http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Forum: Debate! - Recent Posts en Sat, 07 Nov 2026 17:12:34 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=21346&page=10#post-386408 Fri, 06 Nov 2026 10:01:49 +0000 gembo 386408@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Radical Honesty should be a good thing. It should involve transparency and references which can be checked by any readers. Rather than opinion.</p> <p>A very brief google finds Radical Honesty owner and board member called Jesper based in San Fran and Two German based Board Members. Feels like NLP. Or Ethical Capitalist Cult. Though might be un related to Edinburgh’s Calum McCutcheon? Does anyone know what the name of his pedestrian and cyclist safety organisation was???</p> <p>Spokes have supported the tram extension which is interesting.<br /> The Save the Roseburn path signs stop at a point heading north where you leave middle class Edinburgh and enter more working class Edinburgh </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=21346&page=10#post-386401 Thu, 05 Nov 2026 23:09:47 +0000 MediumDave 386401@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Ah, Looking For Growth. Corpo astroturfers with such impeccable taste in invited speakers they had Dominic "where's me specs" Cummings and Katie "cultural coherence" Lam in the same event. </p> <p>They can get in the sea. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=21346&page=9#post-386400 Thu, 05 Nov 2026 20:29:27 +0000 chdot 386400@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="https://radicalhonesty.uk/p/give-granton-the-tram" rel="nofollow">https://radicalhonesty.uk/p/give-granton-the-tram</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=21346&page=9#post-386398 Thu, 05 Nov 2026 17:27:46 +0000 chdot 386398@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>“</p> <p>Campaigners have blamed a “small band of dedicated whingers” for the council's decision to shelve plans to extend the capital’s tram network to Granton<br /> .<br /> Looking for Growth (LFG), a London-headquartered lobby group with branches in Edinburgh and Glasgow, has urged councillors to reverse the decision, which they say will negatively impact residents in the north of the city. </p> <p>“People in Granton have been waiting two decades for their tram to arrive,” said Alan Grant, a member of the local LFG chapter.</p> <p>“</p> <p><a href="https://archive.ph/ZG8hD" rel="nofollow">https://archive.ph/ZG8hD</a> Herald </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20759&page=29#post-386395 Thu, 05 Nov 2026 13:35:29 +0000 MediumDave 386395@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Boo! That's rubbish. </p> <p>Must admit I'm not certain that it's still possible to Stirling anymore either as Ember has filled the role that the train did, at least for winter outings (going Edinburgh-&gt;Callander fairly often, which is nice as train + cycle but a bit of trek train+bus). </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20759&page=29#post-386393 Thu, 05 Nov 2026 11:06:00 +0000 Arellcat 386393@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Worth noting that the original Eskbank Hack doesn't work for Edinburgh-Glasgow travel now, as the only return tickets sold are Anytime, and not Anytime Day, meaning Eskbank to Glasgow costs more. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20759&page=29#post-386392 Thu, 05 Nov 2026 10:26:51 +0000 MediumDave 386392@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@gembo</p> <p>Certain tickets (like off-peak return) aren't available anymore between Edinburgh and other mainline stations like Stirling or Glasgow. The "Eskbank hack" allows you to get these tickets. </p> <p>This is because the rail regulator wants a Ryanair Railway where all seats are sold in advance for specific trains but this doesn't really match how people use the railway, particularly when using regional services which either don't have booked seats or don't have advance tickets available between intermediate stations. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20759&page=29#post-386388 Thu, 05 Nov 2026 08:50:23 +0000 chdot 386388@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>“</p> <p>The £2 bus fare cap in the greater Glasgow area could cost ScotRail as much as £20 million, MSPs have been told, as passengers jump from train journeys. </p> <p>“</p> <p><a href="https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/26699615.bus-fare-cap-greater-glasgow-could-cost-scotrail-20-million/" rel="nofollow">https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/26699615.bus-fare-cap-greater-glasgow-could-cost-scotrail-20-million/</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3748&page=386#post-386377 Wed, 04 Nov 2026 14:03:16 +0000 mcairney 