Terrible idea. Some councils paying to amend the pavement for the benefit of wealthy drivers and ensuring the kerbside they own will never be used for anything but private car parking. No guarantee car owners will get space outside their house either. Watch the proliferation of trailing cables

Nobody ever suggests that we should *all* be cycling. Just that more people could than currently do

This is quite a needlessly defensive take. As someone else said, no method of transport suits every single person. Benefits of active travel still available to most people, including many disabled people who don’t/can’t drive

Absolutely. Amazing how lost this is on so many people, especially SNP voters, who continually let the government get away with absolutely everything they get wrong

In Scotland the parking is free at hospitals for whoever wants it. Staff, patients, visitors, park and ride commuters…

Slow handclap to the Scottish government for making parking free at hospitals. Spending our precious NHS budget on parking 👏

I’ve never worn one and neither have my kids. I have become so bored of the shaming. I always advise the shamers to wear a crash helmet in the car to guard against much more likely head injuries, but they still choose not to. 🤷‍♀️ American comments incoming in 3,2,1…

Henry is by far the worst hoover I’ve ever used. Awkward piece of shit to use, topples over when you drag it, needs a bag. I’m sure they must pay for all positive coverage it gets. Hate hate hate it

That must have been horrible. Luckily you weren’t behind a citylink bus. They don’t seem to train their drivers. I’ve had a number of frightening close passes by a number of their buses

I will do but it’s the whole length of princes street

@edinburghcouncil.bsky.social @livingstreetsedi.bsky.social @stephenjenkinson.bsky.social @sw20.info
Cycling along Princes St is dangerous for lots of reasons but the road surface where it meets tram lines is now the worst ever. It can’t remain like this *any longer* or someone will die under a bus

Real men do not ‘help’ women because it is not the women’s work. Real men do their fair share of the work that requires doing

Hard agree. She is a vile screeching banshee who over sings everything

By Your Side by Eurythmics. The stench of it is unbearable. The smelliest, most cringeworthy song of all time

There was an article in the Glasgow Herald recently that tried to make a connection between the recent huge city centre fire which was caused by batteries in a vape shop with - you guessed it - bike lanes

I hope Cllr Whyte gets professional help with his weird, all consuming and disproportionate antipathy towards people riding bicycles

Meanwhile, London - a proper capital city run well just cracks on transforming itself for the better year on year. Edinburgh is so timid, it’s embarrassing

This is A Good Thing, but I can’t helping but be struck yet again by how pointless and self-defeating it is for the UK to have to spend a decade or more of work and rebuilding relationships just to get to a position that’s still nowhere near as good as it was on 30th January 2020.

Scheemie fucks. Have been cycling the path almost daily for 15 years now and have never once seen a copper there, despite this kind of stuff being commonplace in the usual places

Every single house and carpet shop visit since the 90’s. I’m 48

“They’ve created a Catholic ghetto here”, he said. “You cannot get out of it with any ease whatsoever. It has decimated our community life. We do feel second-class citizens.”
Moronic take. Parishioners faith obviously not very strong if a minor detour puts them off attending. Either way, fuck ‘em

Because the ‘driveway’ is the more obvious place to put a dropped kerb. Wonder what @livingstreetsedi.bsky.social have to say about this?

Is that an illegal home made driveway there too?

Agreed. And there will be *very* little wildlife or plant life there presently. Like he gives a toss about that either way

Not really. I don’t mind if you think that. Not everyone will like or understand the things I like, and I don’t get defensive about it

I do a lot of wanking - amongst other things, like baking, cycling, painting and gardening - with the time I spend not watching football games

And family?

If it dominates other people’s time and attention then I’m sure you can imagine how it would interfere with the time of the non-interested friends and family around them

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