http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Tag: white van - Recent Posts en Sun, 05 Jul 2026 14:20:31 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3748&page=385#post-384982 Sat, 04 Jul 2026 19:25:56 +0000 Frenchy 384982@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>I was close passed by a driver on London Road this morning, which was bad enough that I'm considering testing out the new police reporting system.</p> <p>I was in the right hand lane, as I was going straight on and the left lane is for left turns only. The driver passed me without leaving the lane, maybe a foot of space. Bad enough but itself, but the two hands on the phone and none on the steering wheel were what really, really annoyed me. </em></p> <p>Update on this from the previous page.</p> <p>I reported to the police, who sent a notice of intention to prosecute to the car's registered keeper, who told the police that a relative was driving. Six months later the police were unable to ever speak to the alleged driver, as they simply didn't answer the door when police visited. They are apparently sought for a number of unrelated matters, but none of which were of a nature that the police could/would force entry to their house.</p> <p>I don't believe that the relative was actually driving (based on gender and age). The police officer dealing with it told me that, had they been able to speak to the relative, then either the relative would have been charged with careless driving or the owner would have been charged with failure to identify the driver.</p> <p>As six months have passed since the incident, the issue is now time barred and no action will be taken against either the registered keeper or their relative.</p> <p>Something's clearly wrong in the system here.</p> <p>On the other hand, the DESC reporting system worked relatively well. The process is smoother and simpler than it used to be. It's not as smooth and simple as the portals available elsewhere in the UK, though. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3748&page=385#post-384961 Fri, 03 Jul 2026 10:24:47 +0000 chdot 384961@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>“</p> <p>A dad who drove on the Edinburgh city bypass while more than three times over the drink-drive limit and arguing with his wife on the phone has been granted a licence to sell alcohol. </p> <p>“</p> <p><a href="https://www.edinburghlive.co.uk/news/edinburgh-news/dad-who-drove-edinburgh-bypass-34226754?" rel="nofollow">https://www.edinburghlive.co.uk/news/edinburgh-news/dad-who-drove-edinburgh-bypass-34226754?</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3748&page=385#post-384958 Fri, 03 Jul 2026 07:07:09 +0000 chdot 384958@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Just in case you assumed g made it up -</p> <p><a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjwg8nqg4vzo" rel="nofollow">https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjwg8nqg4vzo</a></p> <p>But are the streets any safer?? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3748&page=385#post-384957 Thu, 02 Jul 2026 22:46:49 +0000 gembo 384957@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Apparently you can fit £1.3m of heroin in a car transporter but you get arrested at Lockerbie </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3748&page=385#post-384954 Thu, 02 Jul 2026 18:17:43 +0000 gembo 384954@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Tesla started on Multrees Walk. Score moving to the more utilitarian Newbridge. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3748&page=385#post-384947 Thu, 02 Jul 2026 09:59:13 +0000 doorsgalaxy 384947@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>There's a Genesis showroom (the luxury car brand, presumably no relation to the somewhat more utilitarian bike brand) on Multrees Walk behind St James </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3748&page=385#post-384943 Wed, 01 Jul 2026 22:22:29 +0000 mcairney 384943@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Didn't consider they might be replacing rental cars for Waverley Station. Agree that there must be a better way of replenishing their fleet than having a massive car transporter driving around the city centre! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3748&page=385#post-384942 Wed, 01 Jul 2026 18:42:38 +0000 gembo 384942@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@mcairney We do the drive me frickin crazy driving down Royal mile putting. Rental cars in station car park every frocking day. Should be put at Straiton. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3748&page=385#post-384941 Wed, 01 Jul 2026 16:19:46 +0000 MediumDave 384941@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>There's an Aston Martin service centre on Russell Road, in the old Speedy Tool Hire unit. </p> <p>Not sure why car transporter guy would be going up the Mound to get to or from there though... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3748&page=385#post-384940 Wed, 01 Jul 2026 16:08:00 +0000 mcairney 384940@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Maybe we need a CALCT (Campaign Against Long Car Transporters)?</p> <p>Where's the nearest car dealership to Princes St anyway? Seafield Road? I think there was some small niche/expensive ones out Roseburn way but not sure if they still exist.. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3748&page=385#post-384939 Wed, 01 Jul 2026 15:58:42 +0000 ejstubbs 384939@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>He would have driven past a "no entry except for trams, buses, taxis and cycles" sign in the process.</p> <p>It seems unlikely that a satnav would have tried to send him that way. He'd probably have been better off turning right on to St David Street, along George Street and then down Hanover Street to access the Mound (any half way decent satnav should be able to work out that route). And it would be no more wiggly for accessing Market Street than going over North Bridge, which would also require negotiating a pretty tight turn in to Market Street from either North Bank Street or Jeffrey Street. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3748&page=385#post-384938 Wed, 01 Jul 2026 15:26:57 +0000 Frenchy 384938@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Regent Road seems to be a very common place for car transporters to be parked overnight. </p> <p>I assume the driver was supposed to turn on to North Bridge, but messed up and tried to take the first seemingly available exit. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3748&page=385#post-384937 Wed, 01 Jul 2026 14:51:47 +0000 ejstubbs 384937@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>The missus was pedestrianising along Princes Street this morning when she witnessed the driver of a car transporter with twelve cars on board attempting to turn left from Princes Street (where he had absolutely no business to be) in to the Mound. He was struggling with the tight turn, while also sounding his horn at pedestrians who had the cheek to cross the road in front of him when their the green man was illuminated. Meanwhile, he was blocking the approach to the junction, much to the obvious annoyance of westbound bus and taxi drivers.</p> <p>ISTR Gembo complaining recently about massive car transporters in the New Town (I tried Google but it once again failed to find what I was looking for.) Maybe it was one of those, with the driver in this case handicapped by both an inability to navigate, and to observe road signs. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3748&page=385#post-384903 Mon, 29 Jun 2026 10:10:29 +0000 mcairney 384903@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="https://theedinburghreporter.co.uk/2026/06/police-hunt-driver-after-cyclist-seriously-injured-in-crash-near-haddington/" rel="nofollow">https://theedinburghreporter.co.uk/2026/06/police-hunt-driver-after-cyclist-seriously-injured-in-crash-near-haddington/</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3748&page=385#post-384859 Wed, 24 Jun 2026 23:47:35 +0000 ejstubbs 384859@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>That's the one.</p> <p>Turns out I posted on that thread myself not all that long ago. Duh.</p> <p>I did try an online search but must have mis-spelled something. It returned a lot of CCE threads but not that one. Two excuses: 1) I was doing it on the phone, which doesn't like my fat fingers, and 2) gin. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3748&page=385#post-384855 Wed, 24 Jun 2026 18:24:53 +0000 chdot 384855@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>“</p> <p>Campaign Against Long Cars (CALC) - and wide</p> <p>“</p> <p>citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19496</p> <p>“search function appears not to, er, function“</p> <p>Sadly true</p> <p>Gone for ever</p> <p>Have to rely on favourite browser/search engine </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3748&page=385#post-384854 Wed, 24 Jun 2026 18:06:39 +0000 ejstubbs 384854@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>In a similar vein:</p> <p><strong><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jun/24/carspreading-vehicle-size-crash-deaths-study">‘Carspreading’ could lead to extra 2,600 crash deaths a year by 2040, study finds</a></strong></p> <p><em>Analysis shows cars in Europe have grown longer, taller and wider every year since 2000</em></p> <p><blockquote>The increase in size, which leaves people more likely to be killed in a crash and increases emissions that hurt lungs and heat the planet, has progressed at a roughly steady rate for two and half decades even as family sizes have fallen, the campaign group Transport &amp; Environment (T&amp;E) found.</p> <p>Car bloat is frustrating drivers, too, with cities expected to lose 8.5-14% of on-street parking by 2040 if the historical trend continues unchecked, the analysis found. London and Berlin are each predicted to lose about 100,000 parking spaces.</p> <p>The findings come as research shared exclusively with the Guardian shows potential SUV buyers are undeterred by warnings that they are more likely to kill pedestrians.</p> <p>The authors recommended capping bonnet heights and car widths, changing taxes to discourage people from buying bigger vehicles, and tightening vehicle standards so they considered the visibility of young children from the driver’s seat.</blockquote></p> <p>(Wasn't Gembo suggesting a campaign against large cars at some point in the past? I don't seem to be able to track that down since the search function appears not to, er, function.) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3748&page=385#post-384795 Sat, 20 Jun 2026 07:54:49 +0000 chdot 384795@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>“</p> <p>The findings indicate that if governments want to reduce the number of large, dangerous vehicles on the roads, it is likely to require financial penalties, according to the psychologists at Swansea University who led the research.</p> <p>“</p> <p>Er NO</p> <p>IF Govs want to do anything they need to be banned in current form or (minimum) reclassified with much stricter driving test</p> <p>“<br /> A series of studies have shown that sport utility vehicles (SUVs) and similarly oversized domestic vehicles such as pickup trucks are more dangerous than standard cars for pedestrians and cyclists. Much of the risk comes from their higher and blunter front ends.</p> <p>“</p> <p>THIS IS NOT NEW</p> <p>Remember bull bars?</p> <p>At least they were banned </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3748&page=385#post-384794 Sat, 20 Jun 2026 07:15:28 +0000 Murun Buchstansangur 384794@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Generic callousness rather than specific this time:</p> <p>“SUV buyers undeterred by warnings of risk to pedestrians, UK study finds”</p> <p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/20/suv-risks-warnings-road-safety-buyers-uk-study" rel="nofollow">https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/20/suv-risks-warnings-road-safety-buyers-uk-study</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3748&page=385#post-384714 Mon, 15 Jun 2026 14:45:56 +0000 Murun Buchstansangur 384714@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="https://www.scotland.police.uk/what-s-happening/news/2026/june/appeal-after-one-vehicle-crash-on-the-a70-near-harperrig-reservoir/" rel="nofollow">https://www.scotland.police.uk/what-s-happening/news/2026/june/appeal-after-one-vehicle-crash-on-the-a70-near-harperrig-reservoir/</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3748&page=384#post-384713 Mon, 15 Jun 2026 14:10:11 +0000 neddie 384713@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><blockquote>The white Seat Leon Cupra car the pair were travelling in left the road</blockquote></p> <p>Just as well we know the exact type and colour of the car, and that no one was driving it - it simply 'left' the road - could happen to anyone. Bad car! