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urbaneprofessor.bsky.social
On the one hand gentrification in Leith gives you a new Waterstones, on the other hand you have a boxing and MMA training academy wanting to open in a relatively new building meant to be a cafe...
ssc-edinburgh.bsky.social SSC Edinburgh - Development News @ssc-edinburgh.bsky.social · 2h
CoU sought for Class 11 use in the former Waterfront Plaza sales office on Ocean Drive (originally intended as a café unit in the consented masterplan) to create a specialised boxing & MMA training academy: bit.ly/4i6xzx3
November 18, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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edfoc.bsky.social
How car culture endangers our health, our environment, our society and what Scotland can do about it earth.ed.ac.uk/news/how-car...
Edinburgh has one of the lowest rates of vehicles per household in the UK. Yet, cycle users are still pushed to the margins by planners
How car culture endangers our health, our environment, our society and what Scotland can do about it - Edinburgh Earth Initiative
earth.ed.ac.uk
November 16, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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lollercake.bsky.social
Online reporting when, Police Scotland?
November 16, 2025 at 2:53 PM
geocycle.bsky.social
Starting to build up a collection of photos on different days / times to build up a case that apparently road safety doesn’t matter when it comes to parking near intersections.

First project: Commercial Street, at the lights next to the Aldi.

This is a @policescotland.bsky.social matter, yes?
4 cars parked on the squiggle lines before a crossing light. The park behind often has children in it. The lead vehicle happens to also have its front left tyre over the kerb, as a matter of icing on the cake.
November 17, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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blackfordsaferoutes.co.uk
Cyclists should stay in the bike lane

The bike lane
November 16, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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spokes.org.uk
#Tram consultation - Spokes submission

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🙋 You have till midnight Monday for your own response!
HERE--> consultationhub.edinburgh.gov.uk/sfc/tram-nor...

@edi.bike @edinreporter.bsky.social @edinburghminute.bsky.social @thecockburn.bsky.social @edfoc.bsky.social
Intro... Tram, Granton to Bioquarter consultation Spokes Planning Group response, November 2025 1. Introduction Spokes has the objective of promoting cycling as part of an overall sustainable transport and access strategy. As such, we support a growing tram system for Edinburgh, provided cycling is well catered for in the project design and operation. The aim of the tram is to reduce car traffic, and to head off potential traffic growth in development areas such as Granton and the Bioquarter. If successful, this is a huge benefit to walking and cycling, as well as its benefits in terms of congestion, public health and climate. However, the project should be accompanied by complementary measures to further encourage use of public transport and active travel, for example bus gates, traffic filters, and, notably, congestion charging. It is well established that traffic reduction is best achieved by a carrot/stick combination. The tram project must support and promote active travel as a whole, and cycling in particular, and must not introduce additional dangers without effective mitigation. The Council has ambitious targets to increase cycle use, much of which must come from novice and inexperienced cyclists, as well as visitors and locals using an expanding bike hire scheme. As such it is essential that there is a safe, comprehensive and connected bike network of segregated bike lanes and low-traffic areas, easy and safe to use by anybody, and with any kind of cycles - including cargobikes, adapted bikes, hire bikes, etc. Introducing the tram should be seen and planned from the outset as an integrated sustainable transport place making project, not a tram-only project into which cycling and walking have to be slotted in once all the tramline decisions are taken as happened with tramline 1 and to a considerable (though lesser) extent in the Newhaven extension. The Bridges corridor is hugely problematic.. 8. City Centre to Bioquarter Top issues ● The section through North and South Bridges is of extreme concern to Spokes, with no cycle provision, new tramlines and continued through traffic on a road where width is at a premium. This is making cycling provision far worse than in the current bus lanes. The project should include a bus gate / modal filter (as was planned, though never implemented, as part of the Spaces for People proposals ) potentially single track sections (like at Roseburn) and fully segregated cycle provision, or consideration to tram tracks on one side of the road and a bidirectional bike path on the other. For the reasons in the following two bullet points, many cyclists will continue to use this corridor - our above section on Bikes and Tramlines notes that Princes Street as a good example of this, with many choosing not to use the quieter George Street when it is less direct or lacks desired destinations. Thus cycling conditions must be safe. ● Whilst alternative north-south routes for cycles are proposed in the consultation, these would not suit all journeys, with many cyclists using the Bridges to travel between South Edinburgh and Leith given the more suitable gradient and directness than the Mound. And whilst there is a brief reference to the proposed Meadows to George Street route on the west side of the Bridges, there is no reference to the east side, where the Mobility Plan suggests a new active travel bridge connecting from the Old Town to Leith Walk. Such projects must be an integral part of the tram project provision including during the construction phase, also providing a permanent legacy of improved provision once finished. ● The Bridges corridor is a major residential, shopping and destinations location, and many cyclists use it for that reason; indeed many live along or just off the corridor. Routes via the Mound or Pleasance are irrelevant as alternatives for these categories of user.… linking the North Ed Network to the new canal path without descending and re-ascending - a transformative opportunity - diagram. ● Connecting Roseburn to the new Canal link path - The sketch below shows a possible layout for this crucial linkage. The yellow dotted line shows a ramp down to Russell Road, but this is possibly optional if it would cause engineering difficulties, given that most people will stay at high level, whilst those needing to descend or ascend could do so at Roseburn or at the nearby ramp to the new canal path. Finally, we understand that earlier discussions with Network Rail did not meet objections to a bridge provided that all necessary clearances are achieved. Picture of single-track shopping-street tram in Amsterdam
November 16, 2025 at 10:32 PM
geocycle.bsky.social
As anyone who’s done some consulting will know … it doesn’t automatically mean what you are consulted on will be followed.

