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Finally. I hope they've taken note of all the suggested parking points...

For balance, the BBC will also be interviewing the ghosts/zombies/animated skeletons in tattered clothes with glowing eyes to ask if they'd be happy to creep into a populated area in broad daylight with good visibility.

Health and Safety investigation launched after man injured at car showroom A man is currently in ‘serious condition’ in hospital after being struck by a vehicle within Arnold Clark’s Kia garage showroom on Seafield Road   The incident took place around 3pm on Tuesday October...

With a much tighter restriction within the sales yard and showroom...
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Just on the human-operated racing tills, or the self-scans? I'm just happy that the new Lidl near me finally has a place for the basket by the self-scans tills which is big enough for the basket, though am not happy that the only baskets lack a middle handle and are designed to only be rolled.

Is there any chance of @edinburghcouncil.bsky.social getting this arranged more sensibly, before it gets all damp and slippy in the winter, whilst the contractors are still nearby?

Photo of the entrance to the Water of Leith at the Sandport. To the left is the recently resurfaced section. On the right is a dropped kerb showing the official entry/exit point with tactile slabs, but this requires a turn tighter than 90° when approaching over the bridge from the Shore and turning left. The dropped section is even further to the west than the previous arrangement, which had been raised as a problem long before the proposed Foot-of-the-Walk to nearly-Ocean-Terminal works.

Not ideal is the new kerb to access the WoL path from the resurfaced Sandport bridge. Previously, there was a half-hearted dropped kerb too far to the west, with a rounded, wheel-deflecting kerb at where wheels would generally meet it. Now, there's an angled wheel-deflecting kerb, even further west.

#EdTravCyc The Aldi shopping trolley which was restricting the Water of Leith path just near the Sandport has now been dragged back to Aldi. The new cycle infra between the bridge and Aldi was ideal for this purpose.

Pedal Power Remains Most Efficient Way To Travel, Confirms Scientific American Scientific American confirms that human on a bicycle more efficient than salmon, seagulls, or jet planes, updating a piece from 1973.

Pedal Power Remains Most Efficient Way To Travel, Confirms Scientific American www.forbes.com/sites/carlto...

Holyrood Park High Road has re-opened to pedestrians and cycles following the grassfire and rockfall assessment. #EdTravCyc @edi.bike @spokes.org.uk www.historicenvironment.scot/visit-a-plac...

My main worry is that they'll start without funding in place, remove every tree along the path from Roseburn to Drylaw and only then admit they can't afford to continue.

Reported to @edinburghcouncil.bsky.social with reference 101001531934

Photo of a PROTRUDING and WOBBLY paving slab on the cycle/pedestrian cut-through between Haymarket Yards and Balbirnie Place, Edinburgh

Photo of a PROTRUDING and WOBBLY paving slab on the cycle/pedestrian cut-through between Haymarket Yards and Balbirnie Place, Edinburgh

HAZARDOUS PROTRUDING SLAB ALERT #EdTravCyc on the cut-through between Balbirnie Place and Haymarket Yards maps.app.goo.gl/oXgzJCSYkLYd...

You could have one of those huge diagonal twenty-metre-wide crossings like that one in Tokyo in every major junction in the country.

Barnsley man in hospital after three-day cola bottles binge Nathan Rimmington ate his way through 3kg of sweets - and doctors were shocked he survived.

Perfect example, though this seems to have been an unprompted, spur-of-the-moment idea and purchase: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

In another universe, a third account alongside @anonopin.bsky.social and @fesshole.bsky.social called something like Dare You? is eventually forced offline after too many people suffer life-changing gastro-intestinal events after following the suggested recipes.

Whenever Alien plot holes start annoying me I just pretend that the in-universe creators of the universe were as slapdash and careless as the crews of the spaceships (and tropical island research facilities) and there's a basal level of farcical incompetence they can never overcome.

Stop (Sam Brown) 10/10
Stop (Spice Girls) 2/10

Missing from the illustration is a thought bubble above the cyclist, in which they ponder how the hell they're supposed to turn right, why they didn't just stay in the main traffic lane and why a junction marked "no right turn except cyclists" would make that manoeuvre so unintuitive and indirect.

Meanwhile, the shop which has just sold them 5l of water smugly mutters "sucker" to itself...

It was inexplicable why they all chose to go with a whole lateral half of their face first, which is why I think it must have been a quasi-religious parable, to which we were occasionally subject seeing as the only state school in the village was CofE-affiliated.

Nope, partly due to a parable-type story we were read in school, wherein a load of shipwrecked/rescued men who'd had no access to razors during their journey/incarceration gained limited access to one after their escape/release/rescue but, only had time/blades enough to each shave half their beard.

Photo of Abbey Lane, Edinburgh, looking north, showing the very poor road surface where it's not been put back very well during the installation of new student flats.

Photo of Abbey Lane, Edinburgh, looking south. Apart from a few cones and plastic barriers the road is now free from construction encampment. The nice big old stone wall which used to be on the corner on the left appears to have gone forever.

Still a fair amount of plastic barriers lying around and the road surface is awful but Abbey Lane is now mostly passable by pedal cycle #EdTravCyc

@vizcomic.bsky.social did that some years back, though probably in a very different way to what Aldi would do.

Screenshot from VOITechnology on Instagram, showing a warehouse containing a row of coral-pink VOI e-bikes with the caption "Preparing 6000 e-bikes". The following captions were "rolling out very soon" then "can you guess where?" https://www.instagram.com/reel/DPMWSxJCV2D/?igsh=MzZiNDBiOTVrb2lk

Meanwhile, over on Instagram, VoiTechnology posts about "6,000 e-bikes rolling out very soon".
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Screenshot of the VOI bicycle hire app for the Edinburgh area, with the same restricted city centre initial trial area showing as a brighter region, with the rest of the city beyond the geofence dark and grey. The image is overlaid with red tally marks counting up to 28, with Wednesday 1st October 2025 being the 29th day since the scheme's launch but the day not yet being over, so not yet marked.

Four weeks, trapped in this tiny city-centre area. Still no sign of expansion. Outside the geofence, normal non-hire-scheme pedal cycles (both manual and electrically-assisted) go about their business, free to travel more widely.

But, when my brain has swivelled towards someone 50ft away eating carelessly from a ceramic bowl with a metal spoon or the loudmouthed Barley holding court at the back of the bus, how do I stop it?

#EdTravCyc The huge holes and gaps in the tarmac around the utility access cover on Potterow southbound just outside 22A (shortly before the Marshall St junction) has been reported to @edinburghcouncil.bsky.social (101001499793).

#EdTravCyc The very short bit of temporary segregated cycle path uphill on North Bank Street (between Market St and St Giles St) is being impeded by one of the segregation wands, whose base has become detached from the road surface. Reported to @edinburghcouncil.bsky.social under 101001499798

Photo of the footway at the corner of Waterloo Place/Leith Street,with a large metal sign on the footway, yet referring to the roadway's traffic.

Diverted traffic, but inconvenienced pedestrians at a very busy crossing. @edinburghcouncil.bsky.social

Hmm. Whilst a jungly island has lots of dark, shadowy bits, it's not as dark and shadowy as the space-oilrig Nostromo interior, nor the depths of an atmosphere processor. You wouldn't set a Batman scene (at least, one of the black-costumed non-Adam West Batmen) on a tropical beach at noon in summer.