🚲 edi.bike | issue 92 | 12th May ‘25
your weekly edinburgh cycling digest
📰 News this Week
📉 ‘25-26 ScotGov Programme for Government a ‘Retreat on Active Travel’
The Scottish Government have published their Programme for Government for 2025-2026; there are shenanigans afoot in terms of how funding is described. A ‘rise’ from the 2021-22 budget for ‘Sustainable and Active Travel’ to the 2025-26 amount completely omits the intervening three years where the budgeted figure rose to nearly double what’s been put aside for this year (i.e. this is a significant cut), and additionally the new ‘Sustainable and’ prefix is there because investment in bus travel is now lumped in with the Active Travel budget. The SNP government, following the breakdown of the Bute House Agreement and loss of some of the more sensible minds on this stuff, are showing Scotland’s cyclists, walkers and wheelers where their priorities lie - and those priorities are massively skewed given the climate emergency, never mind Scotland’s urban congestion issues and the road safety impacts of car overuse.
Spokes are well on top of this - reporting back in December on “ScotGov draft budget 25/26: active travel cuts disguised”, and in response to this Programme for Government, this week’s “Programme for Government 25/26 – retreat on active travel, bus and traffic reduction” - highlighting that “funding for active travel is no longer transparent” because of the mixed budget line, and describing the presentation of the figures as a rise in investment as “knowingly misleading”.
Elsewhere, there was also a solid response — and holding to account — published by Transform Scotland, which is worth a read.
🅿️ 26 New Locations for Secure Resident Cycle Parking Planned
The City of Edinburgh Council have released detailed technical plans [PDF] for 26 new on-street secure cycle parking hangars, as part of Phase 2 of the project’s rollout; local hero Harry Williams has done us all a solid and stuck them on an easily-perused map of the new locations. Cheers Harry!
🎉 Hart’s Cyclery to Host ‘Spring Bike Jam’ Event
From the fine folks at Hart’s Cyclery, on Saturday 24th May:
Our inaugural Spring Bike Jam. We'll have a morning gravel ride (30ish km in the west) in the morning; and an MTB ride in the afternoon (family friendly up Corstorphine Hill).
In between at 12-3pm, we'll have all the fun of the fair in the back car park, with Danny doing shows, loads of very cool bikes on display, bikes to demo, bike games, bike stuff raffle, burgers and a wee tuck shop and bike jumble.
📈 The next Copenhagen? Inside Scotland’s cycling revolution
“Access to safe routes for commuters on bicycles increases the number of people using pedal power to get to work — whatever the weather” — great article over at The Times
🏰 Local Bits
🌸 Last Thursday saw the meeting of Edinburgh’s full Council, and tabled amongst its business were some clarifying questions to the Transport Convener on the safe implementation of the changes coming to the Greenbank to Meadows Quiet Route by Green party Councillor Chas Booth; the answers are worth a read through [PDF, Page 17] in terms of some previously unseen detail, including different widths of planned protected cycleway on Braid Avenue depending on whether travel is in an uphill or downhill direction;
📺 Another gorgeous video from one of Edinburgh Dawn Patrol’s outings last week, over on Instagram;
🦺 Following a driver hitting and seriously injuring an 80-year-old woman on Ashley Terrace at the end of April, Wednesday saw a well-attended road safety protest on the street; The Edinburgh Reporter has a write-up, including a video from the protest;
📗 A new book released last week from Markus Stitz (bikepacking route planner, filmmaker, photographer, organiser of Dirt Dash, Edinburgh Dawn Patrol [IG] and author of many other great cycling books!) — “Gravel Rides Cairngorms & Perthshire”:
“I hope this guidebook inspires people to discover the stunning beauty and rich cultural heritage of the Cairngorms, Perthshire, and the mighty River Tay,” says Stitz. “This is a place I’ve come to know intimately by bike, with Alyth now the home of Bikepacking Scotland. The fact that there are now several titles for gravel riding shows the popularity of this segment. The rise in popularity of gravel cycling was also an encouragement to write a book with routes which are more accessible and appeal to a much wider variety of people.”
The book also includes an introduction to gravel riding in Scotland, covering the Scottish Outdoor Access Code, bike and kit advice. Ten of the routes are directly accessible by train or bike-friendly bus services or close to stations or bus stops - supporting low-carbon travel choices.
