For what it’s worth we very much consider @edinburghbug.bsky.social an ally in sustainable travel for the capital; people make mistakes, and I’m sure they and @spurtle.bsky.social will be happy to correct given time. — The Weary Cycling Lobby

Andrew Burnie@andrewburnie.bsky.social · 11h ago

The idea that taking pot shots at cycling is a good use of time for the bus user group is just so infuriating. Why can't we want both cycling and public transport to be good and to work well? We need both. Punching sideways isn't helping anyone.

👀 Shame nobody involved in this correspondence has done more than skim-read the Cycling Scotland article and then conflate the numbers and times being reported. There’s no ‘gotchas’ with automated counters; just read slower https://cycling.scot/news/scotland-s-bike-lane-networks-break-new-records

@spurtle.bsky.social · 14h ago

COUNTER ARGUMENT.—Chair of bsky.app/profile/edin... unconvinced by claims for Leith Walk bike numbers. Reader's letter: www.broughtonspurtle.org.uk/letters/coun... #Edinburgh #hyperlocal #news #cycling #statistics

Today, the Telegraph can exclusively reveal that people who've got nowt often live near each other in less well off neighbourhoods. More as we get it.

Typical Edinburgh story: driver parks illegally, complains at consequences. archive.ph/sv6N1

I hope, like Copenhagen, they start calculate the cost savings in long term healthcare with a more active cycling population too

The National@scotnational.bsky.social · 2d ago

More than £36 million has been spent on cycle routes across Glasgow since 2020, it has emerged

Was in a shop on Princes Street this morning and saw a couple just loading gear into a big hold-all and then walking out. The only staff member on the floor was serving at the till. Wearily said “thanks” when I told her and put a call out for security - must happen all the time.

Hot on the heels of the UK’s first LTN to be “made permanent” with its only bus gate removed, introducing the UK’s first 7am to 7pm bus lanes where “you can still park and load in most locations” 🙃

The City of Edinburgh Council@edinburghcouncil.bsky.social · 4d ago

New bus lane times start Monday 12 October - Milton Road East to London Road - 7am to 7pm, 7 days a week. A trial to improve bus journey times and reliability. You can still park and load in most locations but some times will change.

I am baffled that bus lanes aren't all 24 hours. Logically, either there's no congestion so it doesn't matter that cars can't use the bus lane, or there is congestion so the bus needs the bus lane. Also I've seen a crash caused by confusion about whether it's open.

SW20ed #Edinburgh@sw20.info · 3d ago

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

Glasgow making amazing progress, while Edinburgh dilly dallies

Mark McIntyre@markjmcintyre.bsky.social · 3d ago

So good to see a direct link planned for South City Way & South West City Way, along Maxwell Rd. That'll bring proper network effects. 👇 The Maryhill Road route is going to be so impactful. Bringing the Garscube Road cycle lane to Maryhill proper for the first time. (Love the visualisations too!)

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Best for Britain@bestforbritain.org · 4d ago

Kemi Badenoch’s flagship party conference policy document overestimated the cost of net zero by nearly £500bn… …seemingly after someone accidentally double-counted figures on a spreadsheet. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Once again, I have no hesitation in saying that RFK Jr is evil. I rarely use that word to describe people, its mostly not useful. But that man desires the suffering of the most vulnerable amongst us.

Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH@gavinyamey.bsky.social · 5d ago

In the proposed, deeply unethical trial, half of babies would be given the hepatitis B vaccine birth dose, but this life-saving intervention would be WITHHELD from the other half It is already established from reserch that the birth dose reduces the risk of liver cancer & other liver diseases

the common belief that so-called "back office" roles in the public sector are unnecessary is predicated on an understanding of the world of work that's no deeper than "when mummy hides her face she isn't actually there anymore"

Double yellow line claim dismissed by councillors Councillors have dismissed claims by a homeowner that new double yellow lines would restrict their available parking after learning they already had at least one garage and a driveway at the back of their property....

Double yellow line claim dismissed by councillors

Councillors have dismissed claims by a homeowner that new double yellow lines would restrict their available parking after learning they already had at least one garage and a driveway at the back of their property. The resident was the sole objector to plans to introduce double yellow lines on Rullion Road, Penicuik at the junction with Kirkton Brae, which has numerous garages belonging to surrounding homes on it. A meeting of Midlothian Council’s administration cabinet was this week told that officers had put plans to introduce to no parking zone at the junction out for consultation after receiving ‘numerous’ complaints from residents about near misses and poor sight lines from the junction.

theedinburghreporter.co.uk

TfL found that there were just 4 pedestrian casualties recorded over three years across 164 bus stop bypasses. So yes, expect a future Tory government to ban floating bus tops, bike lanes and indeed bikes

Peter Walker@peterwalker99.bsky.social · last wk.

