You enjoyed our Friday night ride last month? Well, we are organising a new one again this very Friday! 7.30pm Middle Meadow walk If you can't make it, no worries Saturday 2pm (also Middle meadow Walk) we will have our traditional Monthly ride.
Edinburgh Critical Mass
@edcriticalmass.bsky.social
A friendly protest for safer cycling. Every last Saturday of the month, meeting at Middle Meadow Walk, 2pm.
It is perhaps not totally surprising that avoiding filling the lungs of children with pollutants and particulates makes their lungs work better, but it's important to do the science and get the numbers: www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Ulez led to better lung size and function among London children, study finds
Researchers find capacity stunted by pollution restored after introduction of ultra-low emission zone
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Cycling is beneficial to both the cyclists and the people around them, but you don't get all the available benefits if half of people are afraid to ride. The obvious way to improve safety is to build cycling infrastructure. #cycling
‘They were told bikes were for men’: how Latin America’s city of cycling is breaking gender barriers
With less than a third of cycling journeys taken by women, Colombia’s capital, Bogotá, is installing bike lanes, teaching cycling and making sure ‘stereotypes are left behind’
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🎺🚲 Musician and composer Dan Abrahams will be singing his cycling songs live at the Pianodrome in Bruntsfield this Sunday at 1pm, and it’s free! Here’s his most recent: https://youtu.be/nTma5W3P-ps?si=j0-Jpf5AU9satusA Tickets: https://www.citizenticket.com/events/pianodrome/cycling-songs/
Dan Abrahams // AMSTERDAM
YouTube video by Dan Abrahams
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A little look behind the scenes for how the amazing night ride image was made. Wax crayons and inverted luminescence. There might be another Friday night ride soon.
Bonus Critical Mass this Friday evening (7.30pm)! Still starting from Middle Meadow Walk. We hope to see many of you on Friday, and give us songs you want to be played on our big speaker during the ride! 🎶🚴🚴♀️🚴♂️
🚲 New impromptu ride, this very Friday, 7.30pm. Starting on Middle Meadow Walk by the compass. We will publish the route later this week, but before we do that we need you! Reply to this post with songs you want to be played at the ride and we will put them on the big speaker 🎶
Thank you everyone for joining yesterday! We rode through the modal filters on Cluny Drive that will unfortunately be removed soon. But this won't stop us from continuing campaigning for better and safer infrastructures Also, save the date, we are having an impromptu CM ride this Friday evening!
"Sure bikes are alright, but what if I need to haul some rubble to the recycling centre?" A bike trailer is a cheap and flexible way to increase your bike carrying capacity without needing to invest in a cargo bike. Want to try before you buy? You can pull the speaker trailer at the next ride!
Critical Mass tomorrow 2pm Middle Meadow Walk! Join us for our monthly friendly protest ride. We will go towards Braid Hills, through two modal filters that will unfortunately be removed soon.
July Critical Mass is coming up! Join us this Saturday (25th) at 2pm, Middle Meadow walk. And here is the route, about 4.8miles (7.7km) with likely a short break midway.
Very enjoyable afternoon with @edcriticalmass.bsky.social riding to St Mark's Park to hear about the Powderhall link. Loved the music & the joyful atmosphere.
June Critical Mass coming up this Saturday! Besides supporting the Powderhall Line campaign the ride will finish at the Edinburgh Climate Festival. Amongst various activities you could win a Bike repair by cycling to power the stage! See the full program here: www.edinburghclimatefestival.com
Here is the planned route for the June ride coming up on Saturday 27th. Meet at 2pm by the Compass on Middle Meadow Walk. #Edinburgh #cycling #EdCriticalMass
The Scottish Parliament Information Service has been thinking about transport and how it means a lot more than how we can service cars. spice-spotlight.scot/2026/06/11/t...
Thinking about transport
This post briefly introduces some key transport policy concepts, with a view to informing debate on transport matters in the new parliamentary session, with a particular focus on road transport.
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Well done to Voi for taking advantage of the high latent demand for cycling in Edinburgh. Imagine what we could do with better infrastructure and more cycle hangers! #Edinburgh #cycling www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/edinbur...
