🚲 edi.bike | issue 86 | 31st Mar ‘25
your weekly edinburgh cycling digest
📰 News this Week
🚋 ‘Trams from Granton to the Bioquarter and Beyond’ — Consultation delayed until August
From the City of Edinburgh Council:
The consultation on the Trams from Granton to the Bioquarter and Beyond will start in mid-August 2025. This is slightly later than the originally planned Spring 2025 date.
The change in date ensures that the 12-week consultation does not take place during the school summer holidays and political recess.
Further information, including a confirmed start date and details of public drop-in events, will be issued in due course.
Background to the project can be found on the City of Edinburgh Council’s website
This will no doubt be raised and questioned at the Transport & Environment Committee this week - Councillors have asked time and again when this consultation might finally see the light of day. With how closely plans for the potential routes will be scrutinised — particularly given the campaign to ‘Save the Roseburn Path’ in its current form — it’s perhaps no wonder that they’re getting slow-cooked.
📄 Report: “Overcoming ‘Motonormativity’ and Car Dependency in Edinburgh’s Historic City Centre”
The Transport Planning Society — a professional body formed of Transport Planners across the UK — have recently published an interesting report on “Overcoming ‘motonormativity’ and car
dependency in Edinburgh’s historic city centre” by Edinburgh resident George King.
Motornormativity is a recently-named phenomenon, and it’s a really key component to understanding the mindset we face when campaigning for better protected cycle infrastructure, and also when we’re being campaigned against. As an unconscious bias, it’s also a real challenge to even friends and family members to tug at something so commonly and complexly woven into the fabric of most folks’ understanding as to how and why we move around cities.
Edinburgh’s ambitious transport policies have accelerated over recent years towards better management of the private car, including a bold masterplan to remove through traffic from the majority of its city centre streets. However, it is not yet understood how the City will deliver its plans to overcome its ongoing car addiction.
This paper summarises tools available to historic cities seeking to better manage private car access to unlock street-space and compares approaches to implementation. It is hoped that Edinburgh - Scotland’s Capital - can learn from best practice in the UK and other countries to adopt creative solutions focusing on safety, public health, accessibility and equity in their development and outcomes.
The paper goes into the demand management tools available to authorities, similar cities’ efforts, and is a really comprehensive look at where we could be headed if our politicians are bold enough. You can read the 26-page report here [PDF] »
📋 April Transport & Environment Committee Meeting - Agenda Published
We’ve rifled through the paperwork, tipped out the links all over the desk — and then shredded most of it — to bring you a handful of hopefully interesting items coming to the City of Edinburgh Council’s Transport and Environment Committee this Thursday 3rd. Find our summary below ‘National News’ ⬇️
🏰 Local Bits
🔭 Eagle-eyed Harry Williams spotted a placeholder for a ‘Queensferry Connections’ project on the Council’s Active Travel pages - look forward to seeing more detail when it’s published, as it couldn’t possibly be lighter at present!
🍃 Re-Cycles Penicuik have been awarded a £1000 grant to help in their mission to make cycling more accessible to people in Midlothian. The social enterprise refurbish donated bikes and sell them on at low cost to local residents. — more at Midlothian Council »
💚 News from Cargo Bike Movement:
🏴☠️ — Some more great photos [IG] from their recent Treasure Hunt event;
💔 — Some hands-on work and introspection [IG] as they prepare to hand over the hub at Tollcross, the long-time home and meeting place for many great Edinburgh cycling businesses and organisations.
🪄 The minor infrastructure pixies have visited Edinburgh’s cyclists this week, in the form of new 🚦 ‘pre-green’ early release traffic signals for Lanark Rd at the bottom of Craiglockhart Ave (with thanks to Longstone Community Council) and 🌱 new modal filter planters at the top of Whitehouse Loan on the Greenbank to Meadows Quiet Route, spotted by Blackford Safe Routes. Every little helps, as we used to say when I worked in Tesco. Or rather we didn’t, we scratched or peeled the first and last letter off it everywhere we could, but let’s celebrate the little wins too ✨.
