http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Aberlady "cycle lanes" en Sun, 17 May 2026 13:04:33 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11295#post-127437 Tue, 08 Oct 2013 10:00:03 +0000 crowriver 127437@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I usually turn off at Aberlady to use the minor back roads, at least on the way out, as I find the coast road too busy with leisure drivers. Probably all ferrying their dogs to nature reserves (now that <em>is</em> a waste of money: the ferrying that is). </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11295#post-127411 Mon, 07 Oct 2013 23:41:30 +0000 kaputnik 127411@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@edd1e_h the problem is that the "lanes" are being used as parking spaces, therefore forcing cyclists out into the "middle of the road" and I am sure will cause more aggro from the "nice run down the coast" brigade who insist on tailgaiting cyclists all the way down the coast road (when there's a taxpayer funded A1 dual carriageway that they could use.) and then passing them on the double solid lines through Longniddry bents. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11295#post-127399 Mon, 07 Oct 2013 20:57:15 +0000 neddie 127399@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Haven't seen the lanes, but could they at least provide some 'virtual road narrowing' &amp; therefore traffic calming effect?</p> <p>(Like those ones on the Dutch country lane, in the aviewfromthecyclepath blog, that someone posted on here not long ago) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11295#post-127366 Mon, 07 Oct 2013 16:16:37 +0000 kaputnik 127366@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Apparently it's called an "edge line", official diagram number 1012.1 TSGD 2002.</p> <p>Looking through previous posts, here's the explanation from Arellcat;</p> <p><em>The solid white line is Diagram 1012.1 (TSR &amp; GD 2002) and is to mark (a) the edge of the carriageway available for through traffic other than at a road junction, an exit from a private drive onto a public road or a lay-by, (b) the back edge of a hard shoulder, and (c) the edge of a footway where it passes over a railway or tramway level crossing. Diagram 1012.1 is not associated with parking restrictions.</em> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11295#post-127362 Mon, 07 Oct 2013 16:07:06 +0000 amir 127362@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Oh well. Can you remember if this has changed? My memory tells me that it used to mean no stopping - and there were dashed lines over entrances to permit access. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11295#post-127360 Mon, 07 Oct 2013 15:56:43 +0000 Roibeard 127360@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Sorry guys, the solid white line is the "edge of carriageway" line.</p> <p><a href="http://www.direct.gov.uk/prod_consum_dg/groups/dg_digitalassets/@dg/@en/documents/digitalasset/dg_070563.pdf">Highway Code Road Markings</a></p> <p>In most cases these do not denote a mandatory cycle lane of minuscule width...</p> <p>Robert </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11295#post-127354 Mon, 07 Oct 2013 15:20:55 +0000 amir 127354@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>That's what I am saying - I think the solid white line may have become redundant as I can't see it in the online highway code.</p> <p>Of course the councils are rarely brave enough to have mandatory lanes. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11295#post-127352 Mon, 07 Oct 2013 15:10:21 +0000 kaputnik 127352@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I would say that the road's actually fairly wide here.</p> <p>Lanes were definitely brand new as the contractors chalk lines and marks were still visible underneath the paint.</p> <p>Looking at streetview, there used to be a solid white line between kerb and road, does that mean "no stopping"? There is no longer any inside solid white line, just the dashed line for the lane.</p> <p>perhaps it's all a clever ploy by EL Council to allow removal of the solid white line, allow parking at Luffness and simultaneously claim to be improving cycling facilities! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11295#post-127351 Mon, 07 Oct 2013 15:05:19 +0000 amir 127351@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>There used to be white lines along the side of the road - I wonder if these have been rubbed out or covered by the recent resurfacing. However I can't find a reference to these any more in the Highway Code.</p> <p>They used to be accompany by a no stopping sign. You get vehicles stopped on the side of roads in inappropriate places, usually to answer phones nowadays. At Aberlady, you often get cars on the pavement - not nice for the pedestrians.</p> <p>Anyway back to the Aberlady lanes - I thought that these were wider than usual but often the best line for a cycle is outside the lines. It is interesting that the length of cycle lanes is so restricted - is the road "too narrow" in other places? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11295#post-127343 Mon, 07 Oct 2013 14:24:58 +0000 DaveC 127343@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>... and yet stray just a foot out of these cycle lanes and drivers toot at you and gesture you have to ride 'in the lanes'!! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11295#post-127340 Mon, 07 Oct 2013 14:14:22 +0000 kaputnik 127340@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Heading out on weekend towards North Berwick, noticed just after the dogleg turn at Aberlady that the council have helpfully painted a gutter lane in either direction as far as the junction for Myreton Motor Museum.</p> <p>Noted also that for about 100m either side of Luffness nature reserve that a combination of the verge and/or footpath and the cycle lane was being used for parking. I may have been overloud in repeating within earshot of various persons unloading dogs from their cars that it's a waste of money to paint cycle lanes if they're just going to be used as parking spaces.</p> <p>A kind of pointless gesture given there's no enforcement / obligation not to park in them here, and the verge is usually parked out on a day when it's not rainy or baltic. But I suppose EL Council can say in their 2013 "sustainable transport" return that they've been "building cycle lanes". </p>