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@nigelbagshaw

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Translator specialising in all things Central and East European (other than espionage). Sustainable transport campaigner and former Green councillor.

Edinburgh, Berlin
Joined November 2010
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@nigelbagshaw
Nigel Bagshaw
2 years
Not since my days in the Soviet Union have I witnessed what I have experienced from the @BBCNews today. Off the scale.
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Nigel Bagshaw
11 months
As of today I am the proud owner of a Deutschland ticket. It costs €49 (about £44) for one month and lets me travel on ALL public and regional transport throughout Germany. Imagine that in the UK!
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Nigel Bagshaw
2 years
This is abject drivel. I was born and brought up in England and two of my children live there. We would all vote for independence tomorrow.
@bbcdebatenight
BBC Debate Night
2 years
“This union between Scotland and England, which has lasted over 300 years, is greater than any passing politician” Discussing the vote of confidence, Scottish Conservatives’ @realStephenkerr says the union is greater than a “mere calculation” and all about “kith and kin”. #bbcdn
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Nigel Bagshaw
3 years
Does it never occur to some @ScotTories that many thousands of us who were born in England are passionate supporters of Scottish independence?
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Nigel Bagshaw
11 months
In Berlin I take my deposit bottles back to the shop and get my 8 cents back on each one. The system here has been in operation for decades. It really isn’t rocket science.
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Nigel Bagshaw
3 years
So this is how it works - you don’t vote were you were born, you vote where you live. Pretty straightforward really
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Nigel Bagshaw
2 years
There seems to be a regressive alliance forming in Edinburgh. At least I now know who to put at the very bottom of the ballot paper together with the Tories.
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Nigel Bagshaw
6 months
Finally, some acknowledgement in #Edinburgh that the only way to stop motorists driving everywhere is to physically stop them.
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Nigel Bagshaw
6 years
As of today Berliners wanting to buy a cargo bike can get a grant of up to one thousand euros from the city as the council believes bikes are an enviromentally friendly alternative to the car.
@tagesschau
tagesschau
6 years
Berliner, die ein #Lastenrad kaufen möchten, können sich dafür ab heute bis zu 1.000 Euro Zuschuss von der Stadt holen. Aus Sicht der Verkehrsverwaltung sind die Räder eine umweltfreundliche Alternative zum Auto.
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Nigel Bagshaw
2 years
Your regular reminder that this electric vehicle can carry 245 more passengers than a Tesla.
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Nigel Bagshaw
2 years
Why do we need trams, they say
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Nigel Bagshaw
6 years
This sort of comment worries me, Alex. I’m English-born and raised and passionately pro-Indy but I don’t equate all pro-Union extremists with all pro-Union voters and think you doing the opposite diminishes you.
@agcolehamilton
Alex Cole-Hamilton MSP🔶🇺🇦
6 years
This is the same civic, inclusive #indyref movement which repeatedly castigates my English origins, flips out about flags on strawberry boxes and smashes up tea cakes with a hammer, yes?
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Nigel Bagshaw
2 years
No Spaces for People, no bus lanes, no cycle ways. So what’s the real cause of congestion in cities? #Stockbridge but could be anywhere.
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Nigel Bagshaw
3 years
#Stockbridge I think we have a winner
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Nigel Bagshaw
2 years
The Shore in #Leith is grand, but it’s like having a drink in a car park. Are we still no nearer to pedestrianising this street?
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Nigel Bagshaw
3 months
Not only do parking fees need to rise, the parking spaces themselves need to be steadily removed over time.
@thecockburn
Cockburn Association (The Edinburgh Civic Trust)
3 months
Edinburgh parking fees set to rise by 20% under new plans
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Nigel Bagshaw
5 years
'Tax on worship' in the same way as me paying for a bus to Tynecastle is 'tax on football fans' or paying for a train ticket to Yorkshire is 'tax on sons visiting their parents'. Why does parking have to be free for motorists but everyone else has to pay?