These are Moylan’s full comments on floating bus stop bike lanes. This is the sort of transport policy almost every other European nation would find deeply weird.

Essential, brilliant reporting by @by-cjewett.bsky.social It's TERRIFYING: MAHA folks are INVESTIGATING pediatricians, who are some of the lowest paid docs in the professions, for vaccinating kids It's part of a 20-year anti-vaxx campaign by RFK Jr "that some of his political allies have joined"

Christina Jewett@by-cjewett.bsky.social · last wk.

NEW: Ken Paxton's office is investigating pediatricians for vaccinating children. He alleged a sprawling profit-driven conspiracy. Pediatricians say the accusations are an attempt at intimidation. 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/h...

These are Moylan’s full comments on floating bus stop bike lanes. This is the sort of transport policy almost every other European nation would find deeply weird.

Pity poor Peter having to cover Tory transport policy which is less coherent than 15 foxes screaming at each other at 2am when the bins are out. "Baron" Moylan of Grenfell shouldn't be allowed sharp objects.

Peter Walker@peterwalker99.bsky.social · last wk.

On the main stage at Conservative conference, the shadow transport team is discussing how to “counter” things like 20mph zones and bus lanes. The war on the motorist lives.

On the main stage at Conservative conference, the shadow transport team is discussing how to “counter” things like 20mph zones and bus lanes. The war on the motorist lives.

It's a huge democratic deficit, really a catastrophe. We know from polls, studies (even the Tory one that was meant to find against LTNs), an election results that safe streets are *extremely* popular, but the minority opposition to them is more aggressive, older, and richer than the support.

There's bottomless anger on Facebook in Glasgow. Politicians have to stop being dribbled like basketballs by small by small angry groups of pensioners while large numbers of parents who don't have the time to post on Facebook 10x a day are forced to inch along pavements clutching their toddlers.

Somehow, the city produced almost the only area in Scotland with a 30% fall in traffic, huge support from schools and senior medics amongst others, really minimal impact on adjacent roads per the council’s own figures, and now has overturning SUVs on the bike bus route.

A small number of angry drivers / pandering politicians had enough incentive to get the council to remove a years-old quiet neighbourhood scheme. The same concentration of power doesn’t exist in the diffuse body of local people who would like not to have overturning SUVs in their street

Blackford Safe Routes@blackfordsaferoutes.co.uk · 2w ago

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

Very funny how Wes Streeting’s statement that the local farmer only had a “partial picture” read like “the intelligence services were all over this plot already” and could now be anything from that to “oh wow you’ll never guess what they found in the vans and I really wish I could tell you”.

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.

it’s kind of incredible that they’ll just come out and say ‘legislation that makes life better for the vast majority of people impairs my ability to live as toxically as I prefer’ and you’re supposed to take it seriously

Paul Bernal@paulbernal.bsky.social · 2w ago

Personally, I’d rather have healthy kids than mollycoddled millionaires

If you live anywhere near Ayr, it would be a great time to write to your councillor in support of cycle lanes. They are reading Facebook and deciding the posters there should set transport policy.

An insight into cycling trends - the introduction of Voi bikes has added about 500 additional cyclists per day to Leith Walk; the tram closure added another 250 at the peak. The Voi effect is much larger at the weekend, while the inverse is true for the tram.

A snap going the other way (into town) this morning. I was about midway in the queue, with about as many people behind me. This was around 8.45am, so some time after the *actual* peak, which seems to be around 8.15am.

There's something amazing about being in a peloton of 40+ bikes on the cycle lane heading home. Every driver at the front of a queue of side-street traffic... every person peering out of a bus window... every passer-by gets the message: "Oh wow, yeah, people are using this stuff". Never gets old.

He’s actually LibDemmed himself out of the LibDems.

Oxford Clarion@oxfordclarion.bsky.social · 3w ago

A West Oxfordshire councillor has moved from the Liberal Democrats to the Conservatives. Phil Godfrey, councillor for Carterton North-West, said “I am increasingly uncomfortable with what I see as the party's anti-motorist approach.” Cllr Godfrey runs a car servicing and tyre business in Bicester.