Is Edinburgh's cycling budget making the city better for bikes?

Laura Laker takes to two wheels around the Scottish capital to see how the council’s money is being spent and whether it is making a difference

I’m chasing Kim Harding down a hill. We’re heading from the Royal Mile to Princes Street on the kind of descent one rarely encounters, living as I do in a very flat part of the country.“I love that hill,” he says as we regroup at the traffic lights.

Like Athens and Rome, Edinburgh is built on seven hills, but perhaps more akin to a “lumpy” city like Bristol, those hills don’t deter people from cycling in relatively high numbers by UK standards - 6% of journeys to work and school are by bike, or 2% of all journeys.

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