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SpokesLothian @spokes.org.uk · 14/09/2026

👍 "helping reduce reliance on vans" 🙋 Our latest #cargobike grant: £2K towards #CyclingGardeners #eCarla trailer --> www.spokes.org.uk/documents/ad... @edi.bike @cadi.scot @edfoc.bsky.social @chdot.bsky.social @laidbackbikes.bsky.social @edinreporter.bsky.social @joshpizpom.bsky.social @sw20.info

picture of the e-trailer in use, with tools and garden prunings

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E-bike Carla Trailer Grant – Impact Report
We are very grateful to Spokes for the grant towards our e-bike Carla trailer. Thes e-bike/trailer combination is proving to be a useful addition to our operations, allowing us to replace a number of journeys that would previously have required the use of a van.
How we are using the e-bike trailer
We are primarily using it to transport tools and equipment to and from landscaping jobs, as well as removing and transporting green waste and other materials.
Previously, these journeys would generally have been made by van. The carrying capacity of the Carla trailer means that a surprising amount of equipment and material can be transported by bike, making it a practical alternative to the van for suitable jobs rather than simply an environmental gesture.
Benefits to the company
The e-bike and trailer are helping us reduce our reliance on vans, particularly for shorter journeys and work within Edinburgh. This brings a number of benefits, including reduced fuel use, lower vehicle running costs and fewer emissions associated with our work.
It can also be a very practical way of working in an urban environment. Using the e-bike can make it easier to move around congested areas and reduces the difficulties associated with finding suitable parking for a van close to a job.
Importantly, the e-bike and trailer also demonstrate to our customers that we are actively looking for practical ways to reduce the environmental impact of our operations.
Supporting new business
We believe the e-bike and trailer are also beginning to provide a commercial benefit.
We have secured a contract relating to Christmas trees for Edinburgh schools, and we believe that our ability and intention to deliver at least some of the trees using the e-bike and Carla trailer worked in our favour.
For schools in particular, there is an additional benefit in pupils and staff seeing deliveries being made in a more sustainable way. It provides a very vis…

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Our aim is not to suggest that an e-bike can replace a van for every job, but to use the most
appropriate form of transport for each task. Where loads, distances and circumstances allow, the ebike
and Carla trailer give us a practical, lower-cost and lower-emission alternative.
The support from Spokes has therefore helped us make a tangible change to the way we operate. As
well as reducing van journeys, the e-bike/trailer combination is helping us demonstrate our
environmental commitments to customers and may already be contributing to our ability to win new
work.
We are looking forward to expanding its use as part of our day-to-day operations.
Callum Ross & the team at The Cycling Gardeners

picture of the cargobike with 'spokes support' sticker

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Andy Arthur💃🏰⚓🦌 Threadinburgh 🧵 @threadinburgh.scot · 15/09/2026

Sure, these things cost money which is very limited. But so long as the council keeps finding it to: 🅰️ do stupid active transport stuff that's of marginal-to-zero benefit 🅱️ prioritise removing stuff already in the ground to placate segments of electorate Then it's a deliberate choice.

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Blackford Safe Routes @blackfordsaferoutes.co.uk · 09/09/2026

That “small section” of cycle path is the only safe North South corridor in the whole of Edinburgh Many of our pupils use it access friends, family, and after-school activities. Building their confidence & independence Take it out, and they will end up being driven instead

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Blackford Safe Routes @blackfordsaferoutes.co.uk · 09/09/2026

£2.9 billion versus £2.5 billion is not 3 times

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🚲 edi.bike | weekly news digest @edi.bike · 09/09/2026

It’s worth looking into attempts at bus rapid transit and guided busways to understand. One question would be is there a legal mechanism for banning / towing parking blocking busway in the same way legislation exists for doing this adjacent to tram lines. Because someone _will_ flout rules.

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Alistair Davidson @moh-kohn.eurosky.social · 09/09/2026

Always odd that we couldn't possibly put a bike lane in here because of traffic, but a car parked in the turning lane, which completely fucks the traffic flow, is just an understandable rule-bend.

