http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Tag: narrow road 20mph - Recent Topics en Sun, 17 May 2026 06:26:03 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9518#post-100726 Sun, 17 Feb 2013 02:03:55 +0000 gkgk 100726@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>This might be a bit out of the blue, but today I was walking along the wide (top) bit of W Savile Terrace and it struck me, the road is too wide. </p> <p>To make cars do 20mph, without police enforcement, they need to have only two feet tops to spare on either side as they drive, not 4 metres. </p> <p>They should narrow the middle bit, move the car parking in, make the old car parking bits into cycle lanes and the central, driving bit of road would be a bit tighter, more 20mph-encouraging.</p> <p>Same with the steep hill up from W Savile Terrace / the avenue shop area up to KB. Is that a 20?</p> <p>They'd only want to narrow the ones where they can make a full-lane (2m each way min) bike lane out of the spare bit, obviously, to avoid the bikes becoming rolling road blocks. </p>