Leith Feeder Ride

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🛎️ Leith Feeder Ride to POP 2026 🛎️

Saturday 30th of May

Meeting outside the cricket club on Leith Links at 0930 for a 0945 start. Find out more and let us know if you're planning to come along on our Facebook event:

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@pedalonparliament.org #POP26

Elm Row "cycle" lane.

Final stats for the Omni Centre cycle lane in 2025: a slight 1% increase on 2024 with 580,000 journeys; a new record set of 2,265 cyclists on Friday, 7th November.

The significant increase in numbers in prior years came after the development of cycling infrastructure on Leith Walk.

#EdTravCyc icy puddles along Leith Links paths and at the bottom of the slope to the Restalrig Railway Path. Puddles across the width of the bridges over the crematorium entrance. Findlay slope frosty but walkable.

A map of the Powderhall site with text next to it reading "The path will remain open for most of the works", with a new diversion in place to allow site-based activities to take place"

🚶🚴‍♀️👨‍🦽 Delighted to pass on that as councillors were discussing, this afternoon, the need for the St Mark's Park walking/wheeling/cycling path to re-open, the Powderhall site manager's confirmed their intention to re-open tomorrow (w/ some asterix ie initial controlled crossing & nearer diversion).

100 days since the end of the Festival embargo – any timescales for when the Elm Row improvements will resume @jackrmcaldwell.bsky.social ? And did you get a response about installing bollards along the rest of the cycle lane? Any update would be really appreciated – thanks.

In the light grey back slabs of a stone seating area, we can make out the silhouette of a bicycle carved into the stone - marking out the space for train station cycle parking behind the benches, in which we can see numerous cycles parked on elevated stands, and sandstone tenements beyond.

🚲 edi.bike | issue 122 | 8th Dec '25

Hire bikes in cycle parking update: Our conversation with Voi; Trans Solidarity Rides; Spokes’ December Action Update; plus events, infrastructure, route closures & more:

https://buttondown.com/edi.bike/archive/edibike-issue-122-8th-dec-25

#bikeSky #edinburgh

I'm waiting for the first Cycle Cafe to hit The Shore.

Drop one in where Crollas used to be on the corner near Sandport Bridge.

Shore Cycles & Coffee. Serve up a few taps of local beer too, get coffee, make it a nice 3rd space for people as well.

Workshop & limited accessories. Blow some minds.

People of all ages and abilities ride bicycles along protected and dedicated cycling infrastructure on the streets of central London on a sunny autumn day.

People of all ages and abilities ride bicycles along protected and dedicated cycling infrastructure on the streets of central London on a sunny autumn day.

People of all ages and abilities ride bicycles along protected and dedicated cycling infrastructure on the streets of central London on a sunny autumn day.

People of all ages and abilities ride bicycles along protected and dedicated cycling infrastructure on the streets of central London on a sunny autumn day.

London is fast becoming a cycling city. As each new piece in the network appears—which has more than quadrupled from 90 to 431 km since 2016—so do new cyclists. Its infrastructure now sees a stunning 1.5 million daily users—a 43% spike since 2019—moving nearly half as many people as the Tube below.🧵

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INtro to Princes St article... 1. Princes Street (interim) success Spokes has had a major success in our seemingly interminable campaign for bike lanes, and more pedestrian space, on Princes Street. If you emailed councillors when we suggested, thank you! Eventual success is still very far from certain, but the Planning Committee, by 9 votes to 4, rejected a draft strategy for Princes Street and the Waverley Valley which would have ruled out bike lanes and wider footways completely. This is highly significant, as it is very unusual for councillors to ask officers to go away and have a complete rethink on a major draft strategy document. The Spokes written deputation to the Committee is here.

Spokes tram consultation response, extract... Our submission covers many points, but three major issues (concerns and opportunities!) are.. • Great concern over cycling safety in the Bridges corridor. We put forward a range of ameliorative or alternative measures, including single-line working, one-way tram (with Pleasance/Market Street the other way), tramlines on one side of the road with a cycleroute on the other, a bus gate/traffic filter; or choosing one of the other routes which are still seen by the Council as possible future options, such as Morrison Street and the Meadows (an option also favoured by Edinburgh World Heritage) • We urge dropping North Bridge tram stop and replacing it by two stops – at Waverley Steps to serve east Princes Street and the rail station, and at the North Bridge arcade, to serve the Old Town and again the rail station. There are multiple reasons for this suggestion, in addition to a major cycling safety aspect • There is a massive opportunity to incorporate an active travel bridge over the mainline railway, linking North Edinburgh Network to the new Roseburn to Fountainbridge path without long ramps down to road level and up again. This would be a truly transformative addition to the city’s offroad network. Our drawing shows the tram (red) ramping up to the A8 crossing, with the active travel path in orange. The yellow dotted ramps are probably not needed, since most users would stay at high level, and those needing local access could ascend either at Roseburn or at the existing new Sauchiebank ramp.