386377@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Just about ended up on the bonnet of a white Vauxhall at the Tesco roundabout in Musselburgh. Apparently give way to the right on a roundabout only applies if you're under 65 </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=22025#post-386354 Mon, 02 Nov 2026 10:28:40 +0000 chdot 386354@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>“</p> <p>I came away thinking much more about what needs to change so that more people can simply cycle, without feeling they have to become “cyclists” first. </p> <p>“</p> <p><a href="https://sestran.gov.uk/we-arent-made-of-sugar-reflections-from-the-cycling-scotland-conference/" rel="nofollow">https://sestran.gov.uk/we-arent-made-of-sugar-reflections-from-the-cycling-scotland-conference/</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20759&page=29#post-386351 Mon, 02 Nov 2026 08:37:26 +0000 gembo 386351@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I had the opposite experience on the slow train to Glasgow. I bought a Monthly return from Slateford to Ayr on the train and it cost me £24 avec my Old Scot card. Normally from Curriehill to Ayr Monthly return it is £24.75. Of course I came back the next day and indeed alighted at West Calder for a short spin in the lovely sunshine.</p> <p>THe conductor explained a thing to me. When buying return tickets [coiuuld be the monthly one not the off peak] the cost is based on distance. So an Eskbank to Glasgow return is cheaper than an Edinburgh to Glasgow return. I am not sure why the distance being longer makes it cheaper but this is also what happened to me at Slateford I think.</p> <p>He also pointed out that you can break your outward journey on these monthly returns. He said get off at Falkirk for a cuppa but ithink the ticket out gave me several days to make it to Ayr. All very strange. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20759&page=29#post-386347 Sun, 01 Nov 2026 17:23:11 +0000 Greenroofer 386347@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"Dear Scotrail</p> <p>When I go to your website and say that I want to make a single journey from Waverley to Tweedbank at 0715 on a Saturday and that I have a railcard, and you tell me that the cheapest fare is £14.80 (for an Anytime Single), that's not <em>strictly </em>true is it?</p> <p>Yes, there may be no cheaper single tickets, but what you <strong>should</strong> have told me is that it would actually be better for me to buy an Off-Peak Day Return with my Railcard, which would be £12.05."</p> <p>I'm sure the old Scotrail website did that, but the new one doesn't. I stupidly assumed that (a) it was still doing it and (b) with 'same price all day' thing now in force, it didn't matter anyway. Based on the information I'd got from the website, I bought an Anytime Single from the machine at Waverley.</p> <p>Doubly annoyed about this because not only did I overpay for the single I bought, but in the end I decided to take the train back from Tweedbank and forked out another £14.80 for that journey when, if I'd been correctly advised by the website I could have done the whole return trip for £12 rather than nearly £30.</p> <p>Published here as a PSA in case you, like me, assume that the website is giving you good advice (which it's not). </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=7059&page=153#post-386342 Sat, 31 Oct 2026 17:36:52 +0000 Frenchy 386342@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Someone on Princes Street this afternoon managing to, in one manoeuvre, go through a red light (whilst pedestrians were crossing), on the wrong side of a traffic island, turn into a no entry street. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20759&page=29#post-386341 Sat, 31 Oct 2026 17:29:22 +0000 Frenchy 386341@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>No bikes at all allowed on the 0735 from Waverley to Perth this morning. It had no dedicated bike area, only a wheelchair/bikes area and we weren't allowed to use this because, I think, they couldn't remove the table.</p> <p>There was an audax starting in Ladybank at 0900, so the next train, which also only had a wheelchair/bikes area, had about 10 cyclists on it. Most ended up standing in the vestibules, as a wheelchair user got on in Glenrothes.</p> <p>It's possible that a wheelchair user had booked to use the earlier train, and fair enough that they get priority. But WHY isn't there a dedicated bike space on every train? