http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Tag: Dumfries - Recent Posts en Sun, 17 May 2026 16:53:40 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=21907#post-383688 Thu, 26 Mar 2026 18:07:53 +0000 MediumDave 383688@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>A game you say?</p> <p><a href="https://www.bikeradar.com/advice/fitness-and-training/bikeradars-guide-to-silly-commuting-racing" rel="nofollow">https://www.bikeradar.com/advice/fitness-and-training/bikeradars-guide-to-silly-commuting-racing</a></p> <p>(Food chain number 4 or 5 depending on the bike**) </p> <p>** though I was possibly a 3 during COVID with a nicely cleaned fixie and also doing duties as "Bike Messenger of the Apocalypse" delivering webcams and assorted IT gubbins around Edinburgh to newly WFH staff. There was nobody much to race in town though </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=21907#post-383676 Thu, 26 Mar 2026 13:59:52 +0000 Arellcat 383676@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>100% Morningsider. I motorbiked to work yesterday when I could have cycled, because of drivists, and because of drivists-in-long roadworks.</p> <p>@neddie, hopefully you don't just get a flashing "GAME OVER" screen when you run out of lives.</p> <p>Argyll and Bute Council seems to have the bit between its teeth though, with several notices for "Developed and Technical Design" for active travel routes in Rothesay, Helensburgh-Dumbarton, Rosneath and Campbeltown. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=21907#post-383675 Thu, 26 Mar 2026 13:59:11 +0000 Morningsider 383675@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Two issues with ideas like 'gamification'. </p> <p>1. There is no evidence that it gets more people cycling.<br /> 2. Cycling is already fun - people choose not to cycle because it is dangerous or unpleasent to do so, not because the activity itself isn't enjoyable. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=21907#post-383673 Thu, 26 Mar 2026 13:47:13 +0000 neddie 383673@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Will they also include bonus points for getting killed by an SUV, because councils haven't designed safe streets? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=21907#post-383670 Thu, 26 Mar 2026 12:52:22 +0000 Arellcat 383670@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I happened to be browsing Public Contracts Scotland, and came across this advertisement for "active travel gamification".</p> <p><blockquote>We would like to understand what the market currently offers in the way gamification that encourages active travel by turning a town into a game where the objective is to visit designated locations by active means on an ongoing basis with options for multiple prize periods.</p> <p>The game shall provide a public facing website / app that provides leader boards and records individual progress and allows registration and collection of health, demographic and travel metrics for monitoring and evaluation purposes.</p> <p>Arrival at designated points of interest shall be recorded and uploaded to the appropriate dashboards automatically and the recording of arrival be by RFID or other or other electronic means.</blockquote></p> <p><a href="https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/search/show/search_view.aspx?ID=OCT542167" rel="nofollow">https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/search/show/search_view.aspx?ID=OCT542167</a></p> <p>Perhaps I'm getting a bit too old and cynical for gamification ideas, but perhaps the younger generation will like it. I liked Love to Ride at first but endless "you're doing awesome" feels hollow when there's no real incentive other than one's own fitness. If there was free pizza though...!</p> <p>I can't even get my own work to support a bike breakfast "because too many non-cyclists would use it too", and the solution thus far has been Bring Your Own Coffee. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3069#post-32470 Mon, 30 May 2011 16:11:05 +0000 crowriver 32470@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Is there a big problem with congestion in Dumfries? Or is this just about folk at the council planning department having nothing better to do than dream up road schemes? Where will the pedestrians go?</p> <p>Maybe a councillor was held upfor a minute or two by an elderly lady driver popping into the the post office, and became so incandescent with rage that demands were issued to the planners and the roads dept.? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3069#post-32465 Mon, 30 May 2011 15:21:12 +0000 cb 32465@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Dumfries has had the occasional mention on here. I think one or two CCErs know the town quite well? Wonder what their thoughts are?</p> <p><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-south-scotland-13575389">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-south-scotland-13575389</a></p> <p>"A series of options for tackling traffic congestion in southern Dumfries is to go out to public consultation."</p> <p>"Nine of the 16 proposals involve altering existing roads to create additional lanes and improve traffic flow.</p> <p>They range in price from £4,500 to £58,000.</p> <p>The options include widening St Michael Street to accommodate two new lanes and sacrificing one of the pedestrian footways on St Michael's Bridge to create another additional carriageway."</p> <p>We were in Dumfries a couple of weekends ago. It wasn't particularly busy when we were there. It <em>was</em> windy and rainy and I don't recall seeing too many cyclists.</p> <p>I did see one of the stands for the Dumfries Cycle Hire scheme. None of the bikes were 'out', a few had been toppled over, presumably by the wind. No sign of nay vandalism though. </p>