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Nigel Bagshaw

@nigelbagshaw.bsky.social
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Translator specialising in all things Central and East European (other than espionage). Sustainable transport campaigner and former Green councillor.

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Nigel Bagshaw @nigelbagshaw.bsky.social · 1h
Problem is many of Edinburgh's councillors believe precisely these people are representative of public opinion and act accordingly.
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Nigel Bagshaw @nigelbagshaw.bsky.social · 1h
For the purposes of the EN, the word 'controversial' means 'affecting drivers'.
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Nigel Bagshaw @nigelbagshaw.bsky.social · 13h
No way a Russian asset.
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Nigel Bagshaw @nigelbagshaw.bsky.social · 14h
Will ‘cause congestion’, says enlightened Edinburgh Facebook - the only source of sensible urban transport commentary. www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/how-wil...
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Everything you need to know about Edinburgh's 7-7-7 bus lane trial
The trial begins on Monday and will run until April 2028
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Nigel Bagshaw @nigelbagshaw.bsky.social · 17h
'Their' space, mainly.
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Nigel Bagshaw @nigelbagshaw.bsky.social · 21h
It's almost as if less parking is good for business.
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Rachel Salvidge @rachelsalvidge.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Thought the sewage scandal was bad? Think again. Sewage works are also a major industrial waste disposal route. Power stations, airports, hospitals, landfills: ~608bn litres last year. No independent regulator. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Revealed: the ‘black box’ wastewater trade that rakes in millions for UK utility companies
Exclusive: Firms made more than £340m last year from processing industrial and commercial wastewater at sewage works that are unable to remove many chemical pollutants
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Nigel Bagshaw @nigelbagshaw.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Have I got this right - if the good people of Bearsden have to pay 50p to park, the local economy will collapse? www.heraldscotland.com/news/2661960...
heraldscotland.com
'The council does not care': Traders hit out over parking fees in city suburb
Drivers in Bearsden will soon pay to park on the town's high street, prompting anger from shoppers and business owners
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Nigel Bagshaw @nigelbagshaw.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Flat earthers of the transport world.
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UK in a Changing Europe @ukandeu.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
"The July 2024 general election produced the most disproportionate result in British history: Labour won more than 63% of seats despite winning less than 34% of the vote." ✍️ David Klemperer explains the debate around electoral reform, and how it could be implemented. ow.ly/vQBk50ZTW80
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Pavel Iosad @anghyflawn.net · 04/10/2026
I challenge you to read this article by the ex-convenor of Edinburgh Council’s Transport and Environment Committee and find even slight acknowledgment of how unsafe roads suppress cycling levels and how the city wasted the opportunity of Covid to change things for the better.
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Nigel Bagshaw @nigelbagshaw.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This applies everywhere.
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Leo Murray @crisortunity.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Everyone is at it: subsidizing demand for fossil fuels instead of funding demand destruction. It doesn’t even take any energy expertise to be able puzzle through why this is a bad idea
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Nigel Bagshaw @nigelbagshaw.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Meanwhile, cities like Munich have a council which gets on with expanding its tram system to meet present and future need. #Edinburgh on the other hand … www.sueddeutsche.de/muenchen/mue...
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München Tram Nord: Neue Linie 23 bis 2031 geplant
München plant eine 5,7 Kilometer lange Tramlinie von Schwabing-Nord bis Kieferngarten mit zwölf Haltestellen. Das 410 Millionen Euro teure Projekt soll 2031 in Betrieb gehen.
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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
94-year-old Jewish human rights barrister, Margaret Owen OBE, arrested under the Terrorism Act outside @labouruk.bsky.social conference. Her crime? Holding a piece of cardboard with the words “I oppose genocide - I support Palestine Action” on it. She was among hundreds doing the same.
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Prof Frank McDonough @fxmc1957.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
30 September 1938. 2:00 AM. The Munich Agreement was signed. It allowed Germany to occupy the Czech Sudetenland. The Signatories were British PM Neville Chamberlain, French Premier Édouard Daladier, German Führer Adolf Hitler and Italian Duce Benito Mussolini.
