http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Tag: russell road - Recent Posts en Tue, 19 May 2026 03:14:19 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20884#post-359121 Thu, 24 Mar 2022 14:51:25 +0000 neddie 359121@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>The general public should not be allowed to operate heavy dangerous machinery in a public place. Period. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20884#post-359119 Thu, 24 Mar 2022 11:41:33 +0000 Arellcat 359119@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>Well if drivers can’t be trusted...</em></p> <p>Drivers have had 137 years to learn to control their infernal machines safely, and have proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that they cannot. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20884#post-359118 Thu, 24 Mar 2022 10:56:01 +0000 Murun Buchstansangur 359118@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@Frenchy appears that would be a Tory, a Lib Demmer and <a href="https://jamesrannochcc.com/2016/05/13/frank-ross-all-cyclists-are-bingo/">Frank Ross</a>. I may still do it but it may be the most pointless thing I do this year... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20884#post-359114 Thu, 24 Mar 2022 09:25:04 +0000 Frenchy 359114@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@Murun - Perhaps an email to the local councillors now saying "I see this has happened again. I got hit in exactly the same way once. Put a traffic island in before it happens again."? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20884#post-359110 Thu, 24 Mar 2022 00:23:53 +0000 Murun Buchstansangur 359110@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I was hit there during the first lockdown - car cut the corner and my forearm took the wing mirror clean off, depositing me on the ground. Driver stopped and got out (still smoking a cig, natch) and appeared not to have clue what she had done, had to be told by me and a passing pedestrian who was frankly stroppier about it than I was. As the driver was a uniformed carer and given the times then, I didn't take it any further. Had a golf ball on my arm for weeks after.</p> <p>Hope today's victim is OK. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20884#post-359099 Wed, 23 Mar 2022 14:19:29 +0000 chdot 359099@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Well if drivers can’t be trusted…</p> <p>Time to shut the road (people had to ‘manage’ when they built the tram bridge). </p> <p>In time for the new link to Dalry would be good. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20884#post-359097 Wed, 23 Mar 2022 14:09:33 +0000 Stickman 359097@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><blockquote> I stopped to check on a fellow cyclist who had been hit by a car on Russell Rd (btwn the access to Roseburn Path &amp; the railway bridge).I hope he’s ok. I waited until the ambulance appeared; he said he didn’t think his leg was broken but he couldn’t stand up</p> <p>The cyclist said he had been waiting to turn &amp; the car driver wasn’t paying attention &amp; hit him. Poor guy was quite dazed but said he hadn’t hit his head. I’m hoping someone might have some news on his status?</blockquote></p> <p><a href="https://twitter.com/sheilaemasson/status/1506611095120793610?s=21" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/sheilaemasson/status/1506611095120793610?s=21</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20884#post-359092 Wed, 23 Mar 2022 12:53:24 +0000 dessert rat 359092@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>argh - did the ambulance and police car this morning, never noticed the bike. not good. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20884#post-359090 Wed, 23 Mar 2022 12:27:56 +0000 BaseCut 359090@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Car, ambulance and police car parked up at bottom of zigzag onto the NEPN. Bike leaning against wall. Not sure what had gone on, but the right turn from RR to the zigzag can be terrifying if Dalry bound vehicles cut the corner. Pure speculation though. Hope all ok. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11328#post-200274 Tue, 29 Sep 2015 16:43:36 +0000 ARobComp 200274@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>yeah that was quite the surprise on sunday as they just blocked off the road with no prior notice. Still means the road is a bit quieter at night. Still dozens of people trying to get through int he morning despite road closed "access only" signs. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11328#post-200273 Tue, 29 Sep 2015 16:39:26 +0000 Rosie 200273@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Roseburn Street having surfaces redone and local access only at stadium end. So congestion now banks up along Russell Road from Muireston Crescent/Gorgie Road junction. Everything backed up in that part of town now. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11328#post-127916 Thu, 10 Oct 2013 17:24:09 +0000 Snowy 127916@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>"road ends, motorists get out and push". </em></p> <p>+1 </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11328#post-127890 Thu, 10 Oct 2013 15:00:03 +0000 kaputnik 127890@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>The junction at the north end with Roseburn Street is a nightmare</em></p> <p>Agree. Council have tried to put a lane on the pavement to provide an inconvenient bypass for cyclists (requiring a wierd S-turn through a traffic island and a switch of direction to get into Roseburn Gardens!) however with more than 2 or 3 cars queuing at the junction it's impossible to access the cycle lane.</p> <p>Likewise turning right out of Roseburn Street, it's very hard to see what's about to come round the corner and there is no light/filter to indicate its safe to make a right turn. Very few vehicles make this turn as they can only approach from Roseburn Street (as there's no cut-through of Roseburn Gardens/Place if you approach from the West). It only works as a rat run if you come off Rosburn Terrace or West Coates.</p> <p>I'd be happy with Min's solution of a full-length cycle lane and let everyone else have fun fighting it out. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11328#post-127885 Thu, 10 Oct 2013 14:47:55 +0000 Min 127885@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>Russell Road itself would easily contain a segregated cycle lane the full length, the only constriction is the viaduct which would be more complicated to do something about.</em></p> <p>Just have one side for motorists and the other for cyclists. Obviously the side for motorists wouldn't be wide enough to drive both ways at the viaduct but they could just put up a sign there saying "road ends, motorists get out and push". </p> <p>Problem Solved. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11328#post-127882 Thu, 10 Oct 2013 14:40:44 +0000 Dave 127882@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>When we used to live in Newington and worked by / over the Forth Bridge, the best way to commute was to drive all the way in to Russell Rd and rat run it.</p> <p>Since it was shut for such a long period of time without anyone dying, you'd think it would be easy to justify making it one way with a full-time, two-way, world class cycle facility on the other half.</p> <p>Connecting NEPN with Dalry and onwards towards the canal etc.</p> <p>Will never happen. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11328#post-127881 Thu, 10 Oct 2013 14:40:13 +0000 Coxy 127881@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>The junction at the north end with Roseburn Street is a nightmare. It would be better if all roads were traffic-light controlled so you wouldn't get all the cars and vans desperate to turn right and get into the traffic queues on Roseburn Street.</p> <p>Coming from Roseburn park and trying to turn right onto Russell Road is a bit hairy when it's busy. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11328#post-127879 Thu, 10 Oct 2013 14:33:59 +0000 kaputnik 127879@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Russell Road itself isn't really a "residential" road, but to get out of it at either end without going down Mcleod Street, you have to go through the Murieston Triangle, which most definitely is a residential area (it's even got a playpark in the central bit!)</p> <p>My main points on it would be;</p> <p>Murieston is too narrow for the volume of traffic that uses it (both directions, rush hour only), this includes lorries and vans. </p> <p>Russell Road itself would easily contain a segregated cycle lane the full length, the only constriction is the viaduct which would be more complicated to do something about. It has parking on both sides, reasonably wide pavements and room to spare still. It could and should extend from the current ride-on-the-pavement section from end of the Roseburn Path.</p> <p>I think it would be less attractive to westbound traffic if the Roseburn Gardens cut-through was dealt with. There's very little excuse for that being maintained.</p> <p>I think it's an attractive route for traffic trying to get to/from the West Approach Road and the A8 / Glasgow / Corstorphine / St John's Road corridor, avoiding Balgreen. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11328#post-127868 Thu, 10 Oct 2013 14:04:01 +0000 559 127868@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>There has been conversations on this forum about the problems with Russell Road, poor driving, rat run etc. </p> <p>Agree there is certainly a issue there, however stepping back, why is it a rat run? IMO probably because it is one of the few routes north-south that avoids the city centre without going too far west. It used to be possible(+20years ago) to drive through Westfield Road and Robertson Avenue both ways. </p> <p>Is their access status contributing to the Russell road rat run? I consider as certainly possible. </p>