http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Tag: cycle-paths - Recent Posts en Wed, 13 May 2026 01:45:42 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13428#post-279763 Sun, 08 Apr 2018 22:23:31 +0000 LaidBack 279763@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Things get bit heated on the video.<br /> While the guy was out of his VW combi looking for a fight they should have taken the keys and slammed the door.</p> <p>Static vehicles make a very effective barrier and make it unattractive to other drivers. Vehicles also 'respected' more than mere signage. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13428#post-279758 Sun, 08 Apr 2018 21:47:53 +0000 chdot 279758@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Another video, really quite impressive -</p> <p><img src="https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/875/40623704344_9000ca1c43.jpg"></p> <p><img src="https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/793/27465294138_1715a78863.jpg"></p> <p><a href="https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YY6PQAI4TZE" rel="nofollow">https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YY6PQAI4TZE</a></p> <p>.</p> <p>From <a href="https://bicycledutch.wordpress.com/2013/12/12/amsterdam-children-fighting-cars-in-1972/" rel="nofollow">https://bicycledutch.wordpress.com/2013/12/12/amsterdam-children-fighting-cars-in-1972/</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13428#post-164968 Sat, 13 Sep 2014 19:12:10 +0000 chdot 164968@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"Whatever someone’s politics it is interesting to imagine where UK cycling policy may have been today if the cycling unit and "Livingston's" GLC had not been abolished in 1986."</p> <p>Indeed. </p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/chdot/11370336073/"><img src="https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5520/11370336073_c0071ccda5.jpg"></a><br /> <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/chdot/11370336073/">Ken Livingstone 1984 Velo-City London</a></p> <p>"</p> <p>1984 was the height of Ken Livingstone’s first shot in charge of London - the era of Fare’s Fair and battles between a Tory government and Red Ken’s GLC.</p> <p>"</p> <p><a href="http://www.spokes.org.uk/oldsite/news79b.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.spokes.org.uk/oldsite/news79b.htm</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13428#post-164966 Sat, 13 Sep 2014 18:33:43 +0000 Ed1 164966@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuBdf9jYj7o" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuBdf9jYj7o</a></p> <p>How the Dutch got their cycle paths</p> <p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmR5t2RELns" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmR5t2RELns</a></p> <p><a href="http://www.ctc.org.uk/blog/chris-peck/cycling-in-london-30-years-ago" rel="nofollow">http://www.ctc.org.uk/blog/chris-peck/cycling-in-london-30-years-ago</a></p> <p>A great documentary about Greater London Councils cycling infrastructure improvements in the early 1980s. </p> <p>Covers policy, implementation and vision. Whatever someone’s politics it is interesting to imagine where UK cycling policy may have been today if the cycling unit and "Livingston's" GLC had not been abolished in 1986. </p> <p>Although Boris Johnston and the GLA is doing good work from the Superhighways to "Boris bikes" what happened in the early 1980s must have been quite ground breaking at the time if the momentum had been maintained cycling infrastructure may have been much enhanced today.</p> <p>A report that highlights some of the trends in both cycling and policy.</p> <p><a href="http://rachelaldred.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/cycling-review1.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://rachelaldred.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/cycling-review1.pdf</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11510#post-131157 Sat, 02 Nov 2013 10:48:04 +0000 Rosie 131157@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I agree that there should be other priorities. But it would be nice if there was some kind of fairyland cycle path area in places. Private leisure places like Center Parcs might introduce them. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11510#post-131060 Fri, 01 Nov 2013 13:17:26 +0000 neddie 131060@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I agree the magic crystals look nice :)</p> <p>However, what we need is infrastructure that is functional &amp; works (and not fluff/chocolate teapots/toe-warmers etc.)</p> <p>Please don't encourage the council to spend the precious cycle budget on 'nice to haves'</p> <p>IMO, the LED lights on the towpath are a total waste of the cycle budget - they only encourage cyclists to go faster than they should. The council only put them in because it was easier to spend the money there than do something "difficult" like a (low-cost) segregated route along Russell Rd for example... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11510#post-131055 Fri, 01 Nov 2013 12:10:58 +0000 kaputnik 131055@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>pathside reflective studs / catseyes would be a good idea. Too much foliage cover on much of the path network to make solar viable I would think? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11510#post-131041 Fri, 01 Nov 2013 11:40:48 +0000 PS 131041@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>At about £160 per sq metre to lay, and be thwarted by the autumnal leave drop!</em></p> <p>It might add some incentive for the Council to sweep the paths a bit more. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11510#post-131034 Fri, 01 Nov 2013 10:35:08 +0000 cycletrain 131034@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>At about £160 per sq metre to lay, and be thwarted by the autumnal leave drop! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11510#post-130986 Thu, 31 Oct 2013 22:04:17 +0000 DaveC 130986@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Currently this would be no good as 90% of the paths I ride on are covered in leaves. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11510#post-130963 Thu, 31 Oct 2013 20:57:38 +0000 Focus 130963@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"Hamish Scott".</p> <p>He's clearly Scottish! ;-) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11510#post-130957 Thu, 31 Oct 2013 20:43:30 +0000 Rosie 130957@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>A New Zealand friend on Facebook pointed out this was invented by a NZer:-</p> <p><a href="http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/world/9312333/Expats-invention-trialled-in-England" rel="nofollow">http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/world/9312333/Expats-invention-trialled-in-England</a></p> <p> Cambridge City Council in England is testing a glow-in-the-dark coating for paths and roads that has been designed by Kiwi expat Hamish Scott.</p> <p>The trial, on a 150-metre path in Cambridge's Victorian-era Christ's Pieces park, has garnered big publicity in Britain. The Telegraph newspaper said it could be "the future of street lighting".</p> <p>Scott, 51, grew up in Otaki, north of Wellington, before migrating to England aged 29.</p> <p>He spent five years and millions of dollars developing the coating, which he has called Starpath, after selling his company in Britain that distributed playground mats made by Kiwi firm Matta Products. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11510#post-130940 Thu, 31 Oct 2013 20:21:39 +0000 Nelly 130940@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I want one.........just after the cooncil fix all the other pseudo cycling infra on my commute - although maybe they should be charging me for perfecting my "jesus not another mahoosive pothole" bunny hops </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11510#post-130934 Thu, 31 Oct 2013 19:48:41 +0000 cycletrain 130934@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Aren't there solar powered road studs on the canal path? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11510#post-130744 Thu, 31 Oct 2013 05:26:52 +0000 Focus 130744@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Why not indeed? It would certainly be preferable to nothing, and a bit harder for the neds to damage compared to smashing street lights, though I'm sure they'd give it a go. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11510#post-130742 Thu, 31 Oct 2013 01:45:30 +0000 i 130742@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>What about installing some cat eyes on the edge of the path? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11510#post-130717 Wed, 30 Oct 2013 22:28:07 +0000 Focus 130717@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Looks nice, tough I'd wonder about not being able to see ned-distributed glass on it!</p> <p>It would probably be sufficient just to put the special mix in at the edge of a path, in the same sort of way the lights are on the canal tow path (which I'd like to see in other places.</p> <p>As for the article: "In a weird feature, it can somehow adjust its brightness levels similar to the screen of an iPhone" So, like pretty much <em>any</em> make and model of phone these days? So much Apple-obsession in the media. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11510#post-130711 Wed, 30 Oct 2013 22:12:16 +0000 Rosie 130711@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Has anyone seen this? I tried to post the picture, which is spectacular, but couldn't get it to work.