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Eric Lesley @ericlesley2.bsky.social · 1h

Smug bastard, me!

Eric Lesley @ericlesley2.bsky.social · 2h

My 2 cents worth - filter dalmeny st like iona st and make Albert street/albion rd the east-west route because its signal controlled at leith walk end and on easter rd.

Cllr Jack Caldwell 🇺🇦 @jackrmcaldwell.bsky.social · 4h

Leith is one of Scotland's (& the UK's) most densely populated neighbourhoods with loads of people walking, using a wheelchair, pushing a pram, or cycling down/across Easter Road.

But many drivers I spoke to also want to see calming measures & improvements. www.deadlinenews.co.uk/2025/10/10/e...

Edinburgh councillor starts campaign to improve safety on “scary” Leith junction - Deadline News

AN EDINBURGH councillor has launched a petition to urge his colleagues on the council to improve a notorious junction on Easter Road.

www.deadlinenews.co.uk

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Eric Lesley @ericlesley2.bsky.social · 7h

Sanded and 2 coats of varnish, drying in the autumn sunshine

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Eric Lesley @ericlesley2.bsky.social · 9h

Its a tremendous kickstand!

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Eric Lesley @ericlesley2.bsky.social · 12h

Winter maintenance for the cargo bike - all the wood stripped off for sanding/varnishing, now taking down to BG cycles in Port-o-bello for a service.

My longtail cargo bike stripped of all accessories, in my back garden.

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Eric Lesley @ericlesley2.bsky.social · 1d

Sad day: theyre replacing the talking green men on London Road

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Eric Lesley @ericlesley2.bsky.social · 1d

The only heavy infrastructure round here is your belly, fatty!

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City Infinity @cityinfinity.bsky.social · 4d

We're pleased to report on a project that Mark has been working on with Robert Weetman for Manchester City Council.

This post sets out some ideas that developed from this work and which will hopefully start to explain what "pedestrian-friendly" is, and how we can design better side road junctions.

What makes side road junctions pedestrian-friendly?

ForewordThis post has a companion written by Robert Weetman. We have been working collaboratively on something which we think needs to be more widely known, but we also thought it might be fun and …

cityinfinity.co.uk

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Eric Lesley @ericlesley2.bsky.social · 4d

I do, i remember that every time it vanished was the day the bins were emptied.

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Eric Lesley @ericlesley2.bsky.social · 4d

Are you suggesting that civil engineers should be removed from decision making until strategic transport planners have worked their magic?!?!

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Eric Lesley @ericlesley2.bsky.social · 4d

waiting on tenterhooks here... told my boss not to expect any work this morning

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Eric Lesley @ericlesley2.bsky.social · 4d

Could you find out what's happened to the bollard there please? Been missing for months and a regular flow of traffic both ways through the no entry sign now

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Eric Lesley @ericlesley2.bsky.social · 5d

Kramer Vs Bollocks... Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Bollocks... The neverending bollocks

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Eric Lesley @ericlesley2.bsky.social · 6d

What a difference alcaraz has made. Same as last season.

Eric Lesley @ericlesley2.bsky.social · 12d

Bobble hat is out of storage

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Eric Lesley @ericlesley2.bsky.social · 13d

Have just bought one for mrs L!

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Eric Lesley @ericlesley2.bsky.social · 14d

That's a lot of fruit

Eric Lesley @ericlesley2.bsky.social · 18d

Must be a really hard life to only be able to afford a luxury german marque

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Eric Lesley @ericlesley2.bsky.social · 23d

Hope your paper is well received

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Eric Lesley @ericlesley2.bsky.social · 23d

2 laundries out before work this morning and another in the machine to hang out when i get home!

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Eric Lesley @ericlesley2.bsky.social · Sep 11

Common in Liverpool too

maps.app.goo.gl/9dDqwrikxxsx...

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Eric Lesley @ericlesley2.bsky.social · Sep 11

Very proud of my pal

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Eric Lesley @ericlesley2.bsky.social · Sep 11

How do i mute anything about america?

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Municipal Dreams @municipaldreams.bsky.social · Sep 11

🚨 New on Substack, my updated post on the Manor Estate in Sheffield, once dubbed 'the worst estate in England'. That kind of criticism is common of estates across the country - my post attempts to unpick the hard realities and crude prejudices behind it.
municipaldreams.substack.com/p/the-manor-...

The Manor Estate, Sheffield: ‘the worst estate in Britain’?

In 1995, after a local school had been destroyed in an arson attack, the MP Roy Hattersley (a former chair of Sheffield’s Housing Committee in the sixties) dubbed the Manor Estate ‘the worst estate in...

municipaldreams.substack.com

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IWM Vienna @iwm.at · Sep 7

Historian Gary Gerstle—one of the leading voices on American political history—joins IWM Rector @mishaglenny.bsky.social to explore how unresolved legacies of race, identity, and constitutional conflict continue to shape U.S. politics today.

www.humanitiesfestival.at/gerstle

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