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CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Tag: cycle-paths - Recent Topics http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Tag: cycle-paths - Recent Topics en Wed, 13 May 2026 01:47:29 +0000 Ed1 on "How the dutch got their cycle paths." http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13428#post-164966 Sat, 13 Sep 2014 18:33:43 +0000 Ed1 164966@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuBdf9jYj7o" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuBdf9jYj7o</a> How the Dutch got their cycle paths <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmR5t2RELns" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmR5t2RELns</a> <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> A great documentary about Greater London Councils cycling infrastructure improvements in the early 1980s. 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. 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. A report that highlights some of the trends in both cycling and policy. <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> Rosie on "Experimental lit up cycle paths" http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11510#post-130711 Wed, 30 Oct 2013 22:12:16 +0000 Rosie 130711@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ Has anyone seen this? I tried to post the picture, which is spectacular, but couldn't get it to work. Britain Is Experimenting With a Glowing, Seemingly Self-Aware Bike Path Pro-Teq 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. 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. <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> SRD on "Cycling in Zimbabwe" http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=333#post-2498 Wed, 10 Feb 2010 10:16:57 +0000 SRD 2498@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ 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&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Harare,+Mashonaland+East,+Zimbabwe&gl=uk&ei=yHVyS_ypKpn00gTvqcSpCw&ved=0CAsQ8gEwAA&ll=-17.814383,31.068762&spn=0.0026,0.003342&t=h&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&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Harare,+Mashonaland+East,+Zimbabwe&gl=uk&ei=yHVyS_ypKpn00gTvqcSpCw&ved=0CAsQ8gEwAA&ll=-17.813387,31.055764&spn=0.005199,0.006684&t=h&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&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Harare,+Mashonaland+East,+Zimbabwe&gl=uk&ei=yHVyS_ypKpn00gTvqcSpCw&ved=0CAsQ8gEwAA&ll=-17.816757,31.042203&spn=0.005199,0.006684&t=h&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.