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Edinburgh Critical Mass @edcriticalmass.bsky.social · 9h
These Friday night rides will be slightly different from the Saturday ones, the music might contain strong language and the route won't be published ahead of time but expect a ~5miles (8km) city centre (Voi compatible) ride. You can see them as the punk sibling of the Saturday ride 😉
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Edinburgh Critical Mass @edcriticalmass.bsky.social · 9h
Ready an other Critical Mass ride? Join us this Friday 2nd of October, 7.30pm, Middle meadow walk for an evening ride going through the city centre and finishing on Bristo Square!
Critical mass ride, Friday 2nd of October 7.30pm middle meadow walk.
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The Workers' Observatory @workersobservatory.org · 29/09/2026
🚲 Calling all Edinburgh delivery riders to the next monthly gathering of the Edinburgh delivery riders collective ROOM! 📆 Wed 30 Sep ⏰ 2.00-4.00 pm 📍Southside Community Centre 117 Nicolson St, Edinburgh EH8 9ER 🌯 Lunch & Refreshments 🔋 Charge your e-bike batteries! 📩 Questions? Drop a message
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SW20ed #Edinburgh @sw20.info · 28/09/2026
Just look at what Glasgow’s achieving with just the same challenges as #Edinburgh - both can be real cycling cities. If you look at this and think it’s all just bikes… look at the rain gardens, greenery, safe pedestrian junctions and road diets. #streetsNOTroads 📹 @glasgowcycles.bsky.social
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The Problem with UK infrastructure
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🚲 edi.bike | weekly news digest @edi.bike · 28/09/2026
🚲 edi.bike | issue 164 | 28th Sep '26 ‘How we could turn Edinburgh into a real cycling city’; Edinburgh Delivery riders unveil a Fair Work Charter; Minto St to Craigmillar Park Corridor; plus events, infrastructure, route closures & more: buttondown.com/edi.bike/arc... #bikeSky #edinburgh
A person rides a bike up a sunlit street in the evening; a pedestrian waits to cross outside of a classic pub frontage for ‘The Conan Doyle’ with a black facade and golden trim, with hanging plants outside. The weather is dry, and in the background we can see rising sandstone and glass shops and offices under a blue sky, as well as the steps leading up to a cathedral building as passers-by pass by.
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SpokesLothian @spokes.org.uk · 26/09/2026
📈 #FlashFlood hits @thebikestation.bsky.social 🤩 Spokes is matchfunding the #Crowdfunder 🚲 helps tackle #ClimateCrisis; but #floods fight back! 🙋 Donate-> www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/keep-us-ro... @edi.bike @chdot.bsky.social @davidfkey.bsky.social @chasbooth.bsky.social @drscottarthurmp.bsky.social
Photo Inside the bike stn, showing the flood damageEdinburgh Bike Charity launches crowdfunder after flash flooding forced workshop to close 

The Bike Station, a Scottish charity which promotes cycling through sales of affordable refurbished bikes and a variety of community programmes including a free library of children's bikes, has launched a fundraiser after flash flooding in Edinburgh’s Old Town affected its Tollcross branch. 

On 19 August 2026, extremely heavy rainfall led to flash flooding in several areas of the Old Town including South Bridge and the Grassmarket. At the same time, the basement workshop of The Bike Station in Tollcross was flooded, forcing staff to evacuate, and causing damage which took over a week to repair. 

While The Bike Station has now re-opened its Tollcross branch, the charity is feeling the impact of losing over a week of work and revenue during its busiest time of the year, with demand for bikes at its highest and the communities programme in full swing as schools return from summer holidays. In the wake of the flood, the charity has launched an online fundraiser, aiming to raise £10,000 to support the ongoing recovery of the Tollcross workshop, and its varied community projects working with children and young people, asylum seekers, and groups which are underrepresented in cycling. 

