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ercscot.bsky.social
On Saturday at Leith Market, we asked what you wanted to say to the Scottish Government about sewage pollution.

Here's Alice's message ⬇️

Sign the petition: www.ercs.scot/clean-up-sco...
"Dear Scottish Government, No one wants sewage in our waters. You don't want it. I don't want it. No one wants it. And yet, apparently this thing no one wants is too much of an effort to deal with. In years of volunteering along the Water of Leith, I have picked hundreds of wet wipes out of trees. And swimming in the Forth has made me sick too many times. No one wants this. It's worth the effort - and cost - to fix it for our future."
November 26, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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urchaidh.bsky.social
Am always wary of this crossing on the Western Approach Road, but yesterday took it to a new level.
At least we have speed and power limits on ebikes, though.

#TheyDriveAmongUs
November 26, 2025 at 12:16 PM
geocycle.bsky.social
I already pay per mile for my bike riding.

It’s called a grocery bill.
November 26, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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lhncc.bsky.social
Our November meeting is tomorrow, Tuesday 25th between 18:30 and 20:30. This is a public meeting and you are welcome to attend. The venue is Custom House on Commercial Street (please enter by the side door on the dockside).
November 24, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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livingstreetsedi.bsky.social
Shocking litter in Seafield, along the whole of Marine Esplanade, which is supposed to be a walking route from Portobello Beach... how long before this all ends up in the sea? @edinburghcouncil.bsky.social
November 23, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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bjpaddy.bsky.social
1/ you need sticks as well as carrots if you are serious about modal shift
2/ if you rely on carrots alone the small changes you do deliver will be mostly between sustainable modes
3/ stop dicking around & make damaging behaviours more expensive & less convenient road.cc/content/news...
Improving cycle infrastructure and public transport has little impact on car use, new review finds
These non-coercive measures need to be combined with measures such as higher driving costs or reduced car access to have an effect
road.cc
November 24, 2025 at 6:38 AM
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ercscot.bsky.social
We've been blown away by your support for Clean Up Scotland's Sewage!

Thank you to everyone who joined our launch at Edinburgh on Saturday and has already signed the petition.

🌊 Add your name here: www.ercs.scot/clean-up-sco...
November 24, 2025 at 12:45 PM
geocycle.bsky.social
I’m at the Leith Market with @sosleith.bsky.social, @riveralmondaction.bsky.social, and @ercscot.bsky.social - we’re launching our campaign to Clean Up Scotland’s Sewage!

Stop in by to see us, or please please do sign our petition and share! Thank you! 🙌

www.ercs.scot/clean-up-sco...
Photo of out booth at the market. A map if the shore with CSOs marked on the left. Our CLEAN UP SCOTLAND’S SEWAGE campaign materials on the right in blue and white colouring.
November 22, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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edtiss.bsky.social
Edinburgh Council once again demonstrating what they really think about walking, cycling, running in this city.

This is the equivalent to closing the bypass for two months and directing drivers over the top of the Pentlands.
robbieainsworth.bsky.social Robbie Ainsworth @robbieainsworth.bsky.social · 6d
Ferry Road Path CLOSED to pedestrians and cyclists from today to 16 January for installation of a security fence at Leonardo. TTRO closure order was signed on Wednesday with the below diversion: www.edinburgh.gov.uk/downloads/fi... #EdTravCyc @spokes.org.uk @edi.bike
November 21, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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robbieainsworth.bsky.social
Ferry Road Path CLOSED to pedestrians and cyclists from today to 16 January for installation of a security fence at Leonardo. TTRO closure order was signed on Wednesday with the below diversion: www.edinburgh.gov.uk/downloads/fi... #EdTravCyc @spokes.org.uk @edi.bike
November 21, 2025 at 8:21 AM
geocycle.bsky.social
Have been absolutely laid out with some kind of bug since last night.

0/10. Don’t recommend.

A slight fever, pale face, and next to no energy are what remain. So at least I got that going for me.
November 20, 2025 at 6:40 PM
geocycle.bsky.social
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
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.
November 19, 2025 at 8:47 AM
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eddieburfi.bsky.social
The BBC Scotland commentary for Kenny McLean’s halfway line goal is glorious. Stuff of dreams. 🔥

Congratulations #Scotland, see you at the World Cup.
November 18, 2025 at 10:00 PM
geocycle.bsky.social
Tonight.

We celebrate.

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
November 18, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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urbaneprofessor.bsky.social
On the one hand gentrification in Leith gives you a new Waterstones, on the other hand you have a boxing and MMA training academy wanting to open in a relatively new building meant to be a cafe...
ssc-edinburgh.bsky.social SSC Edinburgh - Development News @ssc-edinburgh.bsky.social · 8d
CoU sought for Class 11 use in the former Waterfront Plaza sales office on Ocean Drive (originally intended as a café unit in the consented masterplan) to create a specialised boxing & MMA training academy: bit.ly/4i6xzx3
November 18, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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edfoc.bsky.social
How car culture endangers our health, our environment, our society and what Scotland can do about it earth.ed.ac.uk/news/how-car...
Edinburgh has one of the lowest rates of vehicles per household in the UK. Yet, cycle users are still pushed to the margins by planners
How car culture endangers our health, our environment, our society and what Scotland can do about it - Edinburgh Earth Initiative
earth.ed.ac.uk
November 16, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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lollercake.bsky.social
Online reporting when, Police Scotland?
November 16, 2025 at 2:53 PM
geocycle.bsky.social
Starting to build up a collection of photos on different days / times to build up a case that apparently road safety doesn’t matter when it comes to parking near intersections.

First project: Commercial Street, at the lights next to the Aldi.

