🚲 edi.bike | 28th Aug '23
Bringing bunches of bike-based boogies...
💫 New and Useful
📍 Likely been around for a while but new to me; the Council’s Quiet Routes page which includes a collection of downloadable map PDFs. The online map also has cycle parking marked up.
🛣 Road and Route Closures
🚦 Ongoing temporary lights for works at Spylaw Street in Colinton affecting Woodhall Rd / Colinton Rd;
🚙 Temporary traffic lights at Riccarton Mains Rd near Heriot Watt;
⚓ Pennywell Rd closed Northbound from today for around 10 days;
⛔ Corstorphine High Street is closed Monday - Friday for approximately another fortnight for phase 2 of the Corstorphine Connections project;
🥳 The various restrictions in the Old Town for the festival are now finished and reopened.
Other closures can be found in the Council’s frequently updated Road Report.
🛠 Infrastructure Progress
🛢 SW20 shared some great news from Oxgangs Farm / Dreghorn linked to as a bit of a disaster in our previous issue; bollards now in place and the reinstatement of a path on the desire line;
🎨 The Council shared some of the progress from John’s Place on the Leith Connections project;
🖌 Longstone Community Council shared progress on the resurfacing of Lanark Rd with the lines being repainted ahead of the reintroduction of bollards to protect the cycle lanes;
📆 Events and Happenings
💻 Broughton Street online meeting tonight (28th) discussing traffic, transport and mobility issues with local councillors;
🌎 Heard about the global ‘Cycle September’ movement via Instagram and the Edinburgh Critical Mass folks on their ride out to Porty at the weekend - looks like it could be fun, runs 1st - 30th;
Later:
🎈 The Wee Spoke Hub’s relaunch event includes a led city ride, swapshop, screen printing workshop and clothing repair session on 9th Sept;
🏖 Porty Bikefest on 16th September offers test rides of e-cargo bikes and unusual cycles, a bike health check and more;
👥 Tickets are available for the Cycling Scotland Conference 2023, on Thursday 26th October at the John McIntyre Conference Centre at Pollock Halls.
From previous episodes…
The closing date for Spokes’ recent domestic bike storage competition with great prizes is in seven days (3rd Sept);
Broxburn-Maybury A8/A89 Consultation closes 5th Sept;
Don’t use the unsafe bike racks running the length of the Newhaven tram route.
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