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South West Edinburgh 20 Minute Neighbourhoods 📍#Edinburgh Positive, sustainable changes. Live well locally. #streetsNOTroads 🚲FREE e-bike & e-cargobike hire: sw20.info 🛠️Tool Library: @sw20etl 🏃‍♀️Helped setup: Kids Park Run @ Hailes Quarry Park

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SW20ed #Edinburgh @sw20.info · 10h ago

Welcome #Edinburgh bus lane trial for a busy route - 7 till 7, 7 days a week* *except for quite a lot of loading 😮🤦

On weekdays, the busiest times are between between 7am and 10am and 4pm and 7pm. During these times, loading and unloading will not be permitted anywhere along the route, except within lay-bys.

At weekends, loading and unloading will continue to be permitted all day on the route, with the exception of the section between Easter Road and the Willowbrae Gardens junctions, where loading and unloading will not be permitted between 11am and 2pm.

Urban Cycling Institute @urbancyclinginstitute.org · 16h ago

Great news from Scotland! Cycle lane networks are breaking records: "In Glasgow, three streets that have all had high-quality protected cycle lanes installed in recent years (...) recorded their highest ever number of cycle journeys."

Edinburgh Festival of Cycling @edfoc.bsky.social · 16h ago

"Carrying change: Unlocking the potential of cargo bike use in Edinburgh and the Lothians" banzaiedinburgh.org.uk/wp-content/u... Carrying Change - Lothians Cargo Bike Network Report A great piece of work, congratulation to all those involved

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Edinburgh & Lothians Greenspace Trust @greenspacetrust.bsky.social · 16h ago

Opportunity Reminder: We’re looking for up to five new Non-Executive Directors to join our Board and help shape the next chapter of ELGT. If you’d like to find out more go to elgt.org.uk/about-us/vac... Applications close: 5.00pm, Friday 30 October 2026

EdinburghMinute.com @edinburghminute.com · 24h ago

🌤️ Good morning Edinburgh. Friday’s headlines: Balaclava ban bid, new Hogmanay venue, Cargo Bike Carnival in the Meadows + 'Foik Ferly' procession through Leith ⏰ Read more in Edinburgh’s ad-free local newsletter: www.edinburghminute.com/the-edinburg... Photo: @tomduffinphotos.bsky.social

A cloudy sunset over a city park. Text over reads: The Edinburgh Minute - Weekend edition: 9 - 11 Oct 2026: Bid to ban balaclavas in city centre, new Hogmanay concerts venue, Cargo Bike Carnival in the Meadows on Sunday + Sett Studios 'Foik Ferly' procession through Leith

SpokesLothian @spokes.org.uk · 2d ago

Apologies, SUNDAY 11 Oct, not Sat 11am-2pm Meadows 🙋 Visit our #cargobike #SpokesStall 🙋 #SpokesMaps @edi.bike @edfoc.bsky.social @chdot.bsky.social @portyenergy.bsky.social @sw20.info @kennybrown131.bsky.social @secretedinburgh.bsky.social @stephenjenkinson.bsky.social @steveamburgess.bsky.social

SW20ed #Edinburgh @sw20.info · 3d ago

Change is possible.

Raeburn Place, Edinburgh.

Tight pavements next to tenement streets with busy shop - four lanes for vehicles (two parked, plus a two way carriageway).

Hackney Cyclist@hackneycyclist.bsky.social · 3d ago

Eerste van der Helststraat, Amsterdam in 1978 and today

Then-and-now comparison of Eerste van der Helststraat in Amsterdam. Top, 1978, black and white: a street jammed with cars, including a van, an Opel estate and a saloon, parked and queuing both sides. A cyclist threads between the traffic in the middle distance.

Bottom, today, in colour: the same street, now a tree-lined pedestrian zone with no cars at all. Tall leafy trees arch over the brick paving, and the street is busy with people walking, including a family with children, past café terraces and market stalls under the shopfronts.

SW20ed #Edinburgh @sw20.info · 4d ago

Hire one for free at sw20.info

Chicagoans Who Bike@chiwho.bike · 4d ago

“This is our Urban Arrow and we’ve had this since we moved to Chicago. I use it to get my kids around, and sometimes even the two kids and my mom in here. So it's our two wheels, but, like an SUV on two wheels.” 🧵

A smiling woman stands on a city street next to a white cargo e-bike. She has dark long hair with a flower clip, glasses, and is wearing a short-sleeved blue patterned jacket with orange trim over a peach top, a long floral-patterned skirt, and white sneakers. Her bike is a white Urban Arrow front-loading cargo bike with a large black front box, yellow panniers on the rear rack, a helmet hanging from the handlebars.

