The controversial and surprising vote to remove highly effective traffic calming measures from a residential area and re-introduce up to 6,000 vehicles daily — on a 'quite route' for walking, wheeling and cycling spanning two primary schools — must surely now be revisited at Transport Committee.
⚠️ Today, Standards Commission hearing (Councillors Neil Ross & Marie-Clair Munro) found both had breached the Councillor code of conduct for failing to declare they lived by the Braid Estate when dealing w/ Greenbank to Meadows Quiet Route, including their votes to remove effective traffic filtering
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Signpost on rough hill ground with view of rolling fields
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Narrow street with tall buildings on either side and lots of cars on it
Cowgate 1 year on - what have you done?
Join us in front of the City Chambers at 8.30am on Thursday 13 November to tell the council that it's time to take action on dangerous roads.
Did you know the Christmas Market is going impact access to Princes Street gardens for almost 3 months? "Set up dates: 27/10/25 – 14/11/25 • Operating : 15/11/25 – 04/01/26 • Take down : 05/01/26 – 18/01/26"
You can register your objection here: citydev-portal.edinburgh.gov.uk/idoxpa-web/a...
Rubbish bags with litter spread across the pavement and on to the road in front of Luxford Burgers on St Leonard's Street
Luxford Burgers now using proper business rubbish bins, after a visit by the Network and Environmental Enforcement Services team at Edinburgh City Council
Thank you to the enforcement team at the Network & Environmental Enforcement Service team in @edinburghcouncil.bsky.social for addressing a littering and a hygiene problem caused by a food business. Before and after photos below.
Start of Spokes count article... Spokes Traffic Count May 2025: new post-covid bike % record! Our regular May traffic count, at Lothian Road and Forrest Road, found bikes forming the highest proportion of all vehicles so far post-covid. The 8-9am increase to 16.7%, from 16.3% in 2024, was marginal, with both car and bike numbers rising somewhat. However, at lunchtime (12.30-13.30) the bike percentage was up from 10.2% to 11.1%, with car numbers falling – indeed, for the first time ever there were fewer private cars than the bus/taxi/van total, our ‘commercial’ category. At Forrest Road northbound, bikes formed a remarkable 26.9% of all vehicles between 8 and 9a.m. – our highest post-covid figure so far at any count point. As we have seen in the last couple of years, the modest improvements in bike numbers at our count locations (where cycling infrastructure has not yet been installed or improved) contrast strongly with hugely impressive rises where segregated infrastructure has recently been built, notably the Cycling Scotland data for CCWEL and at Picardy Place. For full data from our May 13 count, see the ‘Resources’ section below A parallel count was conducted by Spokes Porty, with fairly similar results to the central area – see below
#SpokesCount
New records:
👍 🚲 % morning & lunch
👍 🚘 overtaken by 🚌🚕🛻 at lunch
-> www.spokes.org.uk
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Fabulous day for enjoying #HolyroodPark and a reminder from the park rangers to keep dogs on a short lead due to protect ground-nesting birds #HolyroodPark #ArthursSeat #SalisburyCrags #Edinburgh
We can hear a lone piper practising in Holyrood Park today because it is the weekend when cars are not allowed. Imagine if every day of the week we could enjoy the Park without any car traffic. #CarFreeHolyrood #LivingStreetsEdinburgh #HolyroodPark #SalisburyCrags #ArthursSeat #Edinburgh
@edinburghcouncil.bsky.social another vulnerable road user makes the sacrifice because you are too scared to limit drivers freedoms.
Colinton Road active travel zone please?
4 high schools, 2 university sites, activity centre, local primary schools, key route to town
Arthur's Seat doing a good impression of Mt Fuji as it projects its morning shadow on the slope behind Salisbury Crags #Edinburgh #HolyroodPark #ArthursSeat #EdinburghCastle
Excellent event which opened up a new set of questions on how behaviours & values might be unknowingly subject to metrics,measures, ranking & scoring systems. A thought-provoking explanation of trade-offs between transparency & expertise in design of metrics for the public.
