Reposted by Dave McCrawA Matt, of all things @oscillatr.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Bad news for anyone missing a blue Tern 😔 231
Reposted by Dave McCrawDan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Luxury retailers want taxpayers to fund a 20% tax break for foreign tourists. They paid consultancy Cebr to claim this will raise £2.6bn for the UK. That convinced Sadiq Khan and Kemi Badenoch. But it's false: a free lunch. Four basic errors mask a £600m loss. Thread: 6495225
Reposted by Dave McCrawMaciek Hamela @maciekhamela.bsky.social · 26/09/2026With the Strait of Hormuz closed, Iraq has resorted to moving its oil across the desert to Syria in hundreds of tanker trucks, in true Mad Max style. From there, it will be shipped to worldwide markets. 1501943546
Dave McCraw @davemccraw.bsky.social · 26/09/2026As a brand new school, this should have been significantly more accessible without cars. Instead, the traffic it generates practically guarantees that I don’t take my kids except in the car, or if we have time for a 40 min round trip on foot. 2103
Reposted by Dave McCrawFranca @applefranca.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I cycled to work at the Shore via leith walk the other day (I usually go Holyrood park - Easter road) and at every light there were 15 cyclists waiting to go up the way. It's brilliant, love the voi bikes contribution to this! 1134
Dave McCraw @davemccraw.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Scotland’s pavement parking law can only be enforced if your *tyre* is on the pavement, so you can not be ticketed for this, which is not lost on a growing number of people 🧑🔬 372
Dave McCraw @davemccraw.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Edinburgh, where a six lane road doesn’t have room for active travel, but somehow the bus lane is storing a single car, and more than half the pavement can be used by a business as “permitted development” Criticism handled by gaslighting you to the Lothian Rd Boulevard project, coming around 2045 1166
Dave McCraw @davemccraw.bsky.social · 21/09/2026I've long moaned that when the tram was installed, no parallel cycle track was laid to allow "park and ride" into the city by bike. Will this new access road be a private car frenzy which only embeds this further, or an uncharacteristic departure that also provides active travel connectivity? Ha! 240
Reposted by Dave McCrawAlan Fresco @alanf.bsky.social · 20/09/2026I see the Lib Dems' green credentials have gone up in smoke. 192
Dave McCraw @davemccraw.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Kayaker on the Moriston, Sep 2006 Another fine adventure from the back-catalogue 🌊 021
Dave McCraw @davemccraw.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Lest we forget, goods vehicles are specifically excluded from enforcement under Scotland’s pavement parking law 2162
Dave McCraw @davemccraw.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Spring cleaning and found this from Etape Caledonia 2016... the only time I tried this route as I found it too cramped with other riders. 21st of ~3000, simpler times! 160
Dave McCraw @davemccraw.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Although covering up the traffic light with a sign is particularly bad, I don’t like these low down lights in general, even someone standing there has the same effect 082
Reposted by Dave McCrawMerchiston Districts Community Council @merchistoncc.bsky.social · 16/09/202645 years! 😮 That's how long Craiglockhart Primary School families have been waiting for a safe zebra crossing in front of the school. 094
Dave McCraw @davemccraw.bsky.social · 16/09/2026I can't wait for some more of what Scott Arthur is selling 0224
Dave McCraw @davemccraw.bsky.social · 16/09/2026It’s even worse that it looks when you remember that the council are spending seven figures on a new bridge for private cars, instead of either closing it to cars (almost free) or spending a fraction on an active travel bridge instead 4113
Dave McCraw @davemccraw.bsky.social · 16/09/2026“Meta-motonormativity” (I know it’s just a flavour of motonormativity) 020
Reposted by Dave McCrawBlackford Safe Routes @blackfordsaferoutes.co.uk · 16/09/2026They are doing a survey at the Astley Ainslie today and Saturday, counting the number of people who pass through it. If you want to ensure it stays open to the public now and once developed…then do pop by 064
Dave McCraw @davemccraw.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Today I had an awful close pass by a taxi and, separately, used the pavement to go around a roadworks (local access maintained) so I could avoid half a mile on the A70. While the pavement was clear I did startle someone in their drive. Now I’m annoyed with myself, clearly in the wrong, but also… 221