🚲 edi.bike | weekly news digest @edi.bike · 5d ago

🚲 edi.bike | issue 165 | 5th Oct '26 Further delays on St Mark’s Park bridge; Spokes count in Centre, bikes over 30% of rush hour traffic; Edinburgh Bicycle folds, but lives on; Cargo Bike Carnival this Sunday; plus events, infrastructure, route closures & more: buttondown.com/edi.bike/arc...

A semi-aerial photograph over a wide, four-lane road flanked by large sandstone houses; there are many trees and bushes in their front gardens, and the street is fairly quiet in terms of traffic, flanked by bollarded cycleways under a bright sky with large, fluffy white clouds.

SW20ed #Edinburgh @sw20.info · 5d ago

Space for 8 cars or 40 people. Which is better for local businesses, kids, the climate, air quality and community vibrancy?

Hackney Cyclist@hackneycyclist.bsky.social · 6d ago

Ginnekenmarkt, Breda in 1974 and today

The top image shows a cobbled square packed with parked cars on all sides, including a Mercedes, a Fiat 500 and a Ford, surrounded by metal railings. Patches of cobbles have been dug up around a central stone water pump. Today the same square, now a packed café terrace. Rows of wicker chairs and tables fill the space where the cars once stood, with people eating and drinking under large furled umbrellas. Mature trees with golden autumn leaves shade the square, and the same stone water pump still stands at the centre.

Water of Leith Conservation Trust @wolct.bsky.social · 6d ago

A busy 2nd quarter with 2,706 hours of practical volunteering recorded, making the running total 5332 hours. After the big spring clean we've moved to a more diverse list of tasks on the wallway, treating INNS biological surveys and wildflower scything

Kumar McMillan @kumarvibe.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 6d ago

#BraidHills ⛰️ #PentlandHills 🪐 #Edinburgh ☀️ #SilentSunday

View of Braid Hills in the foreground, Pentland Hills in the background

Longstone Community Council @longstonecc.bsky.social · 6d ago

Great to see another 62 young folk plus family starting their Sunday in the very best way at Hailes Quarry Junior parkrun. Well done everyone. 💥

SpokesLothian @spokes.org.uk · 6d ago

#GeorgeStreet #PrincesStreet 🙋 Spokes #TrafficCount ! 🚲 are 1 in 3 of all traffic ! #VoiBikes success ! #CCWEL #MissingLink vital --> www.spokes.org.uk/2026/10/city... @edi.bike @chdot.bsky.social @edfoc.bsky.social @edtiss.bsky.social @davidfkey.bsky.social @chasbooth.bsky.social @sw20.info

City Centre: bikes now 1 in 3 in rush hour

A Spokes traffic count in George Street and Princes Street on 24 September found bikes forming over 30% of all vehicles in the morning peak period, and over 20% at lunchtime. Other findings suggest a major boost to bike travel thanks to the Council’s Voi bike hire scheme.

Our count was conducted to add concrete evidence to current uncertainties over the future of both streets, with Princes Street likely to remain 4 lanes of tarmac for the some years to come and no funding available for the ambitious but extremely costly George Street proposals for a semi-pedestrianised ‘cycle street’ (albeit with significant motor traffic at times!). The money which had been intended for George Street will now go to repaving Princes Street footways with high-cost materials in what Cllr Lang termed a “glorified resurfacing project.”

Thus, whichever east-west route best suits a cyclist’s journey, Princes Street or George Street, cycling conditions in both look set to remain dire, with a major central gap remaining in CCWEL, the Council’s City Centre West-East Link, unless the Council thinks again.

map showing CCWEL missing link along George Street

Water of Leith Conservation Trust @wolct.bsky.social · 6d ago

As the seasons change its that time of year when we begin our fungi surveys of Craiglockhart and Colinton Dells. Thus it was great to get out for a refresher on the Autumn @fieldstudiesc.bsky.social Fungi course run by Chris Knowles. Lots of knowledge gained and ready to be put into action

Longstone Community Council @longstonecc.bsky.social · 6d ago

As the development on the former Booker site progresses, work on the new bridge crossing also progresses. Currently CEC are approaching suppliers for the design stage of the bridge with the hope to work quickly on this. A stakeholder meeting & site visit are being organised in the next few weeks.

Longstone Community Council@longstonecc.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Images from the presentation on the Longstone Link bridge project at our meeting on Monday. Feasibility works completed early 2025. Favoured deck width to secure funding from Transport Scotland is 5m. Minimises conflicts between users.

