Businesses that complained the trams were killing Leith now complaining the lack of trams is killing Leith.
Large SUVs are so common in streets now. This one is from KIA and is around £79k. It's a 6 seater. Battery pack is a massive 100Kwh. Meanwhile we offer the UA at £6.5k with 545Wh battery. Only one can get you through city traffic! 😆 @sw20.info @banzaiedinburgh.bsky.social @portyenergy.bsky.social
🚨 New research by us! 📣 Most British drivers don't know how dangerous SUVs are to other road users, but adding information to SUV marketing materials seems to do almost nothing to change people's plans to buy SUVs Here's a 🧵 on why harder action is going to be needed 1/10
I am once again going to bang my wee drum about how many folks go and pay to holiday cycling about in a rewilded/tree-lined car-free 15-minute city and don't stop to think for a minute that home could be just like that, after they drive home again from Center Parcs.
Been watching this on a loop for several minutes now, still laughing.
Max B 💙 🔶 🇺🇦 🇬🇧 🇪🇺@maxbrockbank.com · 2mo agoThe Cure's Robert Smith perfectly sums up the difference between Americans and Brits.
🤩 #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 · 2mo 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...
No doubt keen cyclists. Carbon fibre cervelo season is well into swing
Machrie Moor Standing stones, on a rare cloudless sunny day on Arran.
The length of time between Porty getting some new dropped kerbs installed, ¹ and some entitled driver blocking it with their ego-pram is, sadly, measured in hours.
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...
You going to show some leadership, @stephenjenkinson.bsky.social, and fix this mess, or just follow your predecessor's example and happily wash your hands of it while blaming someone else.
Blackford Safe Routes@blackfordsaferoutes.co.uk · 3mo agoIn any other sensible world, when a mistake is made in the paperwork, IT IS FIXED - not by changing the physical world to match the incorrect documents, but by updating the text. Only Edinburgh council could make such a mess of it
i’ve worked in tech more than 20 years. it has never been more ridiculous.
Just FYI there’s an account on here called @redditspaceviewes.bsky.social (with over 200k followers) that is posting a bunch of AI slop (including a “Saturn polar hexagon” with 8 sides) and claiming it’s NASA imagery. If you see anything posted by them, it’s likely fake.
First KitKat harvest of the season waiting to be lifted in Suffolk.
This is excellent, and the soup in the cafe is pretty good too.
Water of Leith Conservation Trust@wolct.bsky.social · 4mo agoIan Graham, of Colinton Clocks returns to the Visitor Centre this Saturday with his Mesmerising Mechanisms Exhibition. 10am-4pm, free entry The exhibition features wooden machines he designed and built himself The exhibition is hands on fun for all ages
Ooh, time to drag this one out again :D www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCbu...
Danny Boy
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