BEST Edinburgh

BEST is a network of sustainable travel groups across Edinburgh. We bring together community groups with a shared interest: transforming the way people travel in Edinburgh.

Our work

We want a better Edinburgh.

We want more sustainable travel options.

We want to live in a city that is vibrant, healthy and safe, however you choose to move around it.

We are Better Edinburgh for Sustainable Travel.

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Our members

Hear from our members

• Bus stop: bike goNovember 8, 2022
  Two years ago I couldn’t ride a bike. Okay: I could, probably, just about ride a bike. But I hadn’t owned one in over ten years, and I wasn’t brave enough to cycle in a city anyway. I have poor balance and I am afraid of cycling in close proximity to vehicles.  (Cycling campaigners who…
• Going car free: a journeySeptember 22, 2022
  Stella Thomson Today, Thursday, 22nd September, is worldwide Car Free Day – and it makes me remember when I took my first significant step in that direction.  I can’t remember the actual moment it occurred to me to give up my car and start to cycle to work in the mid 90s, but the idea…
• BEST Deputation on Travelling SafelyAugust 17, 2022
  Transport and Environment Committee 18/08/2022 Item 7.7 Active Travel Measures – Travelling Safely Update Better Edinburgh for Sustainable Transport (BEST) is an alliance of community groups in Edinburgh working for a cleaner, safer, more sustainable, human-centred city. We live here, we work here and we want the best for our city. We are writing to…
• Edinburgh medics call on council to keep active travel measuresSeptember 8, 2021
  More than 140 leading doctors and health professionals in Edinburgh have written an open letter to the City Council supporting the retention and extension of changes to the city’s travel infrastructure. View the press release and letter here. Speaking on behalf of Better Edinburgh for Sustainable Travel, a collective of community groups across Edinburgh that…
• BEST and Spokes Deputation on Travelling SafelyAugust 19, 2021
  This deputation was submitted by BEST and Spokes members in advance of Edinburgh City Council’s Transport and Environment Committee meeting on 19th August 2021, at which we also delivered a verbal deputation Item 7.1. Agenda Paper: Active Travel Measures – Travelling Safely (Formerly Spaces for People) Spokes, with over 1000 members, has campaigned since the…