10 years ago, Pedal on Parliament started out as a Twitter conversation between a few friends including Sally Hinchcliffe, David Brennan and Kim Harding. The idea was to have a one-off flash mob. We weren’t expecting many people to turn
Three weeks – and ten years!
With just three weeks to go until POP returns to the streets of Edinburgh on the 23rd April, we’ve taken the decision to mark our ten-year anniversary with a special edition range of t-shirts featuring our latest polar bear family
New Start, New Route, New Time!
Since time immemorial (well, since 2012) we’ve gathered at the Meadows. But, as we return to a mass family-friendly closed-roads demo on Saturday 23rd April this year, we’ve had to make some changes due to major road closures and the
Tell us your PoP Tales…
Ten years ago, in 2012, a group of us had a crazy idea that we might organise a flash mob to ride on the Scottish Parliament. We thought a few hundred might turn up; in the end that was the
Save the Date for PoP2022: Saturday 23 April 2022
We’re really excited to let you know that we are back! This year, 10 years after we first did it, we will be doing our first ‘classic PoP’ in several years – that’s a mass family-friendly cycle from the Meadows
Local Elections: Time to deliver
In recent weeks we’ve seen two key related policy announcements out for consultation from the Scottish Government: their plans to reduce car kilometres driven by 20% by 2030, and the latest Strategic Transport Projects Review (STPR2). In many ways, these
Help us Clear the Decks and Get Set for 2022
Who wants to start 2022 in style – and do our t-shirt supremo a favour, while bagging a bit of a bargain to boot? Due to the pandemic, we still have a number of our fabulous bright green ‘pop-up POP’
Going Global: Pedalling on COP
Despite being only a small grassroots Scottish cycling campaign, we’ve found ourselves on the global stage this month as the world came to Scotland’s largest city to talk about the planet’s biggest issue. As we look back at a hectic
We Pedalled on COP to take our climate message to the world
Over a thousand cyclists converged on Glasgow for the Global Day of Action on Climate Justice, as Pedal on COP and our ‘This Machine Fights Climate Change’ slogan went global! Thank you to everyone who helped organise, spread the word,
Five OTHER Ways Cycling Can Save the Climate
A week from now we’ll gather in Glasgow to send a strong message to the powers that be: This machine fights climate change. As we make our final push for this big mobilisation we wanted to pause for a moment