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Gavin Corbett @gavincorbett.bsky.social · 20h

Outdoor recreation won’t change the world or solve all society’s ills. But a wee bit of investment will be highly visible, will bring joy and better health to a lot of people and will boost the rural economy. What’s not to love?

Ramblers Scotland @ramblersscotland.bsky.social · 21h

🌳Scotland needs Paths Into Nature!🚶

We’ve launched an ambitious joint manifesto ahead of the 2026 Holyrood election, backed by 7 partner orgs in Scottish Outdoor Recreation Alliance.

Our goal? ✅ Make Scotland’s world-class access rights an everyday reality for all!

ramblers.org.uk/scotmanifesto

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Keith Irving @keithirving.bsky.social · 2d

'With power comes responsibility' - the ⚽️ player who cycles 🚲 to work

www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

'With power comes responsibility' - Hector Bellerin wins BBC Green Sports Award

Former Arsenal defender Hector Bellerin talks about his attempts to live a more sustainable life as he wins the BBC Green Sports Award.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Greg Fell @felly500.bsky.social · 10d

Position Statement: Active Travel and
Health

www.adph.org.uk/networks/lon...

@londonadph.bsky.social

www.adph.org.uk

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Keith Irving @keithirving.bsky.social · 11d

To St Andrews for a rugby match by train & bike this morning. Easy journey by Fife coastal path / North Sea cycle route- and plenty of replacement calories available at Leuchars station...

Path next to road to St Andrews, disappearing into distance

Bike on train. Murrayfield stadium visible out train window

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Keith Irving @keithirving.bsky.social · 12d

Yes. 1 fatal collision. Also 1 fatal collision between 2 people riding bikes.

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Keith Irving @keithirving.bsky.social · 12d

Would be interesting to see though perhaps difficult to fit on 1 page??

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Keith Irving @keithirving.bsky.social · 12d

New factsheet on e-scooters also published:
- 6 people killed in collisions involving e-scooters
- An estimated 444 people seriously injured, 366 e-scooter users, 59 pedestrians, 17 riding a bike and 2 riding a motorbike
www.gov.uk/government/s...

Reported road casualties Great Britain: e-Scooter factsheet 2024

www.gov.uk

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Keith Irving @keithirving.bsky.social · 13d

Road Casualties data for 2024 in Great Britain published this week: www.gov.uk/government/s...

Thanks to @pactsuk.bsky.social, there is an important new chart on the vehicles involved in fatal crashes:

Chart showing road fatalities by road user involved in collision. Data for Great Britain in 2024

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Keith Irving @keithirving.bsky.social · 21d

#charityjobs

Cycling Scotland @cyclingscotland.bsky.social · 22d

We’re appointing a new Head of Finance and Corporate Services, who will have responsibility for managing and overseeing all aspects of Cycling Scotland’s finances, helping us deliver our charitable mission.

Find out more and apply by 12 noon, Monday 13th October 2025: buff.ly/JgaLYOR

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Cycling Scotland @cyclingscotland.bsky.social · 23d

E-bikes are having a hugely positive impact in getting more people cycling. However there's a lot of confusion between legal, safe e-bikes and illegally modified e-bikes.

Our latest blog explores the difference, the serious dangers of illegal e-bikes and what needs to change: buff.ly/2KhwVD6

A woman in a red jacket smiles as she rides an e-cargo bike on a city street.

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Cycling Scotland @cyclingscotland.bsky.social · 26d

📣🚲 "I think Bikeability is awesome!"

P6 pupils of Tayview Primary School in Dundee share what #BikeabilityScotland means to them: unlocking joy, cycling confidence, physical wellbeing, and skills they can take with them through the rest of their lives.

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Cycling Scotland @cyclingscotland.bsky.social · 28d

Chair Laura Young and Brian Deegan, Director of Inspections at Active Travel England bring the #CyclingScotlandConf to a close, with a Q&A focusing on the unique benefits that cycling can bring to transport planning and the success stories already being seen across Scotland.