🇬🇧 National
💟 /via Spokes — a great wee video by SESTran about Thistle Foundation and their programme of cycling accessibility;
🔋 Transport for London ban non-folding electric bikes from carriage on tube and rail services — mayor also reports hearing me booing from 412 miles away;
💼 MPs call for “urgent reform” of Cycle to Work scheme to tackle active travel inequality:
The All-Party Parliamentary Group for Cycling and Walking has also urged the government to clamp down on pavement parking and remove discriminatory access barriers on bike paths, highlighting “systemic underinvestment” in active travel — Road.cc »
🌼 Cycling UK’s spring cleaning guide to getting your bike ready for a new season;
🗳️ Transport & Environment Committee (‘TEC’) — April Meeting Agenda
The City of Edinburgh Council’s Transport & Environment Committee (‘TEC’) will meet this Thursday 3rd April; here’s what’s on the agenda this month - at least, the parts that relate closely enough to cycle travel in Edinburgh…
🌐 Meeting Page / Webcast »
📋 Agenda Frontsheet » [PDF]
📂 Agenda Reports Pack » [PDF]
📝 Business Bulletin » [PDF]
📅 Future TEC Work Programme » [PDF]
In the Business Bulletin:
👏 Page 2 — King’s Theatre Public Realm and Meadows to Union Canal Update
A classic Edinburgh cycle infrastructure project: it’s been going for nearly a decade (first discussed in February 2013); it’s been subjected to several rounds of public consultation (though we were mercifully spared a third round thanks to a Green party motion at a recent TEC meeting); and when it finally heaves over the finish line in 2026-2027, will deliver approximately four and a half metres of cycle route for every month that’s passed since its inception - for a vital ‘missing link’ that provides a mere 630 metre route between two key parts of the city’s cycle infrastructure. Cannot type more, head on keyboard.
Positivity! There’s going to be great improvements in public realm by the King’s Theatre; in fact, the delivery of these aspects that integrate with the cycle route connection (Tarvit St) will now be managed ahead of the theatre re-opening, meaning that there’s less disruption when it comes to delivering the cycleway project thereafter. The route is being refined, work having picked up again just before Christmas, and the statutory process required (Traffic Regulation Order or ‘TRO’) can be expected in the second half of this year.
🚊 Page 5 (bottom) — Trams to Newhaven Update
A ‘comprehensive review’ of the tram route has been undertaken, breaking out the issues remaining into contractual defects vs. “concerns raised by residents, businesses, stakeholders, and elected members”; works will commence from ‘April 2025’ on addressing these, and the changes approved last year at Brunswick St and Elm Row are proceeding as expected.
The project has been plagued by the lack of a public list of faults, with various lists held by the project team, the contractor, local community councils (who formed a coalition to speak to the issue) and ward councillors; it’s good to see at last a list emerging that will be not only comprehensive, but actually available to all of these groups and hopefully encourage a more transparent approach to snagging on major infrastructure in future.
General Reports and Motions:
🏎️ 7.4: Motion by Councillor Caldwell - Tactile Pavements on Continuous Footways — Motion [PDF]
This motion was referred across from a Full Council meeting on March 20th, and as such has already had some cross-party input by way of amendments.
In recent major projects, such as the City Centre West-East Link (‘CCWEL’) and Trams to Newhaven, in many places traditional junctions where side streets meet the main road have been reconfigured, to invert the usual relationship between drivers and pedestrians ‘crossing’ the side street. Instead, a driver waits (at a give way marking) to cross the footway (and cycleway) when it’s safe to do so, successfully prioritising the users at the top of the council’s sustainable transport hierarchy. You can see an example of a continuous footway on CCWEL from Apple Maps here:
Officers have previously stated at TEC that Edinburgh has unique data (in a national context) from before and after the implementation of continuous footways at side street junctions in these projects, which demonstrated the layout significantly increased the number of vehicle drivers yielding to pedestrians who were crossing the side street. In fact, as stated in the motion itself:
In answer to Cllr Dijkstra-Downie’s question at Transport and Environment committee on 30th January 2025, the Council is not seeking to change the layout in the next iteration of Edinburgh Street Design Guidance closer to the carriageway citing concerns that demarking the edge of the carriageway ‘may send a message to drivers that pedestrians don’t have priority and would be expected to wait for motorists to pass’.
One suggested mitigation to tackle this - while still providing a warning of potential hazards to unsighted users and assistance animals - was to use tactile paving in a similar colour to the continuous footway, so as to lessen any perceived ‘demarcation’. This is a fairly thorny issue, really - on the one hand, these crossings absolutely need to be safe for the most vulnerable pedestrians, and accessibility should be designed into our transport hierarchy - and on the other, anything that encourages a driver to take precedence at such a junction could be putting all pedestrians using them at risk, sighted or otherwise.
