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A Geo who Cycles @geocycle.eurosky.social · 20h

Anagach Woods report: A cacophony of Coal Tits. Wrens, Robins, and Chaffinches. Making joyful appearances: Goldcrests, Tree Creepers, and the much appreciated Crested Tits. Back to Leith this afternoon. Until next time, Speyside!

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A Geo who Cycles @geocycle.eurosky.social · 22h

Coffee thought his morning, and question asked without any sort of research before putting it out into the wild wide web: I wonder if there are statistics for how many EVs go into thermal runaway and and up being a large sized BBQ. If there are, I wonder what that % is.

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A Geo who Cycles @geocycle.eurosky.social · 30/09/2026

Carrot Weather remains one of my favourite weather apps ever. It also has geographical challenges where it asks you to find landmarks on a map. Pretty fun. Today’s Lake Ontario challenge notes just add to the love.

Lake Ontario
Great Lakes, North America
Lake Ontario is the smallest of the Great Lakes by surface area, sitting along the border between the United States and Canada.
Fun fact: Ontario the province was named after Ontario the lake, not the other way around. So renaming the lake because it sounds too Canadian is not just stupid, it's chronologically stupid.
Read Wikipedia article

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Mark McIntyre @markjmcintyre.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

There's something amazing about being in a peloton of 40+ bikes on the cycle lane heading home. Every driver at the front of a queue of side-street traffic... every person peering out of a bus window... every passer-by gets the message: "Oh wow, yeah, people are using this stuff". Never gets old.

My view travelling home by bike: Loads of people cycling on the South City Way cycle lane on Victoria Road in Govanhill in the Southside of Glasgow, during evening rush hour. A woman in front of me wears an incredibly fetching gold coloured helmet.

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SpokesLothian @spokes.org.uk · 23/09/2026

"I am a 91 year old who used to nip about by car" ... Now he's a 🚲 campaigner in #Colinton! 👍 An example to us all! @edi.bike @edfoc.bsky.social @chdot.bsky.social @cllrconorsavage.bsky.social @stephenjenkinson.bsky.social @sw20.info @longstonecc.bsky.social @edinreporter.bsky.social @osbert.org

I am a 91 year old who used to nip about short journeys by car but since 2020 I have used a bike, an electric assist, to do the same thing

Email to his councillor...

I am a 91 year old who used to nip about short journeys by car but since 2020 I have used a bike, an electric assist, to do the same thing

The lights on Redford Road near the Dreghorn Link give safe access to the Dreghorn houses but are difficult for bicycles due to steps. Could the steep step be smoothed out for bicycle access?

In the same area could the Dreghorn Link be provided with a secure cycle lane, there is plenty of room as one lane is hardly ever used.

The footbridge over the Dreghorn Link has been closed for a long time, could this be opened to allow safe access avoiding Redford Road from Bonaly and Colinton in general.

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Leith Feeder Ride @leithfeederride.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The broken paving on the continuous footway at Dalmeny St / Leith Walk has been repaired with tarmac, undermining the whole design. It now looks like pedestrians and cyclists are crossing a road, rather than drivers crossing a continuous footway.

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A Geo who Cycles @geocycle.eurosky.social · 21/09/2026

This morning’s coffee thought: There are roasters all over the world that coffee enthusiasts order from to try their beans. Big names. Great roasts. I have tried 8 roasters in Edinburgh, 9 including E. Lothian. The carbon footprint for shipping retail coffee all over the world must be massive.

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A Geo who Cycles @geocycle.eurosky.social · 18/09/2026

Went on a 70km gravel/road ride winding our way to Dunbar last night with some friends, then train back. Been a hard summer - illness and life getting in the way of riding. A healing type of ride, with night riding, singletrack, and good vibes. £11 for a fish supper, that included DOUBLE FISH. 🤯

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A Geo who Cycles @geocycle.eurosky.social · 17/09/2026

Replace London with any UK city. Weather has less to do with active travel uptake, and safe infrastructure is everything.

