All photos in & around Edinburgh

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Newhaven to the airport.

Who will win? t.co/i4s4t7etS2

A 20x speedup video is shown at:
twitter.com/david_mccraw/status/1667426179068968960

“Climate Emergency Service”

😕 t.co/md4UG0nYfo

Victoria Street, Edinburgh

Pedestrian and cycle zone, Grassmarket, Edinburgh

Swerve to avoid a tram-pinch.

National Cycle Network milepost outside Haymarket Station, Edinburgh.

Scottish Parliament themed cycle parking and a march in support of Ukraine 🇺🇦.

View from Arthur’s Seat

Rose Street, Edinburgh

One rack survives from a group of three.

Haymarket Station, Edinburgh

Morrison Street from the Point A hotel first floor.

Ghost Bike on Princes Street, Edinburgh

Zhi Min Soh

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Ghost Bike on Princes Street, Edinburgh

Zhi Min Soh

I'm a cyclist approaching this junction. What on earth am I supposed to do?! t.co/N1IYq4Z0Fn

DYLs.
Blocking road & pavement

Blocking pavement l

Double yellows & creates a pinch point for bikes

How many vehicles can you see breaking how many rules? How are we going to get 8 to 80 year olds cycling in Edinburgh when the authorities fail to keep usable even the few segregated bike lanes we have? #queensferryroad t.co/FFzYJvxg6L

Chicanne Challenge. Cycle route N1 Forkenford 1crop

Location: Duddingston, (Scotland, United Kingdom)

Showing how chicanes make it difficult to use non-standard or even standard bikes, on or near cycle route N1.
Picture credit: Iain Jack

Edinburgh: we want more people to cycle!

Also Edinburgh: here’s a new cycle lane on a main road! t.co/cQ5YDcmF2U

South Queensferry High Street is now one way except cyclists.

Waverley Bridge, Edinburgh

Give cyclists space

Princes Street, Edinburgh

"continuous footway" at Brunswick Street. Drivers not giving way - pedestrians and cyclists at risk.

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This is Fishwives Causeway. It is an ‘alternative route’ for those cyclists wanting to avoid Porty High St/SHLR junction if heading to/coming from Portobello Rd. Is it now free storage for a local business at the expense of safe cycling? (Howls into void.) t.co/wKKqcP3R8P

WARNING TO ALL CYCLISTS: don’t use the Potterrow cycle path south bound as there is a cement mixer in the middle of it, no warning or closure signs. I’ve just been assaulted by a workman who threw cement over me when I asked him if he’d permission to close the cycle path t.co/bU67Ca3IxS

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Celebrating three years to the day since we moved to Scotland with a walk to the urban shopping dystopia that is Fort Kinnaird. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 t.co/ilpsRWDOwo

Normal afternoon on The Meadows as a Sinclair C5 and Penny farthing glide past… t.co/CcNIgWh00e

SaveLanarkRoad Protest

Location: , Slateford (Scotland, UK)

Edinburgh City Council is considering to remove some of the temporary infrastructure put in as part of the SpacesForPeople programme during the pandemic. In particular there seems to be a serious plan to remove the segregated cycle lane on Lanark Road which is a 4 lane urban motorway. Plenty of space for a segregated cycle lane, car parking and two lanes for motor traffic. Somehow the ambition of netzero by 2030 has to be reached. This won't happen without making it easier for people to choose active travel.

Don't stand a chance do we 🙄🙄
@nigelbagshaw t.co/8AzJDcwcsC

Why? Why would you not just park your van in the space? #ComistonRoad t.co/Wndys7gWOX

Steps over railway at Bruntstane Station on NCN route 1

Cars park end-on to the footway, and they overhang the only footway on this stretch of Carrington Rd between Crewe Road and Fettes Ave., reducing it to sub1.5m.
This is a peak route for people from the West to get to Inverleith Park and all its activities.
It is also the main route for children getting to-from Broughton High School (over 1000 students) plus it is used in evenings and weekends for extra-curricular activities.
Simple solution would be to change end-on parking to parallel. Reducing bay numbers, but hey, not the public's problem where you ditch your car! Go by train, bus, bike, foot!

