http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Tag: KB - Recent Topics en Tue, 28 Apr 2026 17:16:10 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8906#post-90937 Wed, 14 Nov 2012 13:39:23 +0000 cc 90937@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>This lunchtime I noticed some big posters up in George Square advertising the Quiet Route between George Square and King's Buildings. (Sorry, no picture: no camera.)</p> <p>The Quiet Route appears to be the same one that's called "Route 6" on blue signs; it takes you across the Meadows, up Lauder Road and along Relugas Road to join the Quality Bike Corridor in time to climb up Mayfield Road to the crossroads at the top. (How's the crossroads rebuilding coming on by the way? It should be finished by now but I haven't been up to see it.)<br /> The posters give the URL <a href="http://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/cycling">http://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/cycling</a> though that doesn't yet seem to have any specific information on the route. </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> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=5929#post-63400 Fri, 30 Mar 2012 07:29:11 +0000 cc 63400@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="http://www.scotsman.com/news/major-bicycle-route-upgrade-in-edinburgh-gets-under-way-1-2205605" rel="nofollow">http://www.scotsman.com/news/major-bicycle-route-upgrade-in-edinburgh-gets-under-way-1-2205605</a></p> <p>I wouldn't have called it "major", myself, but there is an election and a ride on parliament coming up. </p>