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🚲 edi.bike | weekly news digest @edi.bike · 12/10/2026

Claim 2: bicycles exceeded vehicular traffic on Leith Walk between 8am and 9am on Wednesday 13th May. These claims being in adjacent paragraphs is not an invitation to pick and mix them; they are not all-sorts nor cola bottles, they are facts. 🤷🏻‍♂️

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🚲 edi.bike | weekly news digest @edi.bike · 12/10/2026

Claim 1: 5,653 cycle journeys were counted on Leith Walk — by automated machines that don't care how much one strokes one's chin, and are deployed across Scotland to provide robust cycle usage data — across a 48h period on 13th & 14th May.

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🚲 edi.bike | weekly news digest @edi.bike · 12/10/2026

🚲 edi.bike | issue 166 | 12th Oct '26 Lothians Cargo Bike Network launch new impact report at Cargo Bike Carnival; ‘7-7-7’ Bus Lane trial begins today; plus events, infrastructure, route closures & more: buttondown.com/edi.bike/arc... #bikeSky #edinburgh

An aerial shot over a wide, green space - we can see the form of prominent dormant volcano Arthurs Seat, the tops of roofs and buildings, and below a large gathering of people, gazebo-style shelters and many cargo bikes under a blue, partially clouded sky.

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🚲 edi.bike | weekly news digest @edi.bike · 05/10/2026

🚲 edi.bike | issue 165 | 5th Oct '26 Further delays on St Mark’s Park bridge; Spokes count in Centre, bikes over 30% of rush hour traffic; Edinburgh Bicycle folds, but lives on; Cargo Bike Carnival this Sunday; plus events, infrastructure, route closures & more: buttondown.com/edi.bike/arc...

A semi-aerial photograph over a wide, four-lane road flanked by large sandstone houses; there are many trees and bushes in their front gardens, and the street is fairly quiet in terms of traffic, flanked by bollarded cycleways under a bright sky with large, fluffy white clouds.

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🚲 edi.bike | weekly news digest @edi.bike · 02/10/2026

3/3 - Voting as per same minutes Bird SNP Burgess GRN Child LAB Doran LAB Key SNP MacInnes SNP Miller GRN So yeah - hardly a Labour-free outcome. The real issue of course is militant NIMBYism and car dependence in the area wearing down reps trying to make progress.

Voting results: 7 votes for the motion, 3 votes for amendment 1, 1 vote for amendment 2.

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🚲 edi.bike | weekly news digest @edi.bike · 02/10/2026

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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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🚲 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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🚲 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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🚲 edi.bike | weekly news digest @edi.bike · 17/09/2026

…seen here in return flight with waiting bollards

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🚲 edi.bike | weekly news digest @edi.bike · 14/09/2026

Odd one, as there's development to the north of this for 'Garden district' development but is boundary cuts off at said dog-leg rather than extending as far south as this... Maybe closing off that road during development means a path here first? citydev-portal.edinburgh.gov.uk/idoxpa-web/a...

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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 · 09/09/2026

I’d actually consider this an improvement on what was happening before - they were staging along the western edge of the square right in front of the passage to/from Randolph Lane, blocking sightlines and sometimes carriageway access for cyclists on CCWEL…

A gold and black coach owned by Parks of Hamilton has been parked by a driver right across the access to and from a lane on the Edinburgh City Centre West East Link cycle route.

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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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🚲 edi.bike | weekly news digest @edi.bike · 31/08/2026

🚲 edi.bike | issue 160 | 31st Aug '26 Even ‘the world’s worst cycle lane’ works; ScotGov under-delivery on Active Travel Investment; our August ‘Full Council’ Meeting Roundup; plus events, infrastructure, route closures & more: buttondown.com/edi.bike/archive/iss…

A muckle pile of haphazardly parked cycles and helmets lean jauntily on security fences and white pickets, atop a patch of grass inside a festival venue embedded in parkland; there are kids bikes, adult cycles, child seats and a prominent large multicoloured wall painted purple, orange, green and blue.

