Spokesworker is our ‘roughly monthly’ semi-internal action-update. For related news items see the Category called Spokesworker on our home page. Note that our main publication is the Spokes Bulletin.
This page also includes selected important circulars to all or large numbers of emailable members. [NB - if a txt file shows up as long lines, click file - save as, then save it, then open the saved file].
Spokesworker 6 January 2012 [pdf 1.2MB] : Budget even worse than predicted : budget demo 11 Jan : Edinburgh Local Development Plan : local issues – Market St, Southern Arc, Forth Bridge path : and more …
Email circular 5 January 2012 [txt 8k] : uncertain new year : Budget Jan 11 demo : Princes St future hopes
Email circular 9 December 2011 [txt 6k] : budget update and demo : mapp buff : Princes St paradise
Spokesworker 28 November 2011 [pdf 159k] Budget Special … arguments used by SNP : PQs : Parliament debate : other organisations
Email circular 28 November 2011 [txt 7k] : Government budget : Edinburgh Council budget : bike/rail to Inverness
Spokesworker 11 November 2011 [pdf 1.4MB] : Budget latest incl. local SNP replies : Spokes Mapp Buff : Future of Bike-Rail in ScotRail franchise : and more…
Spokesworker 25 October 2011 [pdf 192k] : This issue will accompany Bulletin 111 : Scottish budget SNP response : Development plan consultations : Ed-Glasgow bike-rail : David Attenborough on climate change: community cycle funding : and lots more…
Email circular 11 October 2011 [txt 10k] : Scottish draft budget very bad : EGIP consultation – bike capacity : Competition results : Market St lane threatened : …
Email circular 9 September 2011 [txt 5k] : Budget & spending review soon : Understanding walking & cycling : …
Email circular 31 August 2011 [txt 8k] : Big development proposals/exhibitions at Craighouse, Leith, Pleasance and Redhall : plus lots of odds & ends…
Spokesworker 19 June 2011 [pdf 153k] : Interview with cycling researcher Prof John Pucher : Bike Breakfast – MSPs & councillors attending : Weans on Wheels project tryouts : tramline safety : and lots more…
Spokesworker 30 May 2011 [pdf 209k] : This issue will accompany Bulletin 110 : Local news re: Meadows, Portobello, Edmonstone, Midlothian : Health & Safety news & controversy : Climate change & peak oil
Spokesworker 19 April 2011 [pdf 162k] : Holyrood election manifesto cycling extracts + Spokes comments : Cycling England killed : 2nd Forth Road Bridge : and more…
Email circular 20 April 2011 [txt 5k] : Scottish Parliament elections : Family cycling factsheet : Council onstreet residential parking intentions : …
Email circular 16 March 2011 [txt 7k] : Spokes election hustings : Forth Bridge cyberaction : Active Travel Action Plan document : …
Spokesworker 7 March 2011 [pdf 226k] : Princes St longterm + bike parking : Leith waterfront consultation : Oxford/Edinburgh comparison : petrol dependency : canal lighting
Spokesworker 22 February 2011 [pdf 325k] : This issue accompanies our main annual membership renewal, so articles on donating and on email v. paper : Waterfront/Leith consultation : Muirhouse Bike Club : events : …
Spokesworker 30 December 2010 [pdf 198k] : Write to MSPs now about budget & manifestos : Bike storage offer : Recording road hazards : …
Spokesworker 24 November 2010 [pdf 2117k] : Scottish budget – potential disaster for cycling investment : Cyclenation Spokes presentation : …
Email circular 20 November 2010 [txt 5k] : Scottish budget – initial reaction : QBC consultation : events : …
Spokesworker 10 November 2010 [pdf 210k] : South Edinburgh Quality Bike Corridor & 20mph consultations : costs of 2nd Forth Road Bridge : Phase 1 of A90 path : new reports & resources – mapping, injuries, videos, …
Spokesworker 25 October 2010 [pdf 242k] : Consultation coming on first Quality Bike Corridor : 3 new visionary reports : massive greenbelt ‘gardendistrict’ proposal : Spokes summer ‘path art’ competition report : and more…
Spokesworker 8 September 2010 [pdf 391k] : Cycleroute closure at Roseburn : government considers road tolls & massive cycling boost : money for local bike projects : North Berwick rail bike carriage : planning application problems : dates : more …
Spokesworker 21 July 2010 [pdf 190k] : Cycling Action Plan for Scotland : scrutinising planning applications : successes by individual members : East Lothian Environment Strategy : SESPLAN consultation … and much more …
Email circular 30 June 2010 [txt 7k] : Draft CEC cycle action plan : tenements project starts : CEC future budgets : CAPS Scottish Cycling Action Plan + comments
Email circular 10 June 2010 [txt 7k] : Forthcoming dates : ‘The Haymarket’ big consultation : Red surfacing – how to get it : Neighbourhood Partnerships : ‘Cycling by Design’ : Active Travel parliamentary debate
Spokesworker 8 June 2010 [pdf 179k] : Tramline crashes : Towpath opening Spokes structure : Results of Better Way to Work cycle challenge : Nov 6 Cyclenation Conference in Edinburgh: and more…
Spokesworker 20 April 2010 [pdf 209k] : New Edinburgh onstreet peak-period car parking : Open Spaces Strategy workshops – please go or respond : Edinburgh Cycle Action Plan, Spokes public meeting report : hint of a little more government cycle funding : and more…
Email circular 20 April 2010 [txt 5k] : Open Spaces Strategy – how to respond : Hundreds more Edinburgh peak-hour car-parking spaces : E Lothian bike/rail capacity
Email circular 26 March 2010 [txt 7k] : To all members in or near the controlled parking zone (CPZ) re major draft Traffic Regulation Order converting many single-yellows to additional peak-hour car-parking [some very bad] and also introducing emissions-related parking charges.
