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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

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

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

  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

“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

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

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

Our Space For Distancing campaign launched yesterday with an avalanche of online support coming in from all around Scotland. We’ve had folk tweeting support to their local councils with loads of ideas of places where #SpaceForDistancing can be easily and

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

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