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

Gonna disagree on this one. Level crossing of the loading / mini road access there where previously it was two dropped kerbs. This is better for pedestrians and wheelers - am I wrong?

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

Ha! The tunnel technically in zone but they would have cut out either way just after - right on the edge of the area.

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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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🚲 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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🚲 edi.bike | weekly news digest @edi.bike · 03/08/2026

🚲 edi.bike | issue 156 | 3rd Aug '26 A creative reallocation of jeopardy on George IV bridge; North Bridge reopens with ‘car is king’ layout; plus events, infrastructure, route closures & more: buttondown.com/edi.bike/archive/iss… #edinburgh #bikeSky

A tree-lined urban street in full sunshine, under a bright blue sky, offers ahead of us a filter to pass through a speed reduction build-out from the pavement - there is a blue cycleway sign, a short red asphalt path through the build-out, with bollards and signs showing that vehicles headed in this direction must give way to oncoming traffic. Some parked cars and the tops of buildings peek out from the trees looking into the distance.

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🚲 edi.bike | weekly news digest @edi.bike · 29/07/2026

Free tomorrow? "I’m riding a one-of-a-kind three-person tandem from Land’s End to John o’ Groats for Mind. Rather than having a fixed team, I’m inviting different people to fill the spare seats along the way, share part of the journey and have an honest conversation about life & mental health."...

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🚲 edi.bike | weekly news digest @edi.bike · 27/07/2026

🚲 edi.bike | issue 155 | 27th July '26 Disruption for Trams to Newhaven sees Voi bike fleet increased; Work on the Causey finally begins; Summerhall upgrades land with a bump; plus events, infrastructure, route closures & more: buttondown.com/edi.bike/archive/iss…

A pair of robotic legs - made with flat pieces of metal articulated at the leg joints - is set up to pedal a green bicycle, with motors and wires hanging from it. This being a museum exhibit, it is under bright illumination and the wheels are up on rollers so the bike remains in place. Visitors can press a series of buttons, out of view, to mimic the muscles used in sequence to pedal. Behind the bike are unpainted wooden silhouettes of people huddled over other bikes in a racing stance; beyond, the exposed metalwork of the center’s ceiling, glass wall and other exhibits form a backdrop.

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🚲 edi.bike | weekly news digest @edi.bike · 20/07/2026

🚲 edi.bike | issue 154 | 20th July '26 A Decade of 20mph Benefits; Route closures abound, preventing George St festival pedestrian zone; plus events, infrastructure, route closures & more: buttondown.com/edi.bike/arc... #bikeSky #edinburgh

Looking out across Edinburgh at sunset from a hilltop in the south; in the foreground, long, tall grass sways in the breeze giving way to the dark mass of trees and the city beyond, pin-pricked with lights under a glowing orange horizon and a purple-blue sky with wisps of cloud strewn across it.

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🚲 edi.bike | weekly news digest @edi.bike · 16/07/2026

If anyone's spotted this - lifted yesterday - drop us a line. Seat and basket already recovered from a car park nearby.

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🚲 edi.bike | weekly news digest @edi.bike · 13/07/2026

Once again invoking the timeless wisdom / idiocy of @Horse_ebooks from the hayday (furious whinnying at own pun) of Twitter:

A screenshot from Twitter account @Horse_ebooks, which reads 'Unfortunately, as you probably already know, people'

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🚲 edi.bike | weekly news digest @edi.bike · 13/07/2026

🚲 edi.bike | issue 153 | 13th July '26 Powderhall Link ‘Freedom of Information’ results as another MSP backs the route; City of Edinburgh Council announce ‘Summertime streets’ pedestrian zones; plus events, infrastructure, route closures & more: buttondown.com/edi.bike/arc... #bikeSky

A series of four unusual cycle racks are set in the slabs of a retail park’s paving; they appear to be fully circular, with the bottom third of the circle concealed underground. Just beyond, we see the tarmac of the car park, a striped zebra crossing, bollards and parked cars.

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🚲 edi.bike | weekly news digest @edi.bike · 12/07/2026

The proposals we've seen weren't necessarily finalised designs, but were detailed - see images below. Not the most extensive scheme, but will see some bollarded sections replaced with permanent kerbs.