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A Geo who Cycles @geocycle.eurosky.social · 17/09/2026

Having this discussion last night with a friend. What happened to the ultra rich just throwing money at infrastructure, civic buildings, parks, bridges, etc. and putting their name on it as a form of forever prestige - instead of hoarding / buying elections. I think about this often.

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Cycling Scotland @cyclingscotland.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

🚲 NEWS: More bikes than cars on Leith Walk in morning rush hour; record cycle counts and record cycling modal share on multiple routes in Glasgow and Edinburgh. Delve into the latest data from Cycling Scotland traffic surveys and cycle counter analysis: buff.ly/IoWdSMB

People smile and chat to one another as they cycle together on a protected cycle lane in Edinburgh.

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Andy Cooke @andycoooke.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

#EdTravelCyc there must have been problems with the sequence of lights at the top of leith walk as more than 20 bikes were queued up yesterday (5:20pm-ish)

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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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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 15/09/2026

We’re: — Redesigning our most dangerous streets.  — Regulating delivery apps.  — Lowering speed limits where children play. — Upgrading 1,000 intersections every year.  — Cracking down on dangerous drivers and super speeders.  — Improving our street lights. — Building safe, beautiful public spaces.

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A Geo who Cycles @geocycle.eurosky.social · 16/09/2026

This is what leadership within a city looks like to make meaningful change to improve the lives and safety of its people.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 15/09/2026

No New Yorker should lose their life just trying to get around our city. We refuse to accept preventable tragedy as an inevitable part of living in New York. That's why we’ve announced more than 100 policies to make our streets safer over the next 10 years.

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A Geo who Cycles @geocycle.eurosky.social · 14/09/2026

Debating whether I need to make it part of my personality the explanation of setts vs. cobblestones, and then reminding people of the difference when they get it wrong.

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A Geo who Cycles @geocycle.eurosky.social · 13/09/2026

Trying to think if I’ve ever heard the phrase, “I loved visiting X-City, it was just so easy to drive and park there!”

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Dave McCraw @davemccraw.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Copenhagen 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

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

This is cool— apparently @adamtranter.bsky.social transformed a street parking space into a parklet (mini park/public space), but the municipality removed it because it wasn’t a mother vehicle. So he did this. Nice job. And dumb interpretation by city hall. Via Marco Te BrommelStroet on LinkedIn.

Pictures of a mini trucka-like vehicle with a little park/park bench on the flatbed in the back. So essentially a mini park on top of a vehicle.

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A Geo who Cycles @geocycle.eurosky.social · 12/09/2026

Some of our friends from Japan are visiting and staying with us, and brought me something special. If you’re a pourover geek … you know just how rare it is to have one of these in Europe right now. Hario Alpha Switch Ceramic. Saying I am STOKED to make coffee tomorrow morning is an understatement.

Me holding the beautiful matte ceramic Hario Alpha Switch pourover V60 style immersion brewer over my well loved MCM table.

Overhead view of the ceramic pourover half. Beautiful edged markings that allow for the perfect extraction of everything you could ever want from a cup of coffee.

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A Geo who Cycles @geocycle.eurosky.social · 11/09/2026

New bonobo-album-day today. 🤩🤩🤩

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Chas Booth (he/him) @chasbooth.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I’m glad that 3 parties: SNP, Labour and Greens have agreed a way forward on Edinburgh #Trams. There is now a way forward on tram to Bioquarter. More work is needed to deliver on the commitment to ensure Granton gets a mass transit connection in the future.

Screenshot of agreed position on Tram, colour coded to show SNP addendum (yellow) and Green addendum (green).

Screenshot of cover of Strategic Business Case for Trams from Granton to Bioquarter and beyond.

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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

New study finds the social cost of driving a car 1 km—including pollution, crashes, infrastructure, and noise—is more than *triple* the private cost paid by the car owner. doi.org/10.1016/j.tr...

