Tree down in Lochend Park #EdTravCyc

At the height of summer, the Roseburn Path can often be crowded, but I have never ever left the path to use an alternative road route. It's a nice path to have to take a little extra time on.

Shortly after the #FutureTrams consultation launched I saw a comment somewhere about tight radii on the non-Roseburn route, which a crude mashup of some rotated screenshots from the council atlas (cityofedinburgh.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappv...) of the two St Andrew Square turns hopefully dispels.

There's something about the colours and font which makes me think of removal lorries... homes.luddy.indiana.edu/ccshan/for/f...

I've finally started filling in the tram consultation, though still haven't had time to read anywhere near all of the documents open in my huge group of browser tabs.

A short selection of what I've been using to prevent the sound of Celebrity Traitors getting anywhere near my ears: youtu.be/eIdHbK6onkY?... youtu.be/L1boC1rs5IU?... youtu.be/vF4z5zooSS8?... youtu.be/PD-uRFa2qkE?... youtu.be/WQk0xTwZumo?... youtu.be/kiaBbzLJteY?... youtu.be/F828JLU9kAo?...

I had no idea this was returning to cinemas. I should hopefully be able to find some time to get to one next week.

#EdTravCyc The Aldi shopping trolley which was restricting the Water of Leith path just near the Sandport has now been dragged back to Aldi. The new cycle infra between the bridge and Aldi was ideal for this purpose.

Pedal Power Remains Most Efficient Way To Travel, Confirms Scientific American www.forbes.com/sites/carlto...

Holyrood Park High Road has re-opened to pedestrians and cycles following the grassfire and rockfall assessment. #EdTravCyc @edi.bike @spokes.org.uk www.historicenvironment.scot/visit-a-plac...

HAZARDOUS PROTRUDING SLAB ALERT #EdTravCyc on the cut-through between Balbirnie Place and Haymarket Yards maps.app.goo.gl/oXgzJCSYkLYd...

Missing from the illustration is a thought bubble above the cyclist, in which they ponder how the hell they're supposed to turn right, why they didn't just stay in the main traffic lane and why a junction marked "no right turn except cyclists" would make that manoeuvre so unintuitive and indirect.

Still a fair amount of plastic barriers lying around and the road surface is awful but Abbey Lane is now mostly passable by pedal cycle #EdTravCyc

Four weeks, trapped in this tiny city-centre area. Still no sign of expansion. Outside the geofence, normal non-hire-scheme pedal cycles (both manual and electrically-assisted) go about their business, free to travel more widely.

But, when my brain has swivelled towards someone 50ft away eating carelessly from a ceramic bowl with a metal spoon or the loudmouthed Barley holding court at the back of the bus, how do I stop it?

#EdTravCyc The huge holes and gaps in the tarmac around the utility access cover on Potterow southbound just outside 22A (shortly before the Marshall St junction) has been reported to @edinburghcouncil.bsky.social (101001499793).

#EdTravCyc The very short bit of temporary segregated cycle path uphill on North Bank Street (between Market St and St Giles St) is being impeded by one of the segregation wands, whose base has become detached from the road surface. Reported to @edinburghcouncil.bsky.social under 101001499798

Diverted traffic, but inconvenienced pedestrians at a very busy crossing. @edinburghcouncil.bsky.social

Hmm. Whilst a jungly island has lots of dark, shadowy bits, it's not as dark and shadowy as the space-oilrig Nostromo interior, nor the depths of an atmosphere processor. You wouldn't set a Batman scene (at least, one of the black-costumed non-Adam West Batmen) on a tropical beach at noon in summer.

The construction encampment on Abbey Lane is finally starting to be cleared up - the section of constricted footway with no space on the road for cycles is now much shorter, though still narrow and there are still flatbeds and dumptrucks occasionally whooshing around the top section. #EdTravCyc

Are these VOI bikes being moved into the Leith area in preparation of the expansion of the operating zone?

Are we already down to just one available VOI bike in the entire (small subsection of) the city, with one further nearly empty unit outside the geofence, suspiciously near a bit of the river/a disused railway line/a construction site (but possibly in the short foot-tunnel under the disused railway)?

There are some songs whose intros you do not edit, Alien: Earth. If the cuts in your scene are too close together it's your job to lengthen them to fit.

Time to start planning your (short) journeys in advance of tomorrow's VOI bike launch.

Just seen a robin hopping onto the back gate. A more telling sign was spotted earlier by my wife at The Range, where they were clearing away the summer garden furniture display to replace it with all their Christmas decorations.