“We are so proud of our amazing mechanic and branch team for the work that they do year-round, and we are particularly proud of the pace at which they have been able to recover and rebuild from this flood. Extreme weather events are only going to happen more often due to climate change, so we are more determined than ever to carry on our work helping everyone to enjoy a sustainable, and joyful, mode of transport.” Sasha Taylor, CEO of The Bike Station. 

The crowdfunder can is available via this link, and more information about the work of The Bike Station is on the website. 

Photos are available here. 

For any further information please contact Sarah McArthur at sarah.mcarthur@thebikestation.org.…£4752 raised so far, from 116 peopleExtreme weather makes The Bike Station’s mission even more important- support us to get more people using sustainable and joyful transport.

August in Edinburgh is always busy!! - but this August was also difficult. Will you help us to raise £10,000 to ensure more people can choose cycling? Everything you donate will be match-funded by Spokes, up to £5000!

August is one of our busiest times at The Bike Station- especially in Tollcross. Our branch is buzzing as more people want to get moving on two wheels. We refurbish over 125 bikes in the month. Downstairs in the tiny but mighty Tollcross workshop, our amazing mechanics work their magic and dozens of high quality lovingly refurbished bikes. For August and September everyone is on full speed to keep up with demand.

That is, until extreme weather brings everything to a stop
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🚲 edi.bike | weekly news digest @edi.bike · 25/09/2026
Could it be that Edinburgh's worst condition protected cycleway is about to get smooooth? 🤞🏼
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SpokesLothian @spokes.org.uk · 24/09/2026
🤩 50th anniversary of #PedalPower #WestCalder 👍 Sat/Sun 26/27 incl food, drinks etc 👍 Proud stockist of #SpokesMaps @edi.bike @chdot.bsky.social @gregorpoynton.bsky.social @cyclingscot.bsky.social @keithirving.bsky.social @mininglandscapes.bsky.social @paulinestaffordsnp.bsky.social @sw20.info
Poster for the event "50 years, all invited"Yes, we’re celebrating 50 years of Pedal Power this weekend, with our Golden Anniversary Sale taking place Saturday 26 and Sunday 27 September at the shop in West Calder.

It’s a pretty special milestone for us. Pedal Power has been part of the West Calder and wider Scottish cycling community for five decades, and we’re really looking forward to celebrating it with our customers, friends and the wider cycling community.

The main focus of the weekend is, of course, the Golden Anniversary Sale, with:

20% OFF ALL PARTS & ACCESSORIES
UP TO 50% OFF SELECTED BIKES & PRODUCTS

Alongside the sale, we’ll have a whole host of things happening across the weekend, including brand representatives, bike demos, the opportunity to ride the new Specialized Tarmac SL9, giveaways, a Golden 50th Raffle with a £3,000 Pinarello F1 up for grabs, food, drinks, nibbles and plenty more.