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Nigel Bagshaw
11 months
@MontyGeoff You wait till see how roads are funded.
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Nigel Bagshaw
4 months
Picardy Place, #Edinburgh , as grim as planned.
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Nigel Bagshaw
2 years
In #Edinburgh you can always spot the odd, unconventional driver sticking to the 20 mph speed limit by the long convoy of irate drivers behind them.
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Nigel Bagshaw
1 year
How have we created an environment where so many drivers’ sense of entitlement knows no bounds? (see also Leith Walk, Edinburgh, amongst others)
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Nigel Bagshaw
1 year
This is precisely what Scotland needs to do, and now. To do anything else is to divert transport spending away from where it is actually needed and lock us further into a dysfunctional, high-carbon future.
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Nigel Bagshaw
4 months
“The mayor of Paris is determined to turn her city from a car park to a place worth living in.” No reason why #Edinburgh and other Scottish cities couldn’t do the same.
@AlejandroCence2
Alejandro Cencerrado
4 months
La alcaldesa de París está empeñada en convertir su ciudad de un parking de coches a un lugar en el que merece la pena vivir.
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Nigel Bagshaw
10 months
I really struggle with these unquestioning levels of servility and sycophancy.
@Edinburgh_CC
The City of Edinburgh Council
10 months
Thousands of people lined the Royal Mile today as King Charles III was presented with the Honours of Scotland at a National Service of Thanksgiving at St Giles' Cathedral. This was followed by an @rafredarrows fly past ✈️ Find out more here:
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Nigel Bagshaw
2 years
That would finish Labour in Edinburgh for ever
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Nigel Bagshaw
3 years
Will be such an improvement when the cycle lane is replaced with parking. Will certainly improve congestion, air quality and emergency service access
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Nigel Bagshaw
2 years
Edinburgh - Berlin 14.5 hours. Older person’s Interrail, low carbon. Fuel: green electricity, Spotify and Grauburgunder. A blast - try it.
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Nigel Bagshaw
5 years
I challenge anyone in Scotland to watch #bbcqt on #Brexit and explain how on any level we’re #bettertogether
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Nigel Bagshaw
9 months
Will no one think of the drivers? They clearly need the pavement more than pedestrians and wheelchair users.
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Nigel Bagshaw
5 months
Funny how this keeps happening in a 20-mph zone. Perhaps if there were some enforcement it would be less common? #QueensferryStreet #Edinburgh
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@nigelbagshaw
Nigel Bagshaw
6 years
"Republic of Scotland" has such a fine ring to it
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Nigel Bagshaw
8 months
Edinburgh - Newcastle - Amsterdam - Berlin. No plane, no stress. Train, ferry, train. Lunchtime day one until teatime day two. Prices from £180 depending on time of travel. Nice.
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Nigel Bagshaw
3 years
No evidence, no understanding of changed knowledge about parking and local shop footfall. When I see this in a shop I just want to go elsewhere.
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Nigel Bagshaw
4 years
Can we not just pedestrianise places like #Stockbridge and make them safer?
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Nigel Bagshaw
2 years
What’s worse, letting down a few tyres or making a significant contribution to climate change and pollution?
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Nigel Bagshaw
1 year
Train trumps car.
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Nigel Bagshaw
3 years
Still the case
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Nigel Bagshaw
11 months
Today I used my £44 a month Deutschland ticket on a ferry across the Elbe and a tram through the forest. Tomorrow it’ll take me on two regional trains back to Berlin. If it can be done in Germany, it can be done anywhere.
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Nigel Bagshaw
2 years
Where in UK or Scottish transport legislation does it stipulate that ‘traffic flow’ must take precedence above all else? Asking for some elected representatives and officers.
