January 12, 2025 at 11:00 AM
When it snows in a city that’s told there is not enough space for wider pavements, bike lanes or street trees…
…nature shows us the truth.
#snow #Edinburgh #streetsNOTroads
…nature shows us the truth.
#snow #Edinburgh #streetsNOTroads
January 5, 2025 at 11:07 AM
When it snows in a city that’s told there is not enough space for wider pavements, bike lanes or street trees…
…nature shows us the truth.
#snow #Edinburgh #streetsNOTroads
…nature shows us the truth.
#snow #Edinburgh #streetsNOTroads
Let this be the inspiration for cities everywhere.
October 14, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Trees are often lacking in #Edinburgh’s street design.
We need #StreetsNOTroads. Streets have trees.
We need #StreetsNOTroads. Streets have trees.
As winter flooding looms, it's worth noting that a young street tree in an asphalt surface can prevent 60% of the rain that falls on it from reaching the ground, even when not in leaf.
Increasing the low levels of urban tree cover should be a strategic national priority.
Increasing the low levels of urban tree cover should be a strategic national priority.
November 19, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Trees are often lacking in #Edinburgh’s street design.
We need #StreetsNOTroads. Streets have trees.
We need #StreetsNOTroads. Streets have trees.
Looking at how other cities have improved their public spaces shows that #Edinburgh’s streets can also become safer, more welcoming and greener.
#StreetsNOTroads
#StreetsNOTroads
February 8, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Looking at how other cities have improved their public spaces shows that #Edinburgh’s streets can also become safer, more welcoming and greener.
#StreetsNOTroads
#StreetsNOTroads
Cowcaddens Road was a four lane road - it now looks and feels like a street.
So many parts of Edinburgh have similar urban dual carriageways that could have the same treatment: making the city safer, greener, quieter and less congested. #StreetsNOTroads
So many parts of Edinburgh have similar urban dual carriageways that could have the same treatment: making the city safer, greener, quieter and less congested. #StreetsNOTroads
Spotted in Glasgow! This lovely new segregated cycleway and footway on Cowcaddens Road.
Have you seen any inspiring cycle infrastructure in other cities recently?
Have you seen any inspiring cycle infrastructure in other cities recently?
September 9, 2026 at 10:32 AM
Cowcaddens Road was a four lane road - it now looks and feels like a street.
So many parts of Edinburgh have similar urban dual carriageways that could have the same treatment: making the city safer, greener, quieter and less congested. #StreetsNOTroads
So many parts of Edinburgh have similar urban dual carriageways that could have the same treatment: making the city safer, greener, quieter and less congested. #StreetsNOTroads
Rain or shine, day or night, warm or cold: if you built it, they will come.
Bike lanes are mobility lanes. #StreetsNOTroads
Bike lanes are mobility lanes. #StreetsNOTroads
Two minutes of footage of wheelchair users on bike lanes in Paris. A classic video I posted on Twitter a few years ago I had not posted here yet.
December 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Rain or shine, day or night, warm or cold: if you built it, they will come.
Bike lanes are mobility lanes. #StreetsNOTroads
Bike lanes are mobility lanes. #StreetsNOTroads
Christmas: delivered by the SW20 free to hire community e-bike. 🌲
#Christmas #bike #bikelife #quaxing #streetsNOTroads
@spokes.org.uk @laidbackbikes.bsky.social
#Christmas #bike #bikelife #quaxing #streetsNOTroads
@spokes.org.uk @laidbackbikes.bsky.social
Thanks @sw20.info for the community cargo bikes. The children love the rides and so did the Christmas tree 🎄🎋🎁
December 13, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Christmas: delivered by the SW20 free to hire community e-bike. 🌲
#Christmas #bike #bikelife #quaxing #streetsNOTroads
@spokes.org.uk @laidbackbikes.bsky.social
#Christmas #bike #bikelife #quaxing #streetsNOTroads
@spokes.org.uk @laidbackbikes.bsky.social
With Le Tour de France coming to #Edinburgh in 2027, let’s hope we follow Parisian leadership and invest in our public spaces so they are more for people than private cars. 👍
#TourdeFrance #LeTour #LesGrandDepart #TDF2027 #StreetsNOTroads
#TourdeFrance #LeTour #LesGrandDepart #TDF2027 #StreetsNOTroads
March 22, 2025 at 9:12 AM
With Le Tour de France coming to #Edinburgh in 2027, let’s hope we follow Parisian leadership and invest in our public spaces so they are more for people than private cars. 👍
#TourdeFrance #LeTour #LesGrandDepart #TDF2027 #StreetsNOTroads
#TourdeFrance #LeTour #LesGrandDepart #TDF2027 #StreetsNOTroads
20 minute neighbourhoods need these at almost every junction - just like most European cities #StreetsNOTroads
March 27, 2025 at 7:50 AM
20 minute neighbourhoods need these at almost every junction - just like most European cities #StreetsNOTroads
20 minute neighbourhoods need safe schools streets.
