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Harry Willliams @harryjwilliams.bsky.social · Jun 6
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Edinburgh local creates handy tool to view planning applications across city  - Deadline News
AN EDINBURGH local has created a nifty tool for staying up to date on planning applications in the city, called City Scope.
www.deadlinenews.co.uk
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Critical Safety Issues for 🚲👩‍🦼🚶

👍 Superb new Guidance from #govuk @ategov.bsky.social

--> www.gov.uk/government/p...

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Cover page of the new Guidance Active Travel England Guidance Critical safety issues for walking, wheeling and cycling Published 6 November 2025 What is a critical safety issue? A critical safety issue is defined as a street layout or condition that is associated with an increased risk of collisions for people walking, wheeling or cycling. Active Travel England’s route check tool identifies 16 critical safety issues for walking, wheeling and cycling. This guidance explains each of the issues with illustrations and provides links to relevant guidance and key evidence. You can use this guidance with the route check tool to identify and remove these risks. This will help reduce the risks of collisions for people walking, wheeling or cycling. The recommendation to focus on identifying and removing critical issues was introduced nationally in Local Transport Note 1/20 for cycling and regionally through approaches such as London’s Healthy Streets check and Greater Manchester’s Streets for All check.
November 8, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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#RailwayForEveryone #ScotRail
November update (yellow=recent)

-> scotlandsrailway.com/about-us/rfe

Info: [email protected]

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rail accessibility schemes in Edinburgh & surroundings Dunbar station developments A new link from Platform 2 to new housing is under construction led by East Lothian Council. It is hoped that work inside the station boundary can delivered in 2025/26. In addition, a new pedestrian and wheeling route from Deer Park housing estate and Spott Road to Platform 1 and station house is under consideration. Bathgate Potential to improve Pillar1 with a walking/wheeling link. Possibility of funding for a feasibility study. With support from SRT colleagues. Further discussion with West Lothian Council. Longniddry Positive discussions with East Lothian Council, land agent and housing developer on potential improvement to Pillar1 with walking/wheeling link to new housing and to the existing village. NRS Sponsor liaising with East Lothian Council. With support from SRT colleagues. Brunstane Station Bridge Review of this bridge, which carries National Cycle Network route 1, being led by Sustrans and City of Edinburgh Council. Surveyors on-site to inform detailed designs. Awaiting designs. Edinburgh: Southeast Wedge Positive discussions r.e. new entrance to Shawfair. Curriehill Ongoing discussions with City of EdinburghCouncil&Heriot Watt University for a mixed-use path from Riccarton Campus to Station. Plans withCity of Edinburgh and SRT improving immediate station environment. Winchburgh Proposal for new station submitted for planning permission by Network Rail Scotland. Liaison with planning team for an accessible station meeting Railway for Everyone recommendations. Borders Line: future investment opportunities Liaison with Network Rail sponsors team reviewing opportunities for improving accessibility as an output of future investment opportunities: particular focus on stations at Newcraighall, Shawfair, Galashiels and Tweedbank. Falkirk Grahamston – AfA and public realm Station selected for Access for All (AfA) feasibility study funding. AfA is led by NRS Sponsor. rail accessibility schemes in Fife & surroundings Abernethy under-bridge Perth & Kinross Countryside Trust, acting for Perth & Kinross Council, collaborating with the Asset Protection Team (AsPro) on an active travel link shadowing the line. Manor Powis roundabout A break in the national cycle network could be overcome with access to our land for an off-road path. We are positive on assisting this development. Liaising with Stirling and Clackmannanshire councils. Fife stations: Burntisland, Cardenden, Cowdenbeath, Kinghorn, Glenrothes with Thornton, and Lochgelly, Site visits and report shared with Fife Council on accessibility at stations in Fife that are potentially affected by future investment opportunities. Meeting with local MP. Living Streets on site in Cardenden conducting street audits. Newburgh Station Further discussions on campaigns by community group for new station at Newburgh. Leuchars station Report published. Edinburgh Gateway Meetings with City of Edinburgh Council to discuss rail and planning. Focus on housing development at Edinburgh Gateway. cover page of Novemember report, pictures of bike, wheelchair, guide dog, etc at station How passengers get to stations While car parking and drop-off remain important, particularly in very rural locations, it's not the dominant mode of travel to stations. We also now better understand how passengers get to the station. Our colleagues in ScotRail are surveying passengers three times a year, and from their work we can now see that walking is the most popular way that people get to rail stations. Walk/wheel 36% car 26% bus 13% cycle 7% other 17%
November 7, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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📍 Land 30 Metres South Of 26 Tolbooth Wynd North Leith Edinburgh
👉 Plinth and under-croft parking cleared, substation shifted, stairs repaired; site re-worked for 49 terraced houses and flats with new landscaped grounds. .
⚖ Scale: 7/10
📂 Ref: 25/05731/FUL
🔗 https://tinyurl.com/27efdlls
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November 1, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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You can see them on the app as of today 👇
October 31, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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Is this a joke? -- this is the only part of the West Edinburgh link ("phase 1") that will take ~ 8 months to construct (The red section)....
October 26, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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Edinburgh’s planning portal is down, you can still view all planning applications from 2025 here😉:
www.city-scope.co.uk
City Scope
Explore modern insights into planning applications across Scotland.
www.city-scope.co.uk
October 26, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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📍 Land 288 Metres Southwest Of 10 Builyeon Road Echline South Queensferry
👉 New two-stream primary and 128-place nursery on landscaped site, creating modern learning spaces and play areas for roughly 420 pupils. .
⚖ Scale: 7/10
📂 Ref: 25/05325/AMC
🔗 https://tinyurl.com/25vpyuo3
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October 23, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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Station 🚲👩‍🦼🚶 accessibility proposals

