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Really ought to be triangular, as a warning sign...

Mock-up of a London Underground roundel using Pixel frame Design's tool which reads "NEVER MORE THAN TEN FEET FROM A RAT" in white writing in a blue rectangle over a red circle.

wingpig @wingpig.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Now that we're almost three-quarters of a day into October, has anyone been past The Dome on George Street today to see if they have their Christmas lights up yet?

Photo of four empty topilet roll tubes sellotaped to a Tesco corn flakes box lying on its back, with a Nairn's oatcake box in its side on their tops, with some IKEA "GLÄNSA" electroluminescant string wound around it in a parody of the columns at the front of The Dome restaurant on George Street, Edinburgh, which marks the month before the onset of the winter festive season each year by decorating its stone columns with helical windings of glowing lights.

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wingpig @wingpig.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Watch out for colossal morons on the Foot of the Walk to Aldi path #EdTravCyc

Photo of van LO74 CHV parked on the segregated cycleway just up from the Shore

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wingpig @wingpig.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Maybe the collection of shiny, new-looking trowels always arrayed neatly on the walls of his potting shed will be returned to the license-fee payers who bought them... www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

theguardian.com

Monty Don says he may have to let go of his gardeners after leaving BBC

Presenter reveals corporation has been paying part of their salaries to keep his Herefordshire garden camera-ready

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mona @mkrndt.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

the one outside summerhall on the southbound lane is now also smashed up! #EdTravCyc

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wingpig @wingpig.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

#EdTravCyc SHATTERED KERB SEGREGATOR WARNING on the Hope Park Crescent northbound lane. Reporting to @edinburghcouncil.bsky.social by phone...

Photo of the cycle lane kerb segregator on the northbound exit of the Melville Drive/Hope Park TCS/Cres junction, shattered into several piece and being hazardous.

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wingpig @wingpig.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

#EdTravCyc GLASS WARNING on the graffiti-wall road between OT and Asda between the tramway and Chancelot Mills - on the left at the Asda end just before the concrete blocks.

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wingpig @wingpig.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

#EdTravCyc Beware trimmed but yet-uncollected foliage on the canal towpath two or three bridges cityward of Bridge 8.

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wingpig @wingpig.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Whilst the Waverley Steps area is indeed fraught, particularly if trying to get from a bus to the station, let us not forget that it's also a pain to get around the corner of the gallery to cross the Mound. The footway at the foot of the steps is barely wide enough for a tourist with a suitcase.

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wingpig @wingpig.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

There are a huge number of factors affecting the routes I choose to go east or west through the city centre, and it's never "that's the quickest" or "that's the nicest"; more likely, it's "which particular group of horrors am I prepared to tolerate at this moment" depending on bike, time, load, etc.

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wingpig @wingpig.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Do Ratho Coaches have some sort of special exemption from the thing about not needlessly leaving their engines running whilst parked at the side of Johnston Terrace whilst the Tattoo is on?

One of the many Ratho Coaches sitting with their engines running along Johnston Terrace on Friday evening.

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wingpig @wingpig.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

A ding, then a distant rumble...

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wingpig @wingpig.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

#EdTravCyc GLASS WARNING on the Hawkhill Ave slope and just east of the substance abuse bench on the Restalrig Railway Path

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wingpig @wingpig.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

#EdTravCyc and pedestrians: it is now possible to walk round the back of the Constitution/Baltic St junction, through Tower St, which now joins up with the new Margaret Thomson Cres, leading through to Bath Rd opposite Salamander Pl, avoiding a little bit of the unpleasant Baltic and Salamander St

Screenshot of Google Maps showing the area of Leith bounded by Constitution St, Baltic St/Salamander St and Bath Road/Salamander Place, with a yellow line along the eastern half of Tower Street, where there is now access through to the new flats along Margaret Thomson Crescent, which links up to Bath Road, avoiding the unpleasant Baltic Street and Salamander Street.

Photo of the new flats at the Tower Street end of Margaret Thomson Crescent, behind Baltic St, Leith

Photo of the eastern end of Tower Street, looking west-ish towatds Constitution St.

Photo of the blocked north footway of Baltic Street, looking east.

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wingpig @wingpig.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Yes, Restalrig Road, they _do_ mean you, with your strange road-mouth-only lanes leading into parked cars , and your swervy little friends on East Preston Street...

Photo of the recently-resufaced Restalrig Road, looking south across the mouth of Restalrig Square, where there is a daft wee painted cycle lane just covering the mouth of the road, perfectly blocked at the end by a parked car.

Google Maps screenshot of East Preston Street, Edinburgh, facing east, where there is a painted cycle lane which swerves to the left after some parking bays to abut the mouth of Oxford St before swerving to the right again to go around more parking bays.

