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“This path was always about our community and making life easier and safer for local people. Before it was built, residents had to walk along the B8020 with heavy traffic... Now children can walk or cycle to school safely... It has quickly become part of daily life here" 👏👏👏

Well done to the organisers of #pop26 Pedal on Parliament, getting so many people together to campaign for safer #cycling. Good to hear from @kate-c.bsky.social @sannedd.bsky.social @patrickharvie.bsky.social and Rose speaking about her daughter Emma Burke Newman, tragically killed cycling in 2023.

Last week we joined partners and locals in Arbroath to celebrate completion of a major new project making walking, wheeling and cycling possible for more people in the town.👏 Read more about the difference it will make for local communities👉️ www.walkwheelcycletrust.org.uk/our-blog/new...

Omar Artan is to referee the Super Cup between PSG and Aston Villa, UEFA have announced. "UEFA wants to show its respect to Omar and his outstanding officiating skills," says Aleksander Ceferin.

City AM issues broadside against flood of AI slop being submitted by writers for its pages: "if you can’t be bothered to write it, why should anyone be bothered to read it?" www.cityam.com/there-should...

Rails to Trails: the thread about how North Edinburgh got its cycle paths On this day, 40 years ago, a councillor cut the ceremonial ribbon and opened a section of cycle path in north Edinburgh. This was a rather special bit of cycle path however as it hadn't been built by the council. It was…

🧵 1/6 We are celebrating this #VolunteersWeek and today is also #PowerOfYouth Day🎉 Volunteer Abiy is a Task Day Leader from Bath and has been supporting us for almost 20 years. Most recently he has been joined by daughter Rebecca, and son Tomas to complete their Duke of Edinburgh awards

Horrific and a devastating human tragedy. Why has there not been wider mainstream coverage and debate about this case? Some crimes rightly dominate headlines for weeks. Yet road crimes even of this magnitude do not. Increased awareness can help create safer travel. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Last week, we celebrated the opening of another Ian Findlay Path Fund project. The new path connects the communities of Newton and Duntarvie with a safe, accessible off-road route. Read more about the project: walkingscotland.org.uk/new-west-lot...

On this day, 40 years ago, a councillor cut the ceremonial ribbon and opened a section of cycle path in north Edinburgh. This was a rather special bit of cycle path however as it hadn't been built by the council. It was built by direct citizen action: over the course of a single week it had been reclaimed from the trackbed of an old railway a group of volunteers. Wind the clock forward four decades and from these humble beginnings has grown a network of almost 20km (12 miles) of such paths in this part of the city. There's a good chance that you've cycled, walked, jogged or otherwise explored them. The credit for this their creation sits almost entirely with the relentless (and often thankless) hard work of a single, slightly anarchic organisation. This thread is the story of how the North Edinburgh Path Network came to be.