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

I've used the one at Waverley on the bridge to Calton Road once in each direction as an experiment. I recently tried the one at the north end of the FRB upwards, but didn't think it was wise to even try going down as it would have been on the wrong side, and I wouldn't have felt remotely in control.

Photo from the viewpoint up the steps from the southbound lane of the Forth Road Bridge, with the northernmost bridge tower in view. Beyond the walkway in the foreground is a set of steps, with railings at the side, with a small slippy metal cycle wheel channel on the left.

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wingpig @wingpig.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

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wingpig @wingpig.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

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.

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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 · 29/09/2026

Maybe modernise the horse thing by reporting someone on your street to the council for parking on the footway or across a dropped kerb.

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

This one was also well-used to being a moron - not a single flicker of recognition in his eyes as I glared past him.

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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 · 28/09/2026

Would also look at home dangling under a Zeppelin, from some cables strung between mountaintops or the spokes of a giant rotating wheel...

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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...

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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 · 26/09/2026

So would a nice low-CoG recumbent cyclecraft, for people with noticeable wobble reflexes who might make an upright position high above the floats hazardous.

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

#EdTravCyc Reported to the council by phone to the out-of-hours number and all the loose bits of kerb are now tucked on the inside edge of the footway beside a lamp-post, as out of the way as they can be without throwing them over the railings.

Photo of the remaining still-fastened bits of the Hope Park Crescent segregator, with a spare cone plopped at the end to warn people.

Photo of all the loose bits bits of the Hope Park Crescent segregator, temporarily tucked on the inside edge of the footway (and subsequently moved more out of the way, beside a lamp-post).

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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 · 20/09/2026

Dialling 5 9 on a landline, gently replacing the handset, then swiftly sneaking away as the phone started ringing. Whoever answered it would just hear the dial tone.

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wingpig @wingpig.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

They could have done a "Cerveza Cristal"-style transition during an ad break in Highlander.

Still from the "don't get electrocuted by climbing over the transformers in an electrical substation" public information film showing the "danger of death KEEP OUT" warning sign, with the electrocuted human figure slightly resembling Highlander during the quickening.

Still of Christophe Lambert playing the Highlander in one of the Highlander films, striking the arms-out head-back pose common to Willem Dafoe's death scene in Platoon and the figure being electrocuted in the electrocution warning sign in the "don't get electrocuted" public information film, whilst being zapped by magic lightening during a quickening after killing a rival immortal.

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

The slippery gravel on the track past the hogweed patch always makes me pass very warily just in case I catastrophically skid and slide into them.

Photo of a small field full of giant hogweed next to the cut-through from Gogar Station Road to the wee culvert under the A720 into Edinburgh Park's Lochside Ave

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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 · 14/09/2026

The javelin with snooker cues, the bowling with shot putt shot, ice skaters wearing their normal ice-skating footwear for footballing in?

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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

The problem then is that the crossing is back north at the mouth of the road, past another relatively narrow footway with a bus stop on it, set back from the road edge but thereby also pinching the footway more. If footways are being widened, could that bus stop also move a bit southwards?

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

There's always the route around the back and between the galleries, but it's not obvious if you don't know it and not always available if there's an event on with or some seasonal frippery-vendors filling up the square.

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

It being a street corner in the city centre, it's also a prime gawping spot where people will suddenly stop dead, suitcase and all. The option of scuttling up the steps and between the columns of the galley entrance to pass them is not open to everyone, nor should it have to be.

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

I assume this can never be widened, as the westbound road/tramway is already a single lane for everything; likewise, the pedestrian guard rail will have to stay, so that no-one tripping over or falling down gets anywhere near the traffic.

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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

not to mention the pedestrian crossings at which, after stopping, I am sometimes whooshed past by a motor vehicle containing someone too important to stop. There's also the small matter of having to use a bit of Queen St or Princes St anyway if heading further east than St David St.

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

George St feels the slowest in general pace, but the central strip of transverse parking along the whole street and varying ideas drivers have of which way (if any) they should look when entering or leaving the spaces makes it exciting even when there are no ice rinks and drunkards in the bike lane,

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

Queen Street is very much "am I feeling assertive enough?" with the choice of up to three lanes and side roads on both sides, more stops and starts and accelerations and the full range of vehicle types and driving styles, rather than just buses and taxis.

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

If Princes St had more side roads it would be more of a pain, but as it's really only one lane (except at the ends or when passing buses) you can really concentrate on keeping your front wheel away from deep, dark holes next to slippery metal hatches (and listenng out for weaponised taxis).

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

Princes Street is worse than the other two for crumbly concrete, holes and ruts on the approaches from Shandwick Place and Lothian Road, and the large numbers of large holes surrounding utility access hatches at various points all the way along. Queen Street only has a couple of craters.

Photo of a square utility access cover where the surrounding surface is crumbling and dispersing.

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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 · 05/09/2026

That didn't take long. Given the impatience with which the driver of a white Jeep had shown following me from Lindsay Road and past OT (overtaking whilst approaching red lights by driving half on the tram tracks twice) I didn't follow them through Tower St in case it spurred them on

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wingpig @wingpig.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Arg. I was hoping to get a time-lapse of them being shuffled around at some point. I can currently see twelve of them from various windows, but haven't yet caught any as they were being moved.

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

(On a phone screen), prefer the original, for the milder colours and relative lack of contrast. Of the edits, prefer the colours of the third and luminance of the second. The fourth is too warm and the first too underwater?

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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

Hopefully the jinking turn at the east end of Tower Street will be unpalatable to most motor vehicle drivers, until their satnav starts routing them through to avoid a couple of seconds at the traffic lights. Hopefully it's too tight a turn to be attractive to large and heavy construction vehicles.

Photo of several cars and a large, heavy construction vehicle at the Baltic St/Bernard St/Constitution St junction in Leith, looking north along the tram tracks.

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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

The road is only a single lane each way at this point, so the sign would absolutely have been able to be put at the mouth of the closed road - it's not like vehicles which had been planning to go left would be in the wrong lane or anything.

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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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