wingpig

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Bipedal ape with gingery beard, frown, grey hair. Cycles, walks, takes photos. Likes cold, dislikes social situations and long trousers. he/him

Photo of Forrest Road, Edinburgh, with alike of humans pretending to be bollards to protect the otherwise-usually-inaccessible-due-to-parked-vehicles cycle lane. Taken on Fri 26thApril 2019.
Photo of a printed sign reading "53% Do _not_ want inspirational quotes on the walls"
Photo of some road signs for road works on the footway, Salamander St, Leith
Photo of Restalrig Road, looking south over the bridge over the railway path, with the surface freshly-rolled today. A ROAD CLOSED sign is supported by a load of plastic fencing, in which a gap has been opened, with another at the other end by Alemoor Park.
Photo of a "MEAT SNACK", as obtained from a coin-op Automat in a café in the Efteling theme park in the Netherlands. Whilst mostly unidentifiable, it reminded me a little of a slice of square sausage.
Photo looking east along Seafield Road, where some people not wearing respirators are cutting a trench in the footway, for which there is no protected diversion around.
Photo of the footway on the bridge which takes Restalrig Road over the Restalrig Railway Path. Plastic barriers protect a large section of the roadway where there is a large hole,whose repair will delay further resurfacing.
Photo of the underside of Restalrig Road on the Restalrig Railway Path, with the space under he bridge restricted by people in tabards fiddling about with formes and concrete and plastic fences.
Photo of a road roller and a very high dropped kerb at the access slope to the Restalrig Railway Path from Restalrig Road
Photo of plastic fencing between the footway and road on Restalrig Road, at the access point for the Restalrig Railway Path cycle path
Photo of Seafield Road, looking east from near the crematorium, showing Scottish Water vans and people doing some work to the footway.
Photo of a grey bicycle parked against a railing beneath a window opposite a bollard between some planters at Edinburgh council's City Chambers, High Street, Edinburgh. Whilst not a polling place, the city chambers offers a location to drop off postal votes on election days.
Screenshot of the Roadworks Scotland detail for the Fillyside Road/Seafield Road works
Photo of a sign threatening WORK STARTS HERE 27/04/2026 FOR 7 WEEKS on the shared use (north) footway of Seafield Road, opposite the recycling centre/LIDL. https://www.roadworksscotland.org/ says Fillyside Road to Seafield Road (west footway) Phase 1: Lane Closure with 3-way TTL’s - Seafield Road East junction Fillyside Road Phase 2: Lane Closure with 2-way TTL’s - Seafield Road East to Seafield Road Recycling Depot
Photo of an abandoned bike next to a tree
Photo of a tipper truck with its tyres up on the footway on Pirniefield Place.
Photo from 23/02/2008 of a tree beside the Innocent Railway where a fallen section of tree looks a bit like the Xenomorph queens's extended, crested skull, protruding from between some spreading, outreaching branches which look a bit like arms.
Photo of the zigzag slope connecting the Restalrig Railway Path cycle/walking path to Hawkhill Avenue, Edinburgh.
Photo of two vans parked partially on the Restalrig Railway Path just clockwise from the Seafield St access point.
Photo of the remains of a play park in the remains of an outdoor sea-filled swimming pool on Prestwick beach.
Photo of an half-frozen puddle on the Goldenacre Path, looking north.
Photo of a BRAVILOR BONAMAT industrial coffee filter machine, with a BRAVILOR BONAMAT jug filled with coffee under the filter and another BRAVILOR BONAMAT jug filled with coffee on the hotplate on the top.
Photo of the corner of Ryehill Terrace with two DIVERTED TRAFFIC signs and two traffic cones blocking the most of the narrow footway. Parked cars line both sides of the road on the street to the left, as they line both sides of the whole lengths of Ryehill Terrace, Cornhill Terrace and Restalrig Terrace nearby.
Screenshot of the Jacobs consultation drawings (sheet 10A) for the Dundee Street/Fountainbridge active travel consultation, showing the junction Dundee St/Fountainbridge/Gardner's Crescent.
Screenshot of the Jacobs consultation drawings (sheet 05B) for the Dundee Street/Fountainbridge active travel consultation, showing the junction between the east/north-bound cycle lane on Dundee St's junction with Fowler Terrace.
Photo of the Chancelot Path between the Water of Leith Walkway and Five Ways junction, looking north underneath Ferry Road.