Questions: john.lauder @networkrail.co.uk

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Cover page of Railway for EveryoneReport for:October 2025(25/26 P7) proposals for corridor 3, edinbrugh area... • Dunbar station developments A new link from Platform 2 to new housing is under construction led by East Lothian Council. It is hoped that work inside the station boundary can delivered in 2025/26. In addition, a new pedestrian and wheeling route from Deer Park housing estate and SpottRoad to Platform 1 and station house is under consideration. • Bathgate Potential to improve Pillar1 with a walking/wheeling link. Possibility of funding for a feasibility study. With support from SRT colleagues. Further discussion with West Lothian Council. • Longniddry Positive discussions with East Lothian Council, land agent and housing developer on potential improvement to Pillar1 with walking/wheeling link to new housing and to the existing village. NRS Sponsor liaising with East Lothian Council. With support from SRT colleagues. • Brunstane Station Bridge Review of this bridge, which carries National Cycle Network route 1, being led by Sustrans and City of Edinburgh Council. Surveyors on-site to inform detailed designs. Awaiting designs. • Edinburgh: Southeast Wedge Meetings with land agent for Eskbank and Shawfair completed. • Curriehill Proposal by Heriot Watt University for a mixed-use path from Riccarton Campus to Station in abeyance. Funding from City of Edinburgh and SRT improving immediate station environment ready for path project re-opening. • Winchburgh Proposal for new station submitted for planning permission by Network Rail Scotland. Liaison with planning team for an accessible station meeting Railway for Everyone recommendations. • Borders Line: future investment opportunities Liaison with Network Rail sponsors team reviewing opportunities for improving accessibility as an output of future investment opportunities: particular focus on stations at Newcraighall, Shawfair, Galashiels and Tweedbank. • Falkirk Grahamston – AfA and public realm Station selected for Access for All (AfA) feasibility study funding. AfA is led by… Corridor 2 proposals - Fife etc Abernethy under-bridge Perth & Kinross Countryside Trust, acting for Perth & Kinross Council, collaborating with the Asset Protection Team (AsPro) on an active travel link shadowing the line. Manor Powis roundabout A break in the national cycle network could be overcome with access to our land for an off-road path. We are positive on assisting this development. Liaising with Stirling and Clackmannanshire councils. Fife stations: Burntisland, Cardenden, Cowdenbeath, Kinghorn, Glenrothes with Thornton, and Lochgelly, Site visits and report shared with Fife Council on accessibility at stations in Fife that are potentially affected by future investment opportunities. Meeting with local MP. Newburgh Station Further discussions on campaigns by community group for new station at Newburgh. Leuchars station Report published, see slide 7. Edinburgh Gateway Meetings with City of Edinburgh Council to discuss rail and planning. Focus on housing development at Edinburgh Gateway. More detail re the ongoing Dunbar access improvement Work has begun to create a new entrance to Platform 2 from several large housing developments. East Lothian Council are realigning an existing path network and Scotland’s Railway are rebuilding an existing emergency exit to form a new path onto the platform. The route will be more direct and avoid an underpass. The project has been made possible through a collaboration between East Lothian Council, ScotRail and Scotland’s Railway with funding support from the Active Travel Infrastructure Fund (ATIF) run by Transport Scotland. The programme is running to time and will involve completion by East Lothian in November, then a handover to Network Rail Scotland for the rail-side works. Completion is planned by March 2026.
October 19, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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Bubble tea outlet CUPP planning an expansion into one of the St James units on Leith st
October 16, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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Changed .@cityscope back to @ediplanningupdates.bsky.social

This makes more sense right now tbh. Maybe I will buy that domain at some point
October 16, 2025 at 8:51 AM
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#Queensferry - consultn date extended to Fri 17 Oct

NB - this is separate from (and better than!) the town centre scheme now under construction

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October 13, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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The council have included actual design overlays for the new Dundee Street Active Travel Project.

