The Herald is running a series of articles about Edinburgh this week.
For me it was a lack of confidence about cycling through busy traffic. Finding that there are lanes across so much of the city really did make a difference - even if there are gaps in the network.
On reflection it seems slightly crazy that I was nervous about cycling in traffic given I do driver and am sometimes part of that traffic, but that in many ways is the reason why. When you're sitting behind the wheel of a car, cyclists look so vulnerable.
What will Edinburgh look like as a cycling city in two year's time, when the Tour de France comes to town? There's zero chance of us being like Amsterdam or Copenhagen in that tiny zip of time and with many of the infrastructure projects on hold it seems unlikely that it will seem very much different.
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