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I popped into Waterstones today to pick up a last minute gift for my wee boy - a pirate stickerbook  that he'd asked Santa for.  As ...

We've been asking the Scottish government for 'a step change' in their policies for a while now. But I was taken by surprise tod...

South-West Edinburgh is bifurcated by the Western Approach Rd.  Created by the removal of a train line, and lacking any cycle infrastructure...

With thanks to Chris Hill for the image from an old Pedestrians' Association publication. It's not often that I get to call on...

Cyclists and pedestrians have much in common, but have been pushed apart - quite literally.  It will take a major shift in how they both cam...

There are lots of jokes about the tensions, splits and divides in bike groups, but one of the joys of being involved with Pedal on Parliamen...

ht tp://www.flickr.com/photos/blackpuddinonnabike/10991019106/ In the past few days, more shared use signs have appeared around the city...

I wrote this yesterday for the Scotsman, to accompany this article .  Not sure if it's gone in or not.  It's a slightly more critic...

I suppose it was inevitable, that in a week when Scotland's dire record of pedestrian safety  was splashed across the media, when I can...

I've written before about the last 10 yards of the school run being the part that puts me (and others) off letting my kids cycle to sch...

This morning, I was trying to explain to my six year old why I had put lights on her bike, even though it was fully light, if a bit murky.  ...

Sometimes I just don't understand people.  This morning, I was taking my wee boy to nursery on his balancebike, and we came past this bu...

...is that we all behave as if we're 3 years old.   And no wonder. The only time that we learn road safety is at pre-school or nursery...

....when it goes to Cycling Scotland... The Minister of Transport in Scotland has responded to a Parliamentary question and several Freedo...

Yesterday, I was talking to a journalist and I foolishly said something like 'what we really need to think about it is supporting pedest...

" W atch out for pedestrians crossing a roa d into which you are turning. If they have started to cross they have priority, so give wa...

A letter to my MSPs I don't know whether you saw the recent Open Letter to Alex Salmond, of  which I was one signatory.  It was publis...

I blame Iain Docherty .   At this year's Spokes meeting, he called himself a militant pedestrian. It annoyed me then.  Especially as he ...

Don't get me wrong, I'm keen on any schemes that improve the infrastructure for cyclists.  But I don't want this to be at the ex...