Cycling Edinburgh

[Jon Burke 🌍 @jonburkeUK]

Mechanical and biodegradable ‘weed’ management poses exactly the same problems.

A big part of the issue is that councils often don’t have a management plan at all. They simply take an indiscriminate approach, irrespective of the method, when what is needed is nuance.

[Jon Burke 🌍 @jonburkeUK]

The main issues with councils using glyphosate to remove plants is not public health risk - the amounts they use are tiny - but that we’re spending money to eliminate food sources for our threatened insects and removing greenery known to enhance mental health and wellbeing.

[Andy Boenau @Boenau]

There isn't enough physical space for every single household to store its fleet of personal vehicles in front of the home, nor is there space for everyone to drive at the same time. So let's fix that.

https://t.co/EmlQRFHVtf

[Fountainbridge @fountainbridge]

Fountainbridge pavement has been closed for nearly 10 months. Originally closed for 4 weeks, then 6, then this sign went up. Other pavement is less than 1m in places. Cycle lanes removed. What happened to CEC travel hierarchy? @LivingStreetsEd @thecockburn @SpokesLothian

[Liveable Leith @LiveableLeith]

I'd really like to hear from people who work and live in Leith how they've enjoyed the LTN - this is the final push to make it permanent and we need to gather all the positive stories that we can! Do you walk / cycle more? Let the cat out? Use fewer inhalers?

[Fountainbridge @fountainbridge]

Desire Line = Failed Design

This shouldn't happen on a brand new active travel project.

Dalry Community Park, Edinburgh

@thecockburn @LivingStreetsEd @GDCC_

[Urban Cycling Institute 🚲  @fietsprofessor]

🤸‍♀️🌳 Safer streets for kids. Greener spaces for all. Less space for cars.

The outcome when you ask 5.000 #Amsterdammers to choose between all goals within the limitations of the street.

The advice for the city council is clear! And the lessons for other urban leaders too!

[Brent Toderian @BrentToderian]

I’ll say it again — Paris wasn’t “always this way.”

It wasn’t even this way in late 2019 when I was there last.

This is new.

This was a choice.

This is leadership.

Video from my friend @CarlosMorenoFr #Paris https://t.co/BOwB5ruSqv

[Fountainbridge @fountainbridge]

Any thoughts on the safety of these new steps in Dalry Community Park? If you were walking down the steps, had eyesight issues or not paying attention, would you possible not realise the steps diverted off to the side? No tactiles on the landings. Handrails down the "wrong side".

[Urban Cycling Institute 🚲  @fietsprofessor]

What are you afraid of?

Sharks🦈, lions🦁,bears🐻? Terrifying.

Car traffic kills way more people than animals ever could. Even when excluding indirect harm. Watch out for the real predators🚗!

[Brent Toderian @BrentToderian]

Our values & priorities are revealed in thousands of small but important details in our city design, deliberate decisions that have prioritized cars over people for decades. It will take equally deliberate decisions to change to cities for people. HT Dutch cartoon by Verwey, 1980

[edi.bike | weekly news digest @edi_dot_bike]

@fountainbridge @CyclingEdin @Edinburgh_CC @LivingStreetsEd Took me 1m 43s using FixMyStreet app.

[Roads Policing Unit @MerPolTraffic]

#OpsBikes conducting a stop check site on Springwood Avenue today, completed over 70 eyesight tests on drivers. 3 of those drivers could not read a registration plate 20m away. 2 of the drivers could not read a plate at 9m away! All 3 have had their licences revoked. Cont..

[Edinburgh SNP @EdinburghSNP]

Having pioneered the Visitor Levy, Edinburgh SNP are now pushing for an equivalent scheme for cruise ship visitors with @DAstonSNP winning approval from the Full Council. 🚢

https://t.co/ZnbkI3FNLl

[Glasgow City Council @GlasgowCC]

Share your views on active travel improvements for the George V Bridge area.

Plans include improved signalised crossings, cycle-friendly junctions and enhanced pedestrian layouts with dropped kerbs/tactile paving.

More info/survey 👉 https://t.co/qc6zHg5WOe

[Brent Toderian @BrentToderian]

This iconic @FabianTodorovic cartoon is still one of the best at illustrating the amount of space we surrender to cars, leaving little space left for everyone/everything else. The newer @london_chrisp text makes the bonus point that many drivers still manage to complain about it.

[Glasgow City Council @GlasgowCC]

500 new on-street cycle storage units are coming in early next year thanks to @cyclehoop

The new units mark a significant expansion of the popular cycle storage scheme & will provide up to 3000 extra safe, secure storage spaces for cyclists in tenements.

https://t.co/42OmdYllxy

[APPG for Cycling & Walking @APPGCW]

One million tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions could be saved every year if people who currently travel short distances by car cycled instead, a transport charity has claimed.

https://t.co/OOTcTmu3fF

[Cllr. Finlay McFarlane @FinlayMcF]

Wasn’t to be for my SNP and Green colleagues today.

Rest assured we will continue as we have been for the last 2 1/2 years working our collective arses off from opposition.

I am enormously proud of my culture spokesperson role & of the communities I am honoured to represent.