I’ve just walked back down and almost every car has been here for over 2 hours, generating next to zero footfall over that period. Free parking 5 minutes from Waverley? Crazy stuff from the council.

Could be glorious. Instead, 22 cars parked for free, generating next to no customers and getting in the way of disabled parking and commercial loading. All but one of these cars was parked illegally anyway.

Sat for a coffee at Elm Row and counted the traffic for 15 minutes: 343 pedestrians 52 cyclists 2 cars Remind me why we’ve turned this public square into a car park? This is probably the best connected retail location in Scotland - trams, buses, walkable, busy cycle lane. Why ruin it?

This makes an assumption that otherwise, 2026 would have exactly followed 2025. I think that's reasonable given the pattern in the last two years.

An insight into cycling trends - the introduction of Voi bikes has added about 500 additional cyclists per day to Leith Walk; the tram closure added another 250 at the peak. The Voi effect is much larger at the weekend, while the inverse is true for the tram.

There's something amazing about being in a peloton of 40+ bikes on the cycle lane heading home. Every driver at the front of a queue of side-street traffic... every person peering out of a bus window... every passer-by gets the message: "Oh wow, yeah, people are using this stuff". Never gets old.

The hand laid sections of the link are approaching Leith Walk levels of discomfort, with pools of water whenever it rains. To think this is the flagship active travel investment, 10 years in the making.

The red circles represent people on waiting lists for current hangars (about 4,600), and the yellow circles those who have requested hangars (1,900). Given the council are currently approx 900 hangars behind demand, it’s pretty much futile to request more (except to express frustration!).

Can confirm that Braid Road, and the rest of the estate, is back to being a car traffic sewer. Took me 3x as long to get through it, *as a cyclist*. 4x close passes 2x drivers ignoring parallel crossing 2x wrong way down Braidburn Terrace 1x use of pavement as carriageway

Cycling at rush hour, it always feels like some folk’d be willing to kill you to get back for their tea 5 minutes earlier. Yesterdays example involves some Anglo-Saxon, sorry.

The funniest thing the council could do is put them out to auction. Then you’d have a good sense of just how subsidised car parking has been in Edinburgh.

I think it's well over 40,000 residential permits (equivalent in space to 240,000 cycle hangar spots).

Add this to the very long list of things the council should resolve before it thinks about more trams - hangars are self-funded, deliver more revenue than parking spaces, and latent demand for them is likely well over 10,000 (assuming that 6% of flat dwellers would want a spot).

The most popular hangar location is Rossie Place near Easter Road, with over 100 people on the waiting list. Across Morningside, 6% of flat dwellers have requested a spot. There are now 277 hangars across Edinburgh - to satisfy *current* demand would require an additional 938.

Always state the reg so that when someone gets hurt, they have some additional evidence for the claim.