Spokesworker 21 March 2010 [pdf 209k] : Open Spaces Strategy consultation – looks hopeful : sign up to Bike Stn ‘Bike Challenge’ : Edinburgh 2007 Spokes map bulk sales offer : general election info: more…
Email circular 19 March 2010 [txt 7k] : Edinburgh Cycle Action Plan : commuting with kids : photos wanted for map and Bulletin.
Spokesworker 9 March 2010 [pdf 223k] : Objecting to the Tram TROs : Commuting with kids : Developments bad for bikes : Sustrans 2020 campaign : Dates – meetings with politicians, climate change inaction, path cleanups, bike week, Cyclenation conference, etc : and more…
Spokesworker 24 February 2010 [pdf 207k] : how to renew membership and donate to Spokes : tram TROs : tenement bike parking project application : history of St Andrews annual LEPRA ride : events : future of Princes St, St James Centre and Picardy Place : and more…
Email circular 6 January 2010 [txt 6k] : budget update & urging final letters : Snow : New Decade : New website pages – trams – public meeting reports : more…
Spokesworker 28 December 2009 [pdf 225k] : Scottish Budget – MSPs reply to member letters : extracts from TICC budget report : Edinburgh – coloured surfacing data : Princes St future : Employers wanted for 80:40:20 commuting project : and more…
Email circular 7 December 2009 [txt 6k] : Reminder to write re budget : notice of tramline tryout : other news and action
Spokesworker 5 December 2009 [pdf 223k] : Scottish Budget – TICC support more cycling investment : Ride Planet Earth – climate change evidence : tenement bike parking : workplace bike use : bike trailers : cyclists skid on new Princes St tramlines : cycling marginalised in Gogar rail/tram interchange plans
Email circular 15 November 2009 [txt 5k] : Events reminders/news + initiative to report missing onroad white lines
Spokesworker 11 November 2009 [pdf 232k] : Scottish budget latest : Scottish Parliament Inquiry into active travel : Old Dalkeith Road and other South Edin cycle projects : 10 Rail Station ‘Fietspoint’ Cycle Hubs : Edinburgh Council Road Safety Strategy – ideas wanted.
Spokesworker 27 October 2009 [pdf 215k] : Scottish budget 2010-11 : money for small local bike projects : Botanics bike parking : Spokes parking and disabilities factsheets : report of Richard Armitage Spokes public meeting : BRIGS Forth Bridge group : and lots more…
Spokesworker 9 September 2009 [pdf 245k] : Spokes £1m Competition – enter by 25 September : Mobility Week events, Sept 16-22 : Visit by cycling/transport consultant Richard Armitage : Autumn events – lots of them!! : Local news – West Port consultation, Leith vote, new A1 path, and lots more… : Zero Waste consultation : Climate Change events and pledges leading up to Copenhagen international conference in December : Cycle officer job with Sustrans : It’s time to remind MSPs about cycling investment for the forthcoming 2010/11 budget negotiations.
Spokesworker 20 July 2009 [pdf 308k] : Scottish Government Cycle Action Plan [ideas from Spokes to consider in your comments] : Spokes £1m Competition – please enter!! : help the Bike Station via an online survey : Fauldhouse to Cuba – cycling film available : Summer events, Local area news, and more…
Spokesworker 3 June 2009 [pdf 281k]
Spokesworker 26 April 2009 [pdf 464k]
Spokesworker 31 March 2009 [pdf 293k]
Spokesworker 16 March 2009 [pdf 278k]
Spokesworker 3 March 2009 [pdf 262k]
Spokesworker 19 January 2009 [pdf 204k]
Spokesworker 22 April 2007 [pdf 220k]
