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  "path": "/2026/06/01/rails-to-trails-the-thread-about-how-north-edinburgh-got-its-cycle-paths/",
  "publishedAt": "2026-06-01T05:30:00.000Z",
  "site": "https://threadinburgh.scot",
  "tags": [
    "20th Century",
    "Broughton to Powderhall",
    "Granton & Pilton",
    "Leisure",
    "Leith",
    "Murrayfield & Roseburn",
    "Transportation",
    "Trinity, Bonnington & Pilrig",
    "Campaigning",
    "Cycle paths",
    "Cycling",
    "Davidson's Mains",
    "Edinburgh",
    "Edinburgh District Council",
    "Local Politics",
    "Lothian Region",
    "Pilton",
    "Railway",
    "Railways",
    "Roseburn",
    "transport"
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  "textContent": "On this day, 40 years ago, a councillor cut the ceremonial ribbon and opened a section of cycle path in north Edinburgh. This was a rather special bit of cycle path however as it hadn't been built by the council. It was built by direct citizen action: over the course of a single week it had been reclaimed from the trackbed of an old railway a group of volunteers. Wind the clock forward four decades and from these humble beginnings has grown a network of almost 20km (12 miles) of such paths in this part of the city. There's a good chance that you've cycled, walked, jogged or otherwise explored them. The credit for this their creation sits almost entirely with the relentless (and often thankless) hard work of a single, slightly anarchic organisation. This thread is the story of how the North Edinburgh Path Network came to be.",
  "title": "Rails to Trails: the thread about how North Edinburgh got its cycle paths"
}