Literally having a discussion about Duddingston Low Road yesterday amongst cyclists about how HES has done all they could to discourage what could be an AMAZING active travel corridor with just the smallest of widening of the pavements. Instead we have 75m of this.

Pretty clear the HES Senior Management is not fit for purpose. Why, with such “limited resources“ do you focus on keeping the radical road shut but a traffic sewer road open? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Tick, tock! Cowgate. One year on. What have you done? We'll be outside City Chambers from 8.30am this Thursday 13 November to ask the council just that.

The BBC claim they say "car" and not "driver" in their reports when a driver crashes their car as they don't want to apportion blame. *except when they spot a L plate on social media photos then they will say "A learner vehicle has smashed through the shopfront..." 🤷 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Long nights road “safety”: Cyclists: dress up in head-to-toe hiviz to look like a clown Drivers: Sucker a 14” tablet to your ratty Corsa windscreen, right in the driver’s view Safety is a “shared responsibility” 😡 Enforcement? @policescotland.bsky.social

🙄 #PrincesStreet plans unfit for modern #European capital Spokes deputn to 12.11.25 Planning Cttee --> www.spokes.org.uk/wp-content/u... @edi.bike @thecockburn.bsky.social @stephenjenkinson.bsky.social @davidfkey.bsky.social @chasbooth.bsky.social @cllrbenparker.bsky.social @mthmttcoe.bsky.social

When you compromise on everything - nothing works as it should. If Queensferry High Street works are completed as designed it will also look exactly like this too @stephenjenkinson.bsky.social

#ActiveTravel 💲 cut confirmed + #Bus infra fears --> www.spokes.org.uk/2025/11/acti... @edi.bike @keithirving.bsky.social @transform.scot @edinburghbug.bsky.social @alastairdalton.bsky.social @edinreporter.bsky.social @markruskell.bsky.social @monicalennon.bsky.social @michaelmatheson.bsky.social

The pedestrianisation of Norwich city centre. I'm all for it

#A701/ #A702 'relief'/link road 🚘🚘🚘 Spokes objection--> www.spokes.org.uk/wp-content/u... 🙋🙋 You have till midnight Fri 7 Nov to object HERE--> planning-applications.midlothian.gov.uk/OnlinePlanni... @edi.bike @johnrobson87.bsky.social @rupenash.bsky.social @blackfordsaferoutes.co.uk @sw20.info

All because some of you out there are still buying Teslas from a Nazi.

Someone just shared this with me: 1967, 3,000 publicans marching against introducing breath tests for drivers. Barbara Castle MP got this introduced and speed limits and seatbelts as mInister for transport, and faced the standard opposition.

Cowgate 1 year on - what have you done? Join us in front of the City Chambers at 8.30am on Thursday 13 November to tell the council that it's time to take action on dangerous roads.

What an utterly terrible thing for Edinburgh Council to do. It's bad enough sharing space with black cabs but private hires are just bad www.edinburghlive.co.uk/news/edinbur...

“Proportionate Response” means they accept 5 people dying every single day on the roads they allegedly police while arresting grannies with signs at legitimate protests

West Fife needs your help! For 13 years Patersons Quarries failed to comply with planning conditions. Residents are fighting to be heard, while Patersons seek to extend operations. Sign our e-action and say no to the expansion of Fife Silica Sands 🚫 greens.scot/StopSilicaSa...

@support.bsky.team Just a suggestion but a time limited mute button would be really useful sometimes. Thanks!

@edinburghminute.bsky.social Just a heads up that my emails went to junk since you moved provider. Not sure if it might be a wider issue

🚦 Road casualties in Edinburgh North & Leith have fallen steadily over the past 2 decades 📉 LCCC’s been part of that progress — pushing for safer streets, fairer transport & better walking & cycling routes. Change is happening — Leith’s moving in the right direction.

Maybe we should be funding even basic care for 107 year olds rather than subsidising ”free” parking www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Driver sticks their car through a Primary School fence while children are in School and NOTHING WILL HAPPEN www.edinburghlive.co.uk/news/edinbur...

ETRO/21/30C #SilverknowesRoad segregated 🚲 lanes .. email to Spokes from worried local resident 🙋 If you use & support this scheme please respond! @edi.bike @sw20.info @blackfordsaferoutes.co.uk @best-edinburgh.bsky.social @edcriticalmass.bsky.social @infrasisters.bsky.social @nialla.bsky.social

BBC Breaking News. Only drivers use roads www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I have a very bad feeling about this...

