Reposted by Blackford Safe RoutesNicole McEntee @nikkimcentee17.bsky.social · 10hOur bike bus today was huge for National Bike/Walk/Roll to School Day! Estimated 50 kids + another 30 parents! We went off route for a little donut meetup and the incentive worked! 210612
Reposted by Blackford Safe RoutesTom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 11hIncredible how "would be great if kids could walk/bike to school independently" somehow turns into a discussion about needing a car to move furniture. 510815
Reposted by Blackford Safe Routesclareskeltonmorris.bsky.social @clareskeltonmorris.bsky.social · 11hThis morning’s commute ❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥 0143
Reposted by Blackford Safe RoutesRosamundi @rosamundi.bsky.social · 17hif I had a pound for every time some idiot councillor said "let cyclists use the park!" and the cyclists went "it's not safe, it doesn't provide useful routes, it bakes in conflict with pedestrians, and your parks close at 4pm in the winter, you muppet," i wouldn't be sat here about to go to work. 35012
Reposted by Blackford Safe RoutesThe Ranty Highwayman @rantyhighwayman.bsky.social · 7his apparently good enough, this would just have people rolling through because that's what people do and it will just lead to calls for enforcement. In short, it's another example of safety coming from rules which work if everyone obeys them all the time. The actual solution to unsafe junctions 161
Reposted by Blackford Safe RoutesFietser @americanfietser.bsky.social · 7hMrs. Fietser knocked out the grocery run by bike on her lunch hour today. Driving a car just to haul a few bags of food through the neighborhood is incredibly inefficient. A car is simply too big of a tool for the job. 0989
Reposted by Blackford Safe RoutesSpokesLothian @spokes.org.uk · 15h#BonningtonRoad 🙋 Petition for traffic calming & school crossing patrol --> you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/re... @edi.bike @chdot.bsky.social @jackrmcaldwell.bsky.social @chasbooth.bsky.social @katrinafaccenda.bsky.social @lhncc.bsky.social @leithcentralcc.bsky.social @leithfeederride.bsky.social 053
Blackford Safe Routes @blackfordsaferoutes.co.uk · 3hSo LibDems and the Greens were there, and which other party? 010
Reposted by Blackford Safe RoutesChas Booth (he/him) @chasbooth.bsky.social · 9hGood discussion at the @nebriefing.bsky.social screening in Edinburgh City Chambers hosted by Edinburgh Communities Climate Action Network (ECCAN). Disappointing turnout from councillors, 3 of 5 parties on the council represented. 181
Reposted by Blackford Safe Routessbarlster @sbarlster.bsky.social · 5hTravelled to a work event. I traveled by e-bike. The views were glorious. The air fresh. The trail was very bumpy, but you know, take the rough with the smooth. I could have gone by car. 🤣🤣🤣 There is no way I could have done that journey by car in the same time. 131
Reposted by Blackford Safe RoutesBrent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 19h“Someone with a 1-hr car commute needs to earn 40% more to be as happy as someone with a short walk to work. On the other hand, if someone shifts from a long commute to a walk, their happiness increases as much as if they’d fallen in love.” #CityMakingMath 50 reasons for more walkable streets.fastcompany.com50 Reasons Why Everyone Should Want More Walkable StreetsFrom making you live longer to making cities more resilient: If you want a reason to make your city more walkable, it's in here. 7420135
Reposted by Blackford Safe RoutesHackney Cyclist @hackneycyclist.bsky.social · 4hLeidseplein, Amsterdam in 1972 and today 1297
Reposted by Blackford Safe RoutesMerchiston Districts Community Council @merchistoncc.bsky.social · 14hWant to organise leaf clearing in your own area? @edinburghcouncil.bsky.social can provide clean up kits free of charge if you would like to clear away leaves, weeds or litter in your neighbourhod. www.edinburgh.gov.uk/litter-flyti...edinburgh.gov.uk 012
Reposted by Blackford Safe RoutesFietser @americanfietser.bsky.social · 10hSidewalks that dump pedestrians into the street for the benefit of turning cars is hostile design. It shouldn't be allowed design in any proper city. 90° corners direct behavior and force motorists to slow their speed and pay attention. This is how you create safe streets. 1623626
Reposted by Blackford Safe RoutesWater of Leith Conservation Trust @wolct.bsky.social · 11hA sunny session down in Leith at our monthly clean up. We protected the local environment clearing a large pile of rubbish. Maintained the walkway clearing leaves and reclaiming the width. Removed taggiing and adding additional planting to enhance it. #civicpride 091