Edinburgh's Voi cycle hire scheme is company's most successful in Europe
‘Riders in Edinburgh have covered over 1.3 million kilometres, which equates to 34 laps of the Earth’ - Cllr Stephen Jenkinson
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For World Bicycle Day, the inestimable Dan Abrahams has given us a new earworm to enjoy! www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTma... #WorldBicycleDay #cycling #Edinburgh
Dan Abrahams // AMSTERDAM
YouTube video by Dan Abrahams
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#pop26 AFAIK (?) only 2 politicians who were not speakers made the effort to join PoP So, big thanks to.. 👍 [Green] Cllr @chasbooth.bsky.social 👍 [Labour] MP @drscottarthurmp.bsky.social @edi.bike @chdot.bsky.social @edfoc.bsky.social @edcriticalmass.bsky.social @labourwalkscycles.bsky.social
🤩 #VoiBikes expanding to #Portobello & #Cramond soon? --> bsky.app/profile/alas... @edi.bike @edfoc.bsky.social @chdot.bsky.social @portyenergy.bsky.social @kate-c.bsky.social @urchaidh.bsky.social @edcriticalmass.bsky.social @stephenjenkinson.bsky.social @olly.world @iammelissa.bsky.social
Alastair Dalton@alastairdalton.bsky.social · 3mo agoNEW in @scotsman.com: Where you could be cycling to in the capital later this summer - new areas for booming Edinburgh Voi electric bike hire scheme www.scotsman.com/news/transpo...
We passed @edcriticalmass.bsky.social on their @pedalonparliament.org afterparty ride as we headed home! #pop26 #criticalMass youtu.be/q9vBvgZfkJY
Passing Edinburgh Critical Mass on the way home from Pedal on Parliament 2026
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What a lovely Critical Mass we've had yesterday! Thanks everyone for coming along. See you next month, same place, same time :)
Join us on Saturday for a post @pedalonparliament.org Critical Mass! either at 2pm from Middle Meadow Walk as usual, or from the Parliament at around 2.30pm. Wee bonus if you are waiting at the Parliament after PoP we will be having a bake sale to support our actions throughout the year!
Here is the planned route for the May ride coming up on Saturday the 30th! Meet at 2pm by the compass on Middle Meadow Walk. And if you joined the @pedalonparliament.org ride happening earlier in the day you can join the Critical Mass from the Parliament onwards! (likely around 2.30pm)
We don't view motor violence like all the other violence, Exhibit 746 www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
‘We’re not out to get anyone – we just want to slow you down’: why do lollipop people face so much road rage?
They just want to help children safely across the road on their way to and from school. Yet lollipop people are having to wear body cameras after an increase in abusive and dangerous drivers. How did ...
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Join our weird wheels extravaganza on 31 May to mark the launch of our new handcycle! Bring your bike, cycle with us, then try out some weird & wonderful wheels from hand cycles & cargo bikes to tandems on the prom. #Portobello #cargobikes #handcycle find out more: www.facebook.com/events/21722...
Success! We’re delighted to say that the council voted to make the traffic filters on Whitehouse Loan permanent – the one outside James Gillespie’s Primary school, as well as the one at Strathearn Road But it’s not all rosy - read our blog for more… blackfordsaferoutes.co.uk/braid-estate...
Braid estate and Whitehouse Loan - Blackford Safe Routes
Update May 2026 Success! (at least partly) Thank you to everyone who wrote to councillors about the traffic filters outside the school! Your emails made a difference, and we’re delighted to say that t...
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Thread: 🗳️ TRO Sub-committee have made permanent the following measures this afternoon: - ETRO 21/29B Braid Rd - ETRO 21/29C Comiston Rd Three of the six modal filters on the Greenbank to Meadows Quiet Route have also been made permanent (ETRO 21/29D).
Great coverage of the rally today from Edinburgh Reporter theedinburghreporter.co.uk/2026/05/coun...
Council to vote on axing Braid Estate filters after discovery of new mistake
Councillors are set to decide on whether to axe traffic filters in the Braid Estate, after another "inaccurate written description" in a report threatens to remove another measure.
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Coverage of the rally in the Edinburgh Reporter theedinburghreporter.co.uk/2026/05/coun...
Council to vote on axing Braid Estate filters after discovery of new mistake
Councillors are set to decide on whether to axe traffic filters in the Braid Estate, after another "inaccurate written description" in a report threatens to remove another measure.
theedinburghreporter.co.uk