This is great, super detailed and easy to understand!

Keep it up @edinburghcouncil.bsky.social
October 8, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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#Tram #Granton-#Bioquarter

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

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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.
October 6, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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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!
City Scope
Explore modern insights into planning applications across Scotland.
www.city-scope.co.uk
October 2, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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#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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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
September 26, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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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
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September 11, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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📝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
September 10, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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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
ediplanningupdates.bsky.social Edinburgh Planning Updates @ediplanningupdates.bsky.social · Sep 9
📍 3F1 11 Dundonald Street Edinburgh EH3 6RZ
👉 Upgrade listed sash windows with slimline double-glazed units, retaining original cases and reinstating historic detailing. .
⚖ Scale: 2/10
📂 Reference: 25/04396/LBC
🔄 Status: Awaiting Assessment
🔗 https://tinyurl.com/26judxs7
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September 9, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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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.
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
September 9, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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Weekly PDF reports now on City-Scope. - Quickly see everything added to Edinburgh's planning portal within the last week!

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September 7, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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Former Drybrough Brewery, an unlikely industrial survivor
ediplanningupdates.bsky.social Edinburgh Planning Updates @ediplanningupdates.bsky.social · Sep 5
📍 Unit 3 2F & 3F 146 Duddingston Road West Duddingston Edinburgh EH16 4AP
👉 Conversion of former industrial building on Duddingston Rd West into multi-storey hotel, with full internal replan, heri…
⚖ Scale: 6/10
📂 Reference: 25/04290/FUL
🔄 Status: Awaiting Assessment
🔗 https://tinyurl.com/24eyopq9
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September 5, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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🙋 #SpokesComp closes Sunday 7 Sept

🙋 Don't miss out on bike, cafe & bike-bus vouchers, a #SteamTrain trip, #cinema tickets, & much more..

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spokes.org.uk SpokesLothian @spokes.org.uk · Jun 2
'My Favourite Bike Ride' ... #SpokesComp 2025

😍 Spread the joy!
😉 Become famous
🤩 .. and win one of our amazing prizes

--> www.spokes.org.uk/2025/06/spok...

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Spokes 2025 competition, intro to the post #SpokesComp 2025 : My Favourite Bike Ride For our 2025 summer competition we’d like to hear about your favourite local bike ride, in Edinburgh and/or the Lothians. It may be a leisure ride, or your daily commute or perhaps the school ‘run’ with your kids. In judging the competition, we want to know not just the route itself but, most of all, why this ride is so special to you. Hopefully your entry will entice or inspire other people to get on their bike and try the same or something similar. So that the competition does not require technical skills, judging will be based on written entries. Your route should be fairly easy to describe, without too many intricate instructions, frequent turnings, etc. Photos and/or a sketch can be included and often help, but are not essential. You can also include electronic mapping if you wish, but this will not be included in the judging. canal towpath photos from our previous competition The incredible prizes! ... PRIZES Top prizewinner gets first choice of prizes, and so on till all prizes allocated. Runner-up entries which don’t win a prize will get to choose a free Spokes map or buff Museum of Scottish Railways (Bo’Ness) Family annual pass to the extensive museum Bo’Ness & Kinneil Steam Railway Family ticket for one return trip Ember Bus [takes 2 bikes] £50 bus tickets credit Edinburgh Bicycle £50 Edinburgh Bicycle voucher Camera Obscura Family ticket Cameo Picturehouse Tickets for 2 Laidback Bikes Recumbent tour or cargobike hire Harts Cyclery One-week ebike hire Edinburgh Festival of Cycling Urban Arrow Cargo-bike day hire Lanterne Rouge bike cafe, Gifford £20 voucher Lanterne Rouge bike cafe, Gifford Blue/white no-plastic Africap from Sierra Leone Spokes £1000 voucher* towards cargo-bike purchase Spokes £200 voucher* towards e-bike purchase Spokes Set of all 4 Spokes maps RUNNERS-UP Spokes map or Edinburgh map-buff countryside photos from previous competitin
September 5, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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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
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September 4, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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🤩 #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!
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
September 4, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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The newest editions to Edinburgh’s Streets
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September 4, 2025 at 6:47 AM