Covering routes from 14 to 77km in length, the guidebook includes a mix of easy, straightforward and challenging rides across some of Scotland’s most spectacular and remote landscapes. From the fast gravel tracks of the Deeside Way and the Southern Cairngorms to the iconic Burma Road and hidden gems like Little Glen Shee, the book offers something for cyclists of all levels.
⏩ Buy online directly from Markus »
⚙️ Spokes have published a full write-up of their recent public meeting with the Council’s Transport Convener and Head of Transport Strategy & Partnerships - and also a Youtube video of the evening;
🚲 Great to hear of an initiative getting High School pupils in Portobello out cycling with the fine folks at [Porty Community Energy] — post on Facebook »
🍽️ The team were also out this week giving cargo bike training to collection riders [FB] for food redistribution and waste awareness project Porty Community Fridge [FB];
🔧 The Bike Station are hiring:
👥 Cycle Trainer Ride Leader - 0.5FTE
🔧 Community Mechanic - 1FTE
More details on their Vacancies page »
👏 Portobello legends Velow Bikeworks have opened a beautiful wee pop-up shop in Pitlochry [IG];
⬆️ Parents for Future Scotland are hiring:
Seeking an Edinburgh-based climate enthusiast who can work closely with 12 Edinburgh schools as part of our schools air pollution programme. This is a self-employed role, provisionally up until 31st March 2026, but may be extended — Job Listing »
🇬🇧 National
🏴 Scotland
🚵 Happening right now, as we speak:
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..
Read more and donate here, and you can follow Sarah’s progress live over here;
🚸 Next Glasgow Kidical Mass is on this Sunday, 18th May:
🏴 England / UKGov
🎙️ Marco te Brömmelstroet, also known as “The Fietsprofessor,” returns to The War on Cars to discuss a new study he co-authored with Dr. Ian Walker, another former guest of the podcast. The study takes a look at a phenomenon where people accept the harms and risks associated with cars in ways they wouldn’t in other areas of life. But unlike Dr. Walker’s previous study — and that of Dr. Tara Goddard, another friend of The War on Cars — this new study asks where motonormativity comes from and examines the ways in which it manifests itself differently depending on factors such as where a person lives or their perceptions of the beliefs of their friends and family. The results are fascinating.
— via Calder, Podcast: ‘The War on Cars’ Episode 151
🖌️ Bristol’s “invisible” bike lanes to be painted red to reduce conflict with pedestrians – but cyclists warn “lipstick on a pig” approach will not make “disjointed” infrastructure safer — article at Road.cc »
via SW20, who say: 100% needed in Edinburgh. Better colour distinction is needed as bikes lanes look like road or pavement, causing issues for pedestrians and cyclists.
🌍 Elsewhere
🇫🇷 Until July 8, we are on a "mission" on the roads of France to get people talking about cargo bikes and professional cyclo-mobility — Tour de France à Vélo-Cargo [💬 FR] via Edinburgh Festival of Cycling
🛣 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:
🕳️ Telfer Subway: Works on Orwell Terrace today and tomorrow 12-13th May, for Scottish Water manhole repairs, may obstruct cycle access to the Telfer Subway. It is expected to be possible to dismount to access.
🚧 Rodney Street: Segregated cycle lane downhill into Cannonmills closed for Scottish Water works until 15th May.
🤳 Royal Mile: Closed 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: Works extended to the end of this week,16th 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.
🛜 Grey’s Loan: Closed this weekend, 17 to 19th May for Vodafone fibre works. If you’re travelling to Merchiston, the Harrison Road bridge may offer an alternate route, providing it remains open for cycles (see entry below).
🕳️ Marchmont Crescent: closed at the modal filter by Warrender Park Rd and Roseneath St for Scottish Water manhole repairs until the end of May. The Leamington Walk shared path around the Meadows may provide an alternate route east-west.
🚧 East Fettes Ave: Closed until the end of May 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.
⛰️ 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 the end of 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. UPDATE: works appear to be overrunning and may finish in June.
⚡ 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
🟰 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 »
🖼️ 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 - check out the gorgeous video they put out this week [IG] from a recent event too:
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 Evenings: Edinburgh Gravel Cycling Club social group rides;
✴️ 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 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:
⛔ 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;
🚶 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 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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