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Nigel Bagshaw
3 years
Finally, a solution that will be acceptable to the residents of Edinburgh's New Town and beyond (see also bins)
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Nigel Bagshaw
9 months
I was born and brought up in England. I have no idea what this person is talking about. #ScottishIndependence
@PennyMordaunt
Penny Mordaunt
9 months
Reflecting on my visit to Scotland this weekend. We often hear rational arguments for the merits of union based on our shared prosperity and security. While correct, they miss the most important thing. It is family. A shared culture, history and endeavour. It’s in our poems, in…
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Time moves on, some people do not. No doubt the man made a significant contribution to Green politics in Scotland, but his conservative, establishment attitudes clearly don’t reflect those of the party at large.
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Nigel Bagshaw
2 years
Yes, there's a huge 'you just had one job' vibe about this, but as ever the problem is trying to squeeze too many jobs into the same limited space. Too much of that space is still being given over to cars and parking.
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Nigel Bagshaw
1 year
Language is important: “Pedestrian hit by cyclist” (correct) but always “pedestrian hit by car” (not driver) (as ever I hope the injured person is ok)
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@nigelbagshaw
Nigel Bagshaw
3 years
Sad remnants of Edinburgh’s bike hire scheme - that didn’t last long
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@nigelbagshaw
Nigel Bagshaw
3 years
So why do local authorities pander to the minority that don’t?
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Nigel Bagshaw
2 years
Apart from #Edinburgh , obviously.
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@nigelbagshaw
Nigel Bagshaw
5 years
@seatsixtyone This will make more people outside London and the South East fly to continental Europe with the resulting impact on climate emissions.
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@nigelbagshaw
Nigel Bagshaw
6 months
What evidence is there that parking charges destroy high streets? And no, a feeling in your water doesn’t count.
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Nigel Bagshaw
4 years
Can we stop endless consulting on the bleeding obviously and actually take action to protect people
@EdinReporter
Edinburgh Reporter
4 years
Cyclist in hospital with life-threatening injuries following crash with van
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Nigel Bagshaw
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Paris Votes To Triple Parking Charges For SUVs - you listening #Edinburgh ?
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Nigel Bagshaw
3 years
@agcolehamilton Any evidence for this statement, Alex, or are you just making things up?
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Nigel Bagshaw
3 months
"No one will use them", they said - well they were clearly wrong. Trams need to form the core of the city's transport network.
@EdinburghTrams
Edinburgh Trams
3 months
Customer numbers have more than 𝐝𝐨𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐞𝐝 since opening to Newhaven last year! 🚊9.3m customer journeys were recorded in 2023, compared to 4.8m in 2022. 🚊August was our busiest month when 1.2m trips were recorded. Read more here ➡️
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Nigel Bagshaw
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"Life is intensely better with fewer cars around. We have the proof now that when the surroundings are safer, people will cycle. The challenge now is to not slip backwards ..."
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@nigelbagshaw
Nigel Bagshaw
3 years
Top messaging from ⁦ @DreadnoughtPub
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Nigel Bagshaw
4 years
I'm concerned Edinburgh Council are using the Covid crisis to improve city living, public health and climate emissions. This madness has to stop.
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Nigel Bagshaw
2 years
Precisely what #Edinburgh needs. You’re not going to get anywhere near meeting the city’s transport and climate challenges without a proper tram network
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Nigel Bagshaw
1 year
Increased car dependency, traffic levels and emissions all in one project. How can we start to address climate chaos, when some people refuse to accept even the basics of planning and transport.
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@nigelbagshaw
Nigel Bagshaw
2 years
How do you make a residential city street 100x more pleasant? Block it off to motorised through traffic. Preferably forever.
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Nigel Bagshaw
3 years
Don’t want to spoil your Saturday, but this
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@nigelbagshaw
Nigel Bagshaw
2 years
Precisely
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Nigel Bagshaw
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@PlasFron Imagine the taxpayer subsidy to fund the motorway network!