Old Edinburgh Club @oldedinburghclub.bsky.social · 7d ago

Our first members' talk for this session's winter series is on the 14th October at Augustine United Church, with a talk by John Lowrey about Parliament Square. You can check out all our talks now on our website. #edinburghhistory #historytalks #parliamentclose buff.ly/4Pa8EYe

Parliament Square: Images of civic, church and state power - The Old Edinburgh Club

This talk focuses on Parliament Close and Square as the centre of elite power and influence in Edinburgh, considering the juxtaposition, within a tiny area, of the institutions of church, city, state…

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SW20ed #Edinburgh @sw20.info · last wk.

A fixture in the local community - for both runners and volunteers.

Longstone Community Council@longstonecc.bsky.social · last wk.

Great write up from our Secretary in the latest edition of the Currie & Balerno News on how well the Hailes Quarry junior parkrun has progressed since we initiated the project to bring it to communities in the southwest of Edinburgh. One of our best bits of work. 😀

Prof. Ian Walker @ianwalker.bsky.social · last wk.

Lest we forget, the police took quite some time to decide that it was terrorism when a bomb went off in public with an obvious political motive - presumably because cars

The Ranty Highwayman@rantyhighwayman.bsky.social · last wk.

Man jailed for 15 years over ULEZ camera explosion. news.met.police.uk/news/man-jai...

SW20ed #Edinburgh @sw20.info · last wk.

Our school streets don’t even look like the before photo.

EmmanuelSPV@emmanuelspv.bsky.social · last wk.

Before (2020) / After (2026) Rue des Cheminets in the 19th arrondissement of Paris. The street was turned into a school street with barriers at both ends of the street in 2021, and trees were planted in 2025.

Lior Steinberg @steinberg.nu · last wk.

I visited Venice and I'm honestly disappointed. So much valuable space wasted on water. With a little vision, those canals could carry thousands more cars per hour. And as a bonus, it would solve their overtourism problem too.

SW20ed #Edinburgh @sw20.info · last wk.

Great local facility now reopened.

The Edinburgh Reporter@edinreporter.bsky.social · last wk.

Swimming pool and leisure facilities reopen at WHEC The pool and leisure facilities at Wester Hailes Education Centre (WHEC) have been refurbished and reopened on Thursday....

Corey Boyle @coreyboyle.bsky.social · last wk.

The final part of my series on making #Edinburgh a cycling city: a 10 point manifesto in four parts. The Alternative. The Carrot & the Stick. The Mechanism. #CarFreeDay @spokes.org.uk @livingstreetsedi.bsky.social @cyclingscotland.bsky.social @wwctrustscot.bsky.social #ActiveTravel #Cycling

How we could turn Edinburgh into a real cycling city

Award-winning sustainable travel engineer Corey Boyle lays out a manifesto for the future of the active transport

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Blackford Safe Routes @blackfordsaferoutes.co.uk · last wk.

What happens when you create a high-traffic neighbourhood by removing the modal filters on the Braid Estate… SUVs end up on their side Junction of Braid Rd and Hermitage Dr. Around school pick up time, Thursday 1st Oct

A black SUV on its side with the underside visible. A police car in the foreground and an ambulance in the background. A police officer stands in hi viz beside the SUV. The pole of a zebra crossing can be seen in the foreground

The same as the first picture, but zoomed in on the overturned SUV

Jester mouse @jestermouse.bsky.social · last wk.

September 2026 weather statistics for Corstorphine, Edinburgh. ☀️ September 2026 was 1.3°C warmer and was 20.36 mm wetter than September 2025.

Edinburgh Libraries @edinburghlibraries.bsky.social · last wk.

We’ve collaborated with the Colinton Local History Society for our latest addition to Our Town Stories – a history of Craiglockhart, or Happy Valley, as part of it was once known. Follow the digital trail to discover this area of Edinburgh afresh! zurl.co/wtyxQ

Painting of a ruined tower situated beside old houses and behind a line of tall trees.

Painting of a rowing boat on a section of canal surrounded by hills and fields.

Melissa & Chris Bruntlett @modacitylife.com · last wk.

Safety alone isn't enough to get more women cycling. Cities must start building cohesive networks connecting the myriad places women need to go. This means looking beyond “Can women cycle safely here?” and asking: “Can women use this network to live their lives?” LISTEN: www.dw.com/en/why-arent...

A collage of women of all ages and abilities cycling in the Netherlands.

Lior Steinberg @steinberg.nu · last wk.

The bus terminal that every city should have. 🚌🌳 When cities respect public transportation users, they get more people leaving their cars at home and using public transit. This station in Heerlen (NL 🇳🇱), is a prime example of treating residents well. Designed by Michel Huisman 📸 ANP / Peter Hilz

Water of Leith Conservation Trust @wolct.bsky.social · 2w ago

A second day on the trott for our hardcore volunteers, this time between Juniper Green and Kinleith, sweeping off leaves and cutting back to make the path wide and safe. Plenty of rubbish to be foraged from the undergrowth too. Time to put you feet up folks!