Facts on our roads as they are today
Nearly 200 Edinburgh cyclists received £30 penalties in 2012/13… 75% of drivers admitted “risky” driving, according to Police Scotland… 496 Edinburgh pedestrians were seriously injured by cars in...
View ArticleSpokes Bulletin 118
Out now! … Edinburgh progress in sustainable transport; Preventing Haymarket tramline crashes; Transport & Planning: failure in joined-up thinking; Council Local Transport Strategy supplement;...
View ArticleTramlines: take care & take action
Tramline crashes are now less frequent than in 2013, with changes to the Haymarket taxi rank and greater awareness by regular cyclists. Nonetheless they continue. What can be done?… Stop Press...
View ArticlePoP: it’s all happening!!
Anyone with anything to announce on cycling waited for the Pedal on Parliament weekend … PoP photos, videos and press reports Minister announces cycling cash Scottish Parliament Walking & Cycling...
View ArticleSpokes Bulletin 119 : £3m win for Lothians Councils
[Update 4.6.14 Sustrans Map showing the Community Links funding allocations] Out now!! Including… West Lothian & Edinburgh win big Sustrans funding; Edinburgh bikes up & cars down; Extending...
View Article20mph: Have Your Say by 17 Oct!!
Edinburgh Council is consulting on one of the most ambitious 20mph plans of any UK city. But the plans risk being cut back. You can help ensure they get through – and are improved further … [Note:...
View ArticleSanta visits 11 Schools [not by car!]
Eleven Edinburgh schools are getting a great Christmas present, with cars to be banned in adjacent streets at opening and closing times. Another 20 schools wrote to Santa, but sadly missed out this...
View ArticleBus/cycle lanes -> car/lorry lanes … unless you object
[See also our more recent article – awareness growing] Edinburgh Council is planning to convert all bus lanes into peak-hour only, also scrapping Saturday bus lanes entirely. A total of 22km of...
View ArticleBus lane cuts: what you say
We now know of many people who have objected to the Council’s plans to scrap bus lane operation all day Saturdays and off-peak on weekdays. If you don’t like it either, please join them! … You can...
View Article20 Cheers for Edinburgh!!
Edinburgh Council’s pioneering wide-area 20mph decision has brought some misleading press coverage – and it is great to see the Council, and many concerned individuals, fighting back! … The Council’s...
View ArticlePublic meeting: Cycling and Health
“10 years younger!” – Stewart Bryden photo Getting about by bike is great for you!! Middle-aged people who cycle regularly typically enjoy the fitness level of someone 10 years younger, and gain two...
View ArticleCycling & Health : meeting report
Over 100 people came along to our public meeting on cycling and health, with expert speakers on the huge physical activity benefits, the dangers of air pollution and road crashes, and how politics can...
View ArticleTransport Cttee 1.11.16 … Bike storage ↑↑ … Bus lanes ↓↓
Edinburgh Council’s November Transport Committee both delights us (on secure bike storage) and appals us (on bus lane cuts) … Watch the Committee live [November 1st, 10am] or later here. ON-STREET...
View ArticleSheriffhall – ScotGov plans worst for cycling
Spokes has written to Transport Minister Humza Yousaf MSP asking for a pedestrian/cycle overbridge at Sheriffhall. Of the three roundabout options that were under consideration, the government’s...
View ArticlePublic meeting: Tackling Road Danger
It is now widely accepted that quality bike infrastructure is a vital route to substantially more bike use and to further danger reduction, but most roads will still not have protected bike lanes in...
View ArticleSpokes Bulletin 128 … Edinburgh 10% cycle budget safe
Our Summer 2017 Bulletin is out … highlighting the Edinburgh Council election result which should guarantee the city’s UK-unique cycle budget policy … our traffic counts showing a 10-year car decline...
View ArticleTackling Road Danger – meeting report
A culture in which road danger is increasingly unacceptable, and progressively reduced, can be created by a multi-pronged approach using many policy levers – of which street design and infrastructure...
View ArticlePicardy re-think ??
Aug 16 latest: Excellent Picardy Place article by Broughton Spurtle. Following a joint deputation by Spokes and Living Streets, and a motion by Cllr Chas Booth, Edinburgh Council has unanimously...
View ArticleTramline safety update
Plans are underway to try and improve the safety of Edinburgh’s tramline system for people travelling by bike… Memorial event for Zhi Min Soh, June 2017 photo: Chris Hill Following the tragic death...
View ArticleTramline safety measures
The Council has outlined its phased programme to improve cyclist tramline safety, with phase 1 being implemented in the immediate future… Phase 1 involves signs, publicity (e.g. bus-back adverts) and...
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