http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Tag: sustrans - Recent Topics en Wed, 13 May 2026 01:53:47 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19121#post-291274 Sun, 16 Sep 2018 18:31:28 +0000 lingcat 291274@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Hello CCE! Long-time lurker, first-time poster here. I stopped for the second time today to chat to some Sustrans folk at the Meadows, and was wondering about others' experiences of them and if anyone knows what they're trying to achieve with this.</p> <p>Both times I've stopped for a chat, I've got the impression that the people I was talking to weren't fantastically well-informed (today, I was told the planned Meadows to New Town route wasn't going to be segregated ... but also that there would be a barrier between the bike path and the road -- and also that fewer women bike because of the kind of clothes they wear!), and didn't really have any particular questions to ask other than "Do you know about Sustrans" and "Have you heard about the NCN". </p> <p>Just curious, really! Find it a bit baffling as I can't work out what their goal is here. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19071#post-289652 Sun, 26 Aug 2018 16:52:26 +0000 AIMC 289652@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>First primary school pump station ready for installation at Sciennes Primary. Junior Road Safety Officers worked with Sustrans staff to produce this colourful and useful information board. <img src="https://c2.staticflickr.com/2/1856/29343132847_ff2c00a2a2.jpg"></p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/chdot/29343132847/sizes/o/">Original size</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16263#post-216557 Thu, 14 Apr 2016 09:20:49 +0000 davidsonsdave 216557@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Did anyone else balk when they saw the sustrans survey taking place on the Roseburn Path this morning? It was less than 100m away from a road where one could park a car.<img src="https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/106112457/IMG_20160414_082328.jpg"> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13086#post-158467 Tue, 01 Jul 2014 16:52:40 +0000 Claire 158467@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Hi folks, I realise this is a bit outwith the remit of Edinburgh, but I know there are many touring cyclists here and was hoping for a bit of guidance. </p> <p>I was wondering if anyone on the forum has taken the NCN7 route from Pitlochry to Glasgow? I am keen to do a three day solo tour (my first ever!) at the end of July and felt that this looked to be a good option as trains at both ends of the route and it's about 116 miles in total, which should be a good distance for me to cover over three days. And apparently the scenery is spectacular so that's definitely a big draw. </p> <p>Has anyone done this route before? If so, do you have any advice on route options, bike type, surfaces, accommodation, etc? I was planning on taking my flat-bar tourer or my hybrid and was thinking Pitlochry to Killin, Killin to Aberfoyle and Aberfoyle to Glasgow. </p> <p>Any thoughts or advice would be greatly appreciated! I've never done solo or multiple day touring before. Thanks! :) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13135#post-159602 Wed, 16 Jul 2014 15:14:33 +0000 algo 159602@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Hello,</p> <p>the other day while at the airport I was interested to see that at the luggage carrousels they have an option to check out local advice for cycling at the transport advice "kiosk". I had assumed this would be directed at people arriving with bicycles on the plane - I know some people do that to tour Scotland etc. It's a shame then that there is no real cycle provision properly marked at all until the A8. </p> <p>The computer attempts to direct people to the sustans site - which doesn't work at the terminal:</p> <p><img src="http://algorhythmical.co.uk/na.jpg"></p> <p>Without some sort of half-decent cycling provision from the airport, this seems pretty half-arsed and pointless to me, but perhaps I'm being mean. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12256#post-143089 Thu, 20 Feb 2014 15:01:53 +0000 Radgeworks 143089@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/transport/council-denies-bid-to-have-50-cycling-to-work-1-3313183">clikeelinkee</a></p> <p>Dear All</p> <p>Found this on my lunch, the usual standards apply of course. Worth a wee read though. </p> <p>R </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1497#post-14190 Fri, 08 Oct 2010 09:33:31 +0000 Wilmington's Cow 14190@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4107/5061426819_a6d0034746.jpg"></p> <p>This has annoyed me for a while, and is just another little thing that makes a mockery of the council claim to make Edinburgh a 'Model Cycling City'.</p> <p>The cut through past Old Registers House from Randolph Place to Charlotte Square is useful. So useful in fact that it's part of Sustrans NCN1. </p> <p><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4153/5062035466_8aafd05e8b.jpg"></p> <p>Now let's just forget for a moment that on the Charlotte Square side there's no dropped kerb, and on the Randolph Place side there's a dropped kerb onto a manhole cover and the most uneven and gappy cobbles in the city. Forget <em>that</em> poor aspect of the cycling infrastructure.</p> <p>When the tram works began and buses were divered onto Charlotte Square (the surface of which was never obviously intended for that heavy traffic, it's shifted so much in the last couple of years) a temporary bus stop was put in. So temporary it's still there, and marked on GoogleMaps. And where do they put it? Right in the way of the entrance and exit to this lane.</p> <p><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4148/5061422307_50a6f2c2b8.jpg"></p> <p>Heading west to east it's not tooooo bad because the stop ends just to the left of the exit, although it <em>completely</em> obscures traffic travelling around the square when a bus is stopped. But going east to west, as I did this morning, if you have two buses there it's a right royal pain in the proverbial. The buses completely block off access and you're left with a choice between the typical 'cyclists dismount' scenario, or riding along the pavement for 10 yards suffering the glowers of those walking along the pavement (or disgorging from the bus).</p> <p>Just a legal technical point, to gain access to a route on which you are legally allowed to cycle you <em>are</em> allowed to cycle on the pavement where normally you wouldn't - I've stretched this rule so that if a bus is (as is the norm) blocking the normal access, I can adopt an alternative access.</p> <p><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4111/5062033914_6b1deb3304.jpg"></p> <p>So just what could the council have done to maintain the aura of this grand move towards a cycling culture to rival Copenhagen and Amsterdam? Well on the south side of Old Registers House there is an identical alleyway, on which cycles are not allowed, which offers two solutions.</p> <p>1. Change the cycle route to the other side, one benefit being that those travelling west to east do not have the view of the road obscured on coming out; or</p> <p>2. Have the bus stop blocking access to THAT alleyway instead.</p> <p>The current situation doesn't show <em>malice</em> towards cyclists, but just shows that any time ANY councillor says that they want the city to be a 'Model Cycling City' they are, and I'm afraid this is true, lying. If they were telling the truth the council would have a dedicated team of more than one chap fielding enquiries and coming up with ideas, and utterly idiotic things like this simply would NOT be put in place.</p> <p>The Danes and the Dutch would be laughing their socks off.</p> <p><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4154/5061425797_974a77a99f.jpg"> </p>