Harry Willliams

Tram Granton to Bioquarter – Spokes early draft response, as of 6 Oct With the consultation now well underway, the Spokes draft response is developing well. You can find it here [1.9MB pdf]. We strongly stress that this is a work in progress and there are likely to be considerable further edits, particularly to the second part of the response, dealing with individual sections of the route. Major updates and ideas in the draft, since our initial thoughts, include.. An introductory section on bikes and tramlines, which includes lessons from our tramline-crash reporting tool and from earlier phases of Edinburgh tram Detailed commentary on all sections of the route [several sections still require considerable fleshing out]. Some major issues/opportunities arising include.. Great concern over cycling safety in the Bridges corridor. We urge single-line working for this section, or possibly the tramlines on one side of the road with bidirectional segregated cycling on the other side We suggest 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 may be an opportunity to incorporate an active travel bridge over the mainline railway, linking the North Edinburgh Network to the new Fountainbridge link, without the long ramps down to road level and up again. What you can do Above are just some of the highlights of our draft response – there is a wealth of other detail, and we welcome any feedback Forward our draft to anyone who may be interested Repost our bluesky post Like our facebook article Most important of all – submit your own response to the consultation. Use the online QA and/or the email address given.

#Tram #Granton-#Bioquarter

🙋 Spokes draft response [as of 6 Oct]
--> www.spokes.org.uk/2025/10/tram...

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Stealthily have added quite a lot more to the site recently and I will make a new post about it soonish. Additionally, improvements are coming to the social media bots to reduce spam and increase readability

I broke @city-scope.co.uk somehow and haven’t had time to fix,

You can still see what has been added recently to the planning portal on
the www.city-scope.co.uk website!

Too many trees to lay the maps over google earth sadly. It’s a decent route though!

Picture of the active travel route and connections being consulted on

Consultation heading.. Queensferry: Builyeon Road new primary school and improved active travel connections Closes 10 Oct 2025 Opened 28 Aug 2025

Start of the DRAFT spokes response.. Queensferry: Builyeon Road new primary school and improved active travel connections DRAFT Spokes consultation response The page numbers below refer to the document Queensferry Connections DRAFT Developed Designs ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- South Queensferry residents already suffer from the effects of excessive traffic with actual and perceived risk to life, excessive noise, pollution and negative health impacts of increasing levels of inactivity, especially amongst younger generations. With over 1600 properties built or planned to be built in just a few years within the town, Edinburgh Council must act now to make active travel a more attractive option for people to choose to travel to, from and around South Queensferry. Spokes broadly welcome these proposals as we believe this could potentially be the start of what is required to provide adults and children with the opportunity for active travel which for most does not currently exist. There is an opportunity for a wider active travel network throughout South Queensferry and these proposals as the currently stand exclude other areas of South Queensferry, for example other schools around the town. All children and adults should have the right to exercise for free and to travel actively safely and we would urge the Council, the Scottish Government and other funding partners to take a proactive approach to planning this (and other) active travel networks, not just individual routes that are not joined up

one of the main proposals maps in the consultation, showing the active travel route beside and crossing a road

#Queensferry #ActiveTravel 🚲👩‍🦼🚶 consultn, ends 10 Oct

🙋 Respond by email or online

Consultn page & DRAFT response--> www.spokes.org.uk/documents/me...

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📍 1 Redheughs Avenue Edinburgh EH12 9RH
👉 Major Edinburgh Park scheme could deliver a green data centre plus parkland, sports pitches, new cycle/foot links, parking and upgraded vehicle access. .
⚖ Scale: 8/10
📂 Reference: 25/04239/PPP
🔄 Status: Awaiting Assessment
🔗 https://tinyurl.com/24qrrerq

📝New planning application: a “green” data centre + public park with sports + active-travel routes at 1 Redheughs Avenue.