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A Geo who Cycles @geocycle.eurosky.social · 10/09/2026

In news not related to anything going on locally: Somehow I got my Legend of Zelda 40th anniversary Switch2 preordered yesterday. Bike fit redial this afternoon. Friends visiting from Japan are bringing me a Hario Switch Alpha Ceramic pourover tomorrow. Arranging MCM Ladderax today. #millennial

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SW20ed #Edinburgh @sw20.info · 09/09/2026

Glasgow doing a great job providing those inspiring before and after photos. We only have the before ones in Edinburgh……

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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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A Geo who Cycles @geocycle.eurosky.social · 09/09/2026

Within 5 minutes on Constitution Street just now: Taxi driver honking at an indicating Eastbound cyclist turning right onto Dock Street Leith Connections Cycleway. Taxi driver (Black van) barrelling down Prince Regent St not stopping for me as I was already crossing. Told him to read Rule H2.

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A Geo who Cycles @geocycle.eurosky.social · 09/09/2026

Looking forward to hear the arguments for how the heritage and preservation of Edinburgh’s Princes St (& George St) must be incredibly tempered because HISTORY. Meanwhile, Paris is cementing the legacy of the Champs Elysées for generations to come. I’m tired, fam.

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Andrew Heald @andyheald.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Ahead of the Edinburgh trams decision (or probable non decision) on Thursday - an important letter from Granton and District Community Council. grantoncc.scot/index.php/20...

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Trams to/from Granton: open letter to the TEC – Granton and District Community Council

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Edward Tissiman @edtiss.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

This comment from Reddit demonstrates why Edinburgh needs to tow vehicles rather than just ticket them. These are the vans blocking pedestrian crossings, cycle lanes, bus lanes, bus stops, disabled parking… Why do we allow such rampant rule breakers to negotiate a penalty? Tow them.

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A Geo who Cycles @geocycle.eurosky.social · 05/09/2026

A brief reminder that the Just Stop Oil M25 protestors (who weren’t all dressed in black and obscuring their faces) were given 4 years detention. Awaiting similar outrage at those today from the same people who were calling for blood with the previous group of protestors.

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jarlathflynn.bsky.social @jarlathflynn.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Great #bikebus this morning. Look at all those bikes that were cars before the bike bus. Later in #edinburgh I will speak to 20 schools that don't bike bus..YET. #bikebussalesman @coachbalto.bsky.social @stephenjenkinson.bsky.social @edinreporter.bsky.social @walkwheelcyclet.bsky.social

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Channel 4 News @channel4news.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Undercover footage verified by Channel 4 News reveals a secret plot by senior Reform UK figures to break the law on party donations. A leading legal expert is now calling for a criminal investigation. 🔗 Read the exclusive story on Substack:

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Exclusive: Nigel Farage filmed undercover celebrating secret new foreign donations

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A Geo who Cycles @geocycle.eurosky.social · 01/09/2026

Whelp. Dirty Reiver 2027 signups started at 8am today. Site is being hugged to death.

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A Geo who Cycles @geocycle.eurosky.social · 31/08/2026

Up in Sutherland and Caithness for the week, this time without a bike (was riding the Pictish Trail last May though!) Spotted a trio of Sea Eagles(!!!) being mobbed by ravens as we got up into Kinbrace. As we were through binoculars, got a midge bite on my elbow. Sizeably ironic. Enjoy the vid!

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A Geo who Cycles @geocycle.eurosky.social · 31/08/2026

Never been called a hip cat before. @edi.bike - that’s going straight to my LinkedIn profile.

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SW20ed #Edinburgh @sw20.info · 30/08/2026

20mph results in 25%-30% fewer casualties and reduces their severity.

Crash map view of traffic crashes in Currie, Edinburgh - 79 separate incidents in recent years.

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David Brennan @magnatom.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

So this is a Facebook response to a petition to extend a cycle lane in East Dunbartonshire #BearsWay. It's honestly quite stunning. I think this should win an award. Seriously.