Hey @Edinburgh_CC, what’s the thought process to install cycle lanes on roads but then let nettles grow over them so they’re impossible to use? This is Duddingston Road West. Any chance in getting this fixed ASAP? @SpokesLothian @SpokesPorty t.co/N5EPPr7a6y

Tremendously exciting! A pulley transfer and cable inspection pit, with its c. 9 foot pulley wheels sitting just below the surface! t.co/Wd7EmYVG4M t.co/9uUUCReHUD

Close this road entirely except for local residents, bikes, pedestrians, agricultural and emergency motor vehicles.

Close this road entirely except for local residents, bikes, pedestrians, agricultural and emergency motor vehicles.

Close this road entirely except for local residents, bikes, pedestrians, agricultural and emergency motor vehicles.

Temporary "Spaces for People " cycleways Morningside Road to Tollcross via Bruntsfield need to be made permanent, improved in design and extended.

[Image taken 7.7.18] Noticeboards next to cycle parking inside Waverley Station, Edinburgh. See also: #165435, #165436, #165437.

[Image taken 7.7.18] Waverley Station, Edinburgh. Useful and relevant information for people who cycle near their cycles. This makes people feel part of a community. It makes them feel their custom is valued. It supports them to making and continue to making journeys actively. See also: #165435, #165436, #165438.

[Image taken 7.7.18] Waverley Station, Edinburgh. Events information where people who can use it can see it/find it. See also: #165435, #165437, #165438.

[Image taken 7.7.18] Waverley Station, Edinburgh. Noticeboards next to cycle parking. They are used for publicising events and to provide other information of interest to people who cycle. An excellent practice other cities could adopt.
[In October 2018] the Lothian Cycle Campaign, Spokes (www.spokes.org.uk/) explained how it worked: "The material to go on the boards is entirely supplied by Spokes - usually as pdf's which the station then prints and puts them on the board. It is up to us to contact the station when we wish to change the content, and they then do it quite quickly...
...Historically we have had a series of boards in the station for many years, at different locations as the station developed, under similar arrangements to the above. The station manager decides the locations." See also: #165436, #165437, #165438.

Ferry Road is a very busy and wide road which encourages cars to drive too fast which makes cycling on this road stressful and dangerous. A permanent segragated cycle path should be erected to facilitate bike users and would give pedestrians an overflow to maintain physical distancing.

Broken pavement barely wide enough for one person. Reported to the council on numerous occasions.

Really impressed someone has managed to make this section of road more dangerous for cyclists. Didn't think that was possible #allhailthecar t.co/LSq0JouDEa

Too many parked cars block safe route for cycling and prevent buses getting through. A marked cycleway or double yellow lines on one side would improve visibility and safety.

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Ramp to the canal

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Ramp to the canal

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Alternative path to EICA. This path was dug up to install a sewer pipe. It is now rough.

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Steps to the canal

2020,10 Alternative path to EICA avoiding steps from the canal.
Signed to Wilkies Basin

What a difference! #SpacesForPeople has made Comiston road an actual delight for people not in cars.

Please can Scotrail change their anti Tandem policies and allow them on the Inter7City trains which LNER did with exactly the same trains. Discriminates against disabled riders who have to ride with a partner.

Provide all-weather surface to this well used path

Bus shelter blocks most of pavement

Pavements too narrow

Widen pavement outside primary school

Prevent rat-run through residential area

Excellent practice at Civerino's Pizza in Edinburgh - the pop-up cycle lane is for cyclists, not drivers wanting to collect pizza.

The shared pavement and cycle way here is a joke. It gets really narrow by the bus stop where people are waiting and getting on and off buses. It's both dangourous for pedestrians and cyclists trying to filter through safely. It get's even worse on bin day when you also have to dodge them. This is a major route from West Lothian in to Edinburgh and needs big improvements.