New #bikebus day in #edinburgh. Great to have Saint Peter's school join the active travel revolution by starting up a bike bus. @spokes.org.uk @cyclingweekly.com @cyclinguk.bsky.social @sustrans.bsky.social @edinburghcouncil.bsky.social Thanks for your support @policescotland.bsky.social

Pedestrian 26 in critical condition after Stenhouse crash Police are appealing for information following a serious road crash in Edinburgh.  The incident happened around 8.50pm on Saturday, 25 October, 2025, on Stenhouse Drive, just west of its junction with Stenhouse Grove, and involved the…

Sponging drivers wanting their freebies as usual

Thought of the day. Make it mandatory

New #A701/ #A702 'relief'/link road 🚘🚘🚘 PA 25/00521/DPP 🙋 Object here by 7 Nov--> planning-applications.midlothian.gov.uk/OnlinePlanni... 🙋 Our previous comments--> www.spokes.org.uk/wp-content/u... @edi.bike @mrjasonrose.bsky.social @midlothiancan.bsky.social @edfoc.bsky.social @sw20.info

🔴 NEW: Climate pollution from the burning of rubbish in Scotland has almost doubled in five years, according to new data, with some incinerators releasing higher amounts of toxic chemicals than ever before in 2024. Our latest investigation: bit.ly/4o0zDZH

"We had a backlash from one councillor who wrote ''SPOKES can get lost and take its Commie friends with it." road.cc spoke to the Edinburgh volunteers campaigning for active travel for nearly 50 years...

Highly walkable Ljubljana, with its Old Town, hilltop castle and iconic bridges, banned private vehicles from streets across its city centre in 2007. It hasn't looked back.

I learned this week that the a single train line (Elizabeth) in London carries more people in a day any road in the entire USA, even the ones with 8 lanes, even the "relief roads"

😍 #WestLothian #SpokesMap 2025 is here!! INFO--> www.spokes.org.uk/2025/10/west... Launched by MP @kittysull1.bsky.social & Deputy Provost #PeterHeggie 🤩 See Special Offer [ends 31 Oct] @edi.bike @thecockburn.bsky.social @edinreporter.bsky.social @edinburghminute.bsky.social @edfoc.bsky.social

Don't make us tap the sign.

🚲 edi.bike | issue 114 | 13th Sep '25 New plans for Fountainbridge, Dundee St and beyond; South Queensferry High Street project an “opportunity missed”; plus events, route closures & more: https://buttondown.com/edi.bike/archive/edibike-issue-114-13th-oct-25/

Kevin Laing "Is there anything to be said for having another consultation on a bike lane"

#Queensferry - consultn date extended to Fri 17 Oct NB - this is separate from (and better than!) the town centre scheme now under construction @edi.bike @thebonnieloon.bsky.social @helenrambler.bsky.social @harryjwilliams.bsky.social @blackfordsaferoutes.co.uk @johnrobson87.bsky.social

Should correct this about Queensferry High St “transformation“ The Council did loose funding - due to too much parking but they’ve also shortened the route so it no longer covers the Hawes car park. Questions have been asked in Parliament about what they’ll do about boy racers - specifically here 🤷

Pinch points that invited close passes have been removed from top of Mound 👍 Signs on pavement 👎 Signs could go on the very wide road but drivers can't be trusted not to hit them #beseen

Move the cyclist between the 2 cars in the background and you can see a fundamental flaw The Council ignored. It doesn't change the fundamental design of the street and you STILL risk being doored/or close passed. Only confident/experienced cyclists will use this @stephenjenkinson.bsky.social

Hardly "transformation" The Council lost Sustrans funding as it has too much car parking, retains vehicle access at all times, squeezes a tiny unprotected cycle lane and protects no pedestrian spaces from vehicles. A massive waste of money and only adds to the Council's "opportunity missed" list

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

Consultation ends this Fri 10 october. If you know QF, have you responded?? @edi.bike

Lang filibusters again 🙄

Cycling trips surge by 43% as Glasgow's active travel network grows glasgow.gov.uk/13887

Is there any point to the police anymore? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Meanwhile,later that day: www.edinburghlive.co.uk/news/edinbur...