Welcome to the Edinburgh Innertube map, charting the city's principal off-street paths.
Click on the map to read the latest news and stories about each route or stop. Got a photo, story or news update to share? You can contribute.
Saturday 26th April is POP 2014, the now annual and ever-growing mass bike ride from the Meadows to Holyrood. Last year over 4,000 cyclists thronged their way through the city centre to demand more and better cycle facilities in Scotland. Why not join a feeder ride to get there as part of a group? As [...]
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You’ll have noticed a big difference in the Creative Laboratories construction since the last post, with the building still on track to be completed by the end of this year. The images below show some of the recent progress – most of the roof is now on and the final sections of concrete being poured; [...]
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The City of Edinburgh Council, in partnership with Sustrans and Transport Scotland, is developing a scheme to enhance the pedestrian and cycle path that parallels the A90 between the Burnshot and Dalmeny junctions. They are improving the path in five sections (see the plan) and are currently developing designs for Sections 2 and 3 which [...]
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As part of the TANK series we’re delighted to welcome new work from Jennie Temple. ‘WE CAN, BECAUSE, WE KNOW SOMETHING WENT WRONG ’ is part of TANK, a programme of exhibitions and events in Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop’s street front gallery space. Exhibition runs from 6th – 23rd April, Free to view from the street. [...]
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The People’s Postcode Lottery has just awarded Edinburgh & Lothians Greenspace Trust funding to make some landscape improvements at Fiveways Junction – the hub of North Edinburgh’s paths. The landscaping project aims to help turn Fiveways into somewhere a bit more special with some circular stone walling, new planting, relaying the grass verges and creating [...]
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Anybody who has tried using the nightmare crossing where the Trinity path comes to an abrupt end (before it starts again on the other side of a blind s-bend junction with no crossing facilities) will be glad that a five-month engineering project is underway which will, in part, deliver a dedicated crossing for cyclists and [...]
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A partnership between EDI, City of Edinburgh Council and Edinburgh & Lothians Greenspace Trust is seeing the site of the old Fountain Brewery, tucked away behind the big hoardings between the canal towpath and Dundee Street, being transformed as part of a temporary greening project, which aims to turn empty land into greenspace while it [...]
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Here are some photos taken today from 2 different angles overlooking the Creative Laboratories construction site. Work has started on various sections of the roof, including the café, where the concrete roof is being poured today.  Here are a few images of the build from different angles with the close-up showing the concrete [...]
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Everyone at Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop would like to welcome Ting-Tong Chang, an artist who won Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop’s Creative Initiative award, and has just started on his three month residency here. Title: ‘Pay As You Go’  Ting- Tong is from Taiwan, and received his MFA at Goldsmiths University, London. His installations are marked with brevity, [...]
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Get your hands dirty and help plant some trees at Harrison Park with Edinburgh & Lothians Greenspace Trust and Friends of Harrison Park. What is planned is some low, hedgerow-style planting on the bank between Harrison Road and East Harrison Park by the canal, providing a windbreak and giving some year-round interest on an otherwise [...]
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