Anyone who received their postal ballot today in the South of Scotland region, please be aware that "Independent Green Voice", which appears second on the list on the peach regional ballot paper, is NOT the Scottish Green Party. This is in fact a deliberate vote spoiling attempt by right-wingers.

Great presentation from Reopen South Sub folk yesterday + project deserves backing. But many politicians declare support for it on grounds which they downright reject for North-South line through #Roseburn. City needs a coherent vision, not parochialism. www.edinburghinquirer.co.uk/p/tram-train...

How North Korean. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

We're "excessively lax" about holding motorists accountable for their actions because for decades every level of society - including the people who should be keeping us safe - have seen motor harm as inevitable anf outside anyone's control #motonormativity www.theguardian.com/money/2026/a...

🚨 NEW: Inside Big Oil's campaign to push Labour to drill the North Sea Oil & gas lobbyists have met UK and Scottish ministers more than once a week since Labour took office MPs have asked questions in Parliament after meeting lobbyists, and more 🧵 democracyforsale.substack.com/p/revealed-h...

✈️🇩🇪 Germany's Lufthansa cancels 20,000 flights to save fuel due to soaring prices, — FT Domestic flights in Germany may also be suspended in the near future.

CO2 consumption traveling from Berlin to Munich by plane, car and train respectively. And which forms of transport get the most support?

The celebration of a mass murderer shows Russia for what it is.

Outstanding journalism from the BBC here. www.bbc.co.uk/articles/cm2...

‘Scrap net zero!’, ‘Drill baby, drill!’

What a scandalous waste when it was clear all along that hydrogen was not the answer. Politicians need to listen to transport experts rather than fossil fuel companies with a vested interest. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Extreme rewilding admittedly (and alternatives are available), but fascinating non the less. theconversation.com/40-years-on-...

Parking is a huge problem and not because it's inadequate and costs too much: 'Abundant parking does not solve a transport problem; it creates one. Every space generates demand, spreads destinations further apart, and makes the alternatives - walking, cycling, and public transport - less viable".

Die CSU feiert das Aus des Verbrenner-Aus: "Ab jetzt gilt wieder der Wettbewerb der besten Antriebstechnologien." Parallel schreibt Michael Kretschmer, CDU: "Wir müssen unsere heimischen Ressourcen Gas & Braunkohle halten & erschließen, um Abhängigkeiten zu reduzieren." Mit Vollgas in den Abgrund.

You can also choose to vote for those who think more broadly about the city’s overall environmental, social and economic future. #Edinburgh needs its old Granton branch line back.

'How impressive! Yesterday, the longest car-free bridge in the world – and the longest bridge in Finland – was opened in Helsinki, ahead of schedule. Spanning 1.2 km, the Kruunuvuorensilta connects the city centre with the outskirts and is open only to pedestrians, cyclists and trams'.

#Holyrood2026 #SP26 Our #manifesto analysis --> www.spokes.org.uk/2026/04/holy... We looked at #activetravel, mainly 🚲, and some related transport/environment, but not at 🚌🚆 1 Greens, excellent 2 LibDem, positive in a fairly modest way 3= Labour & SNP, poor 5 Reform, bad 6 Conservative, terrible

My sort of destination.

Got to love an #Edinburgh cycle lane.

"Flying less is not an option", declares German Chancellor Merz. A perfect example of political idiocy in the face of #climatechaos. www.tagesspiegel.de/wirtschaft/w...

Heat pumps are the most efficient heating technology ever invented. They harvest and compress pre existing heat in the air, ground or water and transport it where it is needed. That energy is all around us. And it does not have to pass through the Strait of Hormuz.

Following a complaint filed by human rights organisations defending Palestina, the Spanish Public Prosecutor's Office has launched an investigation into CAF over its involvement in the Jerusalem Light Rail.

Germany's Deutschlandticket (flat-rate public transport ticket) saves 2.5 million tonnes of CO2. Could be replicated anywhere there was the political will to do so. www.deutschlandfunk.de/2-5-millione...

It’s pothole-pointing season again. And it looks like the LibDems don’t have a monopoly on it.

The polls appear to suggest he'll be in no position to support anything. www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/scottis...

Universal free public transport is proving to be a runaway success.

Possibly not worth leaving the Scottish Green Party for after all. www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...

Can these buggers do anything properly?

Which other criminal acts get this sort of softsoaping?

Terrible take from the NYT: “Orban’s defeat is a setback for the global nationalist revival promoted by President Trump.” Is that what we’re calling Fascism these days? (Also, it started with Putin.)

“Ruszkik haza! Legyen béke!” - Putin looses one of his top men. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

523 arrests at the Free Palestine protest in London yesterday. That’s even though the supreme courts ruled the prohibition was unlawful. Take that in! That’s the Labour government to thank.

On this point Cllr Jenkinson is entirely right and it’s disappointing the SNP group has taken such a stance. However, the claim ‘It’s naked nimbyism so blatant it would make even the Lib Dems squirm’ is unfounded, because they wouldn’t. www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/edinbur...

It may seem like nerdy detail that the increasing weight of cars is worsening potholes, but it matters. The car makers push to sell wider and heavier cars is increasing road maintenance costs and that affects us all. Not to mention worse crash outcomes and less space to pass (wider) parked cars.

City of Edinburgh Council. Take progressive action. Bottle it. Repeat. www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/edinbur...

"In Oxford, similarly, the council pushed ahead with implementation and people have come round to the LTNs. According to research by Oxford Brookes University, twice as many people are strongly in favour of them as are strongly opposed."

Makes more sense than subsidising petrol. bnn-news.com/fuel-expensi...

Genius move. Make officials 'find another route from Granton to the city centre'. And how precisely are the poor buggers going to do? Only logical thing to do is to restore the old railway line and do it now. Anything else is political weakness. www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/edinbur...

“Copenhagen reported that 62% of its residents are now commuting to work or school by bike — an increase from 52% in 2015 & 36% in 2012, when the City Council launched a 14-year-plan to improve the quality, safety & comfort of cycling.” #Copenhagen chose. They keep choosing even better every year.

For those commutes within Edinburgh's bypass, around 90% are short enough to cycle, and 80% have a public transport option available:

Why does Vance care whether Orban wins? Because if he loses, it will challenge the MAGA belief that history flows in only one direction from @theunpopulist.net open.substack.com/pub/theunpop...

Unedifying scenes from Scotland, where desperate Scottish Labour is promising to raid the scant active & sustainable travel funding pot to spend on motorists. Sarwar is the *worst* - but Glasgow Labour are also opposing a congestion charge, mainly because SNP support HT @paul0campbell.bsky.social

I am now firmly of the view that default speed limits should go from 30>20mph and 60>50mph. I personally hate it, but it is right.

Sensible cities welcome tram extensions, they don't fight them. #Edinburgh www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Install fucking renewables, you crazy bastards, or you'll be living in hell.

Of course “war on motorists” should be in quotation marks throughout this post since there is no such thing.

I’m in Brussels again. I don’t like it. Any tips on how to change my mind?

Don’t let them tell you it can’t be done.

Putin and Orban coordinating on a desperate false flag operation that everyone knew was coming.