http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Tag: haymarket - Recent Posts en Mon, 18 May 2026 23:02:19 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15480#post-200044 Mon, 28 Sep 2015 10:11:57 +0000 Dave 200044@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>As a generalisation, the south of Edinburgh is nice to live in, but terrible for cycling whereas the north, north-west and north-east have quite a decent continuous path layout considering. I rented/owned in Marchmont / Newington / Sciennes for many years, but if I had my time again I wouldn't. Depends on priorities as always. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15480#post-200039 Mon, 28 Sep 2015 09:53:08 +0000 geordiefatbloke 200039@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Not sure if someone else has mentioned or but espc.com is the main site for buying/selling property in Edinburgh and it has a rental section so you may get some more choices there? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15480#post-200004 Sun, 27 Sep 2015 19:40:38 +0000 rob_88_rover 200004@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Thanks for everyones reply, its very kind of you.</p> <p>Im still in the very early stages of planning (i dont even have a start date yet!) but your advivce here will be very useful to me as i attempt to settle in to Edinburgh.</p> <p>thanks again</p> <p>Bob </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15480#post-199719 Wed, 23 Sep 2015 19:53:07 +0000 kaputnik 199719@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Dalry, Gorgie, Leith, Saughton, Stenhouse, Slateford... I think you'll probably be able to find somewhere fairly nice 1-bed at that sort of price. </p> <p>If you take yourself out of the city centre a little bit and away from the des res areas such as Stockbridge, Bruntsfield, Marchmont, Grange, Murrayfield, Roseburn you'll find the prices drop a wee bit. There are a couple of other train stations around, some may have a tram stop or good bus routes nearby. It's worth considering not being too set on vicinity to Haymarket.</p> <p>Edinburgh's pretty compact for walking and even more so when you get your bearings on the bike. Worth looking in areas near the main bike paths as you'll be surprised just how quickly you'll find yourself in the city centre or near Haymarket.</p> <p>By "Edinburgh Business Park" do you mean Edinburgh Park? there's the station there and at South Gyle and former is fairly near tram (although not too near housing). Consider looking at the bus map or tram route and working back along it through housing areas? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15480#post-199717 Wed, 23 Sep 2015 19:34:17 +0000 SRD 199717@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>A nice one bed in Leith does, so would think one in Dalry or Slateford would too. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15480#post-199712 Wed, 23 Sep 2015 19:06:02 +0000 gembo 199712@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I hope one bed flat in Dalry comes within that bracket? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15480#post-199709 Wed, 23 Sep 2015 18:40:05 +0000 mogwai1375 199709@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Congrats on the job!</p> <p>I've personally found the rental market very competitive - it's not unusual for flats to be let within days of being posted, especially July-October, when students are looking for places to stay. I've always used a combination of rightmove, citylets, and gumtree when looking for flats. Gumtree is espcially good if you prefer private landlords (as I do - I've got cats, and they're easier to negotiate with than agencies).</p> <p>Regarding your price, I haven't lived in Haymarket myself (I've done Old Town, Cannonmills, and various bits of Leith), but £550 seems just about doable. It may not be enough to get you a nice place, however - the flats I've stayed in that were comparable in price were either fairly run down, downright awful, or full of the owner's attempts at DIY (in one memorable case, the toilet would tilt forward alarmingly whenever sat on).</p> <p>That said, ymmv. I'm sure others have had different experiences. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15480#post-199707 Wed, 23 Sep 2015 18:30:56 +0000 rob_88_rover 199707@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Hi<br /> A couple of months ago, I posted in this forum saying that I was considering moving to Edinburgh and I asked for advice on job hunting. I’m pleased to say I have now been offered a role in your city and I hope to move up there in the next couple of months or so.</p> <p>So, next question!…can anyone offer advice on flat hunting?</p> <p>I have had a quick look on rightmove.com for flats…there isn’t a great deal of selection. Is there a more popular website in Edinburgh to use, or is the rental market quite competitive?<br /> My job is going to be based in Edinburgh Business Park and I was thinking of looking in the area to the west of the city (near to Haymarket) as that obviously has great connections to bus, train and tram. Do you think I could find a decent 1 bedroom flat for around £550 a month (I couldn’t really afford much more!)<br /> Thanks for reading<br /> Bob </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11780#post-135617 Wed, 04 Dec 2013 15:36:27 +0000 Kim 135617@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I find it sad that there are so many people who think that their convenience is more important than other peoples safety. This attitude is most prevalent among motorists who assume (wrongly) that they have a right to the road. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11780#post-135551 Wed, 04 Dec 2013 11:50:05 +0000 kaputnik 135551@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Although I addressed my reply to "Apoplectic of Spey Terrace", it wasn't really intended for him. To be honest his 2 line grumble wasn't really worthy of any attempt at an extensive and (I hope) balanced reply, and Focus is right he probably won't even read it.</p> <p>However - I don't think it's a wasted effort, the reply was rather for people who might stumble across his letter and read it. I think they should be able to read something closer to reality than his moans. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11780#post-135537 Wed, 04 Dec 2013 11:06:58 +0000 cb 135537@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"I can't believe that that John Eoin Douglas isn't having a laugh with those letters."</p> <p>I think you could be right. Perhaps he has his eye on a book deal a few years down the line. "Angry from Edinburgh". Perfect next-to-the-cash-till stocking filler material. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11780#post-135535 Wed, 04 Dec 2013 10:57:17 +0000 PS 135535@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Install a travellator. Edinburgh, city of the future. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11780#post-135532 Wed, 04 Dec 2013 10:50:19 +0000 steveo 135532@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Maybe the council should put a pedicab rank in front of Haymarket and have them ferry people to the main rank, thus saving the issue of angry taxi drivers and allowing mobility impaired (and lazy) people to get to the main rank. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11780#post-135527 Wed, 04 Dec 2013 10:34:24 +0000 PS 135527@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>when it should be the railway companies for not speccing their rolling stock better for all</em></p> <p>It's the procuring authority that ultimately specs rolling stock capacity/usage. I have some sympathy with them - a key passenger complaint is not getting a seat in the peak, so they've got to decide: space for bikes/buggies or passengers? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11780#post-135520 Wed, 04 Dec 2013 10:01:48 +0000 Instography 135520@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I can't believe that that John Eoin Douglas isn't having a laugh with those letters. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11780#post-135517 Wed, 04 Dec 2013 09:41:06 +0000 Instography 135517@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Perhaps I don't pay enough attention or fall asleep too quickly but I've never noticed any ire from passengers on the 17:19 to Cardenden of an evening. Even women with buggies and I have managed to organise ourselves satisfactorily. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11780#post-135516 Wed, 04 Dec 2013 09:41:02 +0000 Min 135516@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Oh him. Yes he is a great big bundle of joy. I don't suppose anyone would bother going to the effort of cyberbullying or spamming or even reading his letters. In fact, I wish the EEN would put the name of the writer at the top like the Reporter, then you'd know to not bother. ;-) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11780#post-135515 Wed, 04 Dec 2013 09:29:54 +0000 threefromleith 135515@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Mr Douglas publishes his full details on <em>every </em>item on his own blog (easily found online by Googling his full name), so he's obviously not concerned about such trivialities as identity theft, spammers, scammers and cyberbullying!</p> <p>The blog is a collection of every letter he's written and sent to any publication. He sounds like a real bundle of joy... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11780#post-135502 Tue, 03 Dec 2013 23:54:06 +0000 Focus 135502@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Oh, and it's a bit odd that Mr Douglas' entire address and contact details are being so freely circulated in this day and age. I hope the Edinburgh Reporter doesn't do so in the hope of a controversial contributor being directly contacted by those who disagree with their viewpoint in order to make a story out of it? A bit sloppy of The Reporter. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11780#post-135501 Tue, 03 Dec 2013 23:50:54 +0000 Focus 135501@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>It's funny how it's the cyclists incurring the wrath of the buggy pushers when it should be the railway companies for not speccing their rolling stock better for all. Easier to have a go at the one's who can't ultimately solve their problem for them.</p> <p>As for the letter, judging by the short nature of it, I'm not sure the writer will have the patience to get through <strong>kaputnik</strong>'s reply. I <em>like</em> it though!<br /> I'm not sure I would have resisted the bait so well.</p> <p>As Spock <strike>once said</strike> will say in the future, “<em>The Needs of the Many Outweigh the Needs of the Few</em>” (Or the one, Mr Douglas). I think I can safely say, without need of a survey, that the number of cyclists passing Haymarket counts as "the many" when compared to the number of passengers needing special access to the station (the few). However, I'd far rather everyone was properly catered for as I believe we all do on here. It should, and could, have been done from the outset but instead we are left with a mish mash of poorly-implemented fauxlutions* to the problem(s).