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wingpig @wingpig.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Optimist: The cup is half-full. Pessimist: The cup is half-empty. Edinburgh council junction designers: The narrow, tiny cup must now be filled and emptied in two distinct stages, each separated by a five-minute wait whilst motor vehicles fill their huge, wide cups.

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wingpig @wingpig.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

#EdTravCyc I'd give the Innocent Tunnel a miss just now if you're heading uphill/towards St Leonard's (and hold your breath going downhill) - brain-dissolving quantities of spraycan solvent filling the air of the upper two-thirds.

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wingpig @wingpig.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

#EdTravCyc Seafield Road eastbound footway and nearside of road narrowed by drain-slurping squad, though it means the westbound side is clear of parked vehicles west of the shed centre.

Photo of some traffic cones in the foreground, with a drain/tank-cleaning truck in the background across the road, on Seafield Road, looking west.

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wingpig @wingpig.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

@edinburghcouncil.bsky.social This very wide sign obstructing more than half the width of the north footway of Duke Street does not appear to have considered that it will force pedestrians onto the road. @scottishwater.bsky.social and/or their contractors did not yet appear to be onsite at 1000.

Photo of a sign concerning a road closure placed on the footway with very little consideration of pedestrian movements. Roadworks relate to Scottish Water activity on Academy Street, Leith, on 16/08/2026.

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wingpig @wingpig.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

@scottishwater.bsky.social Do all these signs for a road closure affecting road traffic on Academy Street have to be quite so extravagantly obstructive of the footway, particularly the really wide sign on the narrow footway of the busy Duke St.?

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wingpig @wingpig.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Whilst all horsepats are naturally inclined to look at least a little bit like a squashed frog without even trying, this one near Auchendinny was really going for it.

Photo of a pile of horse droppings resembling a squashed frog on the Penicuik/Roslin railway path a wee bit north of the viaduct at Auchendinny.

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wingpig @wingpig.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

#EdTravCyc It is now possible to cycle south along Restalrig Road without having to dodge the same holes and ruts that have been there for at least sixteen years. Not sure what we're supposed to do with these daft wee lane markings, though.

Photo of a daft wee cycle lane at the side of the freshly-resurfaced Restalrig Road

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wingpig @wingpig.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

@lothianbuses.bsky.social Please have a look at vehicle 415, currently the #19 heading east on London Road. Huge clouds of blue smoke being puffed out of it.

Photo of Lothian Bus vehicle 415 on Cadzow Place, heading east. There was a lot of blue smoke coming out of the right hand side of it, not really visible in this photo.

Photo of Lothian Bus vehicle 415 on Cadzow Place, heading east

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wingpig @wingpig.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

#EdTravCyc Duncan Place closed for resurfacing at the crossing points. The cycle lane crossing leading to Links Lane/Wellington Place currently not passable without using footways and non-dropped kerbs. Possibly divert via Links Gardens?

Photo of Duncan Place, looking towards the built-out pedestrian-cycle crossing beside the community croft, which is blocked by resurfacing equipment.

Photo of Duncan Place at the crossing to St Andrew St/Leith Primary, showing red plastic fencing and cones.

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wingpig @wingpig.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Having been trapped inside all day, I had not previously noticed the smell. Has the sudden influx of Fringegoers overwhelmed Seafield's processing capabilities?

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wingpig @wingpig.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

#EdTravCyc Beware of motor vehicles either being squeezed through the Tolbooth Wynd vehicle barrier by mounting the footway OR being laboriously turned round and driven back the way they came if they're too wide to sneak through @edinburghcouncil.bsky.social

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wingpig @wingpig.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Large numbers of road signs relating to road closures and road traffic diversions impeding and blocking the footways of Bernard St, Salamander St and Seafield Rd. Many have been artfully placed next to poles/posts/bins to maximally obstructive. @edinburghcouncil.bsky.social

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wingpig @wingpig.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

#EdTravCyc be slow and careful at the Sandport/Coalie Park end of the Water of Leith path/Foot of the Walk to Commercial St as some well-meaning but ill-sited @walkwheelcyclet.bsky.social volunteers are standing there stopping people...

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wingpig @wingpig.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

#EdTravCyc Resurfacing work on Restalrig Road on the bridge over the bike path continues today, with severe footway restrictions at the top of the steps and slope and clouds of hot tarmac gas, but it could be that the work will finally move further south after today..?

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wingpig @wingpig.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

#EdTravCyc and #EdTravFootway Seafield Road south footway blocked and protruding onto the road by people creating clouds of tarmac dust just east of Seafield Place, opposite the garage.

Photo looking east along Seafield Road, where some people not wearing respirators are cutting a trench in the footway, for which there is no protected diversion around.

Photo looking west along Seafield Road, where some people not wearing respirators are cutting a trench in the footway, for which there is no protected diversion around.