The VOI app is showing activity on New St. Any assets on the ground able to confirm this?

I wish they'd announce when it'll open up to other regions beyond the city centre ward (data.edinburghcouncilmaps.info/datasets/cit...); £30 is a lot for an area whose boundary you could walk around in less than two hours. I'll likely pay-as-I-go for initial tests and experiments.

I used to commute along the NEPN and Roseburn for at least half my journeys each week, pre-pandemic. I've been popping along it at every opportunity recently, hopefully not so that I'll at least have memories of what it was, when every tree has been removed and the embankments replaced with concrete

#EdTravCyc Three large "Highway Maintenance" vans parked on the footway on Seafield Road East just before the King's Road/Harry Lauder junction. Beware of pedestrians being forced into the left-hand lane of the road.

Statistically, when you have a rugbystadiumful of people, enough of them won't be able to do the falsetto bit at the end of Live Forever without making someone five miles away shudder uncomfortably.

Pleased to see that the new Lidl on Seafield Road has better cycle parking than the old new Lidl at Meadowbank, though it would only take one over-long motor car to block the very narrow footway to the entrance...

Beware the @scottishwater.bsky.social works by Clancy at the Seafield St/Seafield Rd junction. Signs for motor traffic and works-litter are impeding the footway. #EdTravCyc If you can reach it safely, the north shared use footway is currently clear. Also tailbacks westbound as far as Fillyside Rd.

Has @sainsburysofficial.bsky.social missed me whilst I've been on holiday? Two random manual rescans within fifteen hours of each other on my first two successive shops after getting back.

OIL WARNING #EdTravCyc on the cut-through between Kings Haugh and Forkenford/Innocent/Duddingston Road W. There's also a hi-viz ute parked to create a pinch point with a lamppost.

EGG WARNING on the Space for People cycle lane on Newington Road/Mayfield Gardens southbound, just outside 23Mayfield guest house #EdTravCyc

Blocked footway warning #EdTravCyc on the south footway of Seafield Road beside the incipient LIDL/former B&M with no signage/barriers/ramps.

Seafield Road shared-use footway blockage warning #EdTravCyc parked trucks and workies fiddling with the bus stop on Seafield Road north footway

Do the police do their own undergrowth-clearance in situations like the recent searching on the Roseburn Path, or do they have a special gardening/undergrowth-clearance squad, or do they just hire landscaping contractors?

This scares me. We don't have jaywalking in the UK, crappy guard rails are bad enough. US tech fantasists MUST not be allowed to rule our roads, and squeeze pedestrians and people cycling even further into the margins.

Missing cyclist #EdTravCyc

GIANT HOGWEED WARNING on the Restalrig Road access slope to the Restalrig Railway Path, including some directly next to and starting to protrude into the path. Reported to the council parks email. Be more careful than usual when moving to the path edge to go past other people #EdTravCyc

As Douglas Adams wrote, so it has come to be: "The Electric Monk was a labor-saving device, like a dishwasher or a video recorder. Dishwashers washed tedious dishes for you, thus saving you the bother of washing them yourself, video recorders watched tedious television for you, thus..." etc.

#EdTravCyc fallen branch on East Hermitage Place (south edge, west half of Leith Links) blocking motor traffic, resulting in loads of hazardous U-turns

#EdTravCyc Duncan Place works have been completed and the road is now accessible to all traffic in both directions

Port Hamilton Cyclepath between Union Canal and West End now closed until 2026/27 for building works. Look out for diversion signs with the number 7 for cycle diversion. #edTravCyc @spokes.org.uk @edi.bike

everyone even mildly into polar exploration knows how badly vitamin A can fuck you up, and seeing the Health Secretary of the US recommend megadoses to measles patients made me so mad i wrote about it. im so angry at this malthusian ghoul buttondown.com/theswordandt...

02:00 is not a good time for new episodes of things to be released. Hopefully it'll keep until tomorrow evening...

If you see this, post your getaway vehicle.

Having lived in Edinburgh for over thirty years, it feels like "had to walk through the city centre in August" ought to be a richer seam of few-feet-from-a-famous, but there's only really two I could use.

Watch out if you're trundling between Leith Links and Links Lane as the planters blocking motor vehicles between Wellington Place and John's Place have been put back somewhat closer together and more in the way of the dropped kerb than they were previously #EdTravCyc maps.app.goo.gl/GRgzmMtN7NKf...