This is a @policescotland.bsky.social matter, yes?
4 cars parked on the squiggle lines before a crossing light. The park behind often has children in it. The lead vehicle happens to also have its front left tyre over the kerb, as a matter of icing on the cake.
November 17, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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blackfordsaferoutes.co.uk
Cyclists should stay in the bike lane

The bike lane
November 16, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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spokes.org.uk
#Tram consultation - Spokes submission

--> www.spokes.org.uk/wp-content/u...

🙋 You have till midnight Monday for your own response!
HERE--> consultationhub.edinburgh.gov.uk/sfc/tram-nor...

@edi.bike @edinreporter.bsky.social @edinburghminute.bsky.social @thecockburn.bsky.social @edfoc.bsky.social
Intro... Tram, Granton to Bioquarter consultation Spokes Planning Group response, November 2025 1. Introduction Spokes has the objective of promoting cycling as part of an overall sustainable transport and access strategy. As such, we support a growing tram system for Edinburgh, provided cycling is well catered for in the project design and operation. The aim of the tram is to reduce car traffic, and to head off potential traffic growth in development areas such as Granton and the Bioquarter. If successful, this is a huge benefit to walking and cycling, as well as its benefits in terms of congestion, public health and climate. However, the project should be accompanied by complementary measures to further encourage use of public transport and active travel, for example bus gates, traffic filters, and, notably, congestion charging. It is well established that traffic reduction is best achieved by a carrot/stick combination. The tram project must support and promote active travel as a whole, and cycling in particular, and must not introduce additional dangers without effective mitigation. The Council has ambitious targets to increase cycle use, much of which must come from novice and inexperienced cyclists, as well as visitors and locals using an expanding bike hire scheme. As such it is essential that there is a safe, comprehensive and connected bike network of segregated bike lanes and low-traffic areas, easy and safe to use by anybody, and with any kind of cycles - including cargobikes, adapted bikes, hire bikes, etc. Introducing the tram should be seen and planned from the outset as an integrated sustainable transport place making project, not a tram-only project into which cycling and walking have to be slotted in once all the tramline decisions are taken as happened with tramline 1 and to a considerable (though lesser) extent in the Newhaven extension. The Bridges corridor is hugely problematic.. 8. City Centre to Bioquarter Top issues ● The section through North and South Bridges is of extreme concern to Spokes, with no cycle provision, new tramlines and continued through traffic on a road where width is at a premium. This is making cycling provision far worse than in the current bus lanes. The project should include a bus gate / modal filter (as was planned, though never implemented, as part of the Spaces for People proposals ) potentially single track sections (like at Roseburn) and fully segregated cycle provision, or consideration to tram tracks on one side of the road and a bidirectional bike path on the other. For the reasons in the following two bullet points, many cyclists will continue to use this corridor - our above section on Bikes and Tramlines notes that Princes Street as a good example of this, with many choosing not to use the quieter George Street when it is less direct or lacks desired destinations. Thus cycling conditions must be safe. ● Whilst alternative north-south routes for cycles are proposed in the consultation, these would not suit all journeys, with many cyclists using the Bridges to travel between South Edinburgh and Leith given the more suitable gradient and directness than the Mound. And whilst there is a brief reference to the proposed Meadows to George Street route on the west side of the Bridges, there is no reference to the east side, where the Mobility Plan suggests a new active travel bridge connecting from the Old Town to Leith Walk. Such projects must be an integral part of the tram project provision including during the construction phase, also providing a permanent legacy of improved provision once finished. ● The Bridges corridor is a major residential, shopping and destinations location, and many cyclists use it for that reason; indeed many live along or just off the corridor. Routes via the Mound or Pleasance are irrelevant as alternatives for these categories of user.… linking the North Ed Network to the new canal path without descending and re-ascending - a transformative opportunity - diagram. ● Connecting Roseburn to the new Canal link path - The sketch below shows a possible layout for this crucial linkage. The yellow dotted line shows a ramp down to Russell Road, but this is possibly optional if it would cause engineering difficulties, given that most people will stay at high level, whilst those needing to descend or ascend could do so at Roseburn or at the nearby ramp to the new canal path. Finally, we understand that earlier discussions with Network Rail did not meet objections to a bridge provided that all necessary clearances are achieved. Picture of single-track shopping-street tram in Amsterdam
November 16, 2025 at 10:32 PM
geocycle.bsky.social
As anyone who’s done some consulting will know … it doesn’t automatically mean what you are consulted on will be followed.

May this thought process be with us all on this auspicious day.
November 17, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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sw20.info
Proposed Midlothian response to the tram:

“worried about commercial viability”

Strange. Will the new link road it is building be commercially viable?

What other public investment should be commercially viable in the face of low density Midlothian home building?
Paper being looked at this week by Midlothian Council on the Edinburgh Tram extension Regional travel demand meme
November 16, 2025 at 4:33 PM
geocycle.bsky.social
165km / 102miles done for the day with the ride from Edinburgh to Galashiels & then the Wintersmith #1 Audax

The bitterly cold headwind only an issue for the last 55km - 6° out but made it feel as 1°C.

Body decent. Face hurts from windburn. Time to recover.

Fun day out!
A helmeted, bearded, smiley, red faced me. Helmet on, with a super stylish grass camo cycling jacket. Holding up my AudaxUK 100km Brevet card.
November 15, 2025 at 7:31 PM
geocycle.bsky.social
That’s the bike prepped, clothing laid out, food organised, and routes for tomorrow’s ride to Galashiels & the first Wintersmith Audax loaded into my Karoo.

Gonna be my first ever Audax, kinda excited about it all.

May the weather be better than it was on Thursday morning. 😵
November 14, 2025 at 8:45 PM
geocycle.bsky.social
Seeing the news on the latest emails surfacing wherein photos are being asked about.

What a terrible day to know how to read.
November 14, 2025 at 8:41 PM