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3748&page=384#post-384711 Mon, 15 Jun 2026 11:54:07 +0000 Greenroofer 384711@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Yup that sounds like it was the one. I hope they recover well: it would have been a frightening experience, looking at the damage to the roadway. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3748&page=384#post-384709 Mon, 15 Jun 2026 10:34:43 +0000 Gresham Flyer 384709@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"I don't recall seeing any mention of this in the news". </p> <p>This it? -I'm not sure of the exact location on the A70 you are referring to <a href="https://www.edinburghlive.co.uk/news/edinburgh-news/west-lothian-driver-teen-passenger-34118476" rel="nofollow">https://www.edinburghlive.co.uk/news/edinburgh-news/west-lothian-driver-teen-passenger-34118476</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3748&page=384#post-384694 Sun, 14 Jun 2026 08:25:15 +0000 gembo 384694@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@greenroofer we did see the gouges you speak of, though were travelling at light speed (well maybe 30mph) due to the massive tailwind. Two hours ten mins out to the Apple pie (on more sheltered routes via Murieston and Harburn and Dog Trust Road) half hour in the Pie trying to explain to Audrey that we were new cyclists as the ones she thought we were had left as we came in. She hadn’t taken her tablets so was quite confused. Fifty min back to Balerno. Three terrible passes where the overtaking vehicle was directly into Oncoming traffic and one terrible pass where the car who overtook us pulled in without realising a big van had followed it and Van man was blaring his horn. Plenty of perfectly executed overtakes and waiting until clear so obviously it is possible to drive with care in South Lanarkshire. All forgotten about due to the tailwind, </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3748&page=384#post-384691 Sat, 13 Jun 2026 20:20:31 +0000 Greenroofer 384691@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Just back from riding the A70 over Auchinoon Brae, and in the week since I was last there, there's been an incident at the top of the hill on the new tarmac. There are skid marks on the road at the brow of the hill in the southbound lane, then a curving gouge in the new tarmac. The gouge leads to tyre tracks up the verge that terminate in smashed fence posts. A bit further down the hill there's a pile of bits of headlamp and car trim.</p> <p>I don't recall seeing any mention of this in the news. It's just another example of the daily toll of crashes that damage property and wreck lives, but aren't worthy of mention. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3748&page=384#post-384488 Thu, 28 May 2026 19:49:32 +0000 gembo 384488@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Mrs Garto exited Gembo Towers this morning to see a car falling from the sky. The driver had yet again failed to understand that coming down a hill and round a corner requires a big deceleration and looking ahead. If you don’t want to hit the famous Balerno barrier that is hit with depressing frequency by very bad drivers of which the roadways abound. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3748&page=384#post-384482 Thu, 28 May 2026 11:34:22 +0000 chdot 384482@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>“</p> <p>Well road.cc reader Jack has alerted us to one motorist so tired of being told to stop blocking the pavement, and covering her neighbour’s drive, that she’s gone to the press! </p> <p>BBC Bristol’s headline ‘Why I should be able to park across my neighbour’s drive’ also seems to make relative light of the issue of blocking almost the entire pavement, seemingly preventing anyone on a mobility scooter from passing through without ramming into a hedge </p> <p>“</p> <p><a href="https://road.cc/news/cycling-live-blog-28-may-2026" rel="nofollow">https://road.cc/news/cycling-live-blog-28-may-2026</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3748&page=384#post-384477 Wed, 27 May 2026 19:25:24 +0000 chdot 384477@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>“</p> <p>Major rail disruption affecting Edinburgh after vehicle strikes bridge at Dunbar</p> <p>“</p> <p><a href="https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/major-disruption-between-edinburgh-and-berwick-upon-tweed-after-8643639" rel="nofollow">https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/major-disruption-between-edinburgh-and-berwick-upon-tweed-after-8643639</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3748&page=384#post-384384 Thu, 21 May 2026 11:48:44 +0000 Frenchy 384384@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Makes a change from it being the Cameron Toll bridge, I suppose. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3748&page=384#post-384382 Thu, 21 May 2026 11:27:00 +0000 chdot 384382@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Not quite the same sort of rubbish driving, but definitely ‘driver error’</p> <p><a href="https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/lorry-strikes-bridge-causing-major-rail-disruption-between-edinburgh-and-glasgow-8556097" rel="nofollow">https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/lorry-strikes-bridge-causing-major-rail-disruption-between-edinburgh-and-glasgow-8556097</a></p> <p>Trains disrupted for about an hour </p>