http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Tag: PWP - Recent Topics en Wed, 13 May 2026 02:04:58 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=6371#post-68357 Wed, 02 May 2012 11:18:07 +0000 lionfish 68357@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>As suggested on <a href="http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=6334" rel="nofollow">http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=6334</a></p> <p>These wards are roughly Slateford, Gorgie, Craiglockhart, Dalry, Stenhouse, Shandon, Sighthill, Broomhouse</p> <p>**Just ideas (feel free to change them!)**<br /> After the council elections, we'll contact all our councillors in these two wards next week, to organise a date for a cycle into town. I guess it makes sense to try to emulate a normal 'commute' as far as possible (so from the ward into the town centre.</p> <p>The route?<br /> from ~Gorgie road to the Spokes Bike Breakfast? on 20th June (I think).<br /> <a href="http://g.co/maps/ansnm" rel="nofollow">http://g.co/maps/ansnm</a> (about 3.5 miles, could start further up Gorgie road to shorten route, if necessary).</p> <p>All the other wards should do something similar and we'll all rendezvous at the bike breakfast! That'll give a bit of an incentive for the councillors (the potential for lots of good publicity with the cycle community, and so make them more likely to agree).</p> <p>Need to think of a list of particular "points of interest" - i.e. particular local issues on the route that are of most concern (particular bits of parking on bike lanes, or whatever)</p> <p>What do people think? Which route would you suggest? Should it be done separately for the two wards? Brain storm :)</p> <p>size of ride: I don't know how many of us are in these wards: More would show the councillors how we feel!(ironically lots of us would allow a feeling of safety in numbers and I'd like the councillors to get a taste of solo riding in Edinburgh too :P). </p>