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=22019#post-386260 Sun, 25 Oct 2026 18:25:16 +0000 chdot 386260@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>“</p> <p>Every New Yorker deserves a variety of safe and convenient ways to get around, and no one should put their life at risk just by trying to get home,</p> <p>”</p> <p><a href="https://transalt.org/press-releases/transportation-alternatives-welcomes-ben-furnas-as-next-executive-directornbsp" rel="nofollow">https://transalt.org/press-releases/transportation-alternatives-welcomes-ben-furnas-as-next-executive-directornbsp</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20759&page=29#post-386246 Sun, 25 Oct 2026 07:22:08 +0000 chdot 386246@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/midlothian-train-line-closed-following-reports-of-subsidence-in-the-area-9307819" rel="nofollow">https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/midlothian-train-line-closed-following-reports-of-subsidence-in-the-area-9307819</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3748&page=386#post-386234 Sat, 24 Oct 2026 10:20:52 +0000 chrisfl 386234@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Turns out there is more to this story <a href="https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/crime/man-arrested-after-firearms-officers-called-to-restalrig-crescent-9302700">Edinburgh motorbike theft sparks police pursuit before van hits cyclist</a></p> <p>It sounds like the van got onto the Blackhall Path around DMains/Silverknowes.</p> <p>Then went down Blackhall Path, swerved around the bollards at the path junction near Craigleith, and the cyclist was hit right before Ravelston Dykes.</p> <p>Not somewhere where we normally need to worry about getting hit by a van </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=21749&page=2#post-386228 Fri, 23 Oct 2026 19:09:32 +0000 gembo 386228@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@morningsider not being willing to help whilst building roads. and blocking congestion charge is Anti Cycling. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=21749#post-386225 Fri, 23 Oct 2026 17:06:42 +0000 Morningsider 386225@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I stand by that. The Scottish Government has not provided any evidence of where the current law is defective, they have simply asserted that it is. Previously, Edinburgh Council took plans for a congestion charge right up to the final hurdle without anyone mentioning a gap in the law.</p> <p>This matters - Scottish Ministers have the final say on whether any congestion charge goes ahead. Even if an authority chose to plough ahead with a proposal, Scottish Ministers could reject it claiming the law was defective. </p> <p>That said, the SG does have a small army of solicitors and they may well have found some gap that needs plugged. However, any gap could easily sorted, and at a pace that would not prevent any local authority from developing a charging scheme ASAP - the law could be fixed in the time it took to run a consultation. Meaning it would all be in place come time for approval.</p> <p>I have a bad feeling that this Scottish administration will be the most pro-motoring ever - perhaphs not actively anti-cyclist, just unwilling to do anything to help. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20759&page=29#post-386222 Fri, 23 Oct 2026 15:45:23 +0000 chdot 386222@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>“</p> <p>The closures and speed restrictions have been confirmed after the Met Office upgraded its warning for Storm Boelo from yellow to amber. The amber warning covers the majority of the country from 9pm on Saturday until 9pm on Sunday, with gusts of 60 to 70mph forecast and winds of up to 80mph possible in exposed coastal areas. </p> <p>Craig Gorman, head of operational weather strategy at Network Rail Scotland, said: “We know closing lines and slowing trains will have a significant impact on people’s plans this weekend, and these aren’t decisions we take lightly. But when we’re facing weather of this scale, we have to put safety first and make sensible calls before conditions deteriorate. </p> <p>“</p> <p><a href="https://archive.ph/8gd2K" rel="nofollow">https://archive.ph/8gd2K</a> (Herald) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=21749#post-386221 Fri, 23 Oct 2026 15:22:42 +0000 chdot 386221@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>From top of thread</p> <p>“I think the Councillor has been badly advised, as the Council does appear to have the power to introduce a congestion charge. Exactly the same powers it would have used in 2005, which are set out in part 3 of the Transport (Scotland) Act 2001 and the following regulations:“ </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=21749#post-386220 Fri, 23 Oct 2026 15:20:37 +0000 chdot 386220@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>“</p> <p>Green councillor Chas Booth has tabled a motion for Thursday’s full council meeting, “deeply regretting” Transport Secretary Stephen Flynn’s decision last month to halt work by civil servants on road user charging and calling for it to restart immediately.