It is naive to think that any extension could be made because road geometry does not allow it. Cyclists are unregulated. Commit many road irregularities and have done for years. The Highway Code now demands, and rightly so for safety reasons, at least 1.5 meetres between cyclist and car/lorry/bus/ articulated lorry/emergency vehicle, when overtaking.
Of course the Scottish government want a national cycle route. Of course the Glasgow cycling groups want a complete network but such road hungry structures defy the majority of road users, most of whom contribute to the economy 24/7.
Cyclists from Glasgow can take the train to Milngavie from the city if needs be to get out to the countryside.
Very much the minority will ever buy or cycle. You need to really analyse the demographics of road users, and cyclists. And publish it for us.
We in Milngavie would be looking for the transport modelling in detail of road use, and cycle use in the council area. We are the tax and council tax payers.
Sorry but this is cloud cuckoo land thinking. Cyclists contribute little to the economy in this country. They do support the cycling industry, the cycling clothing industry. Let's see the stats for cycling casualties and the cost for hospital treatment. E-scooters are unregulated, dangerous and a meance to many.
The road surface would be dug up, more white lines, more visual difficulties with who goes where. More pot holes between different road surfaces.
The cycle racks at bust stops are never used. So, the cost of their installation to taxpayers is completely wasted.
The townscape into Milngavie would be further made negative by the brutal design by Sustrans and others of the cycle lane infrastructure which is not sensitive to the environs.
Emergency vehicles cannot pass easily along Milnagvie Road be
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A Geo who Cycles @geocycle.eurosky.social · 29/08/2026

How we are all feeling today with the trams running down to Leith and Newhaven again. (Yes, the app yelled at me and threatened with a ban for taking a screen shot. 🤣)

Cropped screenshot from the Edinburgh Trams App, showing today’s password: Lucky.

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Urban Truth Collective @urbantruth.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

How many more studies does your city need proving that people on bikes and on foot spend more on shopping streets than people in cars? Bike-lanes mean business. In general, and specifically more than on-street parking or another lane for cars. #UrbanTruth

Poster saying “Bike-lanes mean business!” By the Urban Truth Collective, with a photo of a central Paris bike-lane filled with people on bikes.

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EdinburghMinute.com @edinburghminute.com · 29/08/2026

After successful tests overnight, trams and buses have returned to the full length of Princes Street this morning. @edinburghtrams.bsky.social Check lothianbuses.com for any route updates, especially buses as the return of some bus stops gets phased in.

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Cornelius Beer & Wine @corneliusbeers.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

A real head scratcher..

Highlighted text excerpt " how do you have walk in trade if nobody can get parked? "

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Pidgin Posting @pidginposting.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Glasgow just getting on with it while Edinburgh waters-down, delays or just abandons safe infrastructure projects.

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road.cc @roadcc.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

British Cycling and the Grand Départ GB organising committee have joined forces this week with civic leaders to pen an open letter urging the Labour government to deliver a “lasting legacy” for next year’s Tour de France visit by making cycling safer, more accessible, and more inclusive in the UK

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Invest £30 million in safe cycling schemes to leave lasting legacy for British Tour de France Grands Départs, prime minister told

Prime minister Andy Burnham has been told to invest £30 million in safe cycling infrastructure and facilities in order to leave a lasting legacy of improved public health and reduced inequality follow...

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A Geo who Cycles @geocycle.eurosky.social · 26/08/2026

The feeling when you leave your DnD session absolutely beaming at the fun had and subsequently so excited for what’s to come. Having a blast playing a Paladin whose patron god happens to be the lands’ Queen of Death, vengeance, and destruction - who also happens to kinda be embodied in his shield. 😅

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A Geo who Cycles @geocycle.eurosky.social · 26/08/2026

New popup mobility hub near Leith Links looks great! Across from the primary school, hopefully gets some local use. I believe it’s around for about a couple months.

Brightly coloured parklet with wood decking. Seating, planters, bike racks, and a small bike stand present.

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Momentum Magazine @momentummag.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Cate Blanchett Goes Viral After Cycling Away From London Theatre on a Brompton. momentummag.com/cate-blanche...

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A Geo who Cycles @geocycle.eurosky.social · 23/08/2026

Just saw a post on Vinted that said, “Vintage 1990s…” How DARE they.

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