What must it be like to live like this?

What a great photo in this Grauniad piece. www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

Great piece from @marissamacwhirter.bsky.social on the problems facing (and caused by) the M8 motorway, which cuts through Glasgow. With spans of the 1960s infrastructure now needing costly replacement, might it be time for a more serious rethink about how it fits in with the city.

Everytime I see pictures of the South City Way I think "wow look at that, that must be some new top notch cycleway in Utrecht or something" before realising "oh shoot that's my route into town just from another angle" lol

unbelievable things are happening in glasgow cuisine

Glasgow – it’s just like Amsterdam, after all…

Lurked for a while, but setting up here in the hope of positivity and good connections - who should I be following?

🚲📈 Explore the data and see how new, safe, dedicated cycling infrastructure is helping more people to travel by bike in Scotland 👉 buff.ly/rIm5wDM

Enough.

Build it, and they will come! 😍

🚲 "It’s made a colossal difference having protected routes. Being well separated from traffic means I’m able to travel in safety. I’d go so far as to say I wouldn’t be cycling as much for my daily commute or at all without the protected cycle lanes now in place." – Katy in Glasgow buff.ly/rIm5wDM

📰🧵 NEWS: Latest traffic survey data and cycle counter analysis shows thousands of people cycling at locations across Scotland, where new protected routes are being provided. Explore the data, showing how safe infrastructure is helping more people to travel by bike: buff.ly/rIm5wDM

This kind of car-centric infrastructure in a city centre is a relic of an experiment that went wrong. Big roads and mega junctions have no place in busy cities. A good step is making crossing them in one go much easier. But a better one is to remove them altogether. www.bbc.com/news/article...

So, so glad to have seen this over the weekend at @glasgowfilmtheatre.bsky.social.

#Hustings #Holyrood2026 #SpokesMtg ✔️🚲🚲 March 16 --> www.spokes.org.uk/2026/02/spok... @edi.bike @edfoc.bsky.social @kate-c.bsky.social @chasbooth.bsky.social @ianmurraymp.bsky.social @edcriticalmass.bsky.social @sw20.info @keithirving.bsky.social @edinreporter.bsky.social @jennycooper.bsky.social

Beneath Berlin's Potsdamer Platz, an overlooked retail strip has been reborn as a bicycle parking facility and public passage connecting users to the S-Bahn station. Modest in scale but rich in possibilities, it integrates seamlessly into the revitalised entertainment, commercial and office centre.🧵

Updated climate indicators graphics, now including 2025 ed-hawkins.github.io/climate-visu...

Farage's claims here are straightforward lies (and it's about time the media/press said so) The correct figures are 160K (0.3%) and 900K (1.5%) www.gbnews.com/news/video-n...

Bumping this up because I re-listened yesterday and it’s one of the most interesting podcast episodes I’ve ever heard.

NEW ANALYSIS: China's CO2 has now been 'flat or falling' for 21 months * Down in 2025 * Still below Mar 2024 * Clean energy wave a key factor If this is China's peak (TBC) it's the climate story of the century so far… www.carbonbrief.org/...

Just because someone is rich and highly successful in business doesn't mean their brain can't be utterly melted online.

And there's your side road zebras being possible in Wales from 11th March this year. www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2026/35/...

New analysis @ippr.org that 300,000 children currently in Britain will be adversely affected by government’s settlement reforms. The government consultation closes on Thursday. Dozens of MPs are concerned that impacts to their constituents & families feel unfair www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

The consultation for this ends today: extremely important improvements to a very unpleasant junction, and to the street where 11-year-old Thomas Wong was killed cycling to school, little over one year ago. If local to you or you're an Edinburgh resident, eager for safer cycling, please take a look.

Love seeing councils using this framing; opening streets (to people), instead of closing streets (to cars). 👏👏👏 See you all there! 💃😎🛍️

"We've been really inspired by the Parisian model." Thank you, @annehidalgo.bsky.social, for showing us what is possible. What you are doing for Paris has global implications.

The news from Scotland

For watchers of the #ClydeMetro plans, the new South Wales Metro is something to take a look at. Lots of differences of course (longer distance routes running into the valleys), but lots of crossover too (tram-trains to mix heavy rail network with street running in the centre of Cardiff).

