http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Drivers turn to cycling due to traffic congestion en Wed, 13 May 2026 03:21:55 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11001#post-123140 Tue, 27 Aug 2013 10:09:43 +0000 chdot 123140@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"block the roads and people will embrace active travel"</p> <p>Yep. </p> <p>Unfortunately CEC has spent <em>years</em> apologising for the 'disruption' and saying but it's all right because the shops are still open. </p> <p>No overt 'the city centre will never been the same again. We are going to starting making walking and cycling as easy as possible while the tramwork is happening AND even better afterwards'. </p> <p>No 'secret' version of above either!</p> <p>Instead -</p> <p>Vast areas barriered off - even when little work is happening. </p> <p>No (or inadequately signed) alternative bike routes. </p> <p>Free (publicised) car parking after 5. </p> <p>There is some discussion within CEC about whether York Place should be 'just a normal road' when eventually reopened. </p> <p>I bet the 'smooth traffic flow is the priority' people win... maybe. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11001#post-123128 Tue, 27 Aug 2013 09:20:16 +0000 Roibeard 123128@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@cc - yep, one of the policies adopted in certain European cities. Make active travel routes direct and subjectively safe, coupled with making motorised journeys circuitous [1].</p> <p>The other options attempted have included flagship routes along key arteries, and a grid of active travel routes. All increased active travel's modal share, and kept motorised traffic volumes static (against a rising baseline). But only one actually reduced motorised traffic - can you guess which?</p> <p>Robert</p> <p>[1] cf UK policies of making motorised journeys direct and subjectively safe, couple with making active travel circuitous... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11001#post-123124 Tue, 27 Aug 2013 08:54:36 +0000 cc 123124@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Well, there you go - block the roads and people will embrace active travel :-) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11001#post-123119 Tue, 27 Aug 2013 08:25:20 +0000 gibbo 123119@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><blockquote>The number of people walking into the city centre has also climbed seven per cent since 2009.</p> <p>Tram works...</blockquote></p> <p>Yes, tram works. </p> <p>The reason my sister gets off the bus at the west end and walks to Meadowbank. </p> <p>The council are taking credit for making the roads a shambles. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11001#post-123097 Mon, 26 Aug 2013 17:31:31 +0000 Snowy 123097@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Nearly tweeted him but realised there is zero chance Pickles reads his own tweets.</p> <p>Stuck in his rose-tinted vision of town centres circa 1970. </p> <p>Although according to his bio, his personal approach to dealing with congestion is to have the taxpayer fund a second home for him next door to his office. </p> <p>One wouldn't want to have to travel 37 miles to work, now would one? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11001#post-123088 Mon, 26 Aug 2013 14:14:11 +0000 AKen 123088@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>meanwhile, over in Pickles land...</p> <p></em></p> <p>Eric Pickles recent series of barmy transport-related brain-farts has made me remember why I voted for a Scottish Parliament. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11001#post-123083 Mon, 26 Aug 2013 13:19:44 +0000 mgj 123083@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I like the idea that we are 'working away' on the hills and weather, as per Ian Maxwell's quote in the EEN </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11001#post-123081 Mon, 26 Aug 2013 12:39:31 +0000 minus six 123081@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>meanwhile, over in Pickles land...</p> <p><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-23837610">Ditch 'anti-car dogma' and boost parking, councils told</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11001#post-123077 Mon, 26 Aug 2013 12:28:32 +0000 ARobComp 123077@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Face palm for the guys who says "you don't have to pay road tax" </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11001#post-123076 Mon, 26 Aug 2013 12:28:30 +0000 ARobComp 123076@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Face palm for the guys who says "you don't have to pay road tax" </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11001#post-123070 Mon, 26 Aug 2013 11:24:13 +0000 crowriver 123070@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>May have been posted previously? Anyway SRD appears to be in the video.</p> <p>"COMMUTERS are turning to cycling and walking at record rates according to new figures – with levels of both booming as people become disillusioned with high car costs and traffic congestion.</p> <p>Statistics released under the council’s Active Travel Action Plan show the number of people cycling into the city centre grew by a quarter between 2009 and last year.</p> <p>This culminated in almost 1600 cyclists entering the inner city limits by bike between 8am and 9am last November, in a sign that commuters are increasingly turning away from cars and public transport to travel to work under their own steam.</p> <p>The number of people walking into the city centre has also climbed seven per cent since 2009.</p> <p>Tram works, the escalating cost of living, record petrol prices and a growing eco awareness, along with people’s awareness of the need to keep fit, have all been cited as prime catalysts for the change.</p> <p>The growing rates have also coincided with the council increasing its spending on cycling from its transport budget – cycling accounted for five per cent of the budget in 2012-13, or £957,400.</p> <p>That allocation is set to grow even further – to six per cent of the budget this financial year. An ambitious target of 15 per cent of all commuter journeys being made by bicycle by 2020 in Edinburgh is the over-arching goal."</p> <p><a href="http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/transport/drivers-turn-to-cycling-due-to-traffic-congestion-1-3059208" rel="nofollow">http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/transport/drivers-turn-to-cycling-due-to-traffic-congestion-1-3059208</a> </p>