Yet more reports on people being harassed and attacked on the NEPN. www.reddit.com/r/Edinburgh/...

"'Ignorant' architects must not be given more column space than folk who actually understand modal shift, says local cycling campaign" 😉

A mere 8 years ago we removed cars from Central Park. Never listen to anyone that claims you can't remove cars. Ever.

i have said it a thousand times in these discussions: a gatling gun, not a silver bullet. more trees. more green. distributed heat networks. cool hubs. all of this shit.

My neighbor told me a cat keeps eating his british prime minister so I asked how many PMs he has and he said he just goes to the commons and gets a new PM afterwards so I said it sounds like he's just feeding PMs to a cat and then his daughter started crying.

We can solve the data centre proliferation problem by training AI on the data centre data so it can identify which data can be deleted, thus reducing the number of required data centres. It might need a few extra data centres to begin with though.

Can't help but feel if some dude went on a mini rampage with a machete targeting deliveroo riders and shouting "I'm doing this for my country" in an English city instead of Edinburgh, it would be all over the news already.

So depressing that Edinburgh, which, sadly long ago now, used to be one of the most forward-thinking places for making cycling safer, now seems to mostly be all talk + little progressive action, far too often taking backwards steps. Ridiculous that most of a longstanding LTN is to be removed.

👀 Another TEC shambles.. CEC's administration - and those who prop it up - will talk about the sustainable transport hierarchy, safe school streets, & reducing car dominance. When was the last time we saw it reflected in the voting when crunch time comes? As Kirsty Lewin said - deeds not words.

Good to see Cllr McInness point out that the city's overall active travel plan should not be determined by pockets of objectors in the wealthier parts of the city.

Extremely disappointed the @edinburghgreens.bsky.social addendum on Greenbank-Meadows Quiet Route, which would have preserved the modal filters in the Braid estate, has been voted down 6-5 at committee. Committee has prioritised 'reducing legal risk' over the safety of our kids. 😔

“[Traffic] filters are not a popularity contest, this is about children’s safety. We don’t want to see children put in danger” www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/edinbur...

there’s no difference between “knowing something” and “knowing about something” anymore. it takes like two seconds to go from hearing some obscure academic concept never before uttered beyond the realm of clinical psychology to sharing tiktoks about “survivors of parents with Spanish Hole Delusion”

Motornormativity, community severance, transport poverty, forced car ownership, car bloat... All this & more unpacked in SPICe's latest transport blog. An excellent 8 minute read unpacking issues rarely understood outside academia and policy circles 👇 spice-spotlight.scot/2026/06/11/t...

One for @badbeard.bsky.social youtu.be/ur5uMNwWxSI?...

Bike hire scheme is most successful in Europe The capital's bike hire scheme is currently the most successful in Europe, in terms of the trips per vehicle per day. The rental e-bikes were introducedin the city in September last year, with just 50 bikes spread throughout 39 parking locations. Eight…

See North Berwick this week - where locals have vandalised parking meters and proclaimed the death of the high street because parking charges were introduced. But inevitably the sky won’t fall in. Variations of the scheme below could be Stockbridge, Gorgie, The Shore or Bruntsfield.

"Let local residents decide on local issues" is, on the face of it, a reasonable idea. The only problem is 'local residents' are only a small part of a much larger city and shouldn't have a veto on schemes which benefit the city as a whole. www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/opinion...

Today, Princess Victoria Street stands as a testament to the power of tactical urbanism. A short-term crisis response has revamped one of Bristol's most beloved shopping streets, showing the surest way to shape a better future is to just build something, and let people experience it for themselves.🔚

Beginning as a pop-up pandemic-era intervention in the summer of 2021, Bristol's bustling Princess Victoria Street emerged as a permanent pedestrian space within four years; offering a compelling case of how such measures can reshape public opinion, local economies, and the future of urban streets.🧵

Best park in Edinburgh.

In a detail which will surprise no one, the first of the "patriots" to plead guilty to offences connected to the rioting in Southampton on Tuesday night has a criminal record as long as your arm, including.... possessing a knife.

"Bike lanes are ableist; not everyone can cycle." "Public transport takes time & resource to improve & isn't usably comprehensive." "We must install curbside EV chargers everywhere immediately. [sound of ignoring disabled pedestrians, bus & micromobility users' objections]" Disabled non-drivers:

Edinburgh people: any recommendations for a reliable garage that does automatic gearboxes?

Most Bearsden thing ever

All the active travel love / frustration / joy at today's brilliant @pedalonparliament.org as thousands of regular folk took to their wheels calling for a cycle-friendly Scotland with safer streets for all 👍🚲🛴👍🚶👍 Bumper photo album > andycatlin.myportfolio.com/pedal-on-par...