I love this bootleg cover where it looks like Neil Young just got electrocuted in a slapstick comedy

As is the way with these things, I remember the real attention and headlines this got when we tipped towards then reached the 400ppm mark around 10 years ago. Now registering 425-430ppm with near daily regularity.

I've just seen the video flythrough of a newly proposed cycle lane in Glasgow. Oh my! 😀 www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1FX... Way back in 2012 when @pedalonparliament.org held its first demonstration we could only dream of infrastructure like this in Glasgow.

As ever, if you like the look of all this, worth filling in the survey 👇🚲

Beyond excited about this: plans for Route 1 of 'Connecting Greater Govan'. A protected cycle route that would go a long way to connecting the Southside of Glasgow to the West End. www.glasgow.gov.uk/article/1473...

A bit of Glasgow historical nerdery I'd not come across before. UoG's Flickr pages include an album of maps, which contains David Smith's large-scale town plan of 1822. I don't think the NLS site has anything of comparable detail between 1807 and 1857. www.flickr.com/photos/uofgl...

Very good and persuasive analysis of the wrongful and illiberal arrests of two journalists by the US federal government.

"In theatre"? You're not talking about a military deployment to Afghanistan.

The best cycle lanes are wide, beautiful and completely separate from other roads. This type of infrastructure is common here in the Netherlands. They often connect cities and offer a great alternative for driving.

We’re one of more than 60 organisations supporting the Joint Active Travel Manifesto for 2026. It calls on all political parties to support key commitments, on long-term investment, infrastructure, linking active and public transport, and creating safer streets: drive.google.com/drive/folder...

Roddy Hart's Roaming Roots Revue at the Concert Hall was such a treat last night. Always is. Guy Garvey covering Joni Mitchell. Alice Faye doing My Way (one of the most incredible voices I've ever heard & probably will ever hear). Capped by RH and band playing one of my all-time favorite songs.

🚲 edi.bike | issue 129 | 26th Jan '26 Pedal on Parliament 2026; Joint Active Travel Manifesto; January Transport Commitee Agenda; plus events, infrastructure, route closures & more: https://buttondown.com/edi.bike/archive/edibike-issue-129-26th-jan-26/ #edinburgh #bikeSky

Make safer spaces for walking and cycling: get more people walking and cycling 👇 Among the stats: 𝟳,𝟬𝟬𝟬 bikes a day on Oxford Rd (up from 2,000 a day before safe cycle lanes) news.tfgm.com/press-releas...

Pedal on Parliament is back!! If you believe in safer cycling for all in Scotland, then follow them. YOU HAVE BEEN TOLD! 😁

We’re back - Save the Date! In 2026 we Pedal on Parliament for a cycle-friendly Scotland, on Sat 30th May at 11.30am - Middle Meadow Walk to Holyrood, Edinburgh on closed roads. #ThisMachineFightsClimateChange #pop26

A new pilot project is giving hundreds of old bikes a new lease of life, by redirecting unwanted, damaged bikes from @glasgowcc.bsky.social recycling centres to be repaired and redistributed to local communities. 🚲 Find out more: cycling.scot/news/pilot-p...

This shouldn’t be remarkable. Protected cycle tracks let primary school age children cycle safely on main roads - on their own. Every city can do this.

It's continually crazy to me that of all the options available, in the UK, we only seem to do this 👇

Mafia goon: Nice house you got here...it'd be a shame if something happened to it Media outlets: Mafia goon rules out use of force. Expresses regret at the mere thought of it

Cycle lanes and LTNs often attract loud opposition, making them seem deeply unpopular. But are they? Across multiple studies (survey + analysis of 36k UK tweets), we find broad support - especially for well-designed, segregated lanes. Good quality cycle lanes benefit all! 🔗 shorturl.at/Ovkco

A lesson Russia learned in the 2010s.

LAST CHANCE to share your views! 🚲🚌🚶🏾‍♀️We want to know how you get around Portobello, #Craigmillar and #Edinburgh and your ideas about how to make it easier to walk, cycle and use public transport. 🚦Our Survey ends this coming Friday 23 January Complete it here: forms.gle/h52TAkswdX23...