May this thought process be with us all on this auspicious day.
November 17, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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sw20.info
Proposed Midlothian response to the tram:

“worried about commercial viability”

Strange. Will the new link road it is building be commercially viable?

What other public investment should be commercially viable in the face of low density Midlothian home building?
Paper being looked at this week by Midlothian Council on the Edinburgh Tram extension Regional travel demand meme
November 16, 2025 at 4:33 PM
geocycle.bsky.social
165km / 102miles done for the day with the ride from Edinburgh to Galashiels & then the Wintersmith #1 Audax

The bitterly cold headwind only an issue for the last 55km - 6° out but made it feel as 1°C.

Body decent. Face hurts from windburn. Time to recover.

Fun day out!
A helmeted, bearded, smiley, red faced me. Helmet on, with a super stylish grass camo cycling jacket. Holding up my AudaxUK 100km Brevet card.
November 15, 2025 at 7:31 PM
geocycle.bsky.social
That’s the bike prepped, clothing laid out, food organised, and routes for tomorrow’s ride to Galashiels & the first Wintersmith Audax loaded into my Karoo.

Gonna be my first ever Audax, kinda excited about it all.

May the weather be better than it was on Thursday morning. 😵
November 14, 2025 at 8:45 PM
geocycle.bsky.social
Seeing the news on the latest emails surfacing wherein photos are being asked about.

What a terrible day to know how to read.
November 14, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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jonburkeuk.bsky.social
They market their cars as weapons and we allow them on the same roads as children cycling to school.

And I still get weird middle-aged men in my notifications obfuscating for and defending this.

This is not a serious society.
Huge Range Rover that looks like a tank.
November 13, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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zakbond.bsky.social
⚡📮Nice work @royal-mail.bsky.social, who have just announced the launch of a new fleet of over 100 micro electric vehicles, replacing 52 vans.

Better for the climate and for deliveries. This is exactly the kind of move we need to see for cities free of diesel vans!

#ElectrifyLondon
A micro electric vehicle in royal mail livery.
November 13, 2025 at 12:22 PM
geocycle.bsky.social
Tomorrow’s Dawn Patrol is looking … interesting.

A challenge awaits.
November 12, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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edtiss.bsky.social
Currently a 10 minute wait for pedestrians/cyclists at the London Road/Leith Walk junction.

On a typical 1 mile walking commute, 1/3rd of it could spent waiting at this single junction.

Pathetic from Edinburgh Council, who claimed that the changes here would have no impact on active travel.
mcdmartin.bsky.social Martin McD @mcdmartin.bsky.social · 5d
Reported to Edinburgh Emergency number who have passed to signals. Recorded a 10min video waiting for them to change and then they did.
May be to do with whether button pushed but didn't try it. Shouldn’t be necessary.
November 12, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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blackfordsaferoutes.co.uk
A really excellent deputation from Spokes on the A701/2 “relief” roads

Particularly the section on “induced demand” 👏👏👏

@spokes.org.uk
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November 12, 2025 at 10:30 AM
geocycle.bsky.social
It’s a well known thing in our house that the reason why we don’t own a car, is because also don’t own any fridge magnets.

It’s why “If you don’t have a magnet, you don’t have a car.” makes complete and obvious sense to me.
November 12, 2025 at 8:16 AM
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bylinetimes.bsky.social
🚨UPDATE WITH COMMENT FROM THE BBC: Byline Times can confirm that of the four-person BBC panel that interviewed Prescott and made the decision to appoint him as an advisor, three of them had longstanding Conservative Party ties. bylinetimes.com/2025/11/11/b...
November 11, 2025 at 10:02 PM
geocycle.bsky.social
Making it illegal for automobiles to have distracting screens like this cannot come soon enough.