It’s very much intended to be a celebration rather than simply a SALE, and we’d love to see as many people from the local and wider cycling community as possible.front cover of Spokes West Lothian map
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Edinburgh Critical Mass @edcriticalmass.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
If you've never taken part in a Critical Mass ride, we ride as a large group every month to peacefully protest for better and safer cycling infrastructure in Edinburgh. Join us every one is warmly welcomed!
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Edinburgh Critical Mass @edcriticalmass.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
New Critical Mass this very Saturday, 2pm from middle meadow walk. This time we will ride towards Cluny Gardens and King's Building. A route used by many students daily but that could be made a lot safer for cycling.
Critical Mass route going to Kings Building and back. 2pm middle meadow walk on saturday 26th of september
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Sean Allan @seanallan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I started #EdinburghCycleTraining as a registered company yonks ago Its been dormant since COVID so Chris and I have decided tae wind it up Zero assets, zero liabilities Appreciate any advice on closing it down formally Also, happy tae just hand it over tae anyone who wants it (SC531303)
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Corey Boyle @coreyboyle.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Today is World Car Free Day and the end of European Mobility Week. Streets worldwide handed back to people: cleaner air, quieter roads, healthier, more active lives. Edinburgh, one of the UK's most congested cities? Business as usual. The quietest thing today is the council. Not even a post.
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World Car Free Day: Bogotá to Edinburgh - Corey Boyle
In 1974 a 5000-strong legion of protesting cyclists closed the Colombian capital's traffic-choked streets and reclaimed them for the people.
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🚲 edi.bike | weekly news digest @edi.bike · 22/09/2026
Anyone lose a pannier this morning?
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🚲 edi.bike | weekly news digest @edi.bike · 22/09/2026
Ace - there goes joyridesedinburgh.com !
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Markus T Hiemann @markushiemann.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Heads up Southside (Edinburgh, to be precise) peeps. The Astley Ainslie draft Place Brief is up for consultation. Closes 11 Nov 2026. consultationhub.edinburgh.gov.uk/sfc/astley-a...
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Astley Ainslie Draft Place Brief - City of Edinburgh Council - Citizen Space
Find and participate in consultations run by City of Edinburgh Council
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🚲 edi.bike | weekly news digest @edi.bike · 22/09/2026
📮 We're aware of an issue with deliverability of the newsletter to Blueyonder and Virgin Media addresses; we'll work with our email provider and the ISP to resolve but this may take a few weeks to settle, so you'll need to proactively look us up weekly in the meantime!
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ShoshanaR @biblioteka0131.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This is a great video report from @edi.bike on the Summerhall junction: www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWiR.... Can we please have enhancements to this soon?
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edi.bike: Summerhall Upgrades and Issues, September 2026
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SW20ed #Edinburgh @sw20.info · 21/09/2026
Already highly flawed - pavement and bike lane not very raised, no Dutch kerb on the exit, Edinburgh’s insistence of not using proper colour for bike lanes AND left turn into traffic lights you can’t see - this is now even worse.
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🚲 edi.bike | weekly news digest @edi.bike · 22/09/2026
#EdTravCyc
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Robbie Ainsworth @robbieainsworth.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Diversion route for Roseburn to Union Canal path closure allows entry and exit at Dalry Rd, diverting along Murieston Cres. Although booked in for the full week, it's hoped resurfacing snagging works will only take 2 days, potentially reopening mid-week. #EdTravCyc @spokes.org.uk @edi.bike
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🚲 edi.bike | weekly news digest @edi.bike · 21/09/2026
🚲 edi.bike | issue 163 | 21st Sep '26 More bikes than cars on Leith Walk; Video on Summerhall; Small steps for Powderhall.Link; Full Council meeting round-up; Cargo Bike Carnival; plus events, infrastructure, route closures & more: buttondown.com/edi.bike/archive/iss…
Parking area with signs. A blue letter P and a bicycle symbol are visible.
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Jester mouse @jestermouse.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Funny that the signage says the 25th? 🤷‍♂️ Signage on route is from the start at Roseburn to the sign pictured. bsky.app/profile/jest...
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🚲 edi.bike | weekly news digest @edi.bike · 20/09/2026
#EdTravCyc Roseburn to (almost) Union Canal Link closed from tomorrow, Monday 21st until Tuesday 29th for footway resurfacing. Potentially only being resurfaced on the bridge over Dalry Rd, hard to tell from the wording — but Dalry Community Pk through Russell Rd blocked either way.
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Paul ☕️ 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️🚶 🚲 🍃 @misterwohlfart.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Basically what Edinburgh should be but isn't. Even when in fully pedestrianised areas you have to have eyes in the back of your head due to the number of drivers who just see any bit of flat surface as somewhere to drive/park.
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Lib Dem Friends of Cycling 🔶🚲 @libdemcycling.org.uk · 20/09/2026
Unfortunately this motion applies only to England as the @scotlibdems.org.uk is a separate entity. We hope they’ll consider a similar policy, however.
