http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Tag: schools - Recent Topics en Wed, 13 May 2026 02:05:35 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19663#post-308796 Fri, 14 Jun 2019 22:38:58 +0000 NiallA 308796@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I've organised 2 bike buses for my sons' primary school (Davidson's Mains) recently. Up the road, Blackhall Primary organised their first bus this morning (Friday 14th June) - I went up to help marshall, and we had a really large and sunny ride around Ravelston and Blackhall, which was great. Earlier in the week I had a chat with a couple of parents from Corstorphine Primary, and they are hoping to organise something like a simultaneous bike and walking bus from different parts of their catchment.</p> <p>With Sciennes and Gillespie's (and others?), it's starting to feel to me like we have the beginnings of a network of events around Edinburgh, and I wondered whether it might be useful to link up in some way - a Facebook group, Slack group or similar? Something like that might be useful to swap hints, war stories, requests for help, etc etc. It would be great to popularise this and get more schools involved...</p> <p>Anyway, thought I would punt this out to the wider CCE collective to generate some wisdom... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=21538#post-374996 Thu, 16 May 2024 16:55:01 +0000 pringlis 374996@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>At the end of my tether with drivers on mobiles. I walk or cycle from Blackford Pond to Comiston Road to Canaan Lane and back on the school run most days and every single day I see at least one person on their phone while driving, usually more. I've gotten into a shouting match with drivers a few times, including yesterday with someone on Comiston Road who was using their phone AND smoking while edging up the queue outside the school, each time leaving the classic "WhatsApp gap" and then coming perilously close to the car in front as they accelerated forward, all just as they got to the traffic lights where kids at SMPS cross. I usually let it slide but when it's in front of a school I often feel I should say something. Probably shouldn't, especially as the kids are with me... though they're used to it now!</p> <p>It's all fruitless though, I know it, as very few drivers would change their behaviour based on a random man in the street telling them to stop, and the chances of them being caught by the police are incredibly low. Without a reporting portal, what can I actually do?</p> <p>Is it worth filming them and reporting to the police, or is that unlikely to result in any action? I feel like with the scale of it there's little point... </p>