For those of you who want further reading and inspiration as to what’s possible now and in the future, here is a selection of organisations, blogs, articles and twitter accounts we like. Enjoy!
Playing Out
We hope to see lots of “Playing Out” streets across Corstorphine in the future. Playing Out is a really useful website about turning your street into a play friendly place.
City of Edinburgh Council launched a pilot ‘Playing Out’ programme which ran between April and August 2017. Modelled on the Bristol ‘Playing Out’ scheme, its aim is ultimately about enabling traditional street play for children in their street/road.
For more on children, cities and play try Tim Gill, a consultant and writer on childhood, his latest publication is Urban Playground and you can follow him on Twitter.
Accessible Transport
Edinburgh All-ability Bike Centre (ABC), based at Saughton Park offers people a chance to get cycling whatever their ability. They have a range of adaptive bikes, solo bikes and tandems.
Transport for All is a London-based, pan-impairment organisation, guided by the belief that all disabled and older people have the right to travel with freedom and independence.
Wheels for Wellbeing is a UK charity that supports disabled people of all ages and abilities to enable them to enjoy the benefits of cycling.
Active Travel
Edinburgh Living Streets aims to promote walking as a safe and enjoyable way of getting around Edinburgh. It is the local group for Living Streets, the UK charity for everyday walking.
Paths for all is a Scottish charity promoting the benefits of walking to make Scotland a healthier, more active and greener country.
Walk, Wheel, Cycle, Vote is an umbrella campaign that asks all candidates in the Holyrood election to make three pledges to ensure active travel receives the investment it needs to transform transport in Scotland.
Mummy’s Gone a Cycle is written by a local parent who blogs about all things bicycle-related, including the highs and lows of incorporating bikes into family life and issues that are particular to the experience of women who cycle.
Cycling Fallacies is a witty, fact-filled site about cycling for transport.
Cycle Sprogs is a great resource for families, full of practical advice and recommendations.
As Easy as Riding a Bike is a blog that focusses on the experiences of cycling in Horsham, England, but incorporates all manner of wider observations on how we chose to move about our towns and cities.
British Cycling’s Let’s Ride website is a way to find rides, routes, festivals and clubs in your area. It includes the women-only Breeze rides.
The Guardian’s Bike Blog on all things cycling in the UK and round the world – from the rise of bike-theft to whether e-bikes are worth the price tag.
Spokes is Edinburgh and Lothian’s long-running cycle campaign group and publisher of indispensable cycle maps.
Sustainable cities and urban design
Nicer cities, liveable places is a personal blog on how we might create better cities by Robert Weetman.
Our co-chair Chris Young wrote this opinion piece ‘Why a Low Traffic Neighbourhood is a good idea’ for the Edinburgh Reporter, 07.09.20
The Ranty Highwayman is another personal blog about walking, cycling and all things transport and road related by a professional civil engineer.
modacitylife.com is the website for Melissa and Chris Bruntlett, authors and urban mobility advocates. We recommend their twitter and Facebook feeds.
We also recommend the twitter feed for, Brent Toderian, expert on advanced urbanism and founder of Toderian UrbanWORKS.
Urban design and research consultancy Gehl have a blog expounding their people-first approach to cities.
Manchester-based Brian Deegan has a good twitter feed and website – Urban Movement.
Driving
‘What future for the car?’ is an opinion piece by our co-chair Chris Young for the Edinburgh Reporter 19.10.20
The Road Danger Reduction Forum are a group of professionals working in the area of road safety and highway and traffic engineering who explore the problems with the establishment view of transport and road safety. This article on Electric Vehicles (EV) may be of particular interest.