</p> <p>Britain Is Experimenting With a Glowing, Seemingly Self-Aware Bike Path Pro-Teq</p> <p>The spectral blue glow emitted from this British bike path looks like it should be pulsing off of magic crystals inside some miles-deep cavern. But if it saves a rider from road rash or fractured bones, then more power to the folks who made it: Let's get even more parts of the cycle infrastructure lit up like Marie Curie's lab table.</p> <p>The so-called "Starpath" is a type of solar-enhanced liquid and aggregate made by Pro-Teq Surfacing, a company headquartered southwest of London near the awesomely titled town of Staines-upon-Thames. It's in the prototype phase, with a test path running 460 feet in a Cambridge park called Christ's Pieces. (The British and their delightful names!) The material works by absorbing UV rays during the day and later releasing them as topaz light. In a weird feature, it can somehow adjust its brightness levels similar to the screen of an iPhone; the path gets dimmer on pitch-black nights "almost like it has a mind of its own," says Pro-Teq's owner, Hamish Scott.</p> <p><a href="http://www.theatlanticcities.com/commute/2013/10/britain-experimenting-glowing-seemingly-self-aware-bike-path/7413/#.UnE-LxMZObE.facebook" rel="nofollow">http://www.theatlanticcities.com/commute/2013/10/britain-experimenting-glowing-seemingly-self-aware-bike-path/7413/#.UnE-LxMZObE.facebook</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=333#post-2517 Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:22:00 +0000 SRD 2517@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Normally I stay in Avondale, but have stayed in Greendale, Milton Park, Meyrick park, Highlands (that's when I met the riot police), Emerald Hill, Hatfield, Kambuzuma and several bits of Avenues (Baines/chinamano and nr Fife ave shops)...I think that's all of them.... NOT Borrowdale. the old bits of Highlands are nice; Borrowdale has no soul. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=333#post-2516 Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:13:09 +0000 Kim 2516@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>So you were slumming it in Borrowdale then? ;-) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=333#post-2498 Wed, 10 Feb 2010 10:16:57 +0000 SRD 2498@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Okay, this is a slight diversion from Edinburgh, but it is 'citycycling'. On an earlier thread we discussed the case of cyclist who was charged with dangerous riding (??!! something like that) for riding on the road, instead of an off-road cycle-path. Something in the thread on gears then reminded me of my cycling days in Harare - nice fairly flat city, very temperate climate, wide roads perfect for cycling - when I rode a 1 speed old-style 'messenger' bike and a 5 speed girls bike (wish I had pictures). Anyway, that reminded me of the day I was cycling leisurely downhill into town on a quiet Sunday morning, eschewing the wide, <a href="http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=harare+map&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;hq=&amp;hnear=Harare,+Mashonaland+East,+Zimbabwe&amp;gl=uk&amp;ei=yHVyS_ypKpn00gTvqcSpCw&amp;ved=0CAsQ8gEwAA&amp;ll=-17.814383,31.068762&amp;spn=0.0026,0.003342&amp;t=h&amp;z=18">paved off-road cycle path</a> because it was broken up by side roads and driveways, only to have a crowd of riot police in a bus start waving batons and shouting at me to get off the road. My reaction was to laugh at them, but perhaps that was not most sensible reaction (but this was 1996, and the riot police weren't particularly respected then). Luckily their bus kept going with the flow of traffic and left me leisurely riding along. I took the heavily armed guys outside the president's residence a bit more seriously when my bike pedal fell off as I accelerated into<a href="http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=harare+map&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;hq=&amp;hnear=Harare,+Mashonaland+East,+Zimbabwe&amp;gl=uk&amp;ei=yHVyS_ypKpn00gTvqcSpCw&amp;ved=0CAsQ8gEwAA&amp;ll=-17.813387,31.055764&amp;spn=0.005199,0.006684&amp;t=h&amp;z=17"> the intersection </a>. I was pretty banged up, and the traffic is heavy, and I pulled the bike out of the way and pleaded and pleaded with one of them to go get the pedal...eventually I think I got it myself, and limped off. The word was that if you stopped near there, you'd be shot, so I was a wee bit concerned. Anyway, in the googlemap images, the jacarandas are fading, but have a look <a href="http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=harare+map&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;hq=&amp;hnear=Harare,+Mashonaland+East,+Zimbabwe&amp;gl=uk&amp;ei=yHVyS_ypKpn00gTvqcSpCw&amp;ved=0CAsQ8gEwAA&amp;ll=-17.816757,31.042203&amp;spn=0.005199,0.006684&amp;t=h&amp;z=17">here </a>for one of the best routes into town -- wide road, with paths on either side (under canopy). Of course, most cyclists in Harare live much further out than this in the former townships, and don't cycle by choice, but I'd still recommend it. </p>