http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Dismount en Fri, 22 May 2026 04:31:55 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10592#post-116235 Fri, 28 Jun 2013 15:57:15 +0000 steveo 116235@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Yeah I'm never sure why they're not "cyclists rejoin main carriage way" signs </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10592#post-116234 Fri, 28 Jun 2013 15:51:22 +0000 Min 116234@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>A simple "End of cycle path, you are now being dumped onto the wrong side of the road" sign would be much less ambiguous. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10592#post-116233 Fri, 28 Jun 2013 15:43:54 +0000 Wilmington's Cow 116233@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Hmmm, interesting reading of it which could be true - although having seen 100s of cyclists dismount signs where that very clearly isn't the message I do suspect (though this is only supposition) that's not the case here either. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10592#post-116231 Fri, 28 Jun 2013 15:25:57 +0000 Baldcyclist 116231@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>regarding original image, doesn't that sign simply say.... 'If you intend to carry on your journey using this infrastructure which is no longer shared (ie The Path), please dismount.' </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10592#post-116179 Fri, 28 Jun 2013 11:04:52 +0000 gdm 116179@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>The St Andrews Sq lane is a prime example of the lack of joined-up provision. It's all very well designing something that works along the single straight line of a block but it all fizzles out to nothing the second you come to a junction. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10592#post-116167 Fri, 28 Jun 2013 10:05:12 +0000 gkgk 116167@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Re the Dismount one: I wonder how they do the accounting for these bits of out-of-the-way pavement where they paint a bike path on for each 20m section between junctions. Would the entire cost be chalked up as bike investment, or just the sign and paint, I wonder. It'd be a quick way to claim to be spending 5% of transport budget on bike stuff. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10592#post-116163 Fri, 28 Jun 2013 09:59:03 +0000 DaveC 116163@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I cycle on the North side of St Andrew Sq a little when I come in over Dean Bridge and along George St. The real problem there is the entrance to North St Andrew Sq from north bound on the the Sq (George St etc) as the west end of North St Andrew Sq is still a temporary mess of non pedestrian/cyclist friendly lights. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10592#post-116162 Fri, 28 Jun 2013 09:53:08 +0000 Min 116162@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I suppose we should be grateful that they have actually put a dropped kerb in. Nice puddle to go along with it too. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10592#post-116155 Fri, 28 Jun 2013 09:47:36 +0000 BenN 116155@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@fimm - I noticed that cycle path too the other day, well out of the door zone, but then noticed that at either end of that parking area is a large pavement build out that comes to the inner edge of the cycle path; thus all they have done is drawn the path in a straight line rather than swerve it back in be closer to the parking. You can guarantee that if the pavements only stuck out as far as the edge of the parking, that's where the cycle path would be... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10592#post-116151 Fri, 28 Jun 2013 09:35:18 +0000 Calum 116151@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Facility of the Month beckons... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10592#post-116148 Fri, 28 Jun 2013 09:15:03 +0000 Wilmington's Cow 116148@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"<em>Cycle facilities will be provided where it is easy to provide them, not where they are most needed</em>".</p> <p>Aye. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10592#post-116146 Fri, 28 Jun 2013 09:12:06 +0000 AKen 116146@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>The thing is, the road itself can only be used by buses, taxis, and bikes, so I'm not sure there's a need for an off-road cyclepath - </em></p> <p>It perhaps follows the fundamental rule of cycle-facility provision in the UK, that is "Cycle facilities will be provided where it is easy to provide them, not where they are most needed". </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10592#post-116141 Fri, 28 Jun 2013 09:03:19 +0000 Wilmington's Cow 116141@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>The thing is, the road itself can only be used by buses, taxis, and bikes, so I'm not sure there's a need for an off-road cyclepath - maybe the route will start to get busier once fully, properly, open. I just stuck to the road, though aware an off-road option, no matter how quiet the road, may encourage others to ride.</p> <p>The road itself has two pinch points created, with different direction priorities - again not sure those are particularly necessary. But since there's an off road path I can only assume that's why the build outs to create the pinch points don't have bike cut-throughs. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10592#post-116137 Fri, 28 Jun 2013 08:45:26 +0000 Rabid Hamster 116137@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Re Niddry to NRIE: That's utter cr*p! I'm gobsmacked that CTP money gets spent so badly by our wonderful Council! Mibbe the road infrastructure designers need to consult potential users? Or I could be wrong, and this is another 'stop gap' till a bigger infrastructure project sweeps over it? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10592#post-116135 Fri, 28 Jun 2013 08:35:12 +0000 fimm 116135@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>On the other hand, I found this:<br /> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/f_m_m/9155648574/"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7427/9155648574_b5587543f5.jpg"></a><br /> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/f_m_m/9155648574/">IMAG0817</a><br /> My boyfriend couldn't work out why I was getting so excited :o) I bet it has been there for ages but I'd never noticed before. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10592#post-116126 Fri, 28 Jun 2013 05:53:56 +0000 Smudge 116126@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Is there an easy way to complain about pointless/incorrect signs? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10592#post-116119 Thu, 27 Jun 2013 23:31:27 +0000 Snowy 116119@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>That is just laziness of the highest order. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10592#post-116085 Thu, 27 Jun 2013 21:10:10 +0000 kaputnik 116085@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"we couldn't be bothered building any more path, so just get ye back into the traffic now, and have a shot at getting your wheel stuck in the drain in the process". And nothing to slow traffic down approaching the junction either. You're on your own.</p> <p>Amazingly, this is better than provision on Broomhouse Path, but that just speaks volumes of the latter. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10592#post-116083 Thu, 27 Jun 2013 20:53:53 +0000 Wilmington's Cow 116083@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/blackpuddinonnabike/9153556064/"><img src="http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3715/9153556064_04c71558a0.jpg"></a><br /> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/blackpuddinonnabike/9153556064/">dismount</a> by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/blackpuddinonnabike/">blackpuddinonnabike</a>, on Flickr</p> <p>I will never understand this. You're leaving a shared use path (this is the new bit from NRIE to Niddry), to go onto the road, where you're entitled to cycle, and you're told to dismount. I mean, if you were on a side road you wouldn't have to dismount to leave that side road to join the main road.... </p>