Reposted by Blackford Safe RoutesCargo Bike Ben @cargobikeben.bsky.social · 19hCorrect headline should be “End of parking subsidy in Liverpool saves council tax payers over £1m”bbc.co.ukLiverpool parking charges bring in more than £1m council saysThe figure has been revealed following a Freedom of Information request from a group of businesses. 611828
Reposted by Blackford Safe RoutesThe Ranty Highwayman @rantyhighwayman.bsky.social · 14hOf course, I've not been quite as stark as that and my language has been more carefully crafted than that, but running many of our rural A-roads at 50mph and 60mph needs to end. 2383
Reposted by Blackford Safe RoutesThe Ranty Highwayman @rantyhighwayman.bsky.social · 14hI've just finished a report which saying a 50mph speed limit on a rural single carriageway A-road with direct accesses and priority junctions is incompatible with Vision Zero and should be 40mph maximum and even that's too fast for side impact risk for drivers - it should be 30mph and redesigned. 35615
Reposted by Blackford Safe RoutesCllr Emily Kerr 💚 @emilykerr36.bsky.social · 18hFascinating article on why campaigning against cycling and walking doesn't work for the Tories in London. From Conservative Home (!). conservativehome.com/2026/09/29/a...conservativehome.comAndrew Gilligan: Popular among activists, scrapping ULEZ doesn't add up - either politically or financially | Conservative HomeOn the subject of motoring in London, there’s a long history of utter Tory refusal to look the electoral facts and numbers in the eye. You don’t have to agree with me on this. So please, let’s start t... 3266
Reposted by Blackford Safe RoutesPeople's Government of the Pelargir Commune 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴 @dov.bsky.social · 14hAll sub-objections to this quite literally do not matter: at core we cannot, cannot, cannot keep extracting oil and gas in the medium term and you have to internalise this yesterday 2322
Reposted by Blackford Safe RoutesRev Peter W Nimmo @peternimmo.bsky.social · 14hOil in Aberdeen has been in inevitable decline for years, yet the loudest voices we hear seem not to want to diversify the economy 1172
Reposted by Blackford Safe Routesecocat.bsky.social @ecocat.bsky.social · 14hWhy is it a four lane urban motorway, I use it but increasingly feel the need to use the canal towpath. Narrower, slower, annoys walkers but what else. Every third trip or so squeezed between parked car and overtaking cars at traffic islands despite taking a defensive position central to road. 121
Reposted by Blackford Safe Routes🚲 edi.bike | weekly news digest @edi.bike · 15hDeadline 9th October! 033
Blackford Safe Routes @blackfordsaferoutes.co.uk · 15hThe sad thing is the pavement & carriageway were recently resurfaced, with the kerbstones lifted out But the council made no effort to make the pavements accessible, ie widen them, nor do anything to reduce car dominance in this residential street 130
Blackford Safe Routes @blackfordsaferoutes.co.uk · 15hMany many people, regardless of gender, would be afraid to cycle on a 4-lane, 30mph road, treated as an urban racetrack and storage for privately owned cars Huge suppressed demand 110
Blackford Safe Routes @blackfordsaferoutes.co.uk · 15hThere is no safe way for women and girls to access by bike the campus you visited yesterday bsky.app/profile/drsc... 231
Reposted by Blackford Safe RoutesDr Scott Arthur MP (Edinburgh South West) 🌍🌈🌹 @drscottarthurmp.bsky.social · 06/10/2026The Westminster Transport Select Committee, of which I am a member, is currently examining the safety of women and girls across the transport network, including walking and cycling routes. If you have views, please submit them to the enquiry: committees.parliament.uk/work/9900/sa... 51311
Blackford Safe Routes @blackfordsaferoutes.co.uk · 15hSilence from the MP… So strange to be unable to say anything on the increased level of harm to children… Is it #MotorNormativity ? 173
Blackford Safe Routes @blackfordsaferoutes.co.uk · 15hCount the number of things wrong in this picture Leamington Terrace 2102
Reposted by Blackford Safe RoutesProf Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 16h “techno-optimist” scientists [engaged in] less civic actions and protests, signed fewer petitions and engaged in less advocacy. .....also less likely to reduce the number of flights they took, cut car usage......." You know who you are - and should be ashamed www.theguardian.com/environment/...theguardian.comScientists who put faith in technology less likely to take climate action‘Techno-optimism’ may lead to reliance on unproven solutions at expense of societal changes needed 109227
