Blackford Safe Routes

On today’s bike bus, we spare a thought for those on our sister bike bus at George Watson’s, who now have to suffer increased traffic and crashes on their way to school - their route follows where this happened

"A terrible deal" Indeed. Some of us have been saying this for a very long time Sizewell is an open black hole for hard-earned taxpayer money, a white elephant, and a vanity project that harks back to the 1960s and '70s www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Meanwhile Edinburgh spent £1.6m on the Dalmahoy junction, to enable drivers to go fast - a rural road junction, with no significant active travel, and where a speed limit reduction would have sufficed Clowns

The case for abolishing the gas standing charge www.nesta.org.uk/feature/ener...

Jan’s freedom is now only limited by the lack of safe cycling facilities Let’s build protected cycle lanes and low-traffic neighbourhoods to enable the huge latent demand for cycling from the Jans, the kids, the families, the older people, and the less-confident

💬 "Now I have freedom to travel!" After 3 years off his bike, Jan is cycling again thanks to a free e-trike loan through our Connecting Communities programme in East Lothian. Jan's story shows what's possible with the right support. cyclinguk.org/project/connecting-communities/jan-east-lothian

OPEN LETTER to City of Edinburgh Council regarding the ongoing St Mark’s Footbridge Closure from @ntbcc.bsky.social & @leithcentralcc.bsky.social leithcentralcc.co.uk/2026/10/26/o...

If you missed my Comment piece in New Scientist on the government go-ahead for the Jackdaw gas field, you can read it for free by subscribing to my #CoolEarth Substack newsletter

“Survey after survey has shown that business owners overestimate how many customers drive to their stores vs walking or biking. In a 2012 Los Angeles study, more than half of the store owners on the bike-laned part of the boulevard thought most of their customers drove. The actual number was 15%.”

“The reality is that the biggest danger to pedestrians is overwhelmingly drivers of motor vehicles. On average, more pedestrians are killed each year by cows than by cyclists”

Where Paris leads in creating a cleaner, more active and healthier city, Edinburgh leads also, but in the opposite direction

New Critical Mass this Saturday! As always it will start at 2pm from Middle Meadow Walk. For this Halloween special we encourage you to dress up how ever you want! 🦇 🎃

Oxford St today

saw two kids on campus crash into each other on bikes today. they were both like "you okay?", complimented each other's bikes, and rode off on their separate ways. beautiful stuff man, you don't see that kind of thing happen when cars get into accidents

Complete and utter BS that shows people like Healey have no clue about the shattering impact climate breakdown will have on the UK and its population The climate doesn't give a sh*t about where CO2 is released to the atmosphere, whether the UK or abroad www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Before and after the “Arthurian era”, which sees the destruction of active travel politics in Edinburgh

Th 29 Oct, 3-6pm #Craigleith DROP-IN #SUDS plan 🤔 Will 🚲be affected/included? @edi.bike @chdot.bsky.social @edfoc.bsky.social @euandavidson.bsky.social @julebandel.bsky.social @vicnicsnp.bsky.social @stockbridgeicc.bsky.social @cor-clem.bsky.social @wolct.bsky.social @squirreltower.eurosky.social

We hope the Budget tomorrow will mark a shift away from expensive road expansion where the case is weak, towards a transport system that offers better value for taxpayers, more choice for communities and a more sustainable future. transportactionnetwork.org.uk/the-budget-m...

"Ever bigger machines, entailing ever bigger concentrations of economic power and exerting ever greater violence against the environment, do not represent progress: they are a denial of wisdom." —E.F. Schumacher

When we design city centres for people, families can enjoy being outdoors and people of all ages can get around safely. Less motor traffic. More life on our streets. 📍Delft, The Netherlands

It's a great shame that RNIB chose the call for enforcement rather than calling for safe alternative routes for cycling which would also help disabled folks who cycle. Time to get out of the accessibility silos.

Traffic signs can only be placed next to a road by a traffic authority (the Council), light rail operator or harbour authority. Doesn't matter if the signs are "official". (Part V, Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984). Councils have powers to remove unauthorised signs.

I don’t think the council needs 12 months of monitoring to see how dangerous a decision it was to remove the modal filters in the Braid Estate @stephenjenkinson.bsky.social

How the fuck does a serious assault resulting in life threatening injuries & then fleeing the scene not merit a custodial sentence? www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottis...

“That doesn’t matter”. “He was blocking my way”. Hedley clearly feels vindicated in his actions. No wonder, after the sheriff failed to jail him, or even ban him from driving. youtube.com/shorts/etvu-...

