I have a cycle lane running outside my home. I have cctv on the front of the house. Today I reviewed on fast forward 10am to 11am. Zero cycles passed along the cycle lane. This is not a trendy opinion, but I would rip up almost all Edinburgh's cycle lanes which clog the city and cause pollution from endless traffic queues.

@CraigMurrayOrg aren't people at work at this time? see how many bikes are there during morning and evening commutes and possibly the lunch hour, if also zero then it does sound like a waste

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@CraigMurrayOrg You need to get on your bicycle and start making use of it!.. It could be your own personal lane /is there not a pub along the cycle lane that you could make your way to? :)

@CraigMurrayOrg Edinburgh's cycle lane under usage is bec; routes are fragmented, not properly protected from vehicular traffic at busy points, not maintained adequately, no direct route north =》 south Ed, Cycling is more popular now, requires more investment not less.

@CraigMurrayOrg I have enormous respect 4 you, Craig, but please stay in lane. When you get a break from war zones, you could go 2 Groningen or Utrecht & see what civilised transport planning & a thriving economy look like. I promise you, digging up the bike lane would not improve traffic flow

@CraigMurrayOrg Are you suggesting that cyclists - especially the more vulnerable and wary kinds - do not deserve to be and feel safe? Because that's the implication of your idle musing.

@CraigMurrayOrg Just wait a few weeks until oil hits £200 a barrel. Everyone will be cycling or walking.

@CraigMurrayOrg The problem in Aberdeen is that a vote for Cycling is a vote for Less profit to First Bus. We have a Private PLC running a Public Transport System E-Bikes are here we do not have the Cycling Infrastructure like other civilized Countries have due to Greed Private sector Greed

@CraigMurrayOrg You’re not alone. Many feel the money should be used to rid the roads of potholes rather than spend millions on barely used cycle lanes.

@CraigMurrayOrg An issue you can raise when you're a MSP.

@CraigMurrayOrg I'll go further. Watch the footage from 7:30am to 10. What you'll see is a preponderance of affluent males.

@CraigMurrayOrg @SemiticRia Just wait a little while longer, maybe until petrol is £15 per litre, and then do another review.

@CraigMurrayOrg People shouldn't drive in cities unless they have a medical condition which means that they can't use better transport options.

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@CraigMurrayOrg Would be interested to know, is it safe enough for a kid to use unsupervised? And does it actually connect places usefully, i.e. is it part of a network and does it get you to shops, schools or the pub? Or is it just a random stretch of paint?

@CraigMurrayOrg The Scots aren’t known for their health conscious behaviour to be fair. You’re more likely to find a drunk asleep in a cycle lane than a moving bicycle of a morning.

@CraigMurrayOrg Wherever there is an underused cycleway, there's often an unavoidable muckle great roundabout / dual carriageway / death junction at one end of it, and it ends up being safer just to be in the traffic rather than join / cross it

@CraigMurrayOrg Something overlooked here is that a shift to an ecologically sustainable transport system & society requires reducing overall costs & barriers of less polluting & anti-social modes & conversely raising those of the opposite. Otherwise we continue heading towards a brickwall.

@CraigMurrayOrg LOL, blaming cycle lanes for "endless traffic queues" is one hell of a reach there. Do you think if they removed the cycle lanes the traffic would magically disappear? More effort needs to be made to ban cars from cities, not discourage people from cycling

@CraigMurrayOrg 2 lanes gridlocked pass the same number of cars as 1 lane gridlocked. the issue is always some junction further up rather than how many cars can park in the traffic

@CraigMurrayOrg On your bike Murray. 🚴‍♂️💨

@CraigMurrayOrg Cycle lanes don’t work in practice. At some point they cross junctions where traffic wants to turn left. The Highway Code now advises that cyclists should use the middle of the lane, not the left edge.

@CraigMurrayOrg I checked my fridge between 10 and 11 and didn’t see any vegetables. Maybe we should give up on agriculture.

@CraigMurrayOrg I can't think of a single cycle lane in Edinburgh that causes traffic congestion.

@CraigMurrayOrg Too many cars cause pollution and endless traffic queues. Not cycle lanes. I invite you to visit Galway city, where there are very few cycle lanes, yet there are massive traffic jams every day.

@CraigMurrayOrg It is the predominance of huge empty buses here that burns my onion the most.

@CraigMurrayOrg Who is cycling to work or education between 10 and 11am? Even civil servants at work by then.

@CraigMurrayOrg In a city that is wet or crap most of the time. Wasting money like its a game. People cycled for decades in Edinburgh with no problems.

@CraigMurrayOrg @DragoonGuard I’m in the borders. We have cycle lanes everywhere. They remain empty. Cyclists stick to the road, it seems more fun for them if cars must always brake and swerve to avoid them.

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@CraigMurrayOrg Replace all car lanes with bus lanes / trams.

@CraigMurrayOrg I spent many years cycling in cities and everything they did made it worse - all that's needed is clear roads (by that I mean free of clutter and street furniture), wide enough so that cars can pass cyclists (or vice versa) as easily as possible, and proper speed enforcement.

@CraigMurrayOrg I'd love to have a cycle lane running outside my home. Safe cycling for me, my children and grandchildren. What's not to love? 🚴❤️

@CraigMurrayOrg There is one that runs for 2 miles on London Rd at Mount Vernon, formed by removing a very useful filter lane. It has no lane before and after it. Worse than useless- I write as a cyclist.

@CraigMurrayOrg Taking cars off the road would achieve the same thing right?

@CraigMurrayOrg Definitely not a trendy opinion, no. A trendier opinion might be to keep the cycle lanes and invest in a cheap, efficient, and publicly owned public transport system - oh and get on ya bike, in the interim.