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No edi-bike today!?
Blue Monday?
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The email sending tool, Buttondown, is having another backlog/queuing ‘moment’. Mail was scheduled to go out 7am but is stuck in a pipe somewhere, however I am not making the same mistake as last time and hitting send again so everyone gets it twice!
Usually gets posted to Bluesky between 8-9am as it’s available to see on the web, just hasn’t reached inboxes yet.
https://buttondown.com/edi.bike/archive/edibike-issue-76-20th-jan-25/
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edi.bike | issue 78 | 3rd Feb '25
In your weekly edinburgh cycling digest:Edinburgh Active Travel Improvement Plan Mapped; Lochrin Basin Towpath Works Will Provide Surface Improvements; January Transport Committee Roundup, community events and more:
https://buttondown.com/edi.bike/archive/edibike-issue-78-3rd-feb-25/
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I do enjoy this newsletter more and more. My one stop shop to keep in touch with things without having to read any papers, articles, or feel the need to email anyone to vent my rage :)
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edi.bike | issue 79 | 10th Feb '25
In your weekly edinburgh cycling digest:‘Celebrating the Successes’ Critical Mass Video; Cargo Bike Movement Winds Down Operations & Joins The Bike Station; Parents Call for Greater Road Safety Budgets Following FOI Requests, community events and more:
https://buttondown.com/edi.bike/archive/edibike-issue-79-10th-feb-25/
(Martian surface impersonation courtesy of Stanedykehead)
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There is a trace of road in that Pothole
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edi.bike | issue 80 | 17th Feb '25
In your weekly edinburgh cycling digest:Leith Low Traffic Neighbourhood, Critical Mass, and a Protest at the TRO Sub-committee; The Bike Station Causewayside Moving Sale; Council Rollout of New HGVs and Buses with Safety Features; community events and more:
https://buttondown.com/edi.bike/archive/edibike-issue-80-17th-feb-25/
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edi.bike | issue 81 | 24th Feb '25
In your weekly edinburgh cycling digest:Leith LTN Retained at Council Vote; New Bioquarter to Sheriffhall ‘Gaps’ Consultation; community events, route closures and more:
https://buttondown.com/edi.bike/archive/edibike-issue-81-24th-feb-25/
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What's the relevance of the Lover's Loan image? Are they doing anything there?
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@Frenchy no it is being promoted on socials as the oldest cut through in Marchmont or some such
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The only relevance is I was headed that way (quiet route 6) the other day. Became the banner image for this particular issue as I didn’t have anything else to hand :)
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edi.bike | issue 82 | 3rd Mar '25
In your weekly edinburgh cycling digest:Cycle Hire Scheme Demos; Infrasisters Ride 10th March; Fitba Bus Issues; March TEC Agenda, community events, route closures and more:
https://buttondown.com/edi.bike/archive/edibike-issue-82-3rd-mar-feb-25/
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edi.bike | issue 83 | 10th Mar '25
In your weekly edinburgh cycling digest:Infrasisters Ride (Today!); George St Spending; CCWEL Stats; Carers Travel Survey; March TEC Roundup, community events, route closures and more:
https://buttondown.com/edi.bike/archive/edibike-issue-83-10th-mar-25/
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Saw the Infra Sisters today at market street with their woggles. They smashed out of the Waverley Court Big Man statute area and ripped up the road towards Jeffrey St.
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I had planned to join them, but I had an incident last night wherein I decided to break the fall of a heavy glass jar with my foot bones and somewhat temporarily sacrificed mobility in the process. Nothing too serious but resting today was required
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edi.bike | issue 84 | 17th Mar '25
In your weekly edinburgh cycling digest:Edinburgh by Numbers; Students Call for Publicly-Owned Bike Hire Scheme; End of an Era at The Bike Station Causewayside; NHS Lothian Ebike Parking Policy, community events, route closures and more:
https://buttondown.com/edi.bike/archive/edibike-issue-84-17th-mar-25/
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edi.bike | issue 85 | 24th Mar '25
In your weekly edinburgh cycling digest:Edinburgh to Host TdF ‘Grand Départ’; Dalton on Dawn Patrol; Critical Mass This Saturday; Air Pollution Awareness Event at City Chambers, community events, route closures and more:
https://buttondown.com/edi.bike/archive/edibike-issue-85-24th-mar-25/
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edi.bike | issue 86 | 31st Mar '25
In your weekly edinburgh cycling digest:‘North-South Tram Consultation delayed; Overcoming ‘Motonormativity’ in Edinburgh Report; April Transport Committee Agenda, community events, route closures and more:
https://buttondown.com/edi.bike/archive/edibike-issue-86-31st-mar-25/
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Good to see edi.bike LIVE at CTC AGM - first step in succession planning though is a locked system
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My flickr album on Tram EDB has 10 years worth of images recording the dreadful quality of embedded rail construction between Haymarket and South St Andrew Street, with linked collapse of abutting carriageway pavements
EVERY load transfer joint in the top slab of the tram track has failed & cracked, with loose lumps of concrete coming out and patched up repairs. When the tram tracks were built over 200 years of ground compaction with the load spreading detail of the original setted pavements destroyed. The BGS records (online & in their Edinburgh base) show that the subgrade here is a layer of glacial gravels, sand & clays overlaying a bed of fractured shale, with dozens of bore hole logs showing this as soaking with water. This is a recipe for ground subsidence (sinkholes) and a section of Princes Street by Scott Monument had sunk by over 6"
Valve covers, and inspection chamber frames are continuously breaking out from the tarmac pavement, and steel road plates have often been in place for 12 months or more covering the most serious pavement failures
In Manchester, the early experience from the disastrous Phase 1 track installation, has seen a vastly improved standard for later work, with the underlying ground requiring vane tests (soil cohesion) and California bearing ratio (CBR) values that assure the track slabs are built on firm ground. (a 5cm hole cored through the pavements is sufficient to carry out ground cohesion & load bearing tests)
The serious compromises also delivered by having on street tram track that has at grade conflicts with other carriageway traffic, has also delivered tram stops at less suitable locations
The issues would have been resolved with substantially less disruption if the proposed double track railway, surveyed and designed in outline over 100 years ago, to run under Princes Street, had been delivered. It could be delivered now in preparation for expanding the tram system with tram stop relocated at Charlotte Square/Lothian Road, and Waverley Station, including loops to enable service regulation, and a relocated bus & coach interchange, underneath the carriageways at the East end of Princes Street, all accessible through Waverley Market, and the currently unused Scotland Street Tunnel, from the old Edinburgh to Newhaven railway
I've plenty of detail on this, and some 60 years of working in engineering & transport behind this concept
To build under Princes Street, a system used in 1960's to build the new Oxford Circus Station under Oxford Street/Regent Street whilst these remained open to traffic can be used, building the tunnel in stages
Happy to expand on this through appropriate channels
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edi.bike | issue 88 | 14th Apr '25
In your weekly edinburgh cycling digest:Pedestrianisation and Cycling Project to Close Lawnmarket to Traffic, Cargo Bike Movement, 2020 - 2025: New Impact Report Documenting the Last Five Years, community events, route closures and more:
https://buttondown.com/edi.bike/archive/edibike-issue-88-14th-apr-25/
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