There’s no easy answer here - fortunately, what’s being proposed is a trial, and monitoring to see if there is a happy middle ground that could be established going forward.
🏎️ 8.2: Low-Cost Zebra Crossings — Report [PDF]
Following on from recent changes in the Highway Code, where pedestrians crossing a side street have priority over traffic (including cyclists) turning into it, there’s thought to establish this more clearly for a number of junctions using ‘Continental style’ zebra crossings, which unlike ours don’t require a beacon of Gondor to be lit at either end to flare road users attention away from their phones, however briefly.
Once a zebra crossing is reduced to only paint, it’s a lot more cost effective to implement - meaning many more can be rolled out in the same budget, realising a much greater benefit - and this report outlines the efforts so far to fund a £60k side streets zebra crossings study, the legalities surrounding the work involved, and asks TEC to approve this going ahead, regardless of whether or not external funding can be found.
ℹ️ Covering TEC is important, but given the motions up for debate this week are largely cycling-tangential, I’m going to skip watching and reporting on it this time round. It’s our youngest’s birthday next weekend, and I’d rather not try and squeeze in the hours required to mainly report back about side street crossings 😅 🎉
🛣 Route Closures and Issues
💧 Ella reports that work on resurfacing and drainage on the Water of Leith walkway between Powderhall Bridge and Redbraes Tunnel has been completed, hopefully meaning no more flooding to traverse in future here;
ℹ️ Encountered unexpected road issues? Find out how to report them with this guide from Spokes. The team at Edinburgh Travel News are also keen to hear about cycle path alerts and can be contacted on Threads or Facebook.
🦋 On Bluesky? Follow the #EdTravCyc feed - anyone can use the #EdTravCyc hashtag to share route issues they encounter;
📪 The week’s road closure info - many thanks to regular contributor Robbie for collating and preparing these:
🎬 Filming on CCWEL: on Monday 7th April, 06:00 - 18:00, no passage along the north side of Charlotte Sq by Section 14 order [PDF]. The extent of the filming closure doesn’t seem to cover the rest of the square - only loading and unloading there, including similar at Parliament Sq - so we’d propose navigating the other side of the square, but with caution as it’s not the side currently set up to reach the crossing to George St easily,
🚧 Redford Road: closed at Colinton Road for resurfacing all this week.
⛖ Queensferry Road: Eastbound segregated cycle lane closed at Orchard Park until the 10th of April for resurfacing works.
🏃 Roseburn Path: Kilomathon Race this Sunday morning (6th of April) along Edinburgh’s north cycle paths from Murrayfield to Ocean Terminal.
🚦 NCR1 Innocent Cycle Path: Scottish Water roadworks at the Toucan crossing of Duddingston Road West from the 7th of April for 2-5 days, which may obstruct access.
🚧 Brighton Place, Portobello: closed at the junction with Baileyfield Rd for Scottish Power roadworks from the 7th of April for 2 days, which may block access under the railway bridge. It may be possible to divert by the bridge at Hope Lane or by dismounting.
🏫 Canaan Lane: closed at Morningside Rd for Scottish Water repairs from the 9th of April for two weeks. It will still be possible to use the Greenbank-Meadows Quiet Route. However, be aware of vehicles turning and exiting this space via Woodburn Grove, especially around school-run hours.
⛰️ Duddingston Low Road in Holyrood Park: Ongoing inspection works have identified a risk of rockfall, resulting in a closure until further notice. Dismounting to pass is not possible. The innocent cycle path is currently unaffected; however, this may change.
🌉 Harrison Road: two bridges closed due to structural concerns with micro-cracking in the original cast iron beams. Until works begin, a pleasant temporary low traffic area has been created; however, access to cycles is being restricted as works begin.
The west bridge over a small path is having its deck rebuilt until September 2025. The roadway is closed to cycles, though the footway remains open for now. A closure of the path underneath is also expected, which may include a signed diversion.
The east bridge over the Union Canal has been inspected and may also require repair works. Friend of the digest Oli posted a photo of the impressive inspection vehicle on Bluesky
🚂 Waverley Bridge - concrete barriers have been placed across the southbound lane with no gap. Be aware a faulty sensor is causing airport buses to enter the ‘bike box’, further restricting access. Update 30th March: Council officers are planning to replace them with temporary barriers with a southbound cycle lane this week.
