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Edinburgh Bus Users Group @edinburghbug.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

despite Edinburgh population growth. AND NO, WE DON'T NEED FRANCHISING. Noteworthy (para)quote: Around three-quarters of city residents regularly use LB for city journeys, v. half using a car @stephenjenkinson.bsky.social @chasbooth.bsky.social @cllrjomo.bsky.social @sannedd.bsky.social

https://edinburghbususers.group/updated-bus-lanes-and-patronage-graph-3

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Edinburgh Bus Users Group @edinburghbug.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

OK...fair enough. What about Edinburgh Trams and Glasgow Subway? edinburghbususers.group/ebug-suggest...

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Edinburgh Bus Users Group @edinburghbug.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Great moments in detective fiction. In homage to Picardy Place's connections to Sherlock Holmes, his declaration "the game's afoot" is captured in bronze at the famous roundabout.

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Edinburgh Bus Users Group @edinburghbug.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Visit Edinburgh's picturesque Inverleith ward, famous for its redundant street clutter. @vicnicsnp.bsky.social

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Edinburgh Bus Users Group @edinburghbug.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Ahem. There's quite a lot of buses; see screenshot below www.lothianbuses.com/wp-content/u... plus other operators from the wider Lothians. They are free if you have www.transport.gov.scot/concessionar... What they don't have is bus priority in the hospital grounds, so you get stuck in congestion.

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Edinburgh Bus Users Group @edinburghbug.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

#CatchTheBusMonth Mythbusting 9. A bus is not a tram, no matter how many articulated sections and superfluous bodywork you add to it. Be Bus Proud. h/t web-cdn.bsky.app/profile/nige... @garethdennis.uk

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Edinburgh Bus Users Group @edinburghbug.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Waiting for the 29. bettertransport.org.uk/blog/catch-t...

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Edinburgh Bus Users Group @edinburghbug.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

In the short term, CEC could do this, from democracy.edinburgh.gov.uk/documents/s5... but only if ScotGov/Transport Scotland gets their act together on bus infrastructure funding.

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Edinburgh Bus Users Group @edinburghbug.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

midlothianview.com/news/new-bus... www.hcltransport.org.uk/community-bu...

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Edinburgh Bus Users Group @edinburghbug.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

All parties have 2 each, surely (though why @cllrconorsavage.bsky.social name's missing this month is a mystery). Except the SNP have 3, one of whom changes more often than a quick-change artiste trying to avoid being tailed.

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Edinburgh Bus Users Group @edinburghbug.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

'recommended by who'? Hopefully not based on the 400m cited here, which has been shown to be based on a flawed premise.

https://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/downloads/file/24985/pt-2-bus-stops

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Edinburgh Bus Users Group @edinburghbug.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Unfortunately the bit about 'passengers must form an orderly queue' was also excised.

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Edinburgh Bus Users Group @edinburghbug.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Oh hello. Apparently Municipal bus companies are now called LABCos in England. www.gov.uk/government/p... Time to remind ourselves of the Great Tradition of Councils managing their buses so badly they went bankrupt or had to be sold off. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...

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Edinburgh Bus Users Group @edinburghbug.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Since @chasbooth.bsky.social motion in 2019, approved nem con by Full Council, the subject's been aired several times in CEC meetings. Most recently here democracy.edinburgh.gov.uk/documents/s9... where again TEC voted unanimously in favour of an amended motion (full text here). It would require an

https://democracy.edinburgh.gov.uk/documents/s96649/Minute%2029.01.26.pdf

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Edinburgh Bus Users Group @edinburghbug.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

democracy.edinburgh.gov.uk/documents/s5...

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Edinburgh Bus Users Group @edinburghbug.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

In today's www.edinburghminute.com/the-edinburg...

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Edinburgh Bus Users Group @edinburghbug.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

One deputation from us, and the reopening of Princes Street is announced.

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Edinburgh Bus Users Group @edinburghbug.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

'Since many of the city's bus lanes were first introduced in 1997, the population has grown by around 20%.' "and bus ridership has shot up except when we cut operating hours, so it's sensible to improve them".

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Edinburgh Bus Users Group @edinburghbug.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Booo! Don't you know it's a requirement for Council documents to use language that obfuscates instead of enlightens?

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Edinburgh Bus Users Group @edinburghbug.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Still is. (We didn't check returns. Does anyone come back from Skegness?)

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Edinburgh Bus Users Group @edinburghbug.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

@cllrcmiller.bsky.social Motion to Council, 27 August: "All Council documents will refer to private tourist coaches as Charabancs" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charaba... * verification @threadinburgh.scot ? *

In Jersey, a char-à-banc is legally different from an “omnibus” (bus) - a bus picks up and sets down passengers along its route, while a char-à-banc picks up only from specified departure points and sets down at a pre-determined destination or destinations. Char-à-bancs generally provide tours of the island.