If anyone is wondering why we want segregated cycle lanes and protection from drivers - giving them distraction pads like this is big on my list.

Let them crash into each other. Leave us out of it.
A Mini cooper as with what appears to be a 11” round iPad mounted squarely in the middle of the dash in an advertisement. It reads, “Ready to turn up the fun?” Because keeping your eyes in the road is boring I guess.
November 11, 2025 at 9:48 AM
geocycle.bsky.social
A lovely evening at the Port of Leith Distillery - learning about the last year of the business + trying out the FIRST year of barrel aging for the spirit distilled right here in Leith!

Absolutely privileged to be here, and thankful for the opportunity.

Now to clear the head before Dawn Patrol. 🤣
4 whisky glasses set before the presentation in the tasting room of the Port of Leith Distillery. The nosing glasses have liquid in them - from clear to amber, showing off the New Make spirit, 1 year aged yeast varieties in the next two, and a special edition of the Table Whisky.
November 10, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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edinburghminute.bsky.social
NEW! Plans revealed for historic George Brown & Sons warehouse at the Shore in Leith…
🍕 Introducing: Brown’s of Leith, a new food, drink and arts space 🪩 Civerinos among the traders moving in 🎨 ‘It’s like a mini Tate Modern’.

Full details:
www.edinburghminute.com/plans-reveal...
November 10, 2025 at 2:26 PM
geocycle.bsky.social
Not sure if it’s officially officially open yet as the entrance on Dock Street still has fencing - but the Leith Connections section along Sandport has had all barriers removed and is a JOY to ride!

Want to ride along? 😁

@edi.bike
November 10, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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spokes.org.uk
🙄 #PrincesStreet plans unfit for modern #European capital

Spokes deputn to 12.11.25 Planning Cttee
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@edi.bike @thecockburn.bsky.social @stephenjenkinson.bsky.social @davidfkey.bsky.social @chasbooth.bsky.social @cllrbenparker.bsky.social @mthmttcoe.bsky.social
Start of Spokes deputation... CEC PLANNING COMMITTEE, 12.11.25 - written deputation from Spokes 7.3 Non-Statutory Planning Guidance – Finalised Princes Street and Waverley Valley Strategy The proposed draft guidance, whilst including many worthwhile proposals, has one over-riding failing, in that it completely neglects the huge area of land occupied by roadway, and assumes it must stay as now. It is as if we have separate Planning and Transport departments rather than a unified Place department. This cannot be the right approach for a holistic view of Princes Street and the Waverley Valley. Nor is it right that large amounts of money should be invested without the whole area being considered in a unified manner. Spokes Recommendation to the Committee RECOMMENDATION In conclusion, we ask that the Committee postpones adopting the Guidance until such time as these issues have been properly addressed, to provide a holistic approach to the entire area including the sort of provision for sitting, walking, wheeling, cycling and public transport which is normal in the premier streets of other European capitals. Spokes deputation refers to Richard Murphy architect proposals, with pictures showing bus & tram only in Princes St, with bike lanes and much wider footways. The Richard Murphy Princes Street proposals are a very similar concept to the above examples, as in this drawing and video clip from his report. Figure 1. Still image from Richard Murphy Architects fly-through (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LZLsfozjqc) Resurfacing of the footway and carriageway is very costly and presents a rare opportunity to modify kerblines that may not return for another decade or more. In addition to footway extension, carriageway redetermination presents an opportunity for protected cycle infrastructure. Princes Street continues to be a popular cycle route for many journeys, including to destinations on the street itself. Indeed, anecdotal and crowdsourced evidence suggests it continues to be as or more popular than George Street. bus, taxi, tram & bike congested in Princes st (old photo, but still the same!)
November 10, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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americanfietser.bsky.social
Design vehicles to fit the streets rather than streets designed to fit the vehicles.
November 9, 2025 at 2:41 PM
geocycle.bsky.social
In positive news, looks like Forth Ports have finally taken the time to block off the not-parking-but-treated-as-parking old pavilion and cobbled area of Rennie’s Lock near Teuchters & the Scot Gov. Building!

Well done, will be a much nicer area from here on out without dodging car storage!
View of the end of Rennie’s Lock. Brick road gives way to cobbles/setts over the historic area. A set of 4 new planter boxes filled with greenery stand resolute, with a new large NO PARKING sign in the middle of them.
November 9, 2025 at 2:49 PM