🧱 Ellen’s Glen Rd, a quiet link in Liberton, closed at the modal filter to repair flooding damage until late May ‘25. Closure includes pedestrians and a diversion is signed via Malbet Wynd;
🏡 Leith LTN: Closure of Duncan Place until late May ‘25 for footway resurfacing. During this period, traffic will instead primarily access the LTN via Links Gardens, with the bus gate suspended. The modal filter on Wellington Place may provide quieter cycle access.
💧 Union Canal: Towpath improvement works are ongoing from Leamington Lift Bridge to Edinburgh Quay until May ‘25. A section of towpath is closed with diversion across the lift bridge and along the southern side of the canal - more info at Scottish Canals;
⚡ Ongoing: The questionable Network Rail ban on ebike parking at Waverley Station - best to make alternative parking plans if travelling from this station at present;
🏹 Lawnmarket and Upper Bow: Road improvements are ongoing until July ‘25; be sure to read the Council’s page about the closures, which managed to completely omit arrangements for a certain human-powered transport mode so mind how you go.
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🎉 Events and Happenings
📆 Upcoming / Ongoing
⚙️ Spokes, the Lothians Cycle Campaign, latest ‘Action Update’ [PDF] includes details of their next public meeting, featuring Transport Convenor Cllr Stephen Jenkinson and Deborah Paton, the Council’s Head of Transport, Strategy and Partnerships:
This will be our first public meeting with Transport Convener Cllr Stephen Jenkinson, who took over when Cllr Scott Arthur was elected as an MP... He will speak on the place of cycling within Edinburgh’s overall transport policies, and what we can expect to see happening this year. Also speaking will be Deborah Paton, Head of Transport, Strategy and Partnership at the Council. As a senior officer, whose remit includes active travel, she is knowledgeable both on detailed active travel issues and on how individual projects fit into overall council transport plans. Deborah previously worked at Glasgow City, drawing up their new Local Transport Strategy, and before that preparing West Lothian Council’s Active Travel Action Plan, thus rising rapidly through the ranks!
Wednesday 30th April, 📍 Augustine United Church. 7.30pm - 9.30pm, with doors open from 6.45pm for coffee, stalls and chat, including a special stall to join Spokes or renew your membership
💙 Riding LEJOG in memory of Tim McKenna — and raising money for charities Mind, Sustrans and Flight Free UK in his honour. Passing through in August, folks can join for some or all of the route by reviewing the itinerary. Thanks to John Robson for the link.
💯 Reader Alastair shared with us an ongoing campaign by cycling club Edinburgh RC celebrating its hundredth year in 2025:
As part of the celebration of our Centenary year, we are launching our 100x100x100 women's challenge. This aims to get 100 women of all cycling abilities to ride 100k. If you are an experienced rider, why not encourage some of your family or friends to take part in the challenge? If you are nervous about rising to the challenge fear not, ERC is ready to help.
More info at Edinburgh RC »
🖼️ The Spokes, Infrasisters, Bike Buses and Edinburgh Critical Mass co-curated campaigning exhibition ‘Pedal Power’ is open at its new venue [IG] of Duncan Place in Leith - well worth a visit.
🔁 Weekly Events
🍃 Mon, 12-2.30pm: Free, fun group ride on paths from Bridgend Farmhouse;
🌅 Tues, ⏰ 5.40am: Edinburgh Dawn Patrol - Meet St. Andrew Square, same route each time - more info on their Instagram;
☕️Tues, 5pm: [National] Active Travel Cafe on Zoom
🛠️ Weds, 3pm: Bike Kitchen at Edinburgh Tool Library
🌅 Thurs, ⏰ 5.40am: Edinburgh Dawn Patrol (same as Tues, details above);
✴️ Thurs, 5-8pm: Bike DIY Session at The Wee Spoke Hub
⚙️ Sat, 2-4pm: ‘Bike Cleaning and Oiling’ drop-in session at The Wee Spoke Hub
🔁 Monthly Events
🚲 First Friday of the month: Inclusive social bike rides with A Wee Pedal, 1-3pm, from Bridgend Farmhouse;
✊ Last Saturday of the month: Critical Mass Edinburgh, Family-friendly mass protest / group ride, 2pm, Middle Meadow Walk;
🫂 Help Needed
🌿 The Cycling Gardeners of Edinburgh — some of Edinburgh’s more green-fingered cargo bike pilots - are seeking charity projects they can support with free gardening, particularly in central South Edinburgh near their base of operations. You can suggest charities that might want some help with maintaining their green spaces over on their Facebook post »
💼 Current Cycling UK Vacancies listed in Midlothian and Aberdeen;
🚐 Could you shift a bike donation into Edinburgh on behalf of Bikes for Refugees? “Milnathort, Cairneyhill or Troon 💪HELP needed! Can you collect/drop a bike donation on your commute to Glasgow or Edinburgh hubs?” — bikedonations@bikesforrefugees.scot
Ongoing: 🚌 Marshal for School Bike Buses | 🙋 Help with school programme ‘I Bike’ | 🗨️Join Spokes’ Planning or Resources group | 🆘 Donate money or bikes to Bikes for Refugees | 📦⚡️ Hire Community Cargobikes, E-bikes or Trailers from SW20, Porty Community Energy or Banzai | ♻️ Donate old bikes to The Bike Station, The Wee Spoke Hub or ‘Brake the Cycle’.
🌈 Infrastructure Progress & Consultations
✨ This section of the digest will receive a revamp in the coming months to move long-running, detailed consultation information onto web pages, and instead publish a list of links for open and recent consultations (along with summaries for anything actually new). In the meantime, anything new or changed is found near the top. ✨
In Previous Updates:
🌸 Greenbank to Meadows Quiet Route: ‘Option 3’ Detailed Plans (At Last)
Last Spring, the Labour Administration sided with Tory and Lib Dem colleagues on the Transport and Environment Committee and voted to remove traffic filtering from the Braid Estate, forming a key part of the Greenbank to Meadows Quiet Route - filters that had reduced through-traffic in the neighbourhood by as many as four thousand cars per day, a vote in direct opposition to several of the councils’ own policies. After a long design process, the plans for ‘Option 3’ (in a strange, consultation-as-referenda programme of stumbling around local objections and procedural glitches) have finally been made available, providing instead a series of protected cycleways through the streets forming the Braid Estate. Recently, Cllr Ben Parker asked for an update at Full Council and received a number of clarifications from Officers.
Neither pro-filter campaigners nor their pro-through-traffic counterparts are particularly thrilled by the plans, which will be implemented using temporary materials under a new Experimental Traffic Regulation Order (ETRO). However, thanks to Labour having tabled a last-minute caveat at the time, the ETRO will include the option to revert and reintroduce filters on the estate without requiring further legal process (e.g. another ETRO design and advertisement), so there is still hope if a case can be made that the goals of the project are deemed to have been compromised by reintroducing through-traffic to a liveable neighbourhood…
You can download the plans here [PDF].
📋 Consultation: Edinburgh BioQuarter Active Travel Gaps - Sheriffhall Park & Ride to BioQuarter Campus Route
Now closed (2nd March at 23:59): Consultation spotted by Spokes this week; seeking to connect up both some missing internal links in the active travel pathways around the Edinburgh BioQuarter site at Little France, and also deliver protected cycleways and quiet routes between the site and the Midlothian Council park and ride facility at Sheriffhall:
“Edinburgh BioQuarter partners (City of Edinburgh Council, NHS Lothian, Scottish Enterprise and The University of Edinburgh) are in the process of improving active travel routes and facilities in and around the campus…
The improvements being looked at within this project will see the development of a new active travel route to Edinburgh BioQuarter from Midlothian in the south to plug a 'gap' in the infrastructure. Eliminating the 'gap' will improve accessibility for walkers, wheelers, and cyclists during everyday journeys.”
Detailed Plans and Rationale on the project’s StoryMap »
🗺️ East Lothian Council are carrying out consultations on proposed improvements between Prestonpans and Levenhall; there is of course some local resistance, and it would be great to see folks who feel able to comment responding to the consultation.
Download the (muckle!) combined plan [PDF] or browse the list
🍃 Spokes recently highlighted a new consultation from Midlothian Council to create Active Travel provisions along the A7:
The aim of the project is to improve active travel connections within the study area making it easier for people to walk, wheel and cycle for their everyday journeys and to connect to public transport services more easily. Currently, there is no or limited provision for walking, wheeling and cycling along the majority of the A7 corridor.