Christmas ideas... 5.1 Spokes Maps! How would you like to give your friends or relations a Xmas present which is “really brilliant,” “a beautiful piece of work,” and “can’t be spoken highly enough of” ? Well – that’s what people say about Spokes Maps!! Need we say more? Getting your copy/copies • Single copies available at most good bike or book shops, or from Spokes, cost £7.50 each for Edinburgh or West Lothian, and £6.95 for Mid or East Lothian • Buy 6 or more copies at £5 each (Ed/WL) or £4.60 (ML/EL) – for your six favourite friends or relations; or share an order with workmates/ friends/relations • See here for more info and how to order from Spokes. 5.2 Xmas tree cargo-bike delivery If buying a Christmas tree, check out TreeWorks who will arrange cargobike delivery by the Cycling Gardeners of Edinburgh to central Edinburgh addresses. Our bluesky post of this proved very popular - please pass it on!

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Let's do bikes! Let's do bikes!

I’ve complained to the BBC about #CelebrityTraitors. The repeated shots of Land Rover Defenders feel like product placement - banned under BBC rules - and it’s clearly worked, with searches for the Defender spiking after the show aired.

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A street with a tram line glissens as slightly wet. It is foggy with low sun. The buildings, people, lampposts, cars are all in silhouette. The image appears black and white, except for one grew traffic light

Leith Walk earlier this afternoon

#EdinburghHaar
#NoFilter

8am on a frosty morning. The morning light not yet showing the sunrise. A small child wearing a pink puffy coat & matching helmet with a Hey Dougie backpack rides a small 16” wheeled bike with streamers on the handlebars. She’s on a newly built bike lane about to cross a bridge. For context, her mother runs alongside on the pavement just out of frame. There is a road marker showing a bike indicating this segregated cycle lane is for two wheels only. And this little girl is alone on the path riding towards the future.

This.

This right here is why proper cycling infrastructure is an investment in our communities and our future.

It is only the beginning. This route isn’t even fully finished.

When we stop imagining and start doing, change happens.

@edinburghcouncil.bsky.social
@edi.bike
@chasbooth.bsky.social

Calvin and Hobbes comic strip. In frame one Calvin opens a door and says, "Hey Dad, I'm doing a traffic safety poster. Do you have any ideas for a slogan?" Frame 2: Dad, who's prepping to ride his mountain bike, says, "Sure! 'Cyclists have a right to the road too, you noisy, polluting, inconsiderate maniacs! I hope gas goes up to eight bucks a gallon!'" Frame 3: Calvin, walking away, says, "Thanks, Dad. I'll go ask Mom." Dad responds from out-of-frame, "Why? That's a great slogan!"

Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson, one of the greatest comic strips of all time, was born on this day, November 18, 1985 -- December 31, 1995.

And Calvin's dad remains a beacon of inspiration to cyclists everywhere.

Plan for all of @edinburghcouncil.bsky.social

Don’t thank me, it’s really simple, tried and tested. Guaranteed to deliver results. 😉

The path to happy, healthy n wealthy residents.

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Leading medical publication the British Medical Journal recognises SUVs as a danger to public health in a new editorial co-authored by T&E’s James Nix: bit.ly/4hVDlBC

Large SUVs are a danger to pedestrians, cyclists & other drivers.

It's time to take action to reduce their presence in urban areas.

Elm Row still isn’t working as it should — unfinished works are causing confusion for everyone using it.

LCCC is working with WELM and Cllr Jack Caldwell to press the Council for progress on safety, parking and the missing sculptures.

Some fixes are due this month — we’ll share updates soon.

View of the end of Rennie’s Lock. Brick road gives way to cobbles/setts over the historic area. A set of 4 new planter boxes filled with greenery stand resolute, with a new large NO PARKING sign in the middle of them.

In positive news, looks like Forth Ports have finally taken the time to block off the not-parking-but-treated-as-parking old pavilion and cobbled area of Rennie’s Lock near Teuchters & the Scot Gov. Building!

Well done, will be a much nicer area from here on out without dodging car storage!

Design vehicles to fit the streets rather than streets designed to fit the vehicles.

Elm Row is just a car-centric mess now. Could have been one of the nicest bits of public realm in Edinburgh.

Elm Row, September 2023.

A blue and white sign is fixed to both sides of a lamppost, against a mostly clear, bright blue sky with some grey and white cloud; the sign reads ‘Share with care’ and depicts icons of a bicycle and a pedestrian, encouraging responsible sharing of the path.

🚲 edi.bike | issue 117 | 3rd Nov '25

Voi slowly scales up e-bike fleet; ‘Full Council’ meeting round-up; plus events, infrastructure, route closures & more:

buttondown.com/edi.bike/arc...

#bikeSky

Hope someone's helped the two casualties 🫶

Edinburgh Bike Shops - Edinburgh Festival of Cycling Edinburgh Bike Shops This map was first published as a response Covid-19 crisis, when people were looking to the bicycle as a means of transport and for exercise. So we thought it would be useful to h...

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The main parks (Pilrig, Victoria, Leith Links & Lochend) have 'low speed zones' where the bikes speed is automatically reduced. Hopefully it works!