I’m looking forward to working with Enterprise as we seek to grow this important piece of the cities transport jigsaw.

www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/edinbur...
City Car Club will offer more electric vehicles for hire
Edinburgh council's car-hire scheme is to increase the number of electric vehicles in its fleet in a bid to encourage greener driving.
www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:15 AM
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Edinburgh Christmas market expansion plan denied as stalls and attractions refused www.edinburghlive.co.uk/news/edinbur...
Edinburgh Christmas market expansion plan denied as stalls and attractions refused
The market will still go ahead at last year's scale, as well as the funfair, both of which are covered by an existing planning permission
www.edinburghlive.co.uk
November 5, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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📣Caption competition!
❓What's going on here then. Wrong answers only.
November 4, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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The fleet. Hire one for free @sw20.info
May 23, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Great turnout today. Numbers of runners increasing!
The Hailes Quarry Junior Parkrun we launched back in early September going from strength to strength. Great turnout today. 👌
November 2, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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Fab atmosphere tonight at #Edinburgh Diwali 10th anniversary celebrations at the Ross Bandstand.
November 2, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Festival Square. Picardy Place.
Avec 470 arbres plantés et 4 000m2 de nature en plein cœur du 14e arrondissement, la place de Catalogne s'est radicalement transformée en 2024 !
November 2, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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Edinburgh Bike Shops map has been updated edfoc.org.uk/2020/04/02/e...
Let us know if there are any errors
Edinburgh Bike Shops - Edinburgh Festival of Cycling
Edinburgh Bike Shops This map was first published as a response Covid-19 crisis, when people were looking to the bicycle as a means of transport and for exercise. So we thought it would be useful to h...
edfoc.org.uk
November 1, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Happy Halloween! 👻 🎃
October 31, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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20 minute neighbourhoods need great local cafes.

📍 Blossom Tree, Corslet Pl, Currie
October 29, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Great news!
Twelve households have celebrated becoming council tenants after we purchased 78 homes in Dreghorn from the MOD to boost affordable housing www.edinburgh.gov.uk/news/article...
October 29, 2025 at 7:51 PM
38km for €600m of high speed railway would cover a lot of Edinburgh to Glasgow. We can but dream…..

(Doesn’t cover costs for upgrading terminal stations etc tho)
Today, RFI opened the first section of the "fast double-tracking on a partial new alignment**" of the Palermo-Catania railway line.

38 km for €600 million

** de facto, a brand new line.

www.rfi.it/it/news-e-me...
October 29, 2025 at 4:15 PM
🎯 “The 20 mph speed limits have fostered a greater sense of equity amongst different road users and have largely been accepted as the ‘new norm’.

Yet, 20mph probably remains insufficient on its own in addressing the externalities of motorised traffic among those outside of vehicles”
New report analyses post implementation public support for 20mph limits in Scottish Borders Council. Not a "silver bullet", but majority of interviewees did not wish to see a return to 30mph speed limits.

bit.ly/4o6W3bE
October 29, 2025 at 10:29 AM
20 minute neighbourhoods need great local cafes.

📍 Blossom Tree, Corslet Pl, Currie
October 29, 2025 at 7:49 AM
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These are the four police dispersal zones relevant to SW of the city as part of #OpCrackle across Edinburgh From 31 October – 5 November 2025. These are in addition to the already announced 'firework control zones', one of which covers most of our area.
October 28, 2025 at 6:09 PM