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wingpig @wingpig.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

#EdTravCyc Plastic fences and construction warning on the Restalrig Railway Path beneath Restalrig Road, with what looks like people making a concrete skateboard ramp sort of thing.

Photo of the underside of Restalrig Road on the Restalrig Railway Path, with the space under he bridge restricted by people in tabards fiddling about with formes and concrete and plastic fences.

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Robbie Ainsworth @robbieainsworth.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Leith Walk cycle path CLOSED both directions outside the Playhouse for Scottish Water excavations. The works are likely to be completed over the weekend. A dismount is unavoidable northbound (downhill). #EdTravCyc @spokes.org.uk @edi.bike

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wingpig @wingpig.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

#EdTravCyc access to Restalrig Railway Path from Restalrig Road still impeded. Tarmac on road surface partially replaced - hopefully they don't think it is yet finished as the already-replaced dropped kerb isn't currently very dropped.

Photo of a road roller and a very high dropped kerb at the access slope to the Restalrig Railway Path from Restalrig Road

Photo of a very high dropped kerb at the access slope to the Restalrig Railway Path from Restalrig Road

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wingpig @wingpig.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Restalrig Road slope and steps from/to the Restalrig Railway Path restricted in both directions by plastic fences for the resurfacing work. No warning or diversion signs on the path yet. Next nearest unrestricted access at Findlay Gardens or Hawkholl Avenue #EdTravCyc

Photo of plastic fencing between the footway and road on Restalrig Road, at the access point for the Restalrig Railway Path cycle path

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wingpig @wingpig.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

#EdTravCyc Resurfacing works on Restalrig Road and plastic fences at the ends of Prospect Bank Gdns and Easter Hermitage currently make it tricksy to head north along Restalrig Road from the Restalrig Railway Path slope and impossible if you're not able-bodied with a standard single-track bicycle.

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wingpig @wingpig.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

#EdTravCyc STRIMMING ALERT on the Restalrig Railway Path between the Findlay Gdns slope and Seafield Street exit. Path slightly impeded by large vans beside the steps up to Pirniefield Bank.

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wingpig @wingpig.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Make a band out of two others: Sam and Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich

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wingpig @wingpig.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Scottish Water works currently blocking the eastbound footway of Seafield Road (and a bit of the road) between the shed centre and level crossing #EdTravCyc

Photo of Seafield Road, looking east from near the crematorium, showing Scottish Water vans and people doing some work to the footway.

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wingpig @wingpig.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

#EdTravCyc SMOKE WARNING on the Restalrig Railway Path, at the south-east corner,due to Seafield Shed Centre having another oneof their smoky dumpster fires...

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wingpig @wingpig.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

#EdTravCyc shared use footway on Seafield Road has the sign, but the work is for "Fillyside Rd to Seafield Rd (west footway) Phase 1: Lane Closure with 3-way TTL’s - Seafield Rd East junction Fillyside Rd Phase 2: Lane Closure with 2-way TTL’s - Seafield Rd East to Seafield Rd Recycling Depot"

Photo of a sign threatening WORK STARTS HERE 27/04/2026 FOR 7 WEEKS on the shared use (north) footway of Seafield Road, opposite the recycling centre/LIDL. https://www.roadworksscotland.org/ says Fillyside Road to Seafield Road (west footway) Phase 1: Lane Closure with 3-way TTL’s - Seafield Road East junction Fillyside Road Phase 2: Lane Closure with 2-way TTL’s - Seafield Road East to Seafield Road Recycling Depot

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Leith Feeder Ride @leithfeederride.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

🛎️ Leith Feeder Ride to POP 2026 🛎️ Saturday 30th of May Meeting outside the cricket club on Leith Links at 0930 for a 0945 start. Find out more and let us know if you're planning to come along on our Facebook event: fb.me/e/44dRCf5tr @pedalonparliament.org #POP26

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wingpig @wingpig.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

MOTORISED NED WARNING beside the playpark on the Jewel path/NCN1 behind the Magdalenes. Eight or nine black-clad roadmen with at least two possibly electrics scramblery bikes. #EdTravCyc

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wingpig @wingpig.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

#EdTravCyc GLASS WARNING on the Chancelot Path AGAIN due to a bunch of kids making a wee barrier of sticks and broken bottles (and chucking stones). Sticks removed, glass mostly swept off and kids have fled, but watch your tyres as they're still about...

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

If anyone happens to be around the east end of Shandwick Place could they please check if the huge ruptures in the road surface near the tram tracks have been fixed, as a notification from the council about a recent road surface complaint claims?

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

#EdTravCyc Watch out for punctures from chopped branches along the Restalrig Railway Path between Seafield Street and Leith Links, where strimming has taken place but not yet any sweeping-up.

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