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Edinburgh Bus Users Group @edinburghbug.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Thanks to the petitioner who told us: www.change.org/p/restore-bu... we hear the stops will now be replaced, served only by Houstons Coaches hourly, not Lothian Buses. Comments on the petition show how removing bus stops affects people...N.B. @lothianbuses.bsky.social @edinburghcouncil.bsky.social

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Edinburgh Bus Users Group @edinburghbug.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Look, we don't know why this hasn't been published, but as CEC gave it to c50 stakeholders in June it's not a secret. Yes, we should do ALT, but in this case it's beyond Our Curator's Basic Computer Skills (Level 1: failed). Sorry.

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Edinburgh Bus Users Group @edinburghbug.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Are you saying Edinburgh Trams has lost a lot of income but Lothian Buses has not?

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Edinburgh Bus Users Group @edinburghbug.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

🙂😉 web-cdn.bsky.app/profile/edin...

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Edinburgh Bus Users Group @edinburghbug.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Now with hourly windspeed for those who are dismantling a Princes St building

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Edinburgh Bus Users Group @edinburghbug.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

1. web-cdn.bsky.app/profile/edin... 2. Now with added screenshot via @edinreporter.bsky.social 3. More to follow re the bus stops.

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Edinburgh Bus Users Group @edinburghbug.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Lovely, lovely, lovely. Joyous video in www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com of immaculate reinstated bus lanes. Sadly without buses or bus stops, but we can hope 'nature is healing'

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Edinburgh Bus Users Group @edinburghbug.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Meanwhile, news from elsewhere: The Beeb putting in a good shift here: web-cdn.bsky.app/profile/edin... 👇our pick of the thread. To find out why, see many of our previous posts.

Katy Austin at 6.54 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cdx7z2wwe7qt?page=2

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Edinburgh Bus Users Group @edinburghbug.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

North Bridge. An email to various bods at CEC, LB, etc. (See also ALT)

EBUG was taken aback to read this article in the Evening News No plans to reinstate bus stops on North Bridge when route reopens fully to traffic

As you will know, we have previously argued against the blanket removal of bus stops, while accepting that a few are sited overly close together.

However, in recent times it seems the removal of stops has focussed on those which are clearly convenient for passengers, not on the redundant. For example:

Leven St, West Maitland St, and, (temporarily) outside the Cameo last year.

Then there's the shambles on George IV Bridge, and Great Junction St.

We could also cite the plans for Leith Connections phase 3...etc etc.

The logic of having no stops on the main (parapetted) bridge itself is understood. But it means there's a clear need for stops at the ends of the bridge, i.e. between the High St and the Scotsman Hotel, and near/opposite the Balmoral Hotel. We think the closest stop for right-turning buses on Princes St is not even outside Apple's shop, because it is difficult to manoeuvre buses from there into the right turn lane.

We have, of course, previously noted the benefit of removing most general traffic from the east end of Princes St. Which it was, apparently successfully, before being reinstated 'temporarily' during the Trams to Newhaven works.

As an aside, I presume the fanciful idea of lifts from Waverley Station to North Bridge is firmly off the agenda?

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Edinburgh Bus Users Group @edinburghbug.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

SUNDAY: Rather than take the bus round multiple diversions today, Odysseus and his mates decide to walk through Princes Steet Gardens, and find it takes rather longer than expected.

Still from Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey

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Edinburgh Bus Users Group @edinburghbug.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Some relief for bus users. And, since @drscottarthurmp.bsky.social mentions Slateford Rd, any chance of more & better bus stuff there @stephenjenkinson.bsky.social @edinburghcouncil.bsky.social ?

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Edinburgh Bus Users Group @edinburghbug.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

The impact of Edinburgh's transport policies must be somewhere in here:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clyl3z2xld8o

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Edinburgh Bus Users Group @edinburghbug.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

*sigh* For the avoidance of doubt, and the benefit of Evening News readers, this is an extract of a briefing by Council Officers for the Waverley Valley workshop in June:

Summary: The Circulation Plan "Future Streets Framework", is linked to the City Mobility Plan and City Centre Transformation Strategy. It classifies Princes St as a primary corridor for buses, place, walking, and tram. Most of Princes St is classified as a local cycling corridor (rather than primary or secondary), though the importance of space for cycling is identified in the eastern end.

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Edinburgh Bus Users Group @edinburghbug.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

These articles seem somewhat out of date. The current iteration of the CMP doesn't feature 'to not through'. In fact, at the cited June workshop, CEC Officers circulated a briefing stating:

In summary The Circulation Plan "Future Streets Framework", is linked to the City Mobility Plan and City Centre Transformation Strategy. It classifies Princes St as a primary corridor for buses, place, walking, and tram. Most of Princes St is classified as a local cycling corridor (rather than primary or secondary), though the importance of space for cycling is identified in the eastern end.

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Edinburgh Bus Users Group @edinburghbug.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Enough said: democracy.edinburgh.gov.uk/documents/s9...

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