Dave McCraw

Heavy traffic in Juniper Green spoiled play a little, but what a commute! 💨💨💨

You can store your car on the road here for free, 24/7/365. And yet

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A strange thing as there are no restrictions on loading here, you can just stop outside the cycle lane and drop off your grocery delivery for free any time of day or night. Why wouldn’t a professional in a liveried vehicle understand this?

Elsewhere in Edinburgh south west (this isn’t an end-on parking bay)

Hot on the heels of the UK’s first LTN to be “made permanent” with its only bus gate removed, introducing the UK’s first 7am to 7pm bus lanes where “you can still park and load in most locations” 🙃

Instead of simply delivering a school street, at some point local councillors decided to repurpose a bunch of the school playground to keep people from disturbing drivers, adding a TRIPLE railing just to make sure they don’t have to slow down as much.

Forth One has become confused about our IP address, and all the ad breaks are now for Leeds and Yorkshire. Makes a nice change actually 🙃🤔

We had one cyclist death in Glasgow where, when I was asked to look through the Gobike sent emails by lawyers, I found my predecessor had called out the exact danger at that exact junction. The needed work didn't happen until after a woman was dead.

Are the transcripts of these meetings still available? Feels like Claude needs to do some fact checking at scale

A small number of angry drivers / pandering politicians had enough incentive to get the council to remove a years-old quiet neighbourhood scheme. The same concentration of power doesn’t exist in the diffuse body of local people who would like not to have overturning SUVs in their street

Just to put this in context Edinburgh airport alone offers more than a million seats on transatlantic flights per year, roughly ten times more than the entire saving from walking and wheeling

Bad news for anyone missing a blue Tern 😔

Luxury retailers want taxpayers to fund a 20% tax break for foreign tourists. They paid consultancy Cebr to claim this will raise £2.6bn for the UK. That convinced Sadiq Khan and Kemi Badenoch. But it's false: a free lunch. Four basic errors mask a £600m loss. Thread:

With the Strait of Hormuz closed, Iraq has resorted to moving its oil across the desert to Syria in hundreds of tanker trucks, in true Mad Max style. From there, it will be shipped to worldwide markets.

I cycled to work at the Shore via leith walk the other day (I usually go Holyrood park - Easter road) and at every light there were 15 cyclists waiting to go up the way. It's brilliant, love the voi bikes contribution to this!

Edinburgh, where a six lane road doesn’t have room for active travel, but somehow the bus lane is storing a single car, and more than half the pavement can be used by a business as “permitted development” Criticism handled by gaslighting you to the Lothian Rd Boulevard project, coming around 2045

I've long moaned that when the tram was installed, no parallel cycle track was laid to allow "park and ride" into the city by bike. Will this new access road be a private car frenzy which only embeds this further, or an uncharacteristic departure that also provides active travel connectivity? Ha!

How it started How it's going

Kayaker on the Moriston, Sep 2006 Another fine adventure from the back-catalogue 🌊

Lest we forget, goods vehicles are specifically excluded from enforcement under Scotland’s pavement parking law

Spring cleaning and found this from Etape Caledonia 2016... the only time I tried this route as I found it too cramped with other riders. 21st of ~3000, simpler times!

Although covering up the traffic light with a sign is particularly bad, I don’t like these low down lights in general, even someone standing there has the same effect

45 years! 😮 That's how long Craiglockhart Primary School families have been waiting for a safe zebra crossing in front of the school.

I can't wait for some more of what Scott Arthur is selling

It’s even worse that it looks when you remember that the council are spending seven figures on a new bridge for private cars, instead of either closing it to cars (almost free) or spending a fraction on an active travel bridge instead

“Meta-motonormativity” (I know it’s just a flavour of motonormativity)

They are doing a survey at the Astley Ainslie today and Saturday, counting the number of people who pass through it. If you want to ensure it stays open to the public now and once developed…then do pop by

This is where all cyclists would have to travel if it turns out, due to rising costs and a strained public purse, that single-tracking the Roseburn tram beside a cycle route doesn’t have such good economics as a double track replacing the whole path..

The hospitality industry are back lobbying for a VAT cut They don't mention the cost: £12bn They don't mention who gets the £: ❌ The smallest most vulnerable businesses? Get nothing ❌ Consumers? Prices won't fall ✅ McDonald's gets £400m. Big chains are big winners 🧵:

💯 support the parents here. It’s been longer than a decade. I was the first parent council chair in 2007 when my oldest son was in P1 (he’s 24 now) and the campaign was already 2 years old at that stage. The speed at which some vehicles pass the school is appalling. Safety measures long overdue

I did have a look at recent pedestrian deaths last night and it is shocking. It is almost invisible - many of the deaths don't even get reported in the local news. Here are a few of the recent ones: