🚲 edi.bike | issue 91 | 5th May ‘25
your weekly edinburgh cycling digest
📰 News this Week
⏳ Edinburgh Greens Call for ‘Urgent Action’ Amid Active Travel Project Delays
Ahead of the public Spokes Meeting on Wednesday — where Transport Convener Stephen Jenkinson would speak, alongside Head of Transport Strategy and Partnerships Deborah Paton — the Green Party in Edinburgh published a video provocation calling for urgent action given that over two thirds of Edinburgh’s ongoing projects are delayed - and that having waited ten years for the delivery of the (still unfinished!) CCWEL, we need to face into the climate emergency with greater developmental momentum to make cycle travel in the city a more viable choice, for more people.
🏴 Scottish Parliament: Motion on “Ending the ‘War’ Against Scotland’s Motorists”
When faced with the thrashing, divisive language in Wednesday’s Conservative parliamentary motion regarding the ‘war’ on motorists, I wasn’t quite sure what to expect from a conversation on this at National level. You can read through it here, under ‘Original motion text’).
Impartial analysis from the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (‘SPICe) from back in 2022 had already answered the motion’s title with a resounding ‘nope’ - as did Transform Scotland’s Briefing Note ahead of the debate. Come Wednesday, the language in the motion — and indeed, much of its content — was deservedly derided as “facile and disingenuous"; there was a lot of emphasis on public transport, and early on active travel was notable by its absence from much of the conversation.
I bailed out part-way through listening to the incoherent Lib Dem position — we love the idea of low traffic neighbourhoods, just not in East Craigs; we agree with the need to reduce cars on the road, now hurry up and dual the A9! — and skipped the remaining Conservative sections (there’s only so many times I can hear the phrase ‘virtue signalling’ before I start to turn purple). With those affordances in place, I was actually fairly impressed by the debate. Across the chamber, there were a lot more folks on the same page about doing more about climate, congestion and safety than I’d expected, and a lot more sensible adults consensus-building with the available time than there were red-faced knights of the motoring lobby presenting what amounted to not much more than a group whinge - one then rendered unrecognisable by amendments and changes from the other parties.
🔗 Links:
Opening remarks, Jim Fairlie SNP [15:29:23]
Opening remarks, Claire Baker LAB [15:35:14]
Opening remarks, Mark Ruskell GRN [15:40:27]
Conservative Hypocrisy on LEZs, Kevin Stuart SNP [15:53:41]
‘Deeply Facile and Disingenous’, Paul Sweeney LAB [16:02:13]
Government Position, Colin Beattie SNP [16:06:22]
Closing Speech, Mark Ruskell GRN [16:10:56]
⚙️ Spokes Public Meeting: Could You Talk More About Cycling?
A full house for the Spokes meeting on Wednesday at St. Augustine United, which saw the City of Edinburgh Council’s Head of Transport Strategy and Partnerships Deborah Paton joined on stage by Transport & Environment Committee (TEC) convener, Cllr Stephen Jenkinson for a presentation on Transport in Edinburgh and a Q & A session moderated by Helen Todd.
A well-intentioned, if rather dry, presentation was at one point heckled — unusually for a Spokes meeting! — with “could you talk more about cycling?”. An interesting section presented by Deborah Paton on a framework for baking-in considerations around Women’s Safety, which will inform a lot of council planning going forward, was good to see being not only considered but woven into future project development processes.
As the Q&A section of the evening wore on, there was a palpable tension in the room, well highlighted by Graeme Hart of Hart’s Cyclery, addressing the lack of decent (non-path-network) infrastructure and meaningful changes for cycling in Edinburgh over the administration’s tenure. Strong feelings on both the matter of the North-South tram extension’s potential on the Roseburn Path, and the pulling out of modal filters from the Braid Estate to reintroduce rat-running through-traffic to a supposed ‘quite route’ for cycles and network of safe streets for children walking to school saw a number of counterpoints, re-asked questions and interjections (I’d be remiss not to mention here that I was one of them!) in the face of what were largely non-answers from the Transport Convener.
Gradually the guarded and carefully-considered equivocations of a politician under scrutiny started to give a little, and some more direct speaking followed; I’m not convinced the Councillor had come prepared for the strength of feeling in the room, and this is early in his tenure as convener so there is a legitimate defence for upholding — but not necessarily being able to speak knowledgeably to — previous TEC decisions. Deborah Paton spoke eloquently and with a good deal less political smokescreen, which helped ease tensions for folk in the room used to a more informal and open back-and-forth with the previous transport convener.
With that said, a good amount of the accountability for decision making was best spoken to by this follow-up on Bluesky:
🦋 The new TEC convener firmly committed to continuing Scott Arthur's legacy 'a big boy did it and ran away' defence. — Charlie
Cllr Chas Booth kept a rolling thread of most of the Q&A. Some headlines? As already known, the North-South tramline consultation will be published this Summer, and the Braid Estate changes include in their ETRO (experimental traffic order) provisions to roll back to a filtered setup; in newer news, the Convener looked to double down on Edinburgh’s commitment to a reduction in car-driven kilometres even in the face of the Scottish Government nixing their national target, and also re-stated that road user charging was something that should be on the table if National legislation were to provide for it.
We also learned of the certainty that the upcoming report on financially prioritising projects making up the City Mobility Plan will involve some of the already-delayed Active Travel projects on the roster being ‘paused’ in order to be able to deliver a costed and feasible ten-year programme, which at least sounded pragmatic in the face of a turbulent funding landscape.
🏰 Local Bits
🪧 Ashley Terrace Road Safety Protest, via Living Streets Edinburgh:
An 80 year old woman was seriously injured by a
cardriver on Ashley Terrace, Shandon last Monday (28 April). Police have appealed for witnesses.Local people have organised a protest about safety of the road, and especially the delay in installing a long-awaited pedestrian crossing. Traffic on the street has increased significantly as a result of the closure of Harrison Road. If you would like to join them, it will take place at 5.00pm on Wednesday 7th May, (junction of Ashley Terrace/Harrison Gardens).
🚲 Local Edinburgh Bike Shop Pedals features in this superb wee Estarli e-cargo bike promo video; in this ten minute video, the family also do a great job of describing how great cycling can be for moving a young family around the city;
📍 Ahead of Local Bike Shop day on Saturday 3rd, Edinburgh Festival of Cycling shared their great map resource listing all the bike shops in Edinburgh, which is worth a bookmark;
⛔ Charlie shared that the Brunstane Road and Coillesdene scheme — TRO/23/14 [PDF] — has works underway presently to make it permanent, which is great to see;
🚴 The Bike Station want to know:
If you had access to a cargo bike for a week — how would you use it? 📦
Errands? School runs? Helping a neighbour move house?
Let them know in the comments on Bluesky, or their Facebook post;
📹 Amazing reel from Markus over at Edinburgh Dawn Patrol of one of their busiest dawn rides yet, on Instagram - every Tuesday and Thursday, 5.40am from St Andrews Square;
⚡ A fun wee thread by Andy Arthur on what it’s actually like to ride an ebike, inspired by Ian Murray MP’s apparent inability to distinguish between a ebike (EAPC) and illegal (if unlicenced) e-moped / electric motorbike;
🇬🇧 National
🏴 Scotland
🚸 Next Glasgow Kidical Mass is coming up on 18th May:
📊 /via Edinburgh Festival of Cycling
A newly published 18-year study of 82,297 adults in Scotland has revealed that commuting by bike significantly lowers the risk of early death, hospitalizations, and a range of chronic illnesses. — Momentum Magazine
🏴 England / UKGov
⛪ If you ride a bike in Britain, you’ll know that it sometimes it can feel like you’re blaspheming against a national faith. This week the broadcaster Jeremy Vine announced he will no longer post helmet cam evidence of poor driving from his daily commute. Talking about the reaction to the videos he claimed: “Car driving is a religion in this country.”
“Driving in Britain: A national religion?” at The Ethical Choice »
✊ "Mass trespass" in London sees hundreds cycle through the controversial Silvertown Tunnel where cyclists have to catch "greenwashing" bus due to lack of bike accommodations - at Road.cc »
🌈 Contrast that with this new cycle tunnel in Bergen, Norway!
🛣 Route Closures and Issues
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:
🚧 Westfield Rd: Junction at Stevenson Rd near Wickes and access to Water of Leith path closed today, Monday 5th May for Scottish Water repairs. Expected to reopen 3:30pm.
🕳️ Marchmont Crescent: closed at the modal filter by Warrender Park Rd and Roseneath St for Scottish Water manhole repairs. The Leamington Walk shared path around the Meadows may provide an alternate route east-west.
🤳 Royal Mile: Closed from Tuesday 6th May until 16th of May between George IV Bridge and St Giles for building works. St Giles Street, behind the high court, may provide an alternate route.
🌊 West College Street: Closed at the pass under Potterrow for Scottish Water sewer repairs. Barriers were reduced to allow cycle access at the weekend but be aware of excavation work restricting access during the week. UPDATE: Expected to reopen this Friday, 9th May
⚡ Slateford Road: Segregated cycle lanes westbound closed between Lidl and Slateford Station for Scottish Power works until 15th May. It is necessary to join the road with temporary traffic lights.
🚧 East Fettes Ave: Closed until the end of April for resurfacing on Comely Bank Rd. Comely Bank Ave may also be closed. If you’re travelling between Stockbridge and Ferry Rd, Inverleith Park or Crewe Rd may be alternatives.
🌉 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, though the footway remains open. A closure of the path underneath is expected, which may include a signed diversion.
The east bridge over the Union Canal has been inspected and may also require repair works. Fencing has been placed across the bridge to prevent motorists from moving cones, though there is a gap for cycles.
🚳 St John’s Road: Crossing Improvements at Featherhall Avenue until mid-June. During the initial works, the northbound cycle lane on Featherhall Avenue will be closed.
⛰️ 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. Works may reopen the road in May ahead of the Edinburgh Marathon Festival.
🚂 Waverley Bridge - concrete barriers have been placed across the southbound lane with no gap. Council officers are planning to replace them with temporary barriers with a southbound cycle lane. Be aware a faulty sensor is causing airport buses to enter the ‘bike box’, further restricting access.
🧱 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
🏴☠️ As part of Porty Festival, the fine folks of Porty Community Energy will be running a pirate-themed ‘Bike Treasure Hunt’ [IG] on the 10th of May; find out more and book free tickets here;
🟰 Edinburgh & Lothians Regional Equality Council (ELREC) have an Edinburgh Cycling Club and are running beginners cycling classes:
Spring has sprung, it’s time to ride!
New to cycling? Join our FREE beginner classes every Saturday at NKS!
Where?
7 Gillespie St, Edinburgh EH3 9NHWhen?
10 am Beginner Class
11:30 am Intermediate Class
All levels and backgrounds are welcome, bikes are provided!
Please register on Meetup »
🎻 27th May (Edinburgh Pianodrome): “Sarah Small's 'Good Again?' concert cycling tour will see her perform in a total of 26 venues, pedalling approximately 4,000 km (2,500 miles) in distance” /via Spokes;
🧘 Yoga by Bike - booking for June now available:
Join Detour [IG] for a social bike ride and yoga practice in East Lothian, on the 8th June!
We will meet by 📍 PATH (Portobello Active Travel Hub, on Porty Promenade) at 9am. We’ll ride around 12 miles to Longniddry, with plenty of stops to chat, hydrate and enjoy the scenery.
Around 11am we will arrive at Fern Bothy, where snacks and hot drinks will be provided. Jorja will then lead a 1 hour Vinyasa Yoga class, suitable for all levels.
Option to jump on a train home from Longniddry, or ride back to Edinburgh together!
🎟️ Tickets for 8th June »
📸 Lovely wee video on Instagram from a previous session too.
🖼️ New Venue: The ongoing ‘Pedal Power’ exhibition about cycle campaigning in Edinburgh co-curated by Spokes, Infrasisters, Bike Buses and Edinburgh Critical Mass has moved on from Duncan Place, and can now be found at Norton Park (📍 57 Albion Road) — having been transported across by cargo bike (of course!) in April;
🏴 Save the date for She Pedals Scotland:
On 14th June 2025 we want to see how many women and girls in Scotland can ride their bikes in one day. Whether it's 1 mile or 100 miles, off road, on road, racing, cycling round the park, e-bike, BMX, handcycle, it doesn't matter. Let's create a buzz around women and girls riding their bikes outdoors!
⛰️ Bikepacking event Dirt Dash’s 2025 return continues in July:
Stans Yorkshire Coast Dirt Dash on 6 & 7 July, and concludes with the Lezyne Dunoon Dirt Dash on 27 & 28 September. Organised by round the world cyclist Markus Stitz, these self-supported rides are designed for cyclists who love off-road riding and are seeking new experiences on their bikes, whether for seasoned gravel riders or anyone new to bikepacking.
💙 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;
🎉 For six months starting in September, the ‘Towpath talks’ team will be returning:
Cycling community Talks are back - with the closure of Biketrax in January, the regular cycling talks by MacKenzie Barker (@rekrab82 [IG)] and hosted by Izabela Murtagh (@iza.murtagh [IG]) will be making a return in September using a new venue — Gamma Transport Division in the Comely Bank / Stockbridge area"
Great news. Announcements currently via the Towpath Talks account on Instagram, and we’ll publish dates when available!
💯 Edinburgh RC celebrating its hundredth year in 2025 and have an ongoing challenge encouraging 100 women of all cycling abilities to ride 100km - offering help to anyone who needs it along the way;
🔁 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
💸 In May 2025, endurance cyclist Sarah Ruggins will fight to claim the outright World Record for cycling the length of the UK and back, a total of 2,700KM, in support of two good causes based in England and Scotland who provide essential mobility & freedom of movement to refugees & asylum seekers via the gift of bikes and the transformational power of cycling..
➡️ [IG] Sarah Ruggins, and beneficiaries The Bike Project and Bikes for Refugees for regular updates. Sarah's story can be followed here, as well as information about how you can get involved and support.
🧡 The Wee Spoke Hub are looking for a Comms volunteer [IG] - if that could be you, drop them a line!
🍅 SHRUB is looking for food distribution volunteers and Cargo Bikes:
We need anyone available any evening from Monday to Friday with a cargo bike or other transport to help us at SHRUB, picking up food from various supermarkets, that needs sorting and delivering to SHRUB in Bread Street. We are a zero Waste Hub charity and work for community environmental stuff!
We need to keep collecting and giving out for free a lot of waste supermarket food! This project has existed for 3 years any many of our people are vulnerable, disabled and/or elderly and rely on our free safe fresh food that would otherwise go in a bin
Can you help? If you can lend us your bike any day a week or even do the collection? Please email kai.allen@shrubcoop.org
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:
🚶 Pedestrianisation and Cycling Project to Close Lawnmarket to Traffic
Via Harry Williams on Bluesky, news of a new City of Edinburgh Council project commencing in July will see an Experimental Traffic Regulation Order (ETRO) close Johnstone Terrace and Lawnmarket during daytime, with deliveries and loading taking place outside of those hours:
Restrictions will be between
10.30am and 7.30pm, Monday to Saturday
12.30pm and 7.30pm, Sunday
Lawnmarket’s former black vehicle barriers have been removed during works, to be replaced at the end of the current work with mechanised retractable bollards. In addition to this filter, the following changes will be put in place:
Johnston Terrace:
Restricted access for large vehicles when pedestrian and cycle zone is in operation
Removal of existing coach parking
Taxi and private hire pick-up and drop-off areas
Additional blue badge parking
Public and resident parking
Turning area for smaller vehicles including taxis and vans
Castle Terrace:
Coach pick-up and drop-off on Castle Terrace
Relocated residential parking to make way for Coach spaces, at the cost of
Being an ETRO, over the eighteen trial months the council will be looking to monitor the impact and any changes needed before making the scheme a permanent change - including six months of public consultation. There’s also an extensive page of current arrangements, ahead of the ETRO commencing, including changes to through traffic on Castle Terrace.
These welcome (and long overdue) changes are seemingly part of a series of new projects under the heading ‘Improving Old Town Streets’ which starts with Johnstone Terrace and Lawnmarket, and also covers Victoria Street, High Street (west), Cockburn Street, High Street (east) and Hunter Square - all earmarked for changes under the various themes already established by the Transport Committee:
The strategies and plans guiding our proposals
The project reflects our ambition to be net zero by 2030 and the wider vision for the city as set out in our key strategies including:
City Mobility Plan 2021 – 2030: a 10-year strategy to transform the way people, goods and services travel around the city;
City Centre Transformation: an ambitious plan to provide a people-focused city centre, which is a desirable place to live, work and visit.
Our Future Streets (Circulation Plan): a long-term approach for planning transport and improvements to outdoor spaces across the city.
🌸 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
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