@spokes.org.uk @snp.org @scottishgreens.org @scottishlabour.bsky.social @cyclinguk.bsky.social @fionahyslop.bsky.social

A #Bikebus attracts families that normally drive to #school. Today 60 kids in Edinburgh cycled to school in the 6 bike buses that ran across #edinburgh. That's 40 less cars polluting the city. It's an easy, safe, healthy and fun way to reducing congestion Let's roll it out to all school

A large group of cycle users - in reflective jackets and vests, some with helmets, and their bikes festooned with a range of fairy lights and neon, gather at the end of a ride, lighting up the dark, wide open public space in front of McEwan hall in Edinburgh, an impressive domed sandstone structure five or six storeys high and warmly lit against the dark night sky.

🚲 edi.bike | issue 116 | 27th Oct '25

Voi e-bike fleet on the rise; Spokes competition results; photos from @infrasisters.bsky.social Glow ride; plus events, route closures & more:

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Home Page - Ride the bike bus! Ride to school with friends. FIND YOUR NEAREST BIKE BUS WHAT IS A "BIKE BUS"? Bike buses are organised cycle rides that you can join or leave anywhere along the route.Each bike bus has a "Driver" who ...

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Our Rural and Veterinary Innovation Centre will open its doors to the public next month. Discover what we do here in SRUC's Rural and Veterinary Innovation Centre (RAVIC) on Inverness Campus with SRUC School of Veterinary Medicine & Biosciences,@sacconsulting.bsky.social and @srucvets.bsky.social .

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👍 St Peter would be proud of you - as are we !!

New #bikebus day in #edinburgh. Great to have Saint Peter's school join the active travel revolution by starting up a bike bus. @spokes.org.uk @cyclingweekly.com @cyclinguk.bsky.social @sustrans.bsky.social @edinburghcouncil.bsky.social Thanks for your support @policescotland.bsky.social

😍 Favourite #BikeRide: #SpokesComp

👍 Thank-you to our sponsors, including..
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Hi @edinburghcouncil.bsky.social @spokes.org.uk the new walk/cycle way from Roseburn to Fountain Bridge does not appear on Google maps when you turn on the cycle path view. Can it be added?

Start of spokes website article... My Favourite Bike Ride: #SpokesComp results For many people, a favourite ride is a weekend cycle to and through places of great natural beauty or historic interest. But our entries showed that it can also be your daily commute, taking your mind off work; or a school bike bus with its amazing enthusiasm and hope for the future. Our lovely entrants showed just how much cycling can mean to people in so many different ways. We were also delighted to get a good range of entries from the Lothians, with West and East Lothian entries winning 3rd and 4th positions.

😍 Favourite #BikeRide: #SpokesComp results!

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Pre take of checks by these Whopper Swans in the Pentlands. @bbcspringwatch.bsky.social . Great to see this behaviour in the flesh @rspbscotland.bsky.social

A castle in fog with trees in the foreground. Text over reads: The Edinburgh Minute - Tuesday 14 October 2025: ‘Greenwashing’ fears over new data centre, housing staff attacked, council's vegan vote + warm up at Granton sauna wellness festival

🌤️ Good morning Edinburgh. Today’s headlines: ‘Greenwashing’ fears over new data centre, housing staff attacked, council's vegan vote + warm up at Granton sauna wellness festival

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Photo by Melissa Reid

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#WestLothian #SpokesMap 2025 is here!!

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Some #fungi magic from #dumfriesandgalloway @bbcspringwatch.bsky.social

Scotland | Latest News & Updates | BBC News Get all the latest news, live updates and content about the Scotland from across the BBC.

I’m attending this event today for @ramblersscotland.bsky.social. Wildfires have devastating impact so it’s important that policy and practice is firmly rooted in evidence and consideration of all the possible causes of fire. www.bbc.co.uk/news/scotland

New #bikebus alert. Watch this space for news of a new #edinburgh bike bus coming in October. Meanwhile here is a photo from today's Flora Stevenson bike bus. What a happy and clean air picture it paints @edinburghcouncil.bsky.social @spokes.org.uk @scottishgreens.org @scottishlabour.bsky.social @

"Rewilding brings us back to the primacy of nature being able to look after itself." It takes a lot of work to get this started @whittledaway.bsky.social
#Rewilding event @tcddublin.bsky.social

The latest copy of the brilliant
@irishwoodlandtrust.bsky.social magazine has arrived, as usual crammed with great articles.

To get active in the fight for Irish nature and forests, you couldn't do better than to join both them and the @irishwildlifetrust.bsky.social.

They're the real thing. 🌎 💪🏽

#Cargobikes in #Edinburgh #SpokesMtg

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@edi.bike @banzaiedinburgh.bsky.social @portyenergy.bsky.social @thebikestation.bsky.social @laidbackbikes.bsky.social @thecockburn.bsky.social @rru.bsky.social @fairless.xyz @sw20.info @edfoc.bsky.social #Motherload

The Standard. Peak rail fares scrapped in Scotland in 'historic moment'.

This week trains in Scotland got cheaper! 🚆

Our public transport must be accessible, reliable and affordable.

That's why we've worked so hard alongside unions and passengers to scrap peak fares on our railways, and provide free travel for young people on our buses and ferries.

🛤️Heading home on the train?