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Nigel Bagshaw
1 year
Welcome to Hell
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Nigel Bagshaw
2 years
Simple: nowhere to park.
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Nigel Bagshaw
3 years
And Range Rovers add to the character of the New Town?
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Nigel Bagshaw
3 years
Remember folks, there is no magic money tree
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Nigel Bagshaw
4 years
There must be a better phrase than “elevated to” the House of Lords. “slithered into”? “dumped into”? “corrupted into”? Has to be something more fitting
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@nigelbagshaw
Nigel Bagshaw
4 months
No excuses for flying to London.
@edinburghpaper
Edinburgh Evening News
4 months
LNER to cut Edinburgh-London journey times to four hours
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The city’s bus service would operate much more effectively if entitled (SUV) drivers didn’t park in bus stops and there was even the remotest possibility they might get booked.
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Nigel Bagshaw
2 months
Is the penny finally dropping? - Edinburgh council boosts number of attendants amid pavement parking crackdown
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Nigel Bagshaw
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Clearly taking a few minutes longer to drive somewhere will destroy lives and businesses. More gas and wind from an all-too-familiar source.
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Nigel Bagshaw
2 years
Some bits of Edinburgh are just quietly stunning #Stockbridge
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Nigel Bagshaw
4 years
Friendly, you say
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@nigelbagshaw
Nigel Bagshaw
2 years
How about we “bin the cars” first?
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Nigel Bagshaw
3 years
Ya beauty! Segregated cycle lanes being put in. Viva Spaces for People!
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Nigel Bagshaw
3 years
This level of ignorance about how traffic and demand work is just alarming.
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Nigel Bagshaw
10 months
1970s Amsterdam. Some cities acknowledge a problem and make radical changes. Others consult to avoid it. #Edinburgh
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Nigel Bagshaw
10 months
Road just over the Dean Bridge in Edinburgh has been closed for 18 months, now leaving residents only 1 car exit/entrance. Environment is much better + forecast problems never came. Elsewhere in town ‘concerned residents’ bravely campaign against similar measures.
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Nigel Bagshaw
2 years
Tough on potholes, not so tough on the cause of potholes.
@ScottishLabour
Scottish Labour
2 years
Scotland deserves transport systems built for the future - not roads left crumbling by 15 years of SNP neglect.
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3 years
Ghent did it, Birmingham is doing it, and Edinburgh and Glasgow should be urgently working on it.
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Nigel Bagshaw
3 years
Waverley Steps, anyone?
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@nigelbagshaw
Nigel Bagshaw
4 years
This, a thousand times over. True of #Sheriffhall , true of everywhere
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Nigel Bagshaw
2 years
Yet for the sake of the car, this fact is largely ignored.
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Nigel Bagshaw
4 years
Do this #Edinburgh , do it. Save pedestrians’ and cyclists’ lives, improve public health and cut climate emissions
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Nigel Bagshaw
1 year
Trams, pedestrians and no cars. As it should be, in every city centre. #G örlitz
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Nigel Bagshaw
3 years
This is Sicily - no worries. Buy an electric car and “offset” your flights, everything will be fine
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Nigel Bagshaw
3 years
Look Edinburgh, it's all joined up
@GlasgowCC
Glasgow City Council
3 years
A plan for a Glasgow-wide network of active travel infrastructure has been unveiled. 🚶 🚴‍🦽 The plan will add 270 km of cycle ways & improved footways to the existing network. Most parts of city will become reachable by bike in 30 minutes. More 👉
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Nigel Bagshaw
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Imagine this sort of urban hell here
@TimMacAndErny
Tim Mc Inerney
3 years
Paris, 9th arrondissement. These miniature gardens used to be car parking spaces until a few years ago. The city reclaimed them, and replanted them with fruit trees and flowering shrubs 🌱
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Nigel Bagshaw
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@Edinburgh_CC ⁩ did this recently and some residents were furious. The sky is still where it was.
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