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Brilliant Bike Breakfast
This year’s June 19 Spokes Bike Breakfast was the best so far, with record numbers [sadly, breakfasts ran out before all were fed!] … Some great pictures including the above, were taken by Leojaleo...
View ArticleF2F: Solway to Forth
Update Dec 2013: Solway to Forth inital outline map [pdf 2MB] There’s a great new idea for a ‘Firth to Firth’ holiday cycle route…on the lines of the other existing coast-to-coast routes such as C2C,...
View ArticleTramline Traumas
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....
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Spokes Bulletin 117
Out now! … Government cycling cash; Garden storage victory ; Spokes annual cycling investment survey; Stop Climate Chaos supplement; Great Spokes maps offer; and loads more… Spokes Bulletin 117 is...
View ArticleSpokes Bulletin 118
Out now! … Edinburgh progress in sustainable transport; Preventing Haymarket tramline crashes; Transport & Planning: failure in joined-up thinking; Council Local Transport Strategy supplement;...
View ArticleNew Year Cycling Resolutions?? .. Act instead!!
Keep yourself busy over the holiday (and after) .. We’ve a few suggestions .. Why spend ages thinking up resolutions you’ll soon forget? Act now instead!! We’ve emailed our members with some important...
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Spokes Spring Public Meeting: the Bicycle in the City Centre
The Spokes Spring public meeting on Thurs 26 March will discuss the future of Edinburgh city centre – particularly Princes Street / George Street – and the role of the bicycle there. Our headline...
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Spokes Bulletin 121: Cash cut averted?
Out now!! Including – A little more cycling cash in Government budget; Edinburgh Council cycle budget now 8% of transport!; City Centre feature; shocking Council retreat on bus lanes; Glasgow v....
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120-strong Spokes City Centre meeting
An amazing 120 people came to hear Edinburgh City’s Transport Convener Cllr Lesley Hinds, Essential Edinburgh’s Richard Darke and Professor Tom Rye of Napier Transport Research Institute speak about...
View ArticleTraffic Count : Bikes highest ever %
Despite a cold and windy morning, the May Spokes traffic count found bikes forming 16.5% of all vehicles at our 4 count points, the highest ever %, and only the second time to exceed 16%… The total...
View ArticleGeorge Street : cycling in the Festival
The Fringe started early for cyclists this year, with an obstacle course for those using George Street. The traffic orders covering Festival street works in George Street are clear that a cycle...
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Tramline tragedies
[Later: 9.6.17 Article from Local Transport Today fortnightly magazine for transport professionals] The tragic death of Edinburgh University medical student Zhi Min Soh at the West End junction has...
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Double deputation!! .. Tramlines/CityCentre + Sheriffhall
On June 29 morning, Spokes was making 2 deputations – one at Edinburgh Council (on tramlines and city centre issues) and one at the Scottish Parliament (on Sheriffhall roundabout and wider trunk...
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Tramline safety update
Plans are underway to try and improve the safety of Edinburgh’s tramline system for people travelling by bike… Memorial event for Zhi Min Soh, June 2017 photo: Chris Hill Following the tragic death...
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Tramline safety measures
The Council has outlined its phased programme to improve cyclist tramline safety, with phase 1 being implemented in the immediate future… Phase 1 involves signs, publicity (e.g. bus-back adverts) and...
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Transforming the City Centre, Picardy and Leith Street
It is not widely realised that Edinburgh City Council has begun internal discussions on a potential major ‘Transformation’ of the City Centre… We have no real insight into the initial ideas – but they...
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City Centre Transformation … and EdFoC
Spokes is putting on 4 events during the 2018 Edinburgh Festival of Cycling, including a major public meeting on Edinburgh Council’s Transformation project – and Glasgow’s similar Connectivity...
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#SpokesMtg: City Centre Transformation
It is time for both Edinburgh and Glasgow Councils to create people-friendly central areas, including major restrictions on motor traffic – and both cities intend to do so. This was the main theme to...
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CCWEL: work begins after an arduous evolution
Work has at last begun on CCWEL, the long-awaited City Centre West-East Link cycleroute, a largely protected route from Roseburn in the west, through the city centre (George Street) and onwards to...
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Zhi Min Soh & tramline safety
May 31st marked 5 years exactly since the tragic death of student Zhi Min Soh, run over by a Rabbie’s bus after falling on the tramlines at the West End. @Infrasisters marked the event with a moving...
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