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Melissa & Chris Bruntlett @modacitylife.com · 28/09/2026
When it comes to road safety, cities have two choices: Adapt kids to traffic: keep them indoors and drive them everywhere. Or adapt traffic to kids: make streets safe enough to move as autonomous members of society. The choice says a lot about the kind of city we want to build. youtu.be/O_WjWRmQwtg
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Nigel Bagshaw @nigelbagshaw.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Given her appalling record on the environment, that can only be a good thing. www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/edinbur...
edinburghnews.scotsman.com
Edinburgh MP Christine Jardine announces she will stand down at next election
It is understood Ms Jardine was not reselected by her local party and she has decided not to request a ballot of the membership
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Nigel Bagshaw @nigelbagshaw.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
What goes on in that man‘s addled head is anyone‘s guess.
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Nigel Bagshaw @nigelbagshaw.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Trolley-buses are not an alternative. Trams were not chosen because they recycle brake energy and someone went on a jolly to the Med. 40% of businesses on Leith Walk did not go bust because of the trams. Populist drivel at its worst.
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Nigel Bagshaw @nigelbagshaw.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Someone’s just shared pretendy working-class hero Bonny Prince Bob‘s latest Instagram contribution on Edinburgh trams. The lack of any factual basis in any of the populist claims is astounding.
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Nigel Bagshaw @nigelbagshaw.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Odense (Denmark) reintroduced trams in 2022, 70 years after the original system was abandoned. There is currently a single 14.5-km line, with a second one planned. Don’t tell me cities just need buses (or even buses disguised as trams).
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Antonia Juhasz @antoniajuhasz.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"We know that fossil fuel interests won't step aside on their own. For decades, Big Oil has treated the atmosphere as an open sewer -- and cashed in on the consequences," said United Nations chief Antonio Guterres in a withering attack on Big Oil at the UN on Tuesday. www.afp.com/en/un-chief-...
afp.com
UN chief says 'Big Oil' treats atmosphere as open sewer
Major global oil companies are treating the atmosphere like an "open sewer," the outgoing United Nations chief Antonio Guterres said Tuesday in a withering attack on the energy...
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Nigel Bagshaw @nigelbagshaw.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I find it fantastically calm ever time.
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Nigel Bagshaw @nigelbagshaw.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Tynemouth?
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Nigel Bagshaw @nigelbagshaw.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Newcastle to Amsterdam ferry - the stressest-free international travel imaginable.
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Anna @walk-cycle-rant.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Come on @edinburghcouncil.bsky.social! Our piecemeal and largely unenforced active travel infrastructure is being put to shame by Glasgow. Surely we can't have that?
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Peter Coles 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇮🇪 @telescoper.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I propose that the flag of a United Ireland should be one-third orange to represent the Protestants. Oh wait.
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Nigel Bagshaw @nigelbagshaw.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Lord Voldemort doing public transport announcements. A reason to avoid both Wittenberg and Halloween.
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Lior Steinberg @steinberg.nu · 24/09/2026
Is it Amsterdam? Copenhagen? No, it's Paris! After years of investment, the French capital has one of the best problems a city can have: bicycle congestion. So if Paris has done it, why wouldn't other cities follow? 📸 Such an amazing photo by @jbpssx.bsky.social
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Maria Popova @popovaprof.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Stop asking the Ukrainian president stupid, loaded, victim-blaming questions. There is nothing Ukraine can do for peace besides defeating Russia. Russia rejects peace and compromise and it offers only full occupation or complete domination.
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Nigel Bagshaw @nigelbagshaw.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
“A city can be friendly to people or it can be friendly to cars, but it can't be both” - time for #Edinburgh, and many of its painfully timid politicians, to take a hard look at what cars do to a city. www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/opinion...
edinburghnews.scotsman.com
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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Nigel Bagshaw @nigelbagshaw.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I fully understand the need for a properly safe alternative route. Now we just have to make sure that it actually gets put in place when the line is eventually rebuilt, as it inevitably will.
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Nigel Bagshaw @nigelbagshaw.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
So how then do we square the circle? What would be sufficient, in active travel terms, to make re-use of the former railway line acceptable?