You'll no longer have to pay peak rail fares! Why? Because the Greens, trade unions, and commuters demanded that the Scottish Government scrap them!

Start of Spokes article Edinburgh groups unite to save Bike Network Led by Edi.Bike and Spokes, Edinburgh active travel groups have combined to urge councillors to approve the traffic orders which make permanent the legal framework for the ‘Travelling Safely’ segregated bike lanes on main roads in the city. Without urgent approval, the first of the orders, covering the East of the city, will fall – and these routes, used by commuters, school pupils and leisure cyclists, will be removed. Under the Council’s Mobility Plan, the city’s future ‘Primary Cycle Network’ will mainly comprise segregated bike lanes on main roads, and it had been widely expected that the ‘Travelling Safely’ bike lanes would form the initial embryonic network. To make this happen, the Experimental Traffic Orders (ETROs) which enable the bike lanes, have to be made permanent – the first of these, for East Edinburgh, in the near future. However, at the May 12 TRO Subcommittee (which makes the final decision) an intervention by Cllr Lang resulted in a decision being postponed. At a specially-called meeting on 7 August, the same happened again. The final opportunity to save the East Travelling Safely lanes, which include vital safe routes to schools sections, will be at a further meeting on 4 September, where the West and North schemes are also expected to be discussed, with their closing dates following later.

The embryonic bike network which is now under threat Bulletin 139 Summer 2025 Spokes the Lothian Cycle Campaign 0131 313 2114 spokes.org.uk spokes@spokes.org.uk twitter @SpokesLothian St Martins Centre, 232 Dalry Road, Edinburgh EH11 2JG - this is a postal address, Spokes is a voluntary body with no staff CYCLE NETWORK 2025 Year 2025 will not see any truly groundbreaking bike route openings like 2024’s CCWEL / Roseburn-Canal schemes, which were revolutionary for Edinburgh. However, by the end of 2025 the Council will decide whether to make the existing main-road Spaces for People routes legally permanent. Assuming so, this will form the initial core of what the Council calls its Primary Cycle Network* largely following main roads, “the most direct, flattest, most socially safe routes” and reflecting Transport Scotland’s ‘Active Freeway’ concept of “high quality, direct and segregated.” Once legally permanent, a rolling programme of improvements should follow, particularly at junctions and replacing bollards by kerb-segregation. The bollarded routes are currently legal under ETRO experimental orders. A report to Transport Committee is expected in early autumn, based on monitoring and consultation feedback, for a final decision on the ETROs: hopefully retaining and improving the routes and building them into a more connected network. *see pages 19-> of the Active Travel Implementation Plan (ATIP), part of the Mobility Plan, at edinburgh.gov.uk/citymobilityplan

The letter is delivered by cargobike (photo by edi.bike)

Co-signed by the following Active Travel Organisations: Spokes, the Lothian Cycle Campaign Better Edinburgh for Sustainable Travel Blackford Safe Routes CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum edi.bike Jarlath Flynn, Edinburgh Bike Bus Project Coordinator Low Traffic Corstorphine Critical Mass Edinburgh Duddingston Primary Parents’ Road Safety Group Edinburgh Cycle Training Edinburgh Festival of Cycling Infrasisters Parsons Green Bike Bus Pedal on Parliament Porty Community Energy SW20 The Bike Station Wee Spoke Hub

🙋 #Edinburgh 🚲Network under threat

@edi.bike Spokes & others write to Council
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Thanks @cyclinguk.bsky.social for promoting the #edinburgh #bikebus project. @bikebuscamden.bsky.social @spokes.org.uk @scottishgreens.org

Keep calm and carry on eating. #edinburgh #dontlookup . A wild fire in #edinburgh

Intro to our public meeting article, with picture of cargobike carrying children Cargobikes in Edinburgh: #SpokesMtg Cargobikes are seen more and more in Edinburgh, and the potential is massive, as in many European cities and elsewhere around the world. Our public meeting on 2 September will feature the 90-minute documentary film MOTHERLOAD – a mother’s experience of how cargo bikes can be an antidote to the increasing isolation, disconnection, and planetary impact of life in C21. The meeting will then hear from local organisations in the forefront of cargobike development in Edinburgh “Filmmaker Liz Canning cycled everywhere until she had twins in 2008. Motherhood was challenging, but to Liz hauling babies via car felt stifling. She Googled “family bike” and uncovered a global movement of people replacing cars with cargo bikes: long-frame bicycles designed for carrying heavy loads. Liz set out to learn more, and MOTHERLOAD was born.” The film has now appeared in over 600 venues around the globe, making the case for cargobikes – and not just for families, but for a wide range of transport purposes worldwide.

#CargoBikes in #Edinburgh : public meeting

🙋 Tue 2 Sept #SpokesMtg 🚲🚲

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#Motherload

Great to hear Niall, I missed you guys. What a great day for it. That makes 7 routes that ran this morning

Last week of #bikebus action for the sunniest school term ever! #edinburgh had 6 bike bus routes running today. That's a lot of healthier happier kids and parents. Less traffic also! @sustrans.bsky.social @sustransscot.bsky.social @cyclinguk.bsky.social @spokes.org.uk @edinburghcouncil.bsky.social

Fab to see the kids riding to school for the last bike-bus of the school year! 🚲 🚌 📚

Today’s theme: Practicing yer wheelies* Love it!

*done safely on the traffic-free sections