Safe routes campaigners back Fountainbridge travel scheme

Safe routes campaigners have backed active travel proposals for Edinburgh's Dundee Street and Fountainbridge and labelled critics of the plans "Nimbys".

- by Ian Swanson

A rendering of how the junction of Fountainbridge and Gardner's Crescent, on the right, would look with the new cycle lane

The scheme aims to create an attractive alternative route for cyclists who currently use the increasingly congested Union Canal towpath.