Low traffic neighbourhoods have been in the news recently. In this guest post, Ewen Maclean of Blackford Safe Routes explains the benefits of the latest proposal in Edinburgh. NOTE this article has been corrected to better represent the position and motion
Looking back and looking forward: Join our virtual AGM to plan for 2021
It’s that time of the year when we get together to look back at how the last Pedal on Parliament went and make plans for the next one. This being 2020, we have no physical POP to look back at
Space for Distancing: Making it Stick
Last week Transport Scotland announced that the Spaces for People fund had closed for new applications and that almost all of the £30m fund had been allocated – with another £8m worth of bids still being considered. All in all, 28
Space for Distancing: What is your council doing?
It’s now been over three weeks since the transport minister announced an extra £20m for the Spaces for People funding – so what’s happening on the ground? Which councils have successfully applied for money and to do what? Sustrans
We’ve seen what the future could look like – help make sure we don’t return to our car-centric past
“The great city is not the one that has highways, but one where a child on a tricycle or bicycle can go safely everywhere.” – Enrique Penalosa Many of us have now had the best seat in the house seeing
Space For Distancing: Welcoming Spaces for People
We warmly welcome this announcement yesterday from the minister, setting up a £10 million ‘Spaces for People’ fund for temporary infrastructure for active travel – giving local authorities 100% funding to set up temporary schemes such as widened pavements and
Space For Distancing: As the world acts, will Scotland follow?
If we’ve learned anything in the last couple of months, it’s that something can start apparently very small and isolated and far away – but spread with lightning speed around the globe. As with viruses, so with ideas. And the
#SpaceForDistancing: Over to you
Last week, we asked the Scottish government to make it easier for local authorities to temporarily reclaim road space for pedestrians and cyclists – what we’re calling ‘Space for Distancing’. Now we need you to put your support behind our
#SpaceForDistancing – an urgent call
These are unprecedented times. With lockdown extended for another three weeks, it’s becoming clear that even when it lifts we won’t be returning to anything like normal life. With no vaccine, limited testing, and little information about immunity, physical distancing
Learning the Lessons of COVID-19
Like everyone else, things are strange for the PoP organising team right now – normally we’d be flat out busy in the run up to PoP, instead we find ourselves in limbo. In this guest post, one of the founding