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Cycling Scotland's flagship programme for cycle safety is called 'cyclespace' and involves pictures of kids on bikes asking ...

On the way back from yesterday's berry picking expedition, we stopped off to do a little shopping.  The North Edinburgh Path Network  (...

Our six year old decided that she wanted to cycle to Craigie's Farm on her own bike.  It's about 7.5 miles each direction, and mod...

"Even one fatality is too many".  How often do we hear this from policy-makers?  Too often. Usually after another fatality.   I...

In the Cycling Action Plan of 2010    the Scottish government considered whether or not strict liability should be adopted, noting that ...

Last week the Scottish government released the latest data on serious injuries on Scotland's roads .   The headline on the Ministerial ...

Hey everyone, sorry about the rant yesterday. But we do have a right to be angry. Really Angry. CAPS, refreshed or not,  is a useless docum...

I've been calling 'CAPS' 'CRAPS' for a while now, on the basis that it's well, pretty crappy. But it occurs to me th...

When did you last see kids riding bikes on the street with their parents?  I suspect the answer is 'not recently' or 'not ofte...

It's been a depressing day in a depressing week.  This was symbolised today  by people congratulating me on my 'victory' and ge...

There's something I don't understand about transport funding in the UK.  Why is it that active travel funds  have to be 'bid for...

View Larger Map I've blogged about this intersection before, but hearing today that it's not going to be resurfaced for at least ...

NMW thanks to chdot on flickr Amidst several frustrating days, it was a real pleasure to see how good the west end of North Meadow walk ...

More on Princes Street (part 1 here:  http://www.deceasedcanine.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/a-letter-to-my-councillors.html ) I'm less and ...

Felt I had to write one last letter to my Councillors: One last comment before your meeting today -  my comments on Waterworld  are pretty...

Fyrishof in Uppsala - now that's a swimming pool! When the council closed Leith Waterworld, we were devastated.  My daughter, who ha...

A local politician keeps telling me to 'think strategic' and 'not bother him (and others) with the little stuff'.   He mean...

My kids seem to do pretty much everything in school - someone teaches them swimming, dancing, tennis, plus normal PE. But, when it comes t...

If one message came out of this year's Pedal on Parliament, it's that we're not 'cyclists', we're everyone.   The wo...

There's a lot of craziness involved in planning pedal on parliament, but right now, my biggest headache is how to get a group of famili...