🚲 edi.bike | issue 117 | 3rd Nov '25 Voi slowly scales up e-bike fleet; ‘Full Council’ meeting round-up; plus events, infrastructure, route closures & more: buttondown.com/edi.bike/arc... #bikeSky

Edinburgh Bike Shops map has been updated edfoc.org.uk/2020/04/02/e... Let us know if there are any errors

Leith. Is. Go.

🙋 #SafeRoads Family Day 🚶👩‍🦼🚲🚌 Sat 8 Nov, 11-2 @ #Craigentinny Comm Centre --> www.livingrent.org/safe_roads_c... 🤩 #SpokesStall .. #SpokesMaps special £5 stall price @edi.bike @alexstaniforth.bsky.social @dastonsnp.bsky.social @portyenergy.bsky.social @edfoc.bsky.social @edcriticalmass.bsky.social

IMPORTANT: The Dutch invest €595 million annually on urban biking, resulting in €19 BILLION saved in public health care costs alone. That’s how smart governments do the math on investing in better mobility. Let’s be clear— it wastes public money to NOT do it. #CityMakingMath HT @modacitylife.com

UPDATE just in: Voi says it plans to increase its Edinburgh e-bike fleet size to 800 by the end of the year, "to match the huge demand for e-bikes in the city".

Carmageddon on Elm Row - echelon parking in the parallel parking encroaching on cycleway; parking in crossing area; parking on footway outside shops. This is supposed to be a place for people not a car park! Why no wardens? How about some signs to guide drivers?? @jackrmcaldwell.bsky.social

How Friday Ends: another brilliant @infrasisters.bsky.social #MyRideOurRight ride through #Edinburgh in partnership with @cyclinguk.bsky.social Glow Rides 👍 (including support from an unexpected glowing juggler 😀)

"You ever take it off any sweet jumps?" -Napoleon Dynamite So much sacrificed in the pursuit of sick air. We salute you, actor Jon Heder, on your #BicycleBirthday. Born October 26, 1977

📣 LCCC is seeking new members! It’s not all work, work, work — sometimes there’s music too 🎸 But we do get things done: housing, planning, parks and licensing. Join us and help shape Leith’s future 👉 [email protected]

🌟 1 day until our #RightToGlow ride in Edinburgh! Grab your lights & be part of the movement for safer cycling. 🧮 Fri 24th Oct 📍 Middle Meadow Walk ⏰️ Depart 7.30pm Ride lasts c90 minutes 💡 Light up your bike, your streets & the call for safe cycling. #MyRideOurRight #CyclingUK #OurStreetsOurNights

We ride for safer streets for everyone. This month we are riding to Lochend to draw attention to the Living Rent campaign for safer streets. www.livingrent.org/give_lochend...

InfraSisters in Edinburgh campaign for safer cycling, especially for women riding after dark. This Friday night they will hold a mass glowride in Edinburgh. Ladies in the lead, but everyone is welcome to light up the night. www.cyclinguk.org/event/glow-r... #OurStreetsOurNight #MyRideOurRight

Voileith!

Progressive cities move While Edinburgh ponders, prevaricates, deliberates, delays, deflects, and asks for another consultation

I tried a Voi e-bike this morning. It was an interesting experience. overall good. I recommend avoiding cobbles! Blog post to come...

The 'car park' side of the Shore is crying out for a rethink👇

The evidence shows this hasn't happened in Leith - overall traffic levels are down across the area, including on all boundary roads except one. See evidence & myth buster here: rd8993.wixsite.com/liveable-leith

We're back! We've teamed up with @cyclinguk.bsky.social for a Glow Ride on Friday 24th October. Like us, they want to see more women cycling, and for councils to provide more safe infrastructure to enable that. Light up your bike with lights and sparkle and join us at Middle Meadow Walk at 7.30pm.

So much for side-on parking on Elm Row - drivers parked right into the cycleway and on the pedestrian access/crossing to the bus stop. @jackrmcaldwell.bsky.social

This picture from the newspaper article looks like an 'artists impression' of what things could like that no-one ever believes, except it's real and it really does look like that.

Basic principles for the future of the car in cities: ✅ Fewer ✅ Smaller ✅ Slower ✅ Cleaner This can be achieved with: ✅ Parking controls ✅ LTNs ✅ Road User Pricing ✅ Pedestrianisation ✅ Default 20mph roads ✅ Improved public transport ✅ Segregated cycling

Happy Autumn! Artist: Adam Turman

People commonly say their street is too narrow for bike lanes. Too few question if it’s too narrow for parking.