If it needs this sign, it’s a bad street design.
#streetsNOTroads
If it needs this sign, it’s a bad street design.
#streetsNOTroads
January 28, 2025 at 7:42 PM
20 minute neighbourhoods need safe schools streets.
If it needs this sign, it’s a bad street design.
#streetsNOTroads
If it needs this sign, it’s a bad street design.
#streetsNOTroads
Public transport and greenery integrated into historic spaces that are easy and pleasant to walk around.
It can be done #Edinburgh. #StreetsNOTroads
It can be done #Edinburgh. #StreetsNOTroads
March 10, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Public transport and greenery integrated into historic spaces that are easy and pleasant to walk around.
It can be done #Edinburgh. #StreetsNOTroads
It can be done #Edinburgh. #StreetsNOTroads
Wow! This is a fantastic report.
Hits the nail on the head for #Edinburgh - #streetsNOTroads
“Pedestrian safety concerns and overall damage to public health from traffic should justify immediate action”
Hits the nail on the head for #Edinburgh - #streetsNOTroads
“Pedestrian safety concerns and overall damage to public health from traffic should justify immediate action”
Edinburgh's Transport Planning Society have a new report out on how they think motonormativity could be tackled in the city tps.org.uk/public/downl...
tps.org.uk
March 30, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Wow! This is a fantastic report.
Hits the nail on the head for #Edinburgh - #streetsNOTroads
“Pedestrian safety concerns and overall damage to public health from traffic should justify immediate action”
Hits the nail on the head for #Edinburgh - #streetsNOTroads
“Pedestrian safety concerns and overall damage to public health from traffic should justify immediate action”
Another successful hire of the SW20 free-to-use community ebikes.
Have a shot. You’ll get the ebike smile.
#Edinburgh #bikelife #streetsNOTroads
Have a shot. You’ll get the ebike smile.
#Edinburgh #bikelife #streetsNOTroads
May 23, 2026 at 9:24 AM
Another successful hire of the SW20 free-to-use community ebikes.
Have a shot. You’ll get the ebike smile.
#Edinburgh #bikelife #streetsNOTroads
Have a shot. You’ll get the ebike smile.
#Edinburgh #bikelife #streetsNOTroads
20 minute neighbourhoods need safer places to cross the street.
Traffic splitters like these are an admission that the road is too wide and the traffic too fast.
Narrowing streets slow traffic, reducing noise and making it safer for all (including drivers).
#streetsNOTroads
Traffic splitters like these are an admission that the road is too wide and the traffic too fast.
Narrowing streets slow traffic, reducing noise and making it safer for all (including drivers).
#streetsNOTroads
December 28, 2024 at 9:39 AM
20 minute neighbourhoods need safer places to cross the street.
Traffic splitters like these are an admission that the road is too wide and the traffic too fast.
Narrowing streets slow traffic, reducing noise and making it safer for all (including drivers).
#streetsNOTroads
Traffic splitters like these are an admission that the road is too wide and the traffic too fast.
Narrowing streets slow traffic, reducing noise and making it safer for all (including drivers).
#streetsNOTroads
20 minute neighbourhoods need traffic filtering.
Since 1993, this filter has been quietly effective - attracting no fuss or claim that residents freedom has been restricted in any way.
Rat run: tamed. #StreetsNOTroads
Since 1993, this filter has been quietly effective - attracting no fuss or claim that residents freedom has been restricted in any way.
Rat run: tamed. #StreetsNOTroads
February 23, 2025 at 9:51 AM
20 minute neighbourhoods need traffic filtering.
Since 1993, this filter has been quietly effective - attracting no fuss or claim that residents freedom has been restricted in any way.