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Blackford Safe Routes @blackfordsaferoutes.co.uk · 09/09/2026

“No feasible alternatives” - only if you never want to take space from cars Trams are road-going vehicles

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Blackford Safe Routes @blackfordsaferoutes.co.uk · 09/09/2026

And in return, we ask, “What’s your feasible alternative for families to cycle safely North South across the city, both during years of tram construction, and after?” Bearing in mind that single tracking isn’t guaranteed

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sbarlster @sbarlster.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Rolling back existing active travel and failing to implement other routes doesn’t help the councils case. Active travellers will hold on with a death grip to any existing facilities until the council is seen to be comfortable taking space away from cars and drivers.

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🚲 edi.bike | weekly news digest @edi.bike · 07/09/2026

🚲 edi.bike | issue 161 | 7th Sep '26 Bike Station fundraising after flash flooding; Spokes push back on unambitious Princes St plans; Byelections deliver two more cycling councillors; Transport Committee agenda review; events, infrastructure, route closures & more: buttondown.com/edi.bike/arc...

Three bicycles are locked to a wavy orange cycle parking rack in bright sunshine, in a sandstone courtyard under blue skies. There is cafe seating and a rusted iron planter with long grasses.

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Blackford Safe Routes @blackfordsaferoutes.co.uk · 02/09/2026

New favourite thing

Skeleton meme that says “Waiting for Edinburgh council to deliver the City Mobility Plan”

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Ella @ellatasm.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I've sent a draft petition to Edinburgh Council asking it to: *do everything it can to investigate and put in place measures to temporarily mend or brace the bridge or hire a replacement, while a longer term solution is sorted out.* May get rejected as council already working on the issue.

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Karen Gregory @karengregory.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

"Such a framing, while seemingly appreciative, obfuscates the conditions under which these workers are employed and the systems that make this dynamic possible."

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Dashed Lines @dashed-lines.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Some photos from August ride to Porty @edcriticalmass.bsky.social. Slow going at times but lots of riders and one pet passenger. Prom full of buskers and a band. City centre heaving with last of Festival folk. #criticalmass

Group cycling on car-free cut-through - just enough time for one rider to show their skills

Critical Mass flag on one of many bikes locked to railings at Porty promenade, with high tide in background

Delivery rider briefly joins group cycling on Hillend Place, Edinburgh

End of ride at Meadows - in foreground are various bikes, riders and parrot (in clear backpack) with circus big top in background

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Edinburgh Critical Mass @edcriticalmass.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Thank you so much everyone for joining our August rides! It was super nice to see good turn around on both Friday and Saturday and enjoy the late summer shine. Here are a few photos from Saturday. See you next Month or maybe before that for an other impromptu Friday ride?

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Edinburgh Critical Mass @edcriticalmass.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Remember there's a ride tonight if you can't make tomorrow afternoon.

a poster advertising a bonus Friday night Critical Mass ride

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Edinburgh Critical Mass @edcriticalmass.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

As well as tonight, we have the regular Saturday Critical Mass ride, this time to Portobello. Getting out of the city while the Festival is on and getting some ice cream at the beach!

a poster advertising the monthly Critical Mass ride on Saturday 29th August

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2 Wheeled Wolf @2-wheeled-wolf.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

BBC are renowned for disinformation on eBikes as it goes with their anti-cycling agenda. They know the EAPC regs definitions of ebikes & electric motorcycles, they just DGAF!

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Michael ᚋᚔᚉᚆᚓᚐᚂ @baoigheallain.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

We must stop referring to every cycleway proposal as 'controversial'. It is high time motor lanes are discussed as controversial.

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Fietser Brandon @americanfietser.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

The American mind could never comprehend such an enabling and accommodating system of transportation. 📍Finland 🇫🇮

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CADi Couriers @cadi.scot · 28/08/2026

This is the BBC stoking confusion and making life difficult for legitimate e-bikes users, by conflating e-bikes with electric motorbikes.

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Andrew Heald @andyheald.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Permanent barrier on Powderhall Bridge. Edinburgh Council have now spent more money blocking access than on last 10 years of maintainence. No waymarked diversion No plan for repair No communication with local community @edinburghcouncil.bsky.social @spurtle.bsky.social @ntbcc.bsky.social

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The Workers' Observatory @workersobservatory.org · 25/08/2026

Today, an Edinburgh Council committee took a first step towards a hub for gig workers in Edinburgh, after an intervention by the Workers' Observatory. Read more on our blog ⬇️ workersobservatory.org/news/edinbur...

