🙋 Excellent discussion why it's vital to respond to the #DundeeStreet / #Fountainbridge consultn

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.. ends TODAY, Mon 12 Jan

It's easy! Or, if short of time, email dundeestreetfountainbridge@edinburgh.gov.uk with your view

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start of circular... Spokes Action-Update 08.01.26 spokes.org.uk St Martins Centre, 232 Dalry Road EH11 2JG 0131.313.2114 bluesky: @spokes.org.uk 0. Finding your councillors In Edinburgh, find your ward & councillors by typing your postcode on this page [or edinburgh.gov.uk : Council & Committees : Find your Councillor]. Everyone has either 3 or 4 councillors, usually from assorted parties. For any Council, and to find MSPs, you can use writetothem.com. 1. Welcome to 2026! There’s a major article on our website on what we may expect for cycling-related development in Edinburgh in 2026. Some is pretty definite, some is ‘expected’ and some will depend on bids from the Council for Scottish Government active travel funding. The article includes...  A start to implementing the council’s ‘Primary Cycle Network’ of segregated routes on main roads. As the Council’s active travel delivery plan 2021-2030 rightly says, these “are usually the most direct, flattest and socially safe routes.“  Upgrading the Travelling Safely bollarded routes on Duddingston Road, Duddingston Road West, Seafield Street, A1 (including London Road)  A start on Dundee/Fountainbridge scheme (see 2 below) if consultation and traffic orders go relatively smoothly. Please respond by 12 January!!  Fully segregated onroad route Cameron Toll - Bioquarter  Meadows to Canal - Kings Theatre section work starts on Jan 12; main route construction due December 2026  Foot of Walk to Dock Street – completion & opening  Lothian Road boulevard – initial outline plans  A8, CCWEL cycling & bus facilities extension from Roseburn to Gogar – initial outline plans  7-7-7 Bus-lane experiment, Balerno to Musselburgh

6. New Train Fleets Transport Scotland is in the process of procuring two new train fleets... • long distance Inter-City trains to replace the existing HST fleet linking Edinburgh and Glasgow to Inverness and Aberdeen • local electric/battery hybrid trains for lines to Dundee via Fife Circle and for the Borders railway. Electrification work to Fife is about to start. Clearly the design of this new rolling stock will have a profound effect on bike/rail opportunities for years to come on routes affecting many journeys to/from our local area. It has been publicly stated that bike carriage will be included but, as far as we are aware, there has been no consultation on designs, or what types of bikes and accessories will be catered for. If you have views on what should be covered, please email your MSPs asking them to take up your concerns and get back to you. Send us any useful replies. Do consider mentioning the economic benefits of bike tourism, as this has been a winning argument in the past – for example in getting the West Highland bike coaches and retro-fitting the HST fleet to Inverness and Aberdeen. Note also that Spokes is looking for a new bike/rail campaigner – see 5.1 above.

4. Climate Emergency With world politics in turmoil, the growing climate emergency is often way down in public debate. Severe weather episodes hit the headlines briefly, but don’t bring long-term climate action. Yet, in Britain, 2025 was the hottest year on record [Met Office]. Heat and drought in 2025 cost UK arable farmers over £800m in lost crops, following 2024’s lost harvests caused by extreme, persistent rain leading to flooded and waterlogged fields. Internationally, the current tensions over Greenland are heightened by the melting of Arctic Ice, itself due to global heating, leading to new shipping routes and conflict over new sources of minerals and oil. UN Secretary General António Guterres has warned that “devastating consequences” are now inevitable. Nonetheless, efforts to pressurise politicians and energise the public by NGOs, scientists, those most affected and others, continue, and must continue... 4.1 Draft Scottish Climate Change Plan – consultation ends 29.1.26 + SCCS response The Scottish Government is consulting on its 2026-2040 Climate Change Plan. You may recall that the previous Plan (2018-2032) included the ‘commitment’ to cut car-km 20% by 2030. A commitment which later became a ‘target’ and which then in 2025 was scrapped altogether, despite government-commissioned research showing how it could be achieved. Stop Climate Chaos Scotland (SCCS) has submitted this response to the new consultation, and with a key-issues summary. On transport, whilst praising the Scottish Government’s intentions on EVs, they say it is “weak on both modal shift and increasing and improving public and active travel options. And there is no action to cut emissions from aviation or shipping.” WHAT YOU CAN DO • Please make your own response to the draft – it can be brief! SCCS has produced this excellent page of helpful advice on how to respond, and with other useful links. • Spokes hopes to respond to the consultation and, if you decide to send in your own detailed …

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📈 #ClimateCrisis
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Intro to their response... Dundee Street and Fountainbridge active travel consultation – response Overview The council are proposing to improve walking, wheeling and cycling along Dundee Street and Fountainbridge, as well as surrounding streets connecting to the Union Canal. The changes will be transformative and create safer, more attractive streets for everyone. The aim is to create: walking and street improvements a high-quality, direct, cycling route to provide an alternative to the busy and shared Union Canal path a connection between the Telfer Subway and the Union Canal via Gibson Terrace, improving connections to the surrounding network from Roseburn, the Canal, the Meadows and beyond The Dundee St and Fountainbridge consultation is open until the 12 Jan 2026.

#DundeeStreet #Fountainbridge 🚶👩‍🦼🚲 consultn

👍 Excellent submission from @blackfordsaferoutes.co.uk

🙋 Please do respond yourself - it matters!
[no need for detail if short of time]

Online QA--> consultationhub.edinburgh.gov.uk/sfc/dundee-s...

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"WALKING OUT ON PEDESTRIANS"
@ianswanson.bsky.social for @scotsman.com
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Walking group @livingstreetsedi.bsky.social has come out against a proposed #TravelScheme for #DundeeStreet and #Fountainbridge.

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#Fountainbridge / #DundeeStreet 🚲 lanes

Yes the drop-in is TODAY weds 12 Nov
--> consultationhub.edinburgh.gov.uk/sfc/dundee-s...

Apologies for the incorrect date in yesterday's post below

At least, it's not raining today, so a more pleasant trip!!

Map of the area covered by the project - around F'Bridge & Dundee St

picture showing bike lanes & wider footway in Gibson Terrace area

#Fountainbridge / #DundeeStreet 🚲 lanes

Drop-in TODAY Tue 11 Nov
1-6.30pm, Fountainbridge Library

--> consultationhub.edinburgh.gov.uk/sfc/dundee-s...

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