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🚲 edi.bike | weekly news digest @edi.bike · 06/07/2026

That's better! Though suffers slightly in dark mode.

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🚲 edi.bike | weekly news digest @edi.bike · 06/07/2026

🗺️ Here's our attempt at mapping out the changes 'out to tender' for St Andrew Square and St. David Street - including new protected cycleways linking CCWEL to the 'George Street to Waverley Bridge' cycling link 🖍️ Also at edi.bike/infrastructu...

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🚲 edi.bike | weekly news digest @edi.bike · 06/07/2026

🚲 edi.bike | issue 152 | 6th July '26 Protected Cycleways for St Andrews Square out to tender; Tarvit Street stays closed to motor traffic; last chance for ‘Craigmillar Niddrie Connections’ responses; plus events, infrastructure, route closures & more: buttondown.com/edi.bike/arc... #bikeSky

A large red ‘no entry’ sign - a red roundel with a white bar across the middle - defaced with stickers, including an outline of a pigeon defecating on the bar. Smaller signs underneath read ‘CCTV in Operation’ and ‘Except Cycles’. Behind the lamppost bearing the sign loom glass and metal high-rise buildings with neat green hedges beneath.

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🚲 edi.bike | weekly news digest @edi.bike · 03/07/2026

*Giggles furiously* (dat follower count tho)

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🚲 edi.bike | weekly news digest @edi.bike · 29/06/2026

🚲 edi.bike | issue 151 | 29th June '26 Further delays to Council “Active travel improvements programme”, plus Full Council Meeting Roundup and ‘Powderhall to Piershill’ progress; and events, infrastructure, route closures & more: buttondown.com/edi.bike/arc... #bikeSky #edinburgh

A series of bollards and signage provide a route through a closed mid-way point on a residential street for cycles and pedestrians only. There are parked cars and green gardens beyond.

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🚲 edi.bike | weekly news digest @edi.bike · 27/06/2026

I like traffic filters on residential streets and I cannot lie.

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🚲 edi.bike | weekly news digest @edi.bike · 24/06/2026

St Mark’s Path - bridge over Water of Leith has failed its most recent inspection and has been closed #EdTravCyc /via @jackrmcaldwell.bsky.social on FB

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🚲 edi.bike | weekly news digest @edi.bike · 22/06/2026

🚲 edi.bike | issue 150 | 22nd June '26 Transport & Environment Committee Round-up / rant; North-south tram discourse rumbles on; plus events, infrastructure, route closures & more: buttondown.com/edi.bike/arc... #edinburgh #bikeSky

A number of locked up bicycles are seen across an empty street, framed by the gates of a close where the photograph is being taken from, and a rubbish bin to one side.

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🚲 edi.bike | weekly news digest @edi.bike · 18/06/2026

👀 Another TEC shambles.. CEC's administration - and those who prop it up - will talk about the sustainable transport hierarchy, safe school streets, & reducing car dominance. When was the last time we saw it reflected in the voting when crunch time comes? As Kirsty Lewin said - deeds not words.

Kirsty Lewin's post on X back on March 7th 2024 - "I can't watch TEC today but best of luck to all of those volunteers across Edinburgh who have worked so hard on deputations aimed at improving the safety and comfort of adults and children walking, wheeling and cycling in the city. Cllrs will be judged on deeds - not words."

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🚲 edi.bike | weekly news digest @edi.bike · 15/06/2026

🚲 edi.bike | issue 149 | 15th June '26 Spokes & Living Streets write to Council over dangerous ‘closed’ crossings; Agenda review for June Transport & Environment Committee meeting this Thursday; plus events, infrastructure, closures & more: buttondown.com/edi.bike/arc... #bikeSky #edinburgh

A parent rides a blue cargo trike with child onboard, down a wide road flanked by parked cars and cherry trees, downhill towards a modal filter made up of several red and white-based metal fences filtering local traffic.

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🚲 edi.bike | weekly news digest @edi.bike · 13/06/2026

Saved this to my phone after seeing it posted to look back and smile at.

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