Rat run: tamed. #StreetsNOTroads
Since 1993, this filter has been quietly effective - attracting no fuss or claim that residents freedom has been restricted in any way.
Rat run: tamed. #StreetsNOTroads
20 minute neighbourhoods need sustainable deliveries…
…Royal Mail has you covered!
This just proves that for many deliveries, you don’t need a van #streetsNOTroads
…Royal Mail has you covered!
This just proves that for many deliveries, you don’t need a van #streetsNOTroads
October 25, 2025 at 10:11 AM
20 minute neighbourhoods need sustainable deliveries…
…Royal Mail has you covered!
This just proves that for many deliveries, you don’t need a van #streetsNOTroads
…Royal Mail has you covered!
This just proves that for many deliveries, you don’t need a van #streetsNOTroads
Pedestrian refuges: a triumph of traffic engineering over people.
🙄An admission that a street is too wide & traffic too fast for people to cross
🙄Where pedestrians cower lest they delay a car
🙄Basically spare space
This is on enroute to schools, a bus stop, a library & a playpark
#StreetsNOTroads
🙄An admission that a street is too wide & traffic too fast for people to cross
🙄Where pedestrians cower lest they delay a car
🙄Basically spare space
This is on enroute to schools, a bus stop, a library & a playpark
#StreetsNOTroads
November 11, 2024 at 11:04 AM
Pedestrian refuges: a triumph of traffic engineering over people.
🙄An admission that a street is too wide & traffic too fast for people to cross
🙄Where pedestrians cower lest they delay a car
🙄Basically spare space
This is on enroute to schools, a bus stop, a library & a playpark
#StreetsNOTroads
🙄An admission that a street is too wide & traffic too fast for people to cross
🙄Where pedestrians cower lest they delay a car
🙄Basically spare space
This is on enroute to schools, a bus stop, a library & a playpark
#StreetsNOTroads
New #Edinburgh walking & cycling stats.
Everyone is a pedestrian at the start & end of their bus or tram journey too! #StreetsNOTroads
@edi.bike @spokes.org.uk @livingstreetsedi.bsky.social @liveableleith.bsky.social @edinburghbug.bsky.social @edinburghminute.bsky.social @edinreporter.bsky.social
Everyone is a pedestrian at the start & end of their bus or tram journey too! #StreetsNOTroads
@edi.bike @spokes.org.uk @livingstreetsedi.bsky.social @liveableleith.bsky.social @edinburghbug.bsky.social @edinburghminute.bsky.social @edinreporter.bsky.social
March 14, 2025 at 8:09 PM
New #Edinburgh walking & cycling stats.
Everyone is a pedestrian at the start & end of their bus or tram journey too! #StreetsNOTroads
@edi.bike @spokes.org.uk @livingstreetsedi.bsky.social @liveableleith.bsky.social @edinburghbug.bsky.social @edinburghminute.bsky.social @edinreporter.bsky.social
Everyone is a pedestrian at the start & end of their bus or tram journey too! #StreetsNOTroads
@edi.bike @spokes.org.uk @livingstreetsedi.bsky.social @liveableleith.bsky.social @edinburghbug.bsky.social @edinburghminute.bsky.social @edinreporter.bsky.social
Can’t disagree Scott, but as you now operate at the central gov level. Can you address this… #saferoutestoschool #invertedhierarchy #streetsnotroads #unsafesystems bsky.app/profile/sbar...
Doesn’t need a revolution, just incremental improvements, especially where evidence gives clear indicators
Doesn’t need a revolution, just incremental improvements, especially where evidence gives clear indicators
It’s been said before but snow is great at exposing the inverted travel hierarchy in your city.
Space for free storage of private vehicles. Over wide open road encouraging speed and on road where pedestrians died due to speeding. Pavements un-walkable. Supposed active travel route uncleared of ice.
Space for free storage of private vehicles. Over wide open road encouraging speed and on road where pedestrians died due to speeding. Pavements un-walkable. Supposed active travel route uncleared of ice.
November 23, 2024 at 7:04 PM
Can’t disagree Scott, but as you now operate at the central gov level. Can you address this… #saferoutestoschool #invertedhierarchy #streetsnotroads #unsafesystems bsky.app/profile/sbar...
Doesn’t need a revolution, just incremental improvements, especially where evidence gives clear indicators
Doesn’t need a revolution, just incremental improvements, especially where evidence gives clear indicators