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Council takes first step towards a gig worker hub

Edinburgh Council committee proposes a feasibility study into a hub serving transport workers in the gig economy.

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Edinburgh Critical Mass @edcriticalmass.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

You enjoyed our Friday night ride last month? Well, we are organising a new one again this very Friday! 7.30pm Middle Meadow walk If you can't make it, no worries Saturday 2pm (also Middle meadow Walk) we will have our traditional Monthly ride.

Extra Critical Mass! Friday 28 August 7.30pm Middle meadow walk

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CADi Couriers @cadi.scot · 25/08/2026

We are getting ready to start offering our new bike collection service. This means you can have your bike collected and serviced, either bye our in-house mechanic, or by our partners at the Wee Spoke Hub. We plan to launch this service next week through our online store at...

Image from a bridge looking south over the Water of Leith. In the foreground is a white electric cargo bike, with two bike racks attached for transporting bikes securely.

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Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

The Amazing World of Tomorrow

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🚲 edi.bike | weekly news digest @edi.bike · 24/08/2026

🎂 edi.bike | issue 159 | 24th Aug '26 🚲 Three years of edi.bike; Living Streets Edinburgh calls out half-arsed Cowgate closure; plus events, infrastructure, route closures & more: buttondown.com/edi.bike/arc...

A faded and scratched purple, white and orange edi.bike sticker adorns a metal bicycle parking rack with a black u-lock partially covering it. There is a white bike with red and black stripes locked to the rack, and on the other side a green bike with yellow livery. The paving below is dry.

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Dave McCraw @davemccraw.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Exhibit 954 in my series “So why do you drive your kids around the local area despite how walkable everyone insists it may be?”

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CADi Couriers @cadi.scot · 20/08/2026

Before that, police officers have a duty to know what the law is, as a minimum required competence. The regulations around what constitute an e-bike are crystal clear, and all e-bikes are legally compliant by definition. These comments raise questions about the competence of the sergeant quoted.

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djcaress.bsky.social @djcaress.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

The ongoing uncertainty surrounding what does and doesn’t constitute an e-bike by police forces is completely unacceptable. Especially as the definition is really clear. If it doesn’t meet EAPC regulations, then it’s not an e-bike. Why are various police forces struggling with this?

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Chas Booth (he/him) @chasbooth.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

This is a direct result of council blunders and a shameful decision of Labour, Lib Dem & Tory councillors to rip these protections out. Kids and other vulnerable road users will be in more road danger as a result. Absolutely shameful.

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🚲 edi.bike | weekly news digest @edi.bike · 17/08/2026

🚲 edi.bike | issue 158 | 17th Aug '26 Fearty Council reintroduces through-traffic on ‘Quiet Route’ this week; New Musselburgh Active Toun Consultation; plus events, infrastructure, route closures & more: buttondown.com/edi.bike/archive/iss… #bikeSky #edinburgh

A large, cubed concrete block acts as a filter to allow people walking and cycling through a small street access; the block bears a blue and white ‘share space’ sign with white arrows and icons of a pedestrian and a bike. The ground is setted blocks and the walls an unusual patterned concrete - in the distance ahead we see some people walking through the space. It is sunny.

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SW20ed #Edinburgh @sw20.info · 15/08/2026

The constant pictures from London showing rain gardens, new street trees, places to sit, bike lanes and filtered streets show what could be achieved locally in South West #Edinburgh and across the city*.

Rain garden in front of a cobbled street that has been filtered to remove traffic. A new business has started as it’s now a pleasant place to be rather than a rat run. Is it London? No, it’s Leith.

Widened pavement with new trees, plants and places to sit, with a new setted cycle lane. In the background is a bus gate to help prioritise public transport and cut rat running. London? No, it Leith.

Newly planted rain garden and unidirectional cycle lane on a formerly four lane street that has been reduced to only one lane each way giving more space to pedestrians and cyclists and significantly reducing the speed of traffic for safety and reduced noise. Paris? Not, it’s Glasgow.

