What vision does the Independence White Paper promise for transport – and for cycling and walking in particular? … Continue reading Independent of Cycling?
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Four major cycling-relevant consultations are now underway in Edinburgh: Local Policing Plans; a Meadows-Innocent link; further work on the Leith-Portobello route; and closing the missing link between Edinburgh and Midlothian’s route to Roslin and Penicuik… Continue reading Consultations: please take part The November Spokes traffic census found the highest ever number of bikes (up even on May numbers) and the lowest ever November count of private cars. Remarkably, more than one in every five vehicles heading for the city centre along bike-unfriendly Lothian Road was a bike… Continue reading Bikes up, Cars down – again!! November sees drop-in police consultation events around the city to gather ideas and comments for Edinburgh Local Policing Plan 2014-17… Continue reading Policing Plan + Spokesworker If you missed the Stop Climate Chaos Scotland protest, seeking to double Scottish Government cycling/walking investment in the 2014/15 budget, you missed a great event! See the video … Continue reading Seeing double !! .. video video The Spokes website has successfully given birth to a new page (two, in fact) ! … Continue reading PANs and PAs [not pandas!] Out now! … Government cycling cash; Garden storage victory ; Spokes annual cycling investment survey; Stop Climate Chaos supplement; Great Spokes maps offer; and loads more… Continue reading Spokes Bulletin 117 In the first 2 days after Haymarket area was reopened to traffic we heard of 4 cyclist tramline crashes, three involving minor injury and bike damage, and one with no injury, but which was video’d. Crashes continue with dreadful frequency. Why is this happening, and what is your safest route?… Continue reading Tramline Traumas Hundreds of people will gather outside the St Andrews House government offices at 1.00-1.30pm on Weds 30 October to call on Finance Secretary John Swinney MSP, the man in charge of the 2014/15 Scottish budget, to double investment in walking and cycling. Be there!! … Continue reading Oct 30: Come along to double the Budget! The Spokes factsheet on bike storage in gardens has been deemed ‘appropriate’ by Edinburgh Council’s Planning Committee and will now be referenced in the Council’s Planning Guidance to Householders… Continue reading Spokes Gardens Bike Storage factsheet now in use |
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