Spokes, the Lothian Cycle campaign, celebrates its 40th anniversary this year and is in optimistic mood.
In its summer Bulletin (No. 128) it hails the recent local-authority election result since the SNP, Labour and Greens are committed to dedicating 10% of the city’s transport revenue and capital budget to cycling. Matched funding comes from Sustrans.
Spokes is lobbying for ‘a quieter, safer, less polluted, more people-friendly city centre’, and figures from their May traffic count suggest progress is being made. The number of bikes was up 7% on last year (up 51% on 2007) while the number of cars fell by 4.6% on 2016 and 23% on 2007.
[We couldn't quite squeeze all of this piece into Issue 265, hence the partial duplication here. ]