Brian Deegan, Active Travel England Director of Inspections addresses the 2025 Cycling Scotland Conference in Dundee.

Climate researcher and environmental campaigner Laura Young chairs the 2025 Cycling Scotland Conference in Dundee.

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Cycling Scotland @cyclingscotland.bsky.social · 28d

Cab Sec for Transport, Fiona Hyslop MSP, highlights how safe, connected infrastructure is leading to increases in cycling, and announces #BikeabilityScotland cycle training having reached half a million pupils since 2011, with 14 local authorities now delivering on-road training in 100% of schools.

Cabinet Secretary for Transport, Fiona Hyslop MSP, addresses the Cycling Scotland Conference in Dundee.

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Cycling Scotland @cyclingscotland.bsky.social · 28d

Dundee City Council leader Cllr Mark Flynn welcomes delegates to the #CyclingScotlandConf: "The benefits of cycling are very clear and investing in everyday cycling can only bring positive outcomes for people. Healthier lives, supporting business and bringing a better standard of life for everyone".

Dundee City Council leader Cllr Mark Flynn welcomes delegates to the 2025 Cycling Scotland Conference in Dundee.

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Keith Irving @keithirving.bsky.social · 29d

En route to #CyclingScotlandConf in Dundee. The train trip never disappoints (and neither does the conference..!)

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Cllr Stephen Jenkinson @stephenjenkinson.bsky.social · 29d

This is great news and a well deserved award for recently retired Phil Noble. Thanks Phil for all you have done to promote safe active travel in Edinburgh 👍 🚴‍♂️

Cycling Scotland @cyclingscotland.bsky.social · Sep 8

🏆 𝗣𝗵𝗶𝗹 𝗡𝗼𝗯𝗹𝗲 is former Active Travel Manager at City of Edinburgh Council. Over his career, Phil has influenced and led projects to create lasting improvements for cycling in Edinburgh, including school streets, 20mph speed limits and guidance on prioritising street space for cycling: orlo.uk/NtGY8

Cycling Champion of the Year, Phil Noble, pictured with his award in the Meadows in central Edinburgh.

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Cycling Scotland @cyclingscotland.bsky.social · Sep 8

🏆 𝗣𝗵𝗶𝗹 𝗡𝗼𝗯𝗹𝗲 is former Active Travel Manager at City of Edinburgh Council. Over his career, Phil has influenced and led projects to create lasting improvements for cycling in Edinburgh, including school streets, 20mph speed limits and guidance on prioritising street space for cycling: orlo.uk/NtGY8

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Cycling Scotland @cyclingscotland.bsky.social · Sep 8

🚲🏆 Katherine Cory and Phil Noble have been announced as Scotland's 2025 Cycling Champions of the Year, in recognition of their impact in helping more people of all ages to cycle. Congratulations Katherine and Phil! 🎉

cycling.scot/news/2025-cy...

2025 Cycling Champions are announced

Winners of the 2025 Cycling Champion of the Year Awards have been announced, with Katherine Cory and Phil Noble celebrated for their impact in helping to enable more people, of all ages, to cycle in S...

cycling.scot

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Carlton Reid @carltonreid.com · Sep 5

Hey @lauralaker.bsky.social @peterwalker99.bsky.social @christianwolmar.bsky.social @modacitylife.com — all of your books, like mine, were used for this LLM and you could get $3k per book. List of nicked books here: www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

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SpokesLothian @spokes.org.uk · Sep 4

🤩 #TravellingSafely West/North/East
.. all now to be permanent

🙋 What happened, and what next
HERE--> www.spokes.org.uk/2025/09/edin...

😍 Thanks..
- @edi.bike
- *you* if you contacted your councillors
- council officers who put in huge effort after the Cttee shenanigans

@thecockburn.bsky.social

Edinburgh Bike Network saved!

Today, 4 September, the TRO Subcommittee finally approved making permanent the Experimental Traffic Orders (ETROs) which enable the main-road Travelling Safely routes in the East, North and West of the city. Orders for the South will come to the Committee at a later date. A rolling programme, for which funding is allocated, will gradually upgrade the existing bollarding infrastructure to more permanent materials and to incorporate useful improvements.

