CityCyclingEdinburgh was launched on the 27th of October 2009 as "an experiment".
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CCE is 17years old!
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It soon became useful and entertaining. There are regular posters, people who add useful info occasionally and plenty more who drop by to watch. That's fine. If you want to add news/comments it's easy to register and become a member.
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And, he is hosting a public meeting to provide an opportunity to discuss the findings and to find out what works well and were improvements could be made.
Everyone is welcome to the meeting, there is no need to book, and the date is Thursday, June 18 at 7pm in the Ogston Hall of Balerno Parish Church.
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https://theedinburghreporter.co.uk/2026/06/water-of-leith-in-spotlight-at-public-meeting/
Was less rabid than I thought. I mean it had rabid moments about fast cyclists.
He had a researcher, a minder and a security guard. I was the third youngest person in the room. Pollution caused by the Murrayburn and bad toilet connections. Water of leith conservation trust played a blinder.
He wasn’t interested in planting more trees at Harperig as not in his constituency. Thid was the global warming issue we tried to raise. Gavin Corbett was there and sensible as ever
Many years ago I had a Chrome plugin that would replace the word "cyclists" with a randomly chosen minority group to underline how ridiculous some statements are. It's lost in the mists of time but I still think of it automatically if I have the misfortune to skim this kind of material, for e.g. if you replace "cyclists" with "immigrants", "black people", "Jews" or anything like that:
"All of us have seen [something we don't like] and is completely unacceptable, and just like irresponsible cyclists give all cyclists a bad name..."
(quote from the Edinburgh Reporter)
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