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🚲 edi.bike | weekly news digest @edi.bike · 20/09/2026
This is great. Can you tell our lot? 😅 💛
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Brendan Paddy @bjpaddy.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Yesterday I picked up a Voi bike near my house at 5.05am & was at Waverley for the first London train 12 minutes later. At that time of day I was parked in 30 seconds right outside the station. I paid £1.81. Nothing else matches that speed, reliability & price. www.scotsman.com/news/transpo...
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More bikes than cars recorded on Edinburgh rush hour route for first time
Highest figures also notched up on major Glasgow cycle routes too
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🚲 edi.bike | weekly news digest @edi.bike · 18/09/2026
Congratulations on 1,000 issues! 🥂
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🚲 edi.bike | weekly news digest @edi.bike · 17/09/2026
@moh-kohn.eurosky.social hey - do you do DMs on here?
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🚲 edi.bike | weekly news digest @edi.bike · 17/09/2026
📺 New on our Youtube channel: a video about Summerhall upgrades, safety problems, and teething issues — www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWiR... #Edinburgh #bikeSky #EdTravCyc
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edi.bike: Summerhall Upgrades and Issues, September 2026
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Joe Dick @whatjoewrote.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
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Spock's Work is Done in The Simpsons
Alt: Spock's Work is Done in The Simpsons
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Merchiston Districts Community Council @merchistoncc.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
45 years! 😮 That's how long Craiglockhart Primary School families have been waiting for a safe zebra crossing in front of the school.
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🚲 edi.bike | weekly news digest @edi.bike · 16/09/2026
👀 If you're interested in what was _actually_ agreed at Thursday's Transport Committee meeting, you can read it without the unedifying spin in our round-up: edi.bike/articles/202...
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Dave McCraw @davemccraw.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Imagine 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
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Katie McDonald @katiemcdonald.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Schrodinger's traffic lights at the bottom of Leith Walk - can cyclists still be accused of jumping reds if there aren't lights to jump?
Image shows a traffic sign propped against a set of traffic lights, completely covering the bike lights.Image shows a green bicycle light behind a traffic sign
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Gavin 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
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Andy Arthur💃🏰⚓🦌 Threadinburgh 🧵 @threadinburgh.scot · 15/09/2026
*Every* school should have all through roads festooned with Zebra and Puffin crossings and every side street made a school street. No consultation, no debate, just implemented. And yes, inconveniencing and slowing down traffic is *THE WHOLE POINT*. It shouldn't be controversial or difficult.
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Andy Arthur💃🏰⚓🦌 Threadinburgh 🧵 @threadinburgh.scot · 15/09/2026
The council has these things down to a fine art. Yes you *could* have some basic road safety measures outside a school, but it's going to take you a huge amount of effort and your kids will almost be finished by the time a spade hits the ground, so are you sure you want to really bother?
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🚲 edi.bike | weekly news digest @edi.bike · 14/09/2026
🚲 edi.bike | issue 162 | 14th Sep '26 Edinburgh's cycle hangar demand up 50% in one year; Corey Boyle’s Cycling City part two; Princes Street revamp, and Transport Committee round-up; plus events, infrastructure, route closures & more: buttondown.com/edi.bike/arc... #bikeSky #edinburgh
An aerial view of a crossroads, featuring two-stage right turn box markings on two arms of the junction, two straight ahead painted cycle lanes across it, and some glimpses of segregated cycleway. There are cars and vans using the junction and it is bordered on three corners by green space.
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🚲 edi.bike | weekly news digest @edi.bike · 14/09/2026
💜 A huge honour, which I’m truly grateful for! Thanks for reading / riding with me — Ben
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Melissa @iammelissa.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
#edtravcyc the constant merry go round that’s the Davidsons Mains roundabout continues - watch out to see if this non-bike-accessible version is still running Monday morning! This may be your only sign as there are literally no signs to forewarn
A blocked roundabout with one moved traffic cone A blocked street with no way to mount the kerb. The photographer is standing between the two points.
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Ross McKenzie @rosssmckenzie.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Thanks to Spokes for the deputation and to @edi.bike for including the issue in their newsletter - this resulted in some detailed responses from those cycling the junction regularly and these have been passed to the officers who will be engaging with BEAR.
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SpokesLothian @spokes.org.uk · 12/09/2026
#SpokesComp ends Sunday 🙋 We'd love more entries from Non-Members! -> www.spokes.org.uk/2026/07/spok... @edi.bike @chdot.bsky.social @edfoc.bsky.social @bjpaddy.bsky.social @edinreporter.bsky.social @chasbooth.bsky.social @threadinburgh.scot @jarlathflynn.bsky.social @sw20.info @d4cae.bsky.social
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Entries "Could be as simple as using a #SpokesMap to make a great outing or commute route"picture of West Lothian bike mapPRIZES FOR THE 2026 COMP

