So pleased for the residents of Easter Drylaw View, their road has finally been resurfaced! This is a real community win. Huge credit to everyone who kept pushing and to the teams who delivered the work. 🌟🚧

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I recently wrote about the need for real investment and shared responsibility to restore the Drylaw Shopping centre, ensuring it becomes a safer and more welcoming place for the community.

📰 You can read the full article at: nen.press/what-next-fo...

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Drop in at Drylaw Neighbourhood Community Centre From 28 Oct 2025 at 16:00 to 28 Oct 2025 at 19:00 More information Add to my Calendar (.ics) Drop in At Bristo Baptist Church From 29 Oct 2025 at 16:00 to 29 Oct 2025 at 19:00 More information

Part of Spokes draft response to the consultation... Decision criteria In all decisions on the tram project, Spokes considers that the following criteria are crucial. ● Traffic reduction. Traffic reduction is a major factor in positive cycling conditions throughout the city, and a major contributor to desirable outcomes on congestion, public health and climate. Thus decisions, such as in the Bridges corridor, must have traffic reduction as a top objective. ● Improving cycling conditions. Every opportunity should be taken to improve cycling conditions – for example, if the Council selects the Roseburn route the project should incorporate a new active travel bridge over the mainline railway ● Not worsening cycling conditions. Our biggest concern from the tram proposals is dangers from onroad tramlines, with literally hundreds of cyclist injuries, and one death, on the original tram route. This is a major concern in the Bridges corridor and the Orchard Brae section. In view of the seriousness of the issue, we include below a separate section on bikes and tramlines.

Start of spokes article... Tram Granton to Bioquarter – Spokes early draft response, as of 6 Oct With the consultation now well underway, the Spokes draft response is developing well. You can find it here [1.9MB pdf]. We strongly stress that this is a work in progress and there are likely to be considerable further edits, particularly to the second part of the response, dealing with individual sections of the route. Major updates and ideas in the draft, since our initial thoughts, include.. An introductory section on bikes and tramlines, which includes lessons from our tramline-crash reporting tool and from earlier phases of Edinburgh tram Detailed commentary on all sections of the route [several sections still require considerable fleshing out]. Some major issues/opportunities arising include.. Great concern over cycling safety in the Bridges corridor. We urge single-line working for this section, or possibly the tramlines on one side of the road with bidirectional segregated cycling on the other side We suggest dropping North Bridge tram stop and replacing it by two stops – at Waverley Steps to serve east Princes Street and the rail station, and at the North Bridge arcade, to serve the Old Town and again the rail station. There are multiple reasons for this suggestion, in addition to a major cycling safety aspect There may be an opportunity to incorporate an active travel bridge over the mainline railway, linking the North Edinburgh Network to the new Fountainbridge link, without the long ramps down to road level and up again.

🙋 #Tram drop-ins, 4-7pm

Oct 28 #Drylaw
Oct 29 #Bristo
🙋 Consultn--> consultationhub.edinburgh.gov.uk/sfc/tram-nor...

🙋 Spokes draft--> www.spokes.org.uk/2025/10/tram...

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