Another big development on the Leith Connections phase 3 route👇

”Perhaps the most comprehensive study of the real-world impact of cycle lanes, found businesses on streets with separated bike routes grew on average more quickly than those without.” Remember, bike-lanes mean business. 10 WRONG Myths about Bike-Lanes. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Any plans to scale up the roll-out of bikehangars @stephenjenkinson.bsky.social @cyclehoop.bsky.social ? Demand far outstripping supply at the moment.

We have printed some new fliers with details of Critical Mass and scheduled rides. Feel free to pick some up if you want to share them with friends, colleagues or the incoming student population!

🚴 Brand New Cycle lanes looking very autumnal 🍁

🚲 edi.bike | issue 109 | 8th Sep '25 in your weekly edinburgh cycling digest: A big win for Edinburgh’s bike lanes; ‘Meadows to George St’ pause for public hearing; Voi bikes launch; TEC Agenda, events, community updates, route closures & more: buttondown.com/edi.bike/arc... #bikeSky

Right Leith. Let's do this. render.jotform.com/230523910816...

You should definitely give one of these a try www.scotsman.com/news/transpo...

🤩 #TravellingSafely West North East all now to be permanent Incredible #TROSub mtg, decided in minutes after inordinate delays/deferrals at previous meetings One intervention by #CllrLang, quickly disabused by officers No one else spoke! The @edi.bike/Spokes campaign has blindsided councillors!

Anyone know when the works on Elm Row are going to be resumed and Completed? There is still the cycle access to/from Montgomery Street to be done and removing the cycleway between the bus stop and carriageway - the main driver for the works!

Tips for Transporting Children by Bike in New York By Matt Blease for the New Yorker magazine September 4, 2023 🧵 Embrace the Sleep Cycle

It isn’t enough to up the parking charges on SUVs, allowing wealthy people to continue to endanger children It’s a safety issue - an 82% increase in child fatalities - SUVs need to be banned outright & a systemic approach to safety taken www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Last couple of days to share your views on the Marionville Road & Smokey Brae walking, wheeling and cycling improvement proposals👇

Edinburgh is back in the saddle! Today we launched our new trial cycle hire scheme, which will be delivered by Voi 🚲 Residents and visitors will be able to use the new e-bikes from 3 September.

The planned route for tonight's ride with highlights where the accidents happened

There’s been three crashes involving a driver hitting a cycling this August. They happened in the same week. This is unacceptable. We’re riding in protest of Edinburgh’s indifference toward cyclists this Friday 22nd August at 7pm. Meet at Middle Meadow Walk. Tell and bring everyone you know

This morning we've delivered an Open Letter, co-authored with Spokes, to the City Chambers - addressing the delays and deferrals of decisions on the East Area ‘Travelling Safely’ schemes, in London Rd, Willowbrae, Duddingston and beyond. edi.bike/files/2025/p...

🙋 #Edinburgh 🚲Network under threat @edi.bike Spokes & others write to Council -> www.spokes.org.uk/2025/08/edin... @blackfordsaferoutes.co.uk @chdot.bsky.social @edcriticalmass.bsky.social @edfoc.bsky.social @jarlathflynn.bsky.social @portyenergy.bsky.social @sw20.info @thebikestation.bsky.social

Swedish firm chosen to run new dockless Edinburgh cycle hire scheme www.scotsman.com/news/transpo...

📣 Leith Central CC meets tonight, 7pm at Nelson Hall, McDonald Rd Library. Agenda highlights: policing, planning (incl. PBSA Murano Place & short-term lets), transport, parks 🌳 + open forum for residents. 📂 Papers: bit.ly/LCCCpapers

The cycle lane on Leith Walk, Edinburgh, set an all time record of 2,147 cyclists on Wednesday, 13th August 2025. Overall growth in the number of cyclists has slowed this year, likely a result of displacememnt to the new CCWEL cycle lane at York Place.

A good time to consider supporting Marionville Fire Station www.change.org/p/save-mario...

The number of children killed fell by 75% Wouldn’t it be incredible to use 20mph in combination with low-traffic neighbourhoods, that also reduce death & injuries by 40 to 50% ? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Strava “Local Legend” for riding Foot of the Walk to Dock Street only 3 times! Hopefully there will soon be hundreds riding it! New features including hand-hold and footstand to avoid need to dismount at signals; some smooth tarmac and some fancy cobbly bits and place-making. Working Sunday!

An update to Google Maps 3D data for Edinburgh reveals some nice aerial views of the cycle infrastructure finished over the past 2 years.

“Air pollution fell substantially as Paris restricted car traffic and made way for parks, people-streets and bike-lanes.” Better for the climate, better for health, better for livability & quality of life. Common sense. Such a no-brainer, it’s remarkable that more cities HAVEN’T done the same.