Top prizewinner gets first choice of prizes, and so on till all prizes allocated. Runner-up entries which don’t win a prize will get to choose a free Spokes map or buff

    Museum of Scottish Railways (Bo’Ness) Family annual pass to the extensive museum
    Bo’Ness & Kinneil Steam Railway Family ticket for one return trip
    Ember Bus [takes 2 bikes] £50 bus tickets credit
    Edinburgh Bicycle £50 Edinburgh Bicycle voucher
    Camera Obscura Family ticket [2 prizes]
    Filmhouse – prize of 2 tickets
    Laidback Bikes Recumbent tour or cargobike hire
    Harts Cyclery One-week ebike hire
    Edinburgh Festival of Cycling Urban Arrow Cargo-bike day hire
    Lanterne Rouge bike cafe, Gifford £20 voucher
    Water of Leith Visitor Centre – £10 cafe voucher
    Spokes £1000 voucher* towards cargo-bike purchase
    Spokes £200 voucher* towards e-bike purchase
    Spokes Set of all 4 Spokes maps

    RUNNERS-UP Spokes map or Edinburgh map-buff
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🚲 edi.bike | weekly news digest @edi.bike · 11/09/2026
The Facebook Boomer mindset (#notAllBoomers #notOnlyBoomers) is to only engage with what's happening in the locality as far as it reenforces your opinion that everything is going to sh*t. 'They're cutting down the trees now!' — not 'oh, looking into it, planned improvement doubling their number'.
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SpokesLothian @spokes.org.uk · 10/09/2026
🙋 Just 3 days left to win £!000 towards a #CargoBike, £200 towards an #ebike, cafe vouchers or loads of other great prizes.. @edi.bike @chdot.bsky.social @edfoc.bsky.social @srd.bsky.social @johnrobson87.bsky.social @tracygriffen.bsky.social @marklazarowicz.bsky.social @secretedinburgh.bsky.social
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alice lyall @alyall.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
This is me. I like trams! But I am convinced I'd be past retirement before anything usable replaced the RP. No parallel route included w/trams west. P St/Shandwick Pl junction a frightening obstacle course years after a woman killed. Years for new infra but existing is ripped out in weeks. Etc etc
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Charlie @urchaidh.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
A Day In Our Wheels

AN EMPATHETIC EXERCISE

SUNDAY 27TH SEPTEMBER 2026

1PM-3PM

An interactive outdoor experience of tricky terrain, lumps and bumps in the road, precious cargo and maneuvering around often human-made obstacles that cause not just hazards risks but danger to life and limb!

Try to navigate your way in a wheelchair, buggy or without being able to see where you are going!

UNDERSTAND. EMPATHISE. MAKE CHANGE. EVERY BUMP TELLS A STORY.

PORTOBELLO PROMENADE (MEET AT PATH CONTAINER)

ALL AGES WELCOME

Equal Footing

https://portycommunityenergy.wordpress.com/equal-footing-porty/

Facebook /equalfootingporty

Instagram @equalfootingporty
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SpokesLothian @spokes.org.uk · 09/09/2026
#EdinburghTram 🙋 To clarify the headline (as the article explains).. Over 50% of Spokes members do agree with #tram beside #Roseburn path, but over 50% also agree with the Orchard Brae route! Explanation is that 30% are happy with *either* route Over 80% support the principle of north extension
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🚲 edi.bike | weekly news digest @edi.bike · 08/09/2026
They drive amongst us (sometimes a bit literally). Wild.
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