Rat running at speed is a huge and dangerous problem here. Not only this but drivers are consistently ignoring that it's a one way road.

Safe cycling route needed north-south to allow travel to/across town centre and join up existing cycleways.

Long hill, so cars overtake. Pavement too narrow for cycling

Cycleway would add great value to the many cyclists who like to use this road . Cars drive very fast along this road. With a cycleway it would be an even better route for active travel through the city

Pavement is in disrepair and overgrown. It is very heavily used by walkers and cyclists but could be an even better outdoor space if the pavement was better kept and had space for all users

Pavement is very narrow. Not wide enough for families, wheelchair users or pushchairs. Pedestrians have to walk very close to cara

Start of the Brunstane Burn path

Start of the Innocent Railway Tunnel

This on southbound A7. There to protect cycle lane to #ERI. Wands dumped inside entrance to park. @EdinPolSE @lmacinnessnp t.co/wpTD6YNrrV

Remove car parking on bridge and widen footway, people stop to enjoy view but this creates blockages making distancing difficult, can't step out on to road because cars fly down at great speeds

Zebra crossing needed here to facilitate movement between both parts of park and avoid bottlenecks of pedestrians on narrow pavements

Zebra crossing needed to pass between both parts of the park

Please lengthen the time for which cycle-friendly filter lights are illuminated. Mere seconds are given before green light for motorised vehicles.

Please make junction safer for cyclists - turning right from London Rd onto Queen's Dr puts a cyclist in a very vulnerable position.

Wide roads with too much consideration for cars and not enough for cyclists

Cycle lanes aren’t real lanes. t.co/QaqvxZPIyj

Broken kerbstone on edge of road l

The Advanced Stop Line at this location is in a completely inappropriate place. It needs to be relocated to the flat part of the road, and the pedestrian crossing realigned.

A filter here for emergency services and bus. So not used as rat run for vehicles improving air and noise quality

Closure to stop rat run of cars except Emergency vehicles and bus.

Refurbish existing cycleway. Resurface, widen, improve road markings and run it without interruption (reduce car lanes to accomodate cyclists, rather than vice versa)

Run cycleway across Orchard Rd junction to 'encourage' drivers not to creep into it as they head out onto Queensferry Rd, thus avoiding 'pushing' cyclists into main carriageway (where, it has to be said, considerate car drivers normally accomodate you)

Cobblestones might have worked for horses in the C18th, but they are lethal for cyclists sharing with heavy traffic in the C21st. Smooth cycle lane required.

Busy road that is very hard to cross. Social distancing on footpath is tricky as paths are narrow and pedestrians are "hemmed in" by parked cars and also the busy road with traffic in both directions. Making it one way would certainly help.

Blind spot for children trying to cross to go to school or between parks. Can wait up to 5 minutes to get over when busy (generally when driver stops to let past) zebra crossing would help

The speed limit into this new housing development is currently 30mph. It needs to be cut, and enforced.

This section of road needs to be be narrowed and the pavements on either side to be widened. The free, roadside, particularly commuter motor vehicle storage needs to be stopped.

The gap in the wall here, and the road is just not fit for purpose. This section of road needs to be narrowed,for the pavement to be widened and for a cyclist/pedestrian crossing to be constructed.

There needs to be a dropped kerb here to allow easy access to and from the shared bike path l

Car parking here needs to be stopped to allow easy access to and from the shared bike path.

Car parking here needs to be stopped to allow easy access to and from the shared bike path.

Car parking here needs to be stopped to allow easy access to and from the shared bike path.

There needs to be a dropped kerb here to allow easy access to and from the shared bike path. Car parking here also needs to be stopped.

There needs to be a dropped kerb here to allow easy access to and from the shared bike path. Car parking also needs to be stopped here.

The needs to be a dropped kerb here to allow easy access to and from the shared bike path.

There needs to be a dropped kerb here to allow easy access to the shared bike path.

Cars are being parked here obstructing egress from the path. This needs to be stopped.

A dropped kerb is needed here.