Section of the Jacobs drawings for the Dundee St/Angle Park Terrace/Henderson Terrace/WAR exit junction with six phases of movement: Phase 0, the pedestrian phase across all four mouths, which would occur on demand on button-press or pedestrian detection IMMEDIATELY after the current phase. Phase 1, which flushes cyclists from the right-turn-down-Henderson-Terrace phase, which also allows them to go straight on west if they've changed their mind and also allows the left-turn eastward from Henderson Terrace to Dundee St. Phase 2, if not interrupted by another pedestrian phase, allows WAR exit traffic to emerge when there are no cyclists waiting in the right-turn reservoir. Phase 4, unless there are pedestrians, is weastbound from Angle Park Terrace, with the option for cyclists to turn left if they wish or join the eastbound segregated section if they fancy it. Phase 5 is exit from Henderson Terrace, again with cyclists either using the cycle lane or the main traffic lane. Phase 6 is the exit from Dundee Street, with right-turning cyclists who want to use the segregeated lane heading into the right-turn reservoir, to await the subsequent phase.
Screenshot of Google Maps overlaid with the Jacobs plan for the Dundee Street/Henderson Terrace/West Approach/Angle Park junction.
Screenshot from Google Maps of the stretch of Dundee Street between the West Approach sliproad and Henderson Terrace, tilted slightly clockwise, with the Jacobs drawing of the proposed amendments overlaid.
Video from a mobile phone showing the rear end of a pedal cycle, to which is fitted a pannier, in which is sitting a grey plastic bucket filled with grit/salt from a council street side gritbin, into which is poked a gardening trowel. The bicycle is moving along a lightly snowed-upon cycle/walking path in the evening, lit by street lights.
Photo of some frost on the Leith Links paths, particularly the cycle side of the bit beside the croft and tennis courts.
Photo of an excavator attempting to pull what is either a gritter or a mini bin van out of a ditch at Five Ways junction on the NEPN in Edinburgh.
Screenshot from the Garmin Connect app, showing a graph depicting total miles run each month of 2025, with the annual total and monthly/weekly means.
Screenshot of the Fountainbridge/Dundee consultation document sheet 08 (page 9) showing the sections outside Fountain Park, with the top section (sheet 08A, Telfe Subway to Gibson Terrace) highlighted in green. This document was produced by Jacobs and is found in the "Design Drawings" section here: https://consultationhub.edinburgh.gov.uk/sfc/dundee-street-fountainbridge-active-travel/
Screenshot from Google Maps showing a pin highlighting Jacobs engineering consultancy's location in the OneSixty building on Dundee Street, west of Fountain Park and the Telfer subway access slope. https://www.google.com/maps/place/Jacobs/@55.9403499,-3.2180313,247m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m6!3m5!1s0x4887c7a7dc53a30b:0x4c84407921c61336!8m2!3d55.9405197!4d-3.2192255!16s%2Fg%2F11b5phyl9f!5m1!1e3?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI1MTIwOS4wIKXMDSoKLDEwMDc5MjA3M0gBUAM%3D
Photo of the north bank end of the Kincardine bridge, Kincardineshire, on the north bank of the Forth estuary, which the Round the Forth cycle route uses to cross to Skinflats on the south bank.
Screenshot of the VOI bike hire app for Edinburgh showing a bicycle N9BN, reported as unsafe to ride, now available with a three-free-minute inducement.
Screenshot of the VOI bike hire app for Edinburgh showing vehicle N9BN parked and still available at Salamander Place/Ropemaker Street despite having been reported post-rise as dangerous due to the dodgy stuff steering.
Photo of some traffic cones and yellow tape blocking off a section of the Cameron Toll car park.
GIF of Elizabeth Dylau as Kleya, preparing her multi-tool brooch/clasp, from Andor S2
Photo of four rumpled white school shirts on a grey duvet cover. The shirts have just been removed from a ceiling pulley by their collars and await ironing.
Photo of the Sandport end of the Water of Leith walkway path, looking north, with some cones marking out a section of replaced tarmac just up from where the path is restricted by a bin.
Screenshot of some black text on a white background of a parody version of "A visit from St Nicholas" or "the night before Christmas" by Clement Clarke Moore, which reads: "A fortnight to Christmas, but all through the house scampered yet thirteen creatures, including that mouse. Axe-choppings and flung knives their numbers had pared but I hoped that by Christmas not one would be spared. The children were nestled with bait 'neath their beds and scissors and cudgels to hand by their heads Mama with her cutlass, and I with my sword had settled to wait for the creak of a board when down in the kitchen there rose such a clatter we sped down the stairs to find something to batter. Away to the oil-lamp I flew like a flash" ...at which point the image is cut off as I'm not happy with the rest of the verse but won’t have time to re-work it before it stops being a fortnight before Christmas 2025.
Screenshot of the VOI bikes hire app showing a "Reward Collector" offer, whereby points can be collected for "every ride you finish by following the rules" which hopefully includes parking tidily.
Photo of the VOI cycle parking spot at the corner of Marionville Road/Wishaw Terrace on the morning of Sunday 2025-12-07. Four of the bikes are lying on the ground, with three upright.