Dave McCraw @davemccraw.bsky.social · 16/09/2026This is where all cyclists would have to travel if it turns out, due to rising costs and a strained public purse, that single-tracking the Roseburn tram beside a cycle route doesn’t have such good economics as a double track replacing the whole path.. 020
Dave McCraw @davemccraw.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Imagine if Edinburgh councillors had widespread power to introduce congestion charging and road filtering schemes, and imagine if Labour took power and popped Scott Arthur in as transport convener. Instead of reopening rat runs, what could they have achieved for congestion, job creation & equality 1134
Reposted by Dave McCrawRich @hoxtonrich.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Suggested ground rules for the ‘debate’ on 'bad' cycling 🧵: 1) Cyclists or cycling advocates are not collectively responsible for the bad behaviour of individuals. What’s your actual point? You want less cycling or rules that have that effect? Be clear. 49840
Reposted by Dave McCrawDan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 15/09/2026The hospitality industry are back lobbying for a VAT cut They don't mention the cost: £12bn They don't mention who gets the £: ❌ The smallest most vulnerable businesses? Get nothing ❌ Consumers? Prices won't fall ✅ McDonald's gets £400m. Big chains are big winners 🧵: 11319153
Reposted by Dave McCrawGavin Corbett @gavincorbett.bsky.social · 15/09/2026💯 support the parents here. It’s been longer than a decade. I was the first parent council chair in 2007 when my oldest son was in P1 (he’s 24 now) and the campaign was already 2 years old at that stage. The speed at which some vehicles pass the school is appalling. Safety measures long overdue 2187
Reposted by Dave McCrawPaul Boldrin @paulboldrin.bsky.social · 15/09/2026I did have a look at recent pedestrian deaths last night and it is shocking. It is almost invisible - many of the deaths don't even get reported in the local news. Here are a few of the recent ones: 57131
Dave McCraw @davemccraw.bsky.social · 15/09/2026For context, Hackney spent £450k to roll out FORTY trial school streets and made thirty of them permanent in just TWO YEARS You can’t avoid the conclusion that both councillors and roads officers are simply not fit for purpose 5205
Reposted by Dave McCrawFranca @applefranca.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Attempts to close the road in front of Sciennes primary started before my kids started, my youngest is now in p7 and there is a 0% chance it will happen before he finishes. The only reason it's even temporarily closed is because of Covid 194
Dave McCraw @davemccraw.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Tour de France speed: just over 25mph Paul’s speed on a Halford special: 30mph Someone missed their calling 5121
Dave McCraw @davemccraw.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Just replace “cyclist” with any minority group and it’s easy to see how dumb these kind of posts are, and why people find them frustrating or wish the authors would think for more than two seconds about what they’re writing 090
Dave McCraw @davemccraw.bsky.social · 14/09/2026It’s not realistic to think that people will stop buying things, so as long as the onslaught against ebikes continues, sign me up to support pavement delivery robots. I don’t want my kids run over by drivers, and will take whatever is not that 031
Reposted by Dave McCrawBlackford Safe Routes @blackfordsaferoutes.co.uk · 14/09/2026Incredible arrogance and selfish behaviour The car is an invasive species Bruntsfield Links park, Edinburgh 2338
Dave McCraw @davemccraw.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Worcester pearmain dessert apples, fruiting on two year old grafts to a mature tree of cooking apples 🍎 🍏 180
Reposted by Dave McCrawRich @hoxtonrich.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Virtually every time I try to cross busy main road, this happens. Far more dangerous & less accessible than a bus stop with a cycle track, & happening everywhere. Yet no moral panic & media hysteria. 88228
Dave McCraw @davemccraw.bsky.social · 13/09/2026If this holds up, spending £500k reopening rat runs would cost Edinburgh £2m, but it’s okay because a budget shortfall is an opportunity to say that things are bad because Holyrood won’t print money, so losing even more money is just even better politics 000
