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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.

No jail sentence. No driving ban. Free to continue driving around Edinburgh after assaulting a cyclist, leaving them with a traumatic brain injury, a smashed skull and a bleed on the brain. news.stv.tv/east-central...

80 Shilling lives in the hearts of many a Scot. Imran Rahman-Jones wanted to find out why. www.pelliclemag.com/home/2026/10...

Police hunt driver of red car after hit and run crash in Marionville Police are appealing for information following a hit and run crash in Edinburgh. The incident happened around 6.50pm on Monday, 19 October, 2026, on Marionville Road at the junction with Marionville Avenue....

Between 2021 and 2025, around 2 million cyclists passed the floating bus stops on Leith Street, Edinburgh, and around 5 million bus passengers boarded or alighted here. No injuries have been recorded. Over the same period, drivers injured around 600 Edinburgh pedestrians, killing 16.

2016 "Cycling might work in Amsterdam, but it'll never work in the UK" 2022 "Cycling might work in London, but it'll never work in Glasgow" 2026 "Cycling might work on the Southside, but it'll never work in the North" This is progress 😁

Nobody's gonna cycle when it rains...

Is this the Councillor Whyte who voted for a motion seeking: (a) Consideration of bus gates, bus lanes, & bus priority light phases. (b) Extension of bus lane operating hours? democracy.edinburgh.gov.uk/documents/g7... I think we should be told. www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/opinion...

For what it’s worth we very much consider @edinburghbug.bsky.social an ally in sustainable travel for the capital; people make mistakes, and I’m sure they and @spurtle.bsky.social will be happy to correct given time. — The Weary Cycling Lobby

👀 Shame nobody involved in this correspondence has done more than skim-read the Cycling Scotland article and then conflate the numbers and times being reported. There’s no ‘gotchas’ with automated counters; just read slower https://cycling.scot/news/scotland-s-bike-lane-networks-break-new-records

Today, the Telegraph can exclusively reveal that people who've got nowt often live near each other in less well off neighbourhoods. More as we get it.

I hope, like Copenhagen, they start calculate the cost savings in long term healthcare with a more active cycling population too

Was in a shop on Princes Street this morning and saw a couple just loading gear into a big hold-all and then walking out. The only staff member on the floor was serving at the till. Wearily said “thanks” when I told her and put a call out for security - must happen all the time.

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” 🙃

I am baffled that bus lanes aren't all 24 hours. Logically, either there's no congestion so it doesn't matter that cars can't use the bus lane, or there is congestion so the bus needs the bus lane. Also I've seen a crash caused by confusion about whether it's open.

Glasgow making amazing progress, while Edinburgh dilly dallies

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Double yellow line claim dismissed by councillors Councillors have dismissed claims by a homeowner that new double yellow lines would restrict their available parking after learning they already had at least one garage and a driveway at the back of their property....

TfL found that there were just 4 pedestrian casualties recorded over three years across 164 bus stop bypasses. So yes, expect a future Tory government to ban floating bus tops, bike lanes and indeed bikes

Essential, brilliant reporting by @by-cjewett.bsky.social It's TERRIFYING: MAHA folks are INVESTIGATING pediatricians, who are some of the lowest paid docs in the professions, for vaccinating kids It's part of a 20-year anti-vaxx campaign by RFK Jr "that some of his political allies have joined"

These are Moylan’s full comments on floating bus stop bike lanes. This is the sort of transport policy almost every other European nation would find deeply weird.

Pity poor Peter having to cover Tory transport policy which is less coherent than 15 foxes screaming at each other at 2am when the bins are out. "Baron" Moylan of Grenfell shouldn't be allowed sharp objects.

On the main stage at Conservative conference, the shadow transport team is discussing how to “counter” things like 20mph zones and bus lanes. The war on the motorist lives.

It's a huge democratic deficit, really a catastrophe. We know from polls, studies (even the Tory one that was meant to find against LTNs), an election results that safe streets are *extremely* popular, but the minority opposition to them is more aggressive, older, and richer than the support.

There's bottomless anger on Facebook in Glasgow. Politicians have to stop being dribbled like basketballs by small by small angry groups of pensioners while large numbers of parents who don't have the time to post on Facebook 10x a day are forced to inch along pavements clutching their toddlers.

Somehow, the city produced almost the only area in Scotland with a 30% fall in traffic, huge support from schools and senior medics amongst others, really minimal impact on adjacent roads per the council’s own figures, and now has overturning SUVs on the bike bus route.

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

Someone’s just shared pretendy working-class hero Bonny Prince Bob‘s latest Instagram contribution on Edinburgh trams. The lack of any factual basis in any of the populist claims is astounding.

If you live anywhere near Ayr, it would be a great time to write to your councillor in support of cycle lanes. They are reading Facebook and deciding the posters there should set transport policy.

An insight into cycling trends - the introduction of Voi bikes has added about 500 additional cyclists per day to Leith Walk; the tram closure added another 250 at the peak. The Voi effect is much larger at the weekend, while the inverse is true for the tram.

A snap going the other way (into town) this morning. I was about midway in the queue, with about as many people behind me. This was around 8.45am, so some time after the *actual* peak, which seems to be around 8.15am.

There's something amazing about being in a peloton of 40+ bikes on the cycle lane heading home. Every driver at the front of a queue of side-street traffic... every person peering out of a bus window... every passer-by gets the message: "Oh wow, yeah, people are using this stuff". Never gets old.

He’s actually LibDemmed himself out of the LibDems.

“In the last decade, about three people every week have been killed by drivers on your roads. In that time, the only people you’ve asked to be courteous are cyclists. Make it make sense”

P.S. once and for all, can we nail the myth that 'common sense' means anything other than 'agrees with me'?

Bloody cyclists at Drumbrae Roundabout again.

Parents representing 5 schools requested that the filters which had been on the Greenbank to Meadows Quiet Route for 5 years, and had contributed to a significant reduction in traffic, remain in place but the Council removed them due to errors in the documentation. Now the speeding drivers are back.

Saw this and wanted to know how US beef can be that cheap? So I looked, and now I want to know how US politicians can think that voters are that stupid?

My favourite recent example of Edinburgh NIMBYism was the residents in Corstorphine who demanded and got school street restrictions on their own road (Manse St) then a few years later objected to similar restrictions on neighbouring Manse Road because it would inconvenience them.

*Every* school should have all through roads festooned with Zebra and Puffin crossings and every side street made a school street. No consultation, no debate, just implemented. And yes, inconveniencing and slowing down traffic is *THE WHOLE POINT*. It shouldn't be controversial or difficult.

The council has these things down to a fine art. Yes you *could* have some basic road safety measures outside a school, but it's going to take you a huge amount of effort and your kids will almost be finished by the time a spade hits the ground, so are you sure you want to really bother?

Has Kevin Lang explained what these “other, better ways” are and how they will allow buses to magically skip past queues of traffic on Turnhouse Road? www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/edinbur...