📍 1 Redheughs Avenue Edinburgh EH12 9RH www.city-scope.co.uk/25/04239/PPP

Need to get my analytics page work done and then we can really dig into some of the numbers for these things

Everyone moans about bats and great crested newts, but for me this is the sort of stuff that really clogs up the planning system. We have to decarbonise housing and every window replacement in one of Edinburgh's MANY conservation areas will need a planning application

Planning Committee 10/9/25 7.2 Non-statutory Planning Guidance on Developer Contributions and Infrastructure Delivery - finalisation We note with regret the report's discussion on the merits and feasibility of statutory guidance, resulting in non-statutory guidance being finalised today. We urge the Planning Committee to ensure that guidance specifically on public transport infrastructure will be appropriately strengthened in the next LDP and the necessary research and preparatory work will be properly resourced to achieve this. We regret that Bus Service Infrastructure (3.81) only gets one paragraph (in stark contrast with other modes of transport) and lacks detail ("Contributions towards PT1 – 17 can be sought on a case by case basis"). We note the reference to CP 2030 ("There may, however, be a need for some subsidy payment to bus operators to ensure that an adequate service is in place from the moment of first occupation of the development whilst transport demand builds.") and would expect muscular implementation of this provision. We note with regret that reference is made to "legacy actions" (3.82) but that the associated tables in Appendices 8 and 9 lack (up to date) cost details. Despite these weaknesses we would expect energetic collection of such contributions and timely implementation. In particular we would urge both the Planning and the Transport Environment Committee to monitor progress regularly

Our deputation to Planning Committee 10/9/25 (not yet on CEC website)

Where we take the report to task for not tackling CEC's abysmal record on Developer Contributions and Infrastructure Delivery as regards buses. Despite our comments in earlier consultation.

Weekly PDF reports now on City-Scope. - Quickly see everything added to Edinburgh's planning portal within the last week!

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Former Drybrough Brewery, an unlikely industrial survivor

🙋 #SpokesComp closes Sunday 7 Sept

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📍 140 Causewayside Edinburgh EH9 1PR
👉 Replace current building with multi-storey student residence plus amenity space, green areas and upgraded access after full site clearance. .
⚖ Scale: 8/10
📂 Reference: 25/04488/FUL
🔄 Status: Awaiting Assessment
🔗 https://tinyurl.com/24h92dqx

BIKE NETWORK THREATENED Under the Council’s Mobility Plan, the city’s future ‘Primary Cycle Network’ will mainly comprise segregated bike lanes on main roads. It was widely expected that the ‘Travelling Safely’ (covid) bike lanes would form the initial embryonic network, as we highlighted in the 2025 Bulletin (extract here). However, the TRO Subcommittee must first make permanent the existing Experimental Traffic Orders (ETROs) which enable the bike lanes through parking and loading restrictions. The first ETRO, for East Edinburgh, expires soon. Officers recommended approval, but to our surprise and shock, due to an intervention by Cllr Kevin Lang, the May 12 TRO Sub put off a decision. Exactly the same happened at a specially-called meeting on 7 August! The final hope to save the East lanes (which include School Safe Routes) is at their 4 September meeting. The West and North ETROs are also on the agenda! Led by Edi.Bike and Spokes, 18 Edinburgh active travel groups have written to urge councillors to approve the ETROs. Without approval, the East order will fall – the routes, used by commuters, school pupils and leisure cyclists, will go - and the same will likely happen to west, north and south. Please contact your councillors to ensure the ETROs are approve

🤩 #TravellingSafely West North East all now to be permanent

Incredible #TROSub mtg, decided in minutes after inordinate delays/deferrals at previous meetings

One intervention by #CllrLang, quickly disabused by officers

No one else spoke!

The @edi.bike/Spokes campaign has blindsided councillors!

Thank you!

I could have thrown this bike so easily over the edge…

Yes!

YouTube video by Harry W The newest editions to Edinburgh’s Streets

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Foot stand for waiting

Yeah!!

Green is open and mostly cycleble (there may be barriers still in places)

Red is still under construction or not cycleble at all

Yellow is mostly complete but parts at the end need finished off and some parts missing

Not all fully open just yet but we’re getting there!

🚴 Brand New Cycle lanes looking very autumnal 🍁

Looks like a proposal to turn the ground floor of the empty offices at the gyle, partially into a cafe.

The regeneration of these offices continues…

Yeah this is a genuine issue and needs resolved correctly by the tram team tbh

These are actual images from the council released yesterday. I wasn’t far off.

I cycle along the path every time I go to the gym :)

A to be honest but I don’t think that will ever happen :(

Trams to Granton and the B-Quarter consulation has opened and I am even more confident that the Roseburn path route is the correct one.

To me it appears AT will be improved along much of the route with single track running at bridges allowing for acceptable footpath widths.

Let's get it built!

Agree with your disagreement and this would be my preferred option with infinite money and infinite time.

To me, the Dean bridge route feels like it would just be too expensive and take too long