</p> <p>* If no-one else has copyrighted that word, I claim it! ;-p (Edit: Darn, <a href="http://iaac-readings.wikidot.com/words:fauxlution">it's <em>at least</em> 6 years old</a>.) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11780#post-135493 Tue, 03 Dec 2013 23:12:18 +0000 PS 135493@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>What ever happened to stoicism? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11780#post-135491 Tue, 03 Dec 2013 23:07:36 +0000 gembo 135491@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>We had a MacLaren folding buggy. It used to fold. This meant you could get on a bus with it. I suppose we could have folded it on a train too. I found I used to put too much shopping on the handles. Then once the child was taken out the thing would tip over. Ah, those were the days. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11780#post-135489 Tue, 03 Dec 2013 23:03:33 +0000 SRD 135489@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I've had the 'mums with pushchairs' when i was 'mum with bike'; don't see why their conveyance and child trumps my conveyance and child, especially when the space is designated for mine. </p> <p>true that trains not well equipped for buggies. but people often not very considerate with them either. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11780#post-135487 Tue, 03 Dec 2013 22:59:14 +0000 kaputnik 135487@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Incurred some wrath on Twitter on Saturday afternoon for posting a picture of 2 very large "buggies" (urban assault vehicles would be closer to the truth) in the only cycle space of a Class 158 from Falkirk to Edinburgh. I was told by some cycling-interested followers (who are also owner-operators of children) that "blokes on bikes" should come second to "Mums with kids. Apparently it was unreasonable of me to expect to put a bike on a bike space on public transport than dump a pair of giant buggys in it.</p> <p>I couldn't be bothered getting into some sort of argument so didn't respond that only 1 of our party was a bloke and that the pushchairs were the charge of dads and uncles!</p> <p>Fortunately the guard wasn't too bothered as train wasn't that busy. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11780#post-135485 Tue, 03 Dec 2013 22:52:18 +0000 gembo 135485@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Last cheap train back from Glasgow this afternoon was mobbed. I was in seat that I would have had to vacate for wheelchair passenger but instead was joined by strangers with a toddler and a pushchair and all became very busy with private school kids, then just as train about to leave chap came on with Dahon folder which he managed to fit into the bike space between the buggy and another passenger. Actually, it all worked out rather well. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11780#post-135481 Tue, 03 Dec 2013 22:38:03 +0000 allebong 135481@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Bad memories coming back of trying to take bikes on trains during peak times - I try to avoid it as much as possible. Your right about the feeling of everyone regarding you with disgust and contempt - mum with a buggy, tourist with luggage, disabled passenger with crutches, or even the carriage being rammed to capacity, all that's fine and respected, but a bike seems to be different. And that's the trains, the stations can be even worse.</p> <p>I have this theory that the type of bike and image you have affects the treatment you get. I've seen the stereotypical lycra roadies get the worst of the abuse, while often a 'normal person' with a beat up hybrid is tolerated. You could likely do a very interesting study on this sort of thing. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11780#post-135479 Tue, 03 Dec 2013 22:22:40 +0000 gembo 135479@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Those shoe wearing majorities are completely unfathomable kaputnik </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11780#post-135477 Tue, 03 Dec 2013 22:15:25 +0000 kaputnik 135477@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@Gembo I noticed an interesting thing when trying to push my bike from bottom of Lothian Road, past Frasers and onto Princes Street via a cash machine. The walking public kept repeatedly trying to walk between me and the bike and then give me dirty looks when I didn't relinquish my hold on the bike and let them pass any other way but around us. I found it baffling. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11780#post-135476 Tue, 03 Dec 2013 22:13:32 +0000 steveo 135476@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>paper troll is trolling... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11780#post-135475 Tue, 03 Dec 2013 22:11:40 +0000 gembo 135475@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I had to push my pedal ,cycle into passengers coming the other way to catch my train at Waverley tonight. Both bike gates were letting people out into the station but not on to trains. The ticket inspector at right hand gate sent me to the left hand gate but same issue.the ticket inspector there was not happy with me but what could I have done? I am sorry if I inconvenienced anyone but did not have an option I could see. </p>