Dave McCraw @davemccraw.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Copenhagen increased active travel rates from 36% to 62% in fourteen years; it’s taken Edinburgh six years to build then rip out the Braids quiet route and Roseburn path extension to Silverknowes. We’re not just doing badly, we’re stuck in reverse 0145
Dave McCraw @davemccraw.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Where will Mark be tomorrow? He keeps you guessing 130
Dave McCraw @davemccraw.bsky.social · 11/09/2026The best seat on the bus is… waiting in a queue for private cars to turn right onto Shandon Pl, previously closed long term for a bridge repair and which could have reopened only as an LTN with a bus gate… but didn’t because Edinburgh 2223
Dave McCraw @davemccraw.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Apropos of nothing, after living less than five mins from Juniper Green for about ten years, I was astonished to learn it has a music shop. That’s what happens when your road conditions are so grim, you purely focus on managing / fearing the drivers around you and don’t take much in 152
Reposted by Dave McCrawSW20ed #Edinburgh @sw20.info · 11/09/2026Interesting to hear in yesterday’s tram debate an argument that trams would harm Edinburgh’s historic streetscapes - yet the status quo of parked cars, pavement parking, pollution and noise is so little objected to. Here’s a tram within 20m of the Cathédrale-Primatiale Saint-André de Bordeaux. 85815
Reposted by Dave McCrawBlackford Safe Routes @blackfordsaferoutes.co.uk · 11/09/2026Remember that more people died on US roads after 9/11, than during the tragedy itself, because they decided to drive instead of fly Because aviation has been made systemically safe 25 years later, little progress has been made making our streets safe, and US road deaths are at an all-time high 1122
Reposted by Dave McCrawAdam Tranter @adamtranter.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Very reassuring to learn that a blind man who drunk drove 150 miles to Scotland, without a licence or insurance, has been banned from driving for 12 months. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukBlind Huddersfield man sentenced for 150-mile drive while drunkAnthony Hall, 50, took his partner's car and drove at night from Huddersfield to near Carlisle. 126519
Reposted by Dave McCrawNorth Gyler @gylernorth.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Corstorphine residents -remember Norman? He was the opponent to the Manse Rd bus gate who drew all over the paving slabs at top of Manse Road Now giving a deputation at TEC opposing the bus gate proposed for Turnhouse Road . Speaking on behalf of the community council apparently. 342
Dave McCraw @davemccraw.bsky.social · 10/09/2026I’m on a slow clean out and it’s really reinforcing a principle I need to learn to follow, which is not to gather material for any project if there is any significant obstacle to its immediate use (for example: do not buy ballast and cement, or bulbs, if their respective holes are not already dug). 130
Reposted by Dave McCraw@LaidBackBikes @laidbackbikes.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Yesterday caught up with one of our reclined trike users (with e-assist) & joined them for an 18 mile cycle into Glen Isla. Coffee & cake at the Glenshee (Lair) Cafe. Cycled 15 miles to cafe at 17mph av + 7.5 miles back 19mph av. M5 CHR a lot of fun to use. Non electric but low energy (sometimes!). 051
Dave McCraw @davemccraw.bsky.social · 10/09/2026I don’t have time to do it justice, but I really need to write a thread introducing the “Lang plan” in which cllrs disasterously replace active travel with the tram at Roseburn but in a way that doesn’t really lose them any votes. Of course I use “lang” in the sense of “long” and not master villain 030
Reposted by Dave McCrawAlan Paxton @alanpx.bsky.social · 10/09/2026These responses confirm my impression that Scott’s era of weak government in the council, pandering to vested car interests, has brought these consequences on his successors. 121
Dave McCraw @davemccraw.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Edinburgh road planners justified narrowing the lanes on Princes St - “transformational” - as opposed to allocating some of the 100 foot wide street to active travel, which would be “radical”. Separately, they’re confused by the lack of trust around destroying the main active travel route @Roseburn 1156
Reposted by Dave McCrawSW20ed #Edinburgh @sw20.info · 09/09/2026Cowcaddens Road was a four lane road - it now looks and feels like a street. So many parts of Edinburgh have similar urban dual carriageways that could have the same treatment: making the city safer, greener, quieter and less congested. #StreetsNOTroads 03210
