Sustainable Travel | BioLife | Edinburgh BioQuarter

Edinburgh BioQuarter supports sustainable travel choices and as part of an ongoing project, we are consistently looking at ways to improve access to sustainable travel for staff, patients, tenants and visitors to BioQuarter.

Sustainable travel options include active travel – such as walking, wheeling or cycling – and also making use of public transport and car sharing.

Data on travel demand and behaviour, collected from the 2022 Edinburgh BioQuarter Travel Survey (made available to staff, patients and visitors), assisted in guiding our efforts and investment aimed at improving infrastructure and service provision, and updated our travel planning to better provide for those travelling to BioQuarter.

Active Travel Breakfasts
Active Bingo
Adult Cycle Training – a course of sessions to build confidence on a bicycle, from learning to ride to refreshing on-road cycling skills. Please email for more information.
Love to Ride – join the Edinburgh BioQuarter: Love to Ride team (select ‘Join Club / Group’) and win prizes for logging your cycles throughout the year.
Love to Ride offers a wide range of fun challenges and resources throughout the year, aimed at encouraging and supporting people to incorporate biking into their daily lives.
BioQuarter Trail – launched in August 2022 with QR tokens placed along a landscaped trail on BioQuarter during the summer months.

For future activities, please check back for more information and follow our social media channels.

Walking and Cycling Routes

To encourage more people to travel by bike or on foot for everyday journeys, Edinburgh Council are investing in improving conditions for cycling and walking in and around the city. Explore your options for routes to Edinburgh BioQuarter.

Quiet Route 61 is a quiet route crossing the City Bypass between Roslin and Portobello. This route has been been extended and is now sign posted all the way.

Midlothian has many designated cycleways and walkways. There are many linear and circular routes to explore, some of which act as a link between towns and villages and offer a great variety of landscapes, from the Pentland and Moorfoot Hills to rolling farmland, woodland and river valleys.

Walking is the simplest activity to encourage and promote in the workplace. It fits easily in and around the working day. It’s free. No special equipment is required, and most people can take part. It can also improve mental health – regular walking can reduce your risk of depression and dementia by 20-30%, improve your sleep, and prevent and reduce anxiety and stress.

Little France Park was created by reclaiming unmanaged grassland and carving out a green corridor from Edinburgh city centre to Midlothian, improving the access to quality green spaces for both wildlife and people.

The park is a diverse range of habitats – grassland, hedges, standing water /wetland (part of a flood alleviation scheme), moving watercourses, and woodlands with interpretation panels help to identify local wildlife and the different routes. Biodiversity improvements and activities are ongoing.

CycleStreets is a UK-wide cycle journey planner system, which lets you plan routes from A to B by bike. It is designed by cyclists, for cyclists, and caters for the needs of both confident and less confident cyclists.

Out and About

Edinburgh BioQuarter is ideally located for bus travel from across the city and beyond. BioQuarter has a dedicated bus hub and additional bus stops on site, all served by frequent buses.

Edinburgh’s two mainline railway stations, Waverley and Haymarket, cover the entire UK network. From Edinburgh Waverley, BioQuarter is only a 15-minute bus journey.

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