The consultation has a deadline of 30th March for comments and input;
📋 Following the recent deadline for the ETRO (Experimental Traffic Regulation Order) consultation for the Northern ‘Travelling Safely’ areas, Spokes shared their final response [PDF] to the various areas and schemes covered - as always, thoughtful input on taking the schemes forward and potential improvements;
📃 From lurking in Community Council mailing lists, I spotted this rather handy document listing upcoming City of Edinburgh Council consultations and their approximate launch dates for the coming year;
🏞️ Via Spokes - in an update from Friends of Burdiehouse Burn Valley Park the start of a new project to improve the valley is ongoing:
Burdiehouse Burn Restoration - Concept Design
“For the Burdiehouse Burn to become a successful and notable blue-green regeneration project, restoring approximately 5 km of the burn and surrounding habitats”
Core project objectives:
Sustainable river restoration
Habitat restoration in the surrounding landscape ✨ 3. Active travel connections
Placemaking & access improvements
Education & engagement of people and organisations local to the burn
Net zero gains
Improve the resilience of the site to climate change.
More in their newsletter »
🏚️ New plans for 21 flats on the site of the derelict Longstone Inn - damaged due to local flooding - have been published, featuring a ramp and alley access to the Burnside path; in addition, the council have now progressed with identifying who owns which bits of land and wall where the Burnside path sinkhole is situated, so discussions with the landowner will be ongoing to come up with a plan for remedial works here to fix not only the sinkhole, but hopefully the underlying cause too.
⚒️ Merchiston Community Council are back on the campaign trail to improve Polwarth’s worst junction. News of the Council commencing a redesign, and more background on the project, can be found on their website;
📋 Dalry ‘Living Well Locally’: the council have published an Initial local resident feedback Report on the Dalry Town Centre proposals [PDF]. There is a summary on the main Consultation page.
🕳️ Photos shared by Longstone Community Council show recent works have provided “Some improvements to the diversion path surface and the gradient made on the Burnside path. Barriers also secured more robustly stopping access to the sinkhole.”;
⬆️ The statutory process for a handful of one-way street cycle exemptions have been published by the Council - available here as a list and more detailed plans: ‘TRO/24/27 - One-way street exemptions for cyclists - Various Roads - Ending on 31 January 2025’. Just one part of a city-wide project over the next 18 months or so to make more one way streets legal for contraflow cycling.
🚧 Works on the West Edinburgh Link project look to be starting at the end of May according to the listings on the Scottish Road Works Commissioner web portal spotted by Longstone Community Council;
🚢 Leith Connections: Foot of the Walk to Dock St Construction Underway, Schedule Shared
🦶Foot of the Walk to ‘Ocean Terminal’ (actually Commercial St)
⚓️ 'Foot of the Walk to Ocean Terminal' - construction is underway on the Great Junction St cycleway, with work on Henderson St recently started too, for around ten months - a protected cycle route as part of Leith Connections, which promises to be a great continuation of the segregated routes slowly taking root in the city centre.
This Leith Connections works leaflet [PDF] outlines the rough timeline for construction of the route.
Confusingly, the project doesn’t go to Ocean Terminal (shades of Roseburn to Union Canal here) and instead gives up at Commercial St, with the Commercial St to Ocean Terminal leg covered by the third phase of Leith Connections (below);
⚓ Leith Connections Phase 3 - Hawthornvale to Seafield
View the:
Consultation Hub Page (now closed to responses);
Detailed Design drawings (PDF) »
🌳 Greenbank to Meadows Quiet Route
Some recent movement on the Greenbank to Meadows Quiet Route, in an update from Blackford Safe Routes and this update from Cllr Ben Parker;
📋 Travelling Safely Schemes (Various)
ETROs for these schemes have various end dates (barring ‘South’, which is not yet published) and can be found for comment at the Council’s Travelling Safely Commonplace microsite; also by emailing TRO.Consultations@edinburgh.gov.uk quoting the relevant scheme.
🌊 Musselburgh Active Toun Consultation
Updated plans over on Musselburgh Active Toun with further consultation ongoing: these may be of particular interest to Edinburgh residents as they cover the East Lothian section of Edinburgh Road that would eventually facilitate the long-held ambition of a tie-in to Joppa and Portobello prom, as well as the rest of the North Edinburgh network.
Comments on the consultation can be emailed to musselburgh.uki@aecom.com
Thanks for reading - ride safe 🚲
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