[Update 14.1.14: The LTS was approved today by councillors and can now be quoted as Council policy]
[Update Feb 2014: There is an LTS pull-out supplement in Spokes Bulletin 118]
[Update June 2104: Links added below to council progress reports on 20mph and on school streets].
The Council’s new Local Transport Strategy is a major document setting out a detailed policy framework for transport decisions over the next 5 years. In general its content is very welcome and will be extremely valuable to quote when commenting on individual future transport and planning proposals… Continue reading Edinburgh Local Transport Strategy 2014-19
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Spokes has written to the five companies intending to bid to run the ScotRail franchise … Continue reading Scotland Bike/Rail – the future Seasoning to suit all tastes… Spokes has responded to the Council consultation. You have until 16 December to send in your own comments… Continue reading Meadows to Innocent What vision does the Independence White Paper promise for transport – and for cycling and walking in particular? … Continue reading Independent of Cycling? 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!] |
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