A bus stop and cycle lane. There is fixed permanent seating next to the bus stop on this formerly four lane carriageway.

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World Bollard Association™️ @worldbollardassoc.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

⚠️BREAKING NEWS IN AUSTRALIA - BOLLARDS FLIP A TESLA⚠️ #WorldBollardAssociation

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Jester mouse @jestermouse.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

If you need a gardener in Edinburgh, you could do worse than The Cycling Gardeners (based at Tollcross).

Lots of cargo bikes, some with mowers on the basket, with “the cycling gardeners” written on them. They stand in front of some big green gates.

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CADi Couriers @cadi.scot · 12/08/2026

Really amazing that CEC has managed this while at the southern end of the East Coast Main Line, London's cycle network is 5 times larger than it was 10 years ago. When will we get the same leadership?

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Dave McCraw @davemccraw.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

What does it look like now, you ask?

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CADi Couriers @cadi.scot · 12/08/2026

Another busy Wednesday today! Catering was delivered to three separate offices, keeping the people working there fed and happy. Various coffee houses, including two branches of Loudons, were restocked with tea from Pekoetea. And two packages of cured meat went to Morningside and Stockbridge.

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The Workers' Observatory @workersobservatory.org · 10/08/2026

🎥 "On Falling" depicts the life of an Edinburgh-based migrant worker in the algorithm-driven gig economy.

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🚲 edi.bike | weekly news digest @edi.bike · 10/08/2026

🚲 edi.bike | issue 157 | 10th Aug '26 City of Edinburgh Council Transport Convener writes to Scottish Gov for Powderhall Link backing; George IV Bridge, signage will fix it; plus events, infrastructure, route closures & more buttondown.com/edi.bike/archive/iss… #bikeSky

It’s a sunny day in a busy urban street, under a bright blue sky, and some melt in a white ‘Loomis’ cash collection van has parked half in the protected cycleway to make a collection from the Tesco Express supermarket. There are cars and buses using the carriageway currently stopped at a red light, and some pedestrians and cyclists ahead of us.

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CADi Couriers @cadi.scot · 06/08/2026

Apparently I spoke too soon yesterday. Busy day today delivering office catering, cured meats. We’re increasingly helping local businesses get their goods to their customers, where it is difficult for vans to get to on the High Street, Leith, and the New and Old Towns. We also delivered tea from...

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SpokesLothian @spokes.org.uk · 29/07/2026

👍 #GreyfriarsBobby footway widening 🤔 We trust #cycling safety will be included, or will be very nasty pinchpoint on busy 🚲route .. we have asked @edi.bike @stephenjenkinson.bsky.social @finlaymcf.bsky.social @cllrcmiller.bsky.social @chdot.bsky.social @edfoc.bsky.social @edoldtowncoco.bsky.social

photo showing kerbs being installed for wider footway

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CADi Couriers @cadi.scot · 05/08/2026

It seems City of Edinburgh Council have realised paving over a drain isn’t the smartest idea.

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CADi Couriers @cadi.scot · 05/08/2026

It has been fairly quiet this week, so far we have made 4 catering deliveries, including the two today pictured to Atria One and the Edinburgh Climate Change Institute. We also bought lunch, consisting of soup and main courses, to the Heart of Newhaven Community Centre, and cured meat to the Belfry.

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🚲 edi.bike | weekly news digest @edi.bike · 04/08/2026

🎺🚲 Musician and composer Dan Abrahams will be singing his cycling songs live at the Pianodrome in Bruntsfield this Sunday at 1pm, and it’s free! Here’s his most recent: youtu.be/nTma5W3P-ps?si=j0-Jpf5AU9s… Tickets: www.citizenticket.com/events/pianod…

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YouTube video by Dan Abrahams

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wingpig @wingpig.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Maybe time for another human-bollard event, but this time guiding cyclists towards the middle of the lane, away from the new kerb...

Photo of Forrest Road, Edinburgh, with alike of humans pretending to be bollards to protect the otherwise-usually-inaccessible-due-to-parked-vehicles cycle lane. Taken on Fri 26thApril 2019.

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CADi Couriers @cadi.scot · 03/08/2026

@sw20.info Hello :) Could you add us to your starter pack?

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