We need the council to make rules about interruptions to cycle lanes. The CYCLISTS DISMOUNT signs - half blown down - placed *just* before the works up and down Leith Walk aren't particularly useful. How about ramps onto the road on either side?

#FOTW Daily Post 22 Tipping points don't queue politely. Cross one - like Greenland Ice-Sheet collapse - and it can shove others over in a domino-like cascade The climate isn't separate switches - it's a web That's what keeps me awake at night Please share + tag 2 #FateOfTheWorld #DeepTime

So this appeared in the primary school playground, I asked the guy about it. Seats 4 kids plus home riding. How far away do you live? 3 minutes on the bike, 20 minutes walking. So to & fro twice a day, 12 minutes or 80 minutes a day. He smiled. @tomflood.bsky.social @rideleicester.bsky.social

It’s so tiring the way every penny of #ActiveTravel funding has to be fought for, and then fought to be retained. Every penny spent on walking and cycling is returned fivefold. Every penny spent on roads will struggle to break even. @libdemcyclewalkwheel.org.uk @greenlibdems.org.uk

Well, who'd have thought? "the [world's] richest 0.1%...... are heavily invested in disaster preparedness, recovery and reconstruction – a market that is projected to grow from $70bn to $92bn a year by 2029" Another win - win for the parasitic super-rich www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Children have very little say in the air they breathe. But they're very welcome to have a say here! Help yours write a message to Andy Burnham asking for clean air. #AirPollution is the second leading risk factor for death in children under five in the UK. Let's get our new PM to change this.

This was the Greenbank to Meadows Quiet Route this morning. At least the drivers aren’t speeding and ignoring the Give Way road markings when they’re at a standstill.

Thug motorist who left cyclist with fractured skull in horror unprovoked assault avoids jail A thug motorist who left a cyclist with a serious brain injury following a violent road rage attack has avoided a jail sentence....

In the middle of the alps world class cycling infrastructure 🫶🚲🇦🇹 just passing by on my way to South Tyrol, but Lienz in Eastern Tyrol seems to be a place worth visiting.

Your annual reminder that in Scotland we do “guising” Kids are expected to tell a joke, riddle, or poem, or sing a song “Trick or treat” is for Americans - and no one likes being blackmailed

I’ve been getting a lot of smiles, laughs, and comments and today a woman told me I made her whole day. Riding around with this guy has been a blast.

Victim blaming season is back, alongside darker evenings and mornings. But perhaps it’s time to recognise that like “cities aren’t loud; cars are loud”, our roads aren’t dangerous by themselves. It’s the motor vehicles on them that create the danger and that perhaps it’s time to address the source.

It’s a crazy that so many people who don’t really have the money to spend will have a car on finance where they pay over £500 a month before getting to fuel, service, tax & insurance. It’s a lifestyle choice and you really shouldn’t have a car you can’t afford

Thanks for adoption info. Yeah surely if every side road had signage like this pavements would just become even more cluttered. It stood out as unnecessary unless I’m missing something?

#EdTravCyc Tree down at Spylaw Park 💨 🌳 & Raw sewage still spilling just west of the bypass bridge 🤧

“Having high-speed rail is now seen as a requirement of 21st-century nationhood. With cars being problematic in so many ways, high-speed trains seem to have been blessed with good great fortune: they are beautiful, fast, elegant, modern and environmentally friendlier." @christianwolmar.bsky.social

Just out of frame of this lifted monstrosity are dozens of children playing in a public space. A grown man is cutting through a plaza just to peacock, yet the biggest safety panic in our city right now is about e-bikes.

#AnyCityCanDoThis

Does anyone know if these private signs are allowed on the public pavement? Surely the Highway Code gives pedestrians priority at a side road so not needed? Or a painted zebra would be allowed on the private side road? Location here maps.app.goo.gl/HXcCs4XieEQD... FYI @livingstreetsedi.bsky.social

The idea of riding with Middle Schoolers off-campus can be 😱scary. But the reward is huge. They deserve to explore their community and there is no safer or better way than a biking field trip.

Absolutely mental that you can get your driving licence at 17 (as I did) and never face any kind of check as to your driving capability or habits until you're 70 (or whatever it is). You could be the worst driver for 50 years, in charge of a two tonne machine that kills, totally unregulated.

This is the first video I planned from Lyon but the last to release because it took more research and planning. It’s a really interesting story — take a look if you haven’t seen it yet!