Reposted by Blackford Safe RoutesBrent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 19h“Local stores next to the protected bike-lane have seen a 49% increase in sales, compared to an average of 3% for Manhattan as a whole.” (Among MANY other public benefits.) Want To Make More Money? Build A Business On A Bike Lane. #CityMakingMath via @fastcompany.com #BikeLanesMeanBusinessfastcompany.comWant To Make Money? Build A Business On A Bike LaneResearch from New York City notes that newly installed protected bike lanes do more than keep bikers safe--they raise the income of the stores they are in front of. 11521201
Reposted by Blackford Safe Routesruthmayorcas.bsky.social @ruthmayorcas.bsky.social · 16hNot sure the £104milluon over 4 years for the entire country would enable such like this to be built here 😟 1102
Reposted by Blackford Safe RoutesToroth (they/them) @torothhatchling.bsky.social · 21h"And to get between these two places, they invented the car. Which was a brilliant solution to the problem they'd just created by inventing the sprawl. It's what historians call 'a circular economy.'" 0122
Reposted by Blackford Safe RoutesFietser @americanfietser.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Urbanist Philomena Cunk. In America, they invented a clever system called sprawl. It’s a brilliant idea where they put the place you sleep exactly twenty-five miles away from the place they keep the bread. 815919
Reposted by Blackford Safe RoutesJester mouse @jestermouse.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Would be nice if there were a dropped kerb here so you can easily join the cycle path at the earliest opportunity when coming up from Stenhouse. #EdTravCyc @stephenjenkinson.bsky.social 051
Reposted by Blackford Safe RoutesEdinburgh Planning Updates @ediplanningupdates.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Partial selective demolition and mixed-use redevelopment: arts centre, commercial, hotel, co-living, student and apartments, with landscaping and infrastructure. 📍 1 Summerhall Edinburgh EH9 1PL 🖼 Kettle Collective 011
Reposted by Blackford Safe RoutesGravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026The mobility of children is simply not taken seriously or viewed as important. Something illustrative is how people will often say that kids "don't count" when you remind them that children and young teens are nondrivers who deserve the right to get around without cars. 334785
Reposted by Blackford Safe RoutesHackney Cyclist @hackneycyclist.bsky.social · 06/10/2026✅ Low-car city-centre streets ✅ Protected cycle tracks on main roads ✅ Ample cycle parking at shops and huge underground bike parking at the station = Streets safe enough for families to cycle, quieter neighbourhoods for residents and more welcoming cities for visitors. 📍 Delft, the Netherlands 311322
Reposted by Blackford Safe RoutesMerchiston Districts Community Council @merchistoncc.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Leaf clearing volunteers needed 🍂 We invite residents to join the Volunteer Team in the Merchiston Leaf Clearing Project Learn more and get in touch to help out! merchistoncc.org.uk/the-merchist... 288
Reposted by Blackford Safe RoutesJosh Morsell @joshmorsell.bsky.social · 06/10/2026www.opb.org/article/2026...opb.orgBike buses give Portland commuters a ‘more fun’ way around the I-5 closureThe Portland Bureau of Transportation offers weekly group rides as an alternative commute during the southbound closure of Interstate 5. 1202
Reposted by Blackford Safe RoutesWater of Leith Conservation Trust @wolct.bsky.social · 06/10/2026A busy day for staff from the Edinburgh office of AECOM at our visitor centre. They rolled up their sleeves to help get it ready for our Summer's End event on the 25th of Oct. Then they took to the river, removing several bags of waste to keep the river healthy Top work team 0153
Reposted by Blackford Safe RoutesFietser @americanfietser.bsky.social · 06/10/2026✅ No car necessary. 0447
Reposted by Blackford Safe RoutesMike Cookson 🔶 🇪🇺🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ @mikecookson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Imagine if a politician came up with an idea to improve the farmers track that's just on the other side of that hedge, and link them together into a network. Simultaneously getting active travel and agricultural traffic off minor country roads. Like they do in the Netherlands. 3142
Reposted by Blackford Safe RoutesDoug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Take a look at the bike traffic near Blackfriars Bridge in London during the evening rush hour. Incredible! 522829