The background – of ongoing deferrals which put the bike lanes at grave risk, resulting in a major campaign jointly by Spokes, Edi.Bike, and 16 other local active travel groups – is described here. Media coverage included the Evening News and Road.cc.

In the end, the TRO Sub today approved making the schemes permanent at an incredibly short meeting. Only Cllr Lang, whose interventions at previous meetings had led to the deferrals and the threat to the existence of the network, spoke up. But this time his queries were quickly and decisively answered by officers and gained no follow-up from other councillors.

Indeed no other councillors spoke at all, other than Convener Cllr Margaret Graham, who said the schemes improved road safety and moved the successful motion to make them permanent.

Finally, we also have great respect for the officers who, largely as a result of the previous two deferrals by the Subcommittee, had to put in an inordinate amount of time and effort to reach this stage (see reports East and West/North and appendices 1-34).

Our huge thanks to all who participated in this campaign – led jointly by edi.bike and Spokes, supported by 16 other local active travel groups, and with many letters to councillors from concerned individuals following our member circular. Thank you if you were one of them – it makes a real difference!

So, now, the expectation and the hope in our Spring-printed 2025 Bulletin, has happened! And now that the bike lanes are permanent we look forward to the rolling program of physical improvements – and, hopefully, further development into a properly connected network, where doubtless more campaigning will be necessary!

What we said in Bulletin 139 in Spring 2025

CYCLE NETWORK 2025
Year 2025 will not see any truly groundbreaking bike route openings like 2024’s CCWEL / Roseburn-Canal schemes, which were revolutionary for Edinburgh.
However, by the end of 2025 the Council will decide whether to make the existing main-road Spaces for People routes legally permanent. Assuming so, this will form the initial core of what the Council calls its Primary Cycle Network* largely following main roads, “the most direct, flattest, most socially safe routes” and reflecting Transport Scotland’s ‘Active Freeway’ concept of “high quality, direct and segregated.”
Once legally permanent, a rolling programme of improvements should follow, particularly at junctions and replacing bollards by kerb-segregation.
The bollarded routes are currently legal under ETRO experimental orders. A report to Transport Committee in expected in early autumn, based on monitoring and consultation feedback, for a final decision on the ETROs: hopefully retaining and improving the routes and building them into a more connected network.
*see pages 19-> of the Active Travel Implementation Plan (ATIP), part of the Mobility Plan, at edinburgh.gov.uk/citymobilityplan

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walkwheelcyclet.bsky.social @walkwheelcyclet.bsky.social · Sep 1

The National Cycle Network is 30! 🎂🎈

For 30 years, the National Cycle Network has transformed how people across the UK move, explore and connect. It is all thanks to the unwavering support of our incredible supporters, volunteers and partners.

#NationalCycleNetwork

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Dermot Hanney @hanneydp.bsky.social · Aug 29

"We did a review of all of the studies globally, which included half a million road traffic injuries, and that found that if you are hit by an SUV compared to being hit by a passenger car you are 44% more likely to be killed. Among kids it's higher - it's 82%”

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Is London set to put the brakes on SUVs?

The number of SUVs in London has increased tenfold in 20 years, prompting calls to curb their use.

www.bbc.com

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Transform Scotland @transform.scot · Aug 27

Today we’re proud to launch Why Fly? – a new website which asks #WhyFly when rail beats air on comfort, carbon, and value to Scotland?

Explore our 20 year-long campaign: whyfly.scot

Trains emit up to 90% less CO₂ than flights, provide more comfort, and contribute more to Scotland’s economy.

Why Fly website home screen reads: Why Fly? Flying is the most carbon-intensive mode of transport. We want Scottish businesses and public sector organisations to commit to choosing train over plane for UK trips.

Bar chart illustrating carbon footprints of air (177 kg of CO2 per passenger) vs rail (28 kg of CO2 per passenger)

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