http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Tag: MMW - Recent Topics en Sun, 17 May 2026 05:31:23 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13239#post-161170 Tue, 05 Aug 2014 13:59:58 +0000 cc 161170@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>George Square and Crichton Street are more chaotic and dangerous than usual this week:<br /> <ul><li>Lots of festival related traffic;</li><li>Lots and lots of festival related people, far too many for the narrow pavements so they stroll along the road;</li><li>Crichton Street has been narrowed by the BBC's occupying forces;</li><li>Crichton Street has been narrowed on the other side by means of a line of cones and blue string;</li><li>Someone has erected prominent "No Entry" signs at the corner of George Square which make Crichton Street into a one way street westwards (away from the mosque, towards the square);</li><li>These are being ignored by many locals (bin lorries, taxies, delivery drivers, etc.);</li><li>A colleague searched and failed to find any traffic order related to this on the council website so suggests that the restriction is illegal;</li><li>Rumour has it that George Square is also now a one way street, but there are few if any signs saying so and it has two way traffic on it;</li><li>and happy festival crowds all over the street;</li><li>and of course the world's bumpiest setts;</li><li>Oh and a few yards away, performers on Middle Meadow Walk are drawing crowds which block the footpath entirely and threaten to block the cycle path too.</li><br /> </ul> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10359#post-112967 Tue, 04 Jun 2013 13:56:24 +0000 cc 112967@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Lots of people walking obliviously up and down the MMW cycle path today. Most moved out of the way when I gave them a bell ring and a thank you. By the time I was at the top and heading onto Forrest Road (here's a <a href="http://opencyclemap.org/?zoom=18&amp;lat=55.94533&amp;lon=-3.19086&amp;layers=B000">handy map</a>) I was fed up enough of the thank yous to be quite irritated when the driver of a blue van, maddened by my entering the road during his green light, did mad slalom overtaking manoeovres and yelled at me about green lights. I gave him both barrels back, full lung power. In that sort of situation there isn't time for much of a reasoned argument so I just yelled I HAD A GREEN LIGHT and added a banned word.</p> <p>But really, he was right to object, why on earth should traffic coming from two different directions both get green lights at the same time? Completely crazy and dangerous as anything. I mean, I know that the idiot who designed the junction must have assumed that all bicycles would go into the bicycle lane, but (a) that's only any good if you're heading straight on at the end of Forrest Road, (b) the cycle lane is usually lost underneath parked vans and cars, (c) even if you make it as far as the bus stop you'll get squashed by a bus. </p> <p>I go Middle Meadow Walk -&gt; Forrest Road -&gt; Bristo Place -&gt; Bristo Square. For safety's sake I reckon I have to change to one of these alternatives to that green light. Which one would people recommend?</p> <p> - going through the red light at the top of MMW instead of the green (as long as I avoid the traffic coming from Lauriston Place to Forrest Road and the traffic going straight from Teviot Place to Lauriston Place). Most of the pedestrians there cross towards Forrest Road on the red man and quite a few of them walk straight across the cycle path to do so. I could go at the same time as them (and most of the other cyclists).</p> <p> - turning right at the top of MMW and cycling along the pavement at the side of Teviot Place - which will lead to just as many arguments</p> <p> - turning right lower down MMW and cycling through George Square - which will lead to me losing all my fillings and my bike falling to bits clown style</p> <p> - Ditto George Square, only cycling on the pavement, which will lead to me being pushed onto the road (this happened when I tried it).</p> <p>I try to be careful to obey the law but here I can't see a reasonable alternative to cycling through the red light at the top of MMW? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9604#post-102586 Sun, 03 Mar 2013 11:31:40 +0000 cc 102586@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>... for an athletics race.</p> <p>Of course there's no diversion, and there was no advance notice posted in the Meadows!</p> <p>I took a creative route across the grass and round the south side of George Square to avoid the Quality Bike Car Park. </p>