Sceen recording of the VOI cycle hire app for Edinburgh, shoowing the activity at the Wishaw Terrace/Marionville Road parking zone when four bikes lying on the ground were put back upright. Several bikes have the green 'present' icon denoting three free minutes, which disappears as they are put back upright. The physical positions of the bikes did not closely resemble their appearance on the app's map.
Clip from a Garmin VIRBN handlebar camera, showing a (timelapsed) view of the journey from West Shore Road up to West Granton Access sometime in August 2017, when the work on the new blocks of flats to the east of Upper Strand Walk (the wee path northeast from Saltire Square) were just starting to be built, showing the gated access point for construction traffic to safely cross between the material storage zone and the work site whilst allowing pedestrian and cycle use of the path to continue.
Short video clip from a Cycliq Fly12 handlebar camera from 20:27 on 27/11/2025 showing a small group of VOI electric hire bicycles in Edinburgh, at the Meadows Playpark parking zone, being put back upright, whereupon their headlights and taillights stop flashing and the green indicator lights on their stems begin slowly blinking.
Screenshot from the @BBCStudios YouTube channel of the Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster animation sequence from the 1980s TV adaptation of the Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams. The illustration is an almost woodcut-like black and white hatched/shaded picture of a group of multiple-limbed alien creatures holding drink glasses, with more glasses and three large bell-shaped stoppered vessels containing fluid on the table before them.
Side-by-side comparison of a pair of videos (Cycliq Fly12, the clip on the left from 2025-06-12 and on the right from 2025-11-29) showing the difference before and after the Leonardo incursion. The videos are roughly pace-matched by slowing down the June clip between selected points such as signs, lampposts, identifiable trees and so on. The left-hand half of each clip is shown, showing the south bank of the Ferry Road path.
Video from a Cycliq Fly12 handlebar camera of the "pedestrian diversion" from St Mark's Park to Broughton Road whilst the bridge and direct path are needlessly blocked by selfish construction works. The diversion includes a steep, unpaved mud/gravel slope down to the next (slightly humpy) bridge, a wiggle through a housing development then up a very steep and very lumpy lane between the end of Powderhall Road/Dunedin Street up to Broughton Road.
Video from a Cycliq Fly12 cycle handlebar camera of the Leonardo incursion onto the Ferry Road cycle pedestrian path, shot on Saturday 29/11/2025 at 08:50ish. The temporary fence still creates a pinch-point against a lamp-post through the inconsderate positioning of a large temporary container/trailer office thing. The temporary fence is open in places, as work is taking place. On the right, at the corner of the slope down to Arneill Drive, a vehicle track has splodged the corner of the verge.
Sat 2025-11-29. Photo of the pinch-point between Leonardo's contractor's temporary fence behind their Ferry Road compound and a lamppost on the other side of the Ferry Road cycle/pedestrian path. The verge has provided some passageway for able-bodied people with grippy footwear or wide wheels. Excavators and trailers are visible behind the fence. The old fence is in the process of being removed, with a large trench dug at its foot, with a moraine of rubble along the south edge of the cycleway.
Kier Starmer, standing at a lectern in front of the UK and US flags, with subtitles reading "there's a famous slogan in the United Kingdom"
Video from around 19:23 on Thursday 27/11/2025 from a Cycliq Fly12 handlebar camera, showing the Leonardo occupation of the Ferry Road path, including a section where the fence has been moved back out to almost completely block the cycle path so that they can store some sort of vehicle inside the fence overnight. The wet grass verge on the opposite side it already churned by wheels. The apex of the fence as it bulges out around one of the trailery things perfectly coincides with the position of a lamppost. Inside the temporary fence, a trench has been dug alongside most of the stretch of (perfectly reasonable, non-replacement-requiring) former permanent fence, whose panels are mostly gone and whose poles are leaning inwards.
Photo of the extremely narrow section of the Ferry Road path behind Leonardo where they've pushed the temporary fence back out to where it pretty much obstructs the entire path again, especially when it's wet and the grass verge beside the path is already slippy and muddy.
Photo of the tactile slabs on the wee short but it cycleway at the side of Russell Road which links the Roseburn and Sauchiebank-to-west-approach-road path. Two of the slabs are tilted at rest, and wobble when weigh is applied.
Photo of a large hole forming beside a utility access cover on Seafield Road, on the eastbound side, opposite Seafield Street.
Video from a Cycliq Fly21 cycle handlebar camera, showing the NEPN/Ferry Road path through the section at the back of the Leonardo buildings. Leonardo's unnecessary path closure has been reduced, but the path width is still restricted and the VPS security robots have not been moved, so are now on the opposite side of the path from the temporary fence and create pinch points on the remaining path.