We’ve completed major maintenance work on Balgreen Road and Saughton Crescent to make it easier for everyone to get around. The work included 13,500 square meters of road resurfacing and 100 square meters of pavement resurfacing. A big thanks to the residents for their patience.

Hot take: Winona by Drop Nineteens is a bigger and usually unacknowledged influence on most of today’s shoegaze bands than MBV. Not necessarily a bad thing as it’s a great song by a great band.

A short thread on possibly the worst bit of transport policy analysis I have ever seen. See: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Yet another cyclist injury at the junction Dalmeny Street/Easter Road. As cycling around Leith Walk has exploded in popularity, so will injuries unless adjacent streets are made safe. I make it 11 injuries 2020-2024, and a number of collisions since then. www.edinburghlive.co.uk/news/edinbur...

One of the slightly odder strings to my bow is that I do, occasionally, value model railway collections. Usually this is for people newly widowed whose partner has left a bunch of stuff that they have no idea what to do with. So let's talk about how that relates to this story. 🧵

Leith Walk is “good enough” to walk or ride as a family with kids. Could it be better? Yes. But we have to remember that half of the problems were caused by interference from councillors and supposed “walking campaign” groups

Too many cyclists show discourtesy to pedestrians at Leith Walk bus stops. But let's not pretend they pose an extraordinary danger - drivers injured 240 Edinburgh pedestrians and cyclists in 2024 alone.

There is a lot of chat about the danger posed by the introduction of cycle lanes and floating bus stops on Leith Walk from 2021 onward. Pedestrian casualties, Leith Walk, by year: 2015: 15 2016: 13 2017: 9 2018: 10 2019: 12 (including two fatalities) 2020: 3 2021: 0 2022: 2 2023: 0 2024: 2

“It is especially galling that it was Labour, LibDems & Conservative councillors who led us down this garden path in the first place, delaying action to implement the Quiet Route permanently in 2023 and introducing years of uncertainty in the estate… [it]demonstrates a complete lack of leadership”

“Fast” in geological terms?

Calling protected bike-lanes “vanity projects” should be automatic evidence that a political candidate has no idea what they’re talking about when it comes to public safety, urban mobility and congestion, geometry and urban space, fiscal responsibility, or the successful positioning of cities.

Tomorrow, Edinburgh council will decide whether to tear up a quiet route for pedestrians, wheelchairs and cyclists which has been in place for five years- why? Read below www.edinburghinquirer.co.uk/p/low-traffi... @edi.bike @spokes.org.uk

Is it weird that I find the man dressed as a giant bird heartwarming, while wanting the man taking a selfie to be drummed out of public life?

Without a doubt, this MUST come back to the Transport Committee and not just be thrown away by TRO Sub. We cannot lose miles of safe route to paperwork incompetence. The south of the city has too little else for safe cycling.

As we write in the book, we need less focus on adults who scream "I've lived in the city for the last 50 years and don't need bike lanes" and more focus on kids who say "I am going to live in the city for the *next* 50 years and want to be able to get around safely."

For the first time ever I have made it to a local public meeting by a cycle lane sceptic group about “the case for a pause” to a planned lane to a school which had been years in the planning. They are not, repeat *not* against cycling, it’s just this one particular design is flawed, obvs.

Heard that Hearts goal in Corstorphine!

Tweet (Jenrick) exemplifies universal misunderstanding ONS population projection involved no analysis of current/future immigration policy! Just plugs in single historic datapoint (2013-19 average+2025) for 2027-2050 ONS will update later once facts change (230k inflow much too high for 2027+28)

Excellent write-up of the Braid Estate debacle 🧵 Edinburgh’s Transport Ctte calls for permanent Greenbank to Meadows Quiet Route; opponents pressure Council Officers into removing filters anyway Capitulation to loud motoring minority as ‘incorrectly worded’ legal order … edi.bike/articles/202...

There must be some overriding principle that says that the safety of 1000s of kids & their parents/carers takes precedent over the whims of 2 privileged lawyers that live on Midmar Gardens??? UN rights of the child? - The right to life? The right to be heard? All enshrined into Scottish law

00:45 - article on the quiet route debacle finished (edi.bike/articles/202...) ...now for the other 24 items in this newsletter 😅🫠

We’re currently speechless about the likely loss of a safe route for kids in the Braid Estate When the affluent few can pay a lawyer to find the slightest discrepancy in the paperwork, to kill off a scheme put in place through community action, that is NOT DEMOCRACY!

...but these filters are also apparently 'interdependent' so Officers also propose to pull out the one at Braid Rd for good measure, just to make totally sure my 6yo and 8yo have to contend with as much traffic as possible on our previously quiet route into the city. Pathetic, useless nonsense.

Good news everyone, we don't need to worry about the Greenbank to Meadows modal filters in the Braid Estate any more, because officers managed to describe them wrongly in the traffic orders so they have to be removed anyway. HOW CONVENIENT. media2.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2l...