http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Tag: Edinburgh University - Recent Posts en Tue, 28 Apr 2026 20:09:21 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10018#post-108648 Thu, 25 Apr 2013 09:11:42 +0000 chdot 108648@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"The roadshow organised by the City of Edinburgh Council's Road Safety Team"</p> <p>Seems they need to talk to some of their staff -</p> <p><a href="http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3748&amp;page=36#post-108208" rel="nofollow">http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3748&amp;page=36#post-108208</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10018#post-108647 Thu, 25 Apr 2013 09:03:52 +0000 SRD 108647@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Today!</p> <p>(nice that they passed along the blog link i sent them :) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10018#post-108603 Wed, 24 Apr 2013 17:25:30 +0000 cc 108603@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"<br /> (Edinburgh) University is hosting a roadshow tomorrow to highlight a very important road safety message to cyclists about avoiding being caught in the blind spot of large vehicles. The roadshow organised by the City of Edinburgh Council's Road Safety Team will be between 11am and 2pm, by Bristo Square. With the help of a 20 tonne lorry (which will be stationary!) cyclists will be invited to sit in the driver's seat to experience first-hand just how extensive the blind spot of a heavy goods vehicle is. I understand there will also be bike related freebies!</p> <p>Please spread this message far and wide to encourage as much participation as possible.</p> <p>I was recently sent the link to this blog, which includes some life-saving advice on this topic:</p> <p><a href="http://ibikelondon.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/advice-for-us-all-cycling-safely-with.html">http://ibikelondon.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/advice-for-us-all-cycling-safely-with.html</a><br /> " </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=7913#post-79753 Sun, 29 Jul 2012 09:45:46 +0000 cc 79753@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>After a bit of a hunt I've discovered some plans for the work that's being done at the corner of the King's Buildings campus, where Mayfield Road and West Mains Road meet at the traffic lights.</p> <p>The project is called <a href="http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/science-engineering/news-events/kb-gateway">The King's Buildings Gateway</a>. Apparently somebody has finally noticed that this corner is the main pedestrian entrance/exit to the campus, and has decided that it should look like a main entrance, instead of like a hedge.</p> <p>There's a link from that page to a diagram of what the redesigned corner is going to look like. There's also a link to a wider site all about the <a href="http://www.kingsbuildings.org.uk/">King's Buildings Public Realm and Landscape Strategy</a>, which touches on cycling in several places. I was pleased to see that it proposes to have pedestrian and cycle routes criss-crossing the campus. This seems like progress - when I worked there lots of paths were marked NO CYCLING. The site also has a rather architecty picture of the new entrance corner.</p> <p>There's also a mention somewhere there of the toucan crossing which the council is going to install soon at that corner, apparently to provide a diagonal route across the crossroads to link the (dare I say it, glamorous) new KB entrance with the QBC. I tried to find more about this in the council's site but got lost in a maze of twisty little pages, all alike. Can anyone point us to more detail? </p>