http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: 'Spider' roads network plan for Inverness en Sun, 17 May 2026 22:37:51 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1218#post-11172 Tue, 10 Aug 2010 09:31:28 +0000 Kim 11172@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Looking at some of the things that have <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/highlands_and_islands/8046241.stm">already been done</a> and the under laying problem becomes clear. Motor vehicles are allowed access, but because there is no law of strict liability, people are frighten of vehicles.</p> <p>"With the pavements not having a kerb dropping down to the road it could be an area where children will run around and not be aware that it is still a road."</p> <p>Yes it is still a road, but we haven't got past the mind set that drivers have priority in all situation, until we do then the shared road space concept can't work.</p> <p>Nor is this helped by the current Westminster Government stated aim of <strike>declaring war on vulnerable road user</strike> "ending the war on motorist". </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1218#post-11168 Tue, 10 Aug 2010 09:16:50 +0000 Kim 11168@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Joined up thinking? "The proposals it contains update a vision drawn up in 2003." More like lack of political will, doesn't that sound familiar. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1218#post-11163 Tue, 10 Aug 2010 00:23:43 +0000 kaputnik 11163@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I looked at the cycletrack map for Edinburgh trying to make a creature in my head. All I got was a slug. Or a sort of squished midge. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1218#post-11136 Mon, 09 Aug 2010 15:16:40 +0000 chdot 11136@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"<br /> "The spider" would see main roads, streets and walkways linked up to allow access to any part of the city.</p> <p>Authors of the Inverness City Vision document said it could benefit pedestrians and cyclists.</p> <p>"</p> <p>Curiously ambiguous.</p> <p>I thought roads were linked up anyway(?)</p> <p>"could" in 2nd sentence doesn't sound too ambitious... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1218#post-11129 Mon, 09 Aug 2010 13:36:16 +0000 cb 11129@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-10895198">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-10895198</a></p> <p>"A linked up network of paths, cycle-ways and streets dubbed "the spider" could be created in Inverness to ease travel around the city."</p> <p>I wonder if this will include the new out of town Tesco where one in every three Inverness pounds is spend [needs citation]. </p>