http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Tag: QBC - Recent Topics en Tue, 28 Apr 2026 20:16:03 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15274#post-195454 Tue, 11 Aug 2015 11:08:41 +0000 cc 195454@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>The team rebuilding Bristo Square closed a section of footpath on Lothian Street a week or two ago, telling pedestrians to cross the road and go round by the underpass. Presumably everyone ignored that silliness and walked on the road, so now the cycle lane has been fenced off as a makeshift pavement. Also, the fencing runs out a few metres before the pedestrian crossing traffic lights, so crowds of people are walking on the cycle path for those few metres. (The University has made its central campus area a hive of corporate festival activity so there are a lot of people about.)</p> <p>Here's a <a href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=55.94586&amp;mlon=-3.18916#map=18/55.94586/-3.18917">map</a>. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11445#post-129891 Thu, 24 Oct 2013 12:58:27 +0000 Dave 129891@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>For some reason searching on QBC failed to bring up the last discussion for this. </p> <p>Anyway, Kim kindly passed me the three documents describing the addition of extra parking on the Quality Bike Corridor, and I've now put these together in a short post along with rollover images that make it a bit easier to compare before and after.</p> <p><a href="http://mccraw.co.uk/quality-bike-corridor-more-parking/" rel="nofollow">http://mccraw.co.uk/quality-bike-corridor-more-parking/</a></p> <p>AFAIK Spokes haven't commented on this, and it's not clear that anyone from the cycling world was consulted about the wisdom of allowing vehicles to obstruct the final few metres before a busy multi-lane junction.</p> <p>This is Edinburgh... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11066#post-123978 Thu, 05 Sep 2013 13:40:04 +0000 cc 123978@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Several sets of traffic lights on the Quality Bike Corridor are currently dark:</p> <p>Mayfield Road at West Mayfield / Fountainhall Road</p> <p>Causewayside at Grange Road</p> <p>Crossing of Buccleuch Street</p> <p>The ones at the big junction at the Meadows were working when I went through a few minutes ago, thankfully. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8958#post-91732 Tue, 20 Nov 2012 23:44:28 +0000 Dave 91732@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>... better late than never: </p> <p><a href="http://mccraw.co.uk/quality-bike-corridor-council-fails-utterly/" rel="nofollow">http://mccraw.co.uk/quality-bike-corridor-council-fails-utterly/</a> </p> 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=8803#post-89489 Thu, 01 Nov 2012 12:45:41 +0000 cc 89489@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>It didn't last, sadly. For three mornings in a row I was able to cycle along Buccleuch Street, past the Snax Cafe, using the bike lane. A rare treat.</p> <p>This morning four white vans blocked the bike lane :-( I'll try contacting my councillors about it... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8771#post-89119 Mon, 29 Oct 2012 15:53:40 +0000 cc 89119@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Heading north on Causewayside this morning, when I was stopped at the Grange Road traffic lights, I saw a startling number of people waiting at the other side of the junction: I'd guess about <em>two dozen</em> folk on bicycles all heading south. And not intensely fit-looking sporty types either, these folk looked like they were on their way to work.</p> <p>It's the first time I've ever seen such a crowd of people on bikes in Edinburgh and been irresistibly reminded of the Netherlands. Such a cheery sight! Despite all my moaning about the Quality Bike Corridor it seems that it's having some sort of effect.</p> <p>Between the busy streets and CCE, it's lovely to feel like I'm not the only cyclist any more. </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>