This is on a designated #cycleroute from #Blackfriars to #OldSt and beyond. Given #Smithfield is going to be a building site for prob yrs why is there no designated diversion for #cycling. As a non commuter it was seriously dangerous/counterintuitive to navigate.
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start of George St article... 4. Princes Street / George Street – shock changes The Council is expecting more than £90m income (over 3 years) from the new Visitor Levy, and it had been expected that some £30m of this would go towards the promised major George Street project, incorporating a ‘cycle street’ which would also form the crucial central link of CCWEL. However at the full council meeting on 12.2.26, an amendment proposed by the SNP, supported by Labour and the Lib Dems, won the day, defeating two (very different) alternatives from the Conservative and Green parties. The victorious amendment scrapped George Street funding, basically on the grounds that Princes Street is in more urgent need, and allocated £200K towards drawing up plans for Princes Street and the Waverley Valley.
Map showing new route 2. Foot of Walk to Dock St - official opening 10am Wed 18 March The new cycleroute, which extends the Leith Walk cycle lanes to Dock Street (with a later connection to Ocean Terminal) will be officially opened at 10.15am on Wednesday 18 March at Sandport Place bridge. The Spokes cargobike stall will be there (maps at special stall prices!) along with a Dr Bike and cargobikes to try at a Porty Community Energy stall. Please come along, see the ribbon-cutting, and say hello at our stall! Either come direct to Sandport Bridge, or meet at 10a.m. at the junction of Henderson Street with Yardheads, where there will be a walking party arriving at Sandport Bridge by 10.15 for the opening. The route (dashed blue line on the drawing below) is part of the wider Leith Connections project which aims to provide a more pleasant area to get about. It also will provide an alternative to the tramlined roads between Foot of Walk and Ocean Terminal.
Pictures of ghost bike before & after refresh by Infrasisters 5.2 Ghost Bikes You may know of the worldwide tradition, where concerned friends or members of the public sometimes install a white-painted ‘ghost bike’ at the site of a cycling fatality – a memorial to the victim and also a reminder and warning to other road users, not least motorists. A member of the public contacted us about the Kings Road Portobello junction ghost bike (StuartElliott & HeatherStronach), which was deteriorating, and Infrasisters kindly gave it a great refresh – after which Rosanna of Infrasisters then did the same at the West End (Zhi Min Soh). Meanwhile, years after these deaths, interim safety improvements have been made at Portobello, but permanent solutions are still awaited here and at the West End. Speak to your councillors if this concerns you.
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“The project marks a major step in expanding sustainable mobility and cycling tourism in South-Eastern Europe.
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River Tay Way - new hiking / biking route in Scotland 🏴😀
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Start of written deputation LEITH LINKS COMMUNITY COUNCIL & LEITH HARBOUR & NEWHAVEN COMMUNITY COUNCIL WRITTEN DEPUTATION TO TRANSPORT & ENVIRONMENT COMMITTEE - 22 MAY 2025 Item 7.5 City Mobility Plan – Capital Investment Programme Prioritisation Outputs with specific reference to the Project ‘Leith Connection Phase 3 (LDPAP Hawthornevale to Seafield) This is joint submission from two Community Councils in Leith. We understand and accept the need to rationalise and set priorities for the Transport programme over coming years, but we have comments on the findings of this report, which we feel merits amendment. In Para 3.3, it is stated that “the CMP Implementation Plan is supported by four documents setting out delivery actions for Active Travel, Parking, Public Transport and Road Safety.” We find that the scoring and some of the decisions on Pausing or Proceeding in the report do not take adequate account of some of these, particularly as regards Public Transport. We also query the lack of transparency in the scoring process. And are unclear as to how the scoring deals with comparisons, in order to identify the best projects to deliver modal shift. To take a specific example – ‘on our patch’ – our two community councils, covering the coastal strip from Seafield to Granton, are unconvinced that the Leith Connections Phase 3 (Hawthornevale to Seafield cycle route) is correctly evaluated as qualifying to Proceed. We would recommend that it is instead moved to the Paused list. We are not anti Active Travel, and we support rather than oppose a cycle route through this area, but we find ourselves asking the following questions:
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wants cross-streets (Hanover etc) included with #GeorgeStreet & other central Ed projects
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wants #Hawthornevale - #Seafield #cycleroute scrapped & redesigned
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Hownsgill Viaduct, Consett. #Bridge #Viaduct #Railway #CycleRoute #Drone #Outdoors #Landscape #Misty #MistyMornings #CoDurham #Consett #Northeast #North #CapturingBritain #UKShots #morningwalk #walking #coast2coast #trees #weather #greyday
Gloucester cycle route update. Exciting to see this happening.
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OsmAnd screenshot with the CyclOSM overlay hiding the background (OpenStreetMap). Things related with bicycle (bicycle paths, repair shops, bicycle parking, parks, drinking water fountains, low speed roads, toilets, ... are highlighted in the map)
CycleRoute profile (overlay nearly deactivated). As it is a profile it allows offline use (whereas the overlay is loaded on real time if not cached). Things related with bicycle (bicycle paths, repair shops, bicycle parking, parks, drinking water fountains, low speed roads, toilets , ... are highlighted in the map)
Sime time ago I mention of a #OsmAnd profile I find quite useful for cycling. The profile calles #CycleRoute is partially inspired in #CyclOSM and is described here […]
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Waskerly Way Cyclist enjoying the snow #snowdays #snow #waskerlyway#north #Northumberland #northeast #cycleroute #winter
The #CycleRoute from Northwich to Chester mostly ran along very quiet backroads across, small villages, woodland & some much bigger hills than I expected The boat lift visit meant diversion in red which included some nasty fast primary road https://cycle.travel/map/journey/115384 /15