</p> <p>“</p> <p> <a href="https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/edinburgh-council-will-be-asked-to-lobby-for-powers-to-introduce-congestion-charging-9304861" rel="nofollow">https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/edinburgh-council-will-be-asked-to-lobby-for-powers-to-introduce-congestion-charging-9304861</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20759&page=29#post-386175 Tue, 20 Oct 2026 15:36:26 +0000 boothym 386175@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><blockquote>Which is why my 9.03pm train from Aberdeen to Edinburgh on Wednesday left the Granite City at a snail’s pace and continued in that fashion all the way south until it arrived in Waverley three hours later. </blockquote><br /> The <a href="https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/service/gb-nr:L87087/2026-10-14/detailed">2103 on Wednesday</a> was scheduled for 2:37 but late by 7 minutes at Waverley (making up time from +20 at Dundee), a longer than usual journey due to the Fife electrification works - back to normal later this month it'll be 2:24 (53mph). But why bother to explain that when you've got a column to write? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20759&page=29#post-386164 Tue, 20 Oct 2026 08:33:14 +0000 chdot 386164@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/oct/20/bradford-railway-station-transform-travel-north" rel="nofollow">https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/oct/20/bradford-railway-station-transform-travel-north</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20759&page=29#post-386161 Tue, 20 Oct 2026 07:08:16 +0000 chdot 386161@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="https://www.fifetoday.co.uk/news/transport/fife-rail-line-closure-work-on-schedule-as-next-bridge-set-to-be-demolished-9296665" rel="nofollow">https://www.fifetoday.co.uk/news/transport/fife-rail-line-closure-work-on-schedule-as-next-bridge-set-to-be-demolished-9296665</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20759&page=29#post-386145 Sun, 18 Oct 2026 07:34:03 +0000 Frenchy 386145@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Normal pace is about 2.5 hours, for comparison. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20759&page=29#post-386142 Sat, 17 Oct 2026 20:50:30 +0000 chdot 386142@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>“</p> <p>“Your journey has been delayed due to slippery rails.” That was the announcement, as it is every autumn on the railways. Apparently leaves on the line can mean train wheels losing grip, making it harder for them to stop quickly. </p> <p>Which is why my 9.03pm train from Aberdeen to Edinburgh on Wednesday left the Granite City at a snail’s pace and continued in that fashion all the way south until it arrived in Waverley three hours later. Three hours to cover the 129 miles between Scotland’s capital and its third biggest city. In 2026, that is the pace of progress. </p> <p>“</p> <p><a href="https://archive.ph/zyLe8" rel="nofollow">https://archive.ph/zyLe8</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=7059&page=153#post-386134 Fri, 16 Oct 2026 10:44:14 +0000 mcairney 386134@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I'm starting to feel like an endangered minority in my adherence to traffic lights on the bike.<br /> Going along Queen Street yesterday I saw a Voi biker go through 3 red lights in a row until our paths diverged at Picardy Place. Then going down Portobello Road the older gentleman on a rather nice Van Nicholas Titanium bike with a trailer appeared to be completely oblivious to the red light at the Scottie junction.<br /> Rather than "road tax" and insurance maybe drivers should be howling at the moon about eye tests especially checks for colour-blindness! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3748&page=386#post-386113 Wed, 14 Oct 2026 12:29:50 +0000 Murun Buchstansangur 386113@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>A bit further afield...</p> <p><a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwr5yde0rndmo">Drivers urged not to use cycle path 'shortcut' during roadworks</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3748&page=386#post-386108 Tue, 13 Oct 2026 17:49:26 +0000 gembo 386108@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Was it a white merc? I was crossing street today which was empty except a white merc in distance, but it started speeding up so I pointed at it and said to my relatives watch out for this white Mercedes. The driver starts Do yo7 have a problem but I was able to tell him I didn’t but 8 did have right of way. He then pulled up and gesticulated wit( his arm out the window some way behind us now as we were in that wee snicker towards the cafe royale. I was able to assert to him that we still had right of Way </p>