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Nigel Bagshaw @nigelbagshaw.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Here’s a slightly more deserving contender I discovered in Bucharest.
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Nigel Bagshaw @nigelbagshaw.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
What I’m saying is, the fact that the Council has, admittedly, made mistakes in the past, is a valid reason for concern, but not grounds for abandoning the entire northern section of the tram project. By way of example, implementation of 1st tram project was a disaster, but extension was a success.
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Nigel Bagshaw @nigelbagshaw.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
That’s entirely understandable but it should not stand in the way of building an urgently needed tram line.
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Doug Parr @dougparr.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
EU feels diesel pain “We run road transport on internal combustion engines, we’re reliant on a commodity we have no control over" say @transportenvironment.org “As long as we are dependent on imported fossil fuels, our energy prices [will] be volatile ” @ec.europa.eu www.ft.com/content/76b5...
ft.com
Diesel surge costs European drivers €203mn per day
Motorists are spending 40% more each time they refill their tank, compared with the start of the year
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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Outgoing UN chief says polluters have treated atmosphere like an ‘open sewer’ - António Guterres laments world leaders’ inaction and says oil and gas firms ‘must pay’ for climate devastation #climatecrisis Story by @olliemilman.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Outgoing UN chief says polluters have treated atmosphere like an ‘open sewer’
António Guterres laments world leaders’ inaction and says oil and gas firms ‘must pay’ for climate devastation
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Real Gaz on a proper bike: gazza_d@toot.bike @gazza-d.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Hospital parking is never free. Someone always pays. In the NHS it steals money that could be used by frontline services. Do you want to make children better, or park for free? Oh and I bet there's no free bus services to that hospital either, so it's even more unfair
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Nigel Bagshaw @nigelbagshaw.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Berlin - a city now divided on different lines.
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Nigel Bagshaw @nigelbagshaw.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The only reasonable response to a climate crisis. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Edinburgh Airport to expand terminal in £500m investment plan
The project includes new gates and aircraft stands, an expanded check-in hall and departure lounge, with new food and retail areas.
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Urban Truth Collective @urbantruth.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The WAR ON WALKING has taken many forms around the world. It’s often as simple as how we signal who space is and isn’t for. Once our eyes are opened to all the ways we’ve prioritized cars over people, we can’t unsee it. Frustrating photo contributed by @stadsplanering.bsky.social. #WarOnWalking
Background photo from North Macedonia, where “sidewalks are mostly used to park cars” as explained by photo contributor Carl-Henrik Barnekow. Text says “Don’t buy the lie that there’s a war on cars. They’ve been waging a war on walking for a century.” Via the Urban Truth Collective. #WarOnCars #UrbanTruth
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Nigel Bagshaw @nigelbagshaw.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Who'd have thought 'we hate sustainable transport' was a vote-winner.
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Abilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Stop calling it a climate problem. Call it what it is: organized greed. The planet isn’t dying. It’s being killed for profit. The killers have names. And boardrooms. #ClimateJustice #StopEcocide
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Nigel Bagshaw @nigelbagshaw.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
None of the alternatives stack up, but they just won't let go. And in the north officers now have to go away and find the magical 'unicorn line' to get the tram to Granton.
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Nigel Bagshaw @nigelbagshaw.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
One with just buses and cars - completely ignoring all the capacity and environmental issues involved.
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Nigel Bagshaw @nigelbagshaw.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
To be fair, the LibDems too would deprive the city of a modern, functioning mass transport system. www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/opinion...
edinburghnews.scotsman.com
Only the Conservatives will stop the trams - Neil Cuthbert
One thing councillors are never short of is emails. Every council meeting is preceded by a deluge of them, but recently my inbox has been overflowing with messages on one subject in particular - the n...
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The Ranty Highwayman @rantyhighwayman.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The Lib Dems have now turned populist.
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This Is Fine Meme
Alt: This Is Fine Meme - a cartoon dog with a hat sits on a chair with a cuppa on the table as the room burns with smoke rising up. There is a caption - "This is fine".
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Nigel Bagshaw @nigelbagshaw.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Will fall on deaf ears, but interesting nonetheless.
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