http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Murrayfield this evening (Tues 3rd) - avoid? en Mon, 18 May 2026 16:46:39 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12915&page=2#post-161361 Wed, 06 Aug 2014 18:36:20 +0000 chdot 161361@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Celtic tonight. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12915&page=2#post-155869 Wed, 04 Jun 2014 15:15:28 +0000 Focus 155869@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I suspect the Misplaced Affection gig was the cause of <em>two cars with in 90 seconds</em> blocking my driveway last night!</p> <p>I came out for an evening ride along the tram route to Edinburgh Park and back to find a guy <em>sleeping in the back seat</em> of his car! I asked through his partly open window if he realised he was blocking a driveway and he got out (after putting shoes on) to moan that he's already been there for ages (as if that made it ok), and then swore that I was only wanting a bike out. I told him there was no need to swear and that I was only politely asking him to move. He continued to moan and drove completely away. So he wasn't that desperate for a parking spot after all.</p> <p>I rode round the block just in case he was bloody-minded enough to come back, and as I returned 90 seconds later I found a big white Mercedes now blocking my drive! Stopping alongside him, I asked if <em>he</em> realised he was blocking a driveway. "What driveway?" he asked! I pointed, "That one, with the two gates" He then said I was giving him attitude! :-o He then made the mistake of saying he gets the same problem (really?), so I said he should therefore understand my frustration, especially as he was the second person I'd had to move in a couple of minutes. He continued to be the one with bad attitude as he drove off, which I was happy to remind him of.</p> <p>What is most annoying is hat there was sufficient space on the road to stop without blocking anyone's access to their property. The selfishness of some motorists... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12915&page=2#post-155804 Wed, 04 Jun 2014 08:34:33 +0000 chdot 155804@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"Full trams for two solid hours"</p> <p>(Up to) two hours waiting for a tram?</p> <p>Revenue protection operating normally?? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12915&page=2#post-155803 Wed, 04 Jun 2014 08:19:55 +0000 PS 155803@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"<br /> Edinburgh Trams (@EdinburghTrams)<br /> 03/06/2014 23:48<br /> That's everyone cleared from Murrayfield as of 11.45. Full trams for two solid hours both directions.10,000 passengers at least leaving.<br /> " </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12915#post-155800 Tue, 03 Jun 2014 23:45:17 +0000 wee folding bike 155800@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Lots of girls weren't in school today, they'll probably take tomorrow off too. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12915#post-155798 Tue, 03 Jun 2014 23:34:51 +0000 chdot 155798@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"</p> <p>Art Exposure Gallery (@ArtExposureG1)<br /> 03/06/2014 23:10<br /> edinburgh traffic management is abysmal , stuck in total gridlock on Corstorphine Road while 8 cops stand and look on</p> <p>" </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12915#post-155797 Tue, 03 Jun 2014 23:33:13 +0000 chdot 155797@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"</p> <p>Marc McArdle (@marcmcardle1)<br /> 03/06/2014 23:29<br /> Edinburgh number 25 bus has moved 200 yard in 50 minutes past the pub on Gorgie with 1D traffic. Mental.</p> <p>" </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12915#post-155788 Tue, 03 Jun 2014 23:07:56 +0000 Stickman 155788@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Yep, barely moving on St John's Road, and a helicopter overhead. </p> <p>The teachers are going to be dealing with some very tired girls tomorrow. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12915#post-155787 Tue, 03 Jun 2014 23:06:42 +0000 KarenJS 155787@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>And no cows in sight... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12915#post-155786 Tue, 03 Jun 2014 23:05:46 +0000 KarenJS 155786@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Appears to be gridlock in gorgie now. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12915#post-155777 Tue, 03 Jun 2014 20:34:20 +0000 HankChief 155777@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-27689000">Cow on M8 outside Edinburgh sparks One Direction traffic chaos</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12915#post-155776 Tue, 03 Jun 2014 20:26:03 +0000 Baldcyclist 155776@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Yes, I found it pretty amazing that a cow could cause a traffic jam in the wrong direction!</p> <p>"<br /> The startled calf caused long tailbacks from Junction 3 Livingston through to Hermiston Gait.<br /> "</p> <p>Now surely a cow causing traffic congestion city bound, would cause a queue towards Bathgate, not Edinburgh?</p> <p>Mind you a headline of "Cow causes amusement for drivers stuck at back of One Direction queue" doesn't have the same ring to it... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12915#post-155775 Tue, 03 Jun 2014 20:20:44 +0000 chdot 155775@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"</p> <p>But those coming from outside the city had worse to contend with after a cow wandered onto the M8 at Livingston</p> <p>"</p> <p><a href="http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/one-direction-murrayfield-gig-causes-traffic-chaos-1-3431956" rel="nofollow">http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/one-direction-murrayfield-gig-causes-traffic-chaos-1-3431956</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12915#post-155765 Tue, 03 Jun 2014 19:26:48 +0000 Baldcyclist 155765@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I thought Uni to Wester Coates was OK, given none of the cars could move, no one was trying to kill me. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12915#post-155764 Tue, 03 Jun 2014 19:17:42 +0000 MeepMeep 155764@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>SRD: but "that's what makes [it] beautiful"... ;o) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12915#post-155763 Tue, 03 Jun 2014 19:16:23 +0000 MeepMeep 155763@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Agree with Stickman. No guarantee that other routes skirting Murrayfield were/are going to be any better as muppet pedestrianism and vehicular gridlock surrounds the stadium on all sides. At kicking out time expect stressed parents from trusting sprogs to attend a concert 'on their own', and more gridlock on Slateford Road, Glasgow Road and the WAR. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12915#post-155762 Tue, 03 Jun 2014 19:15:32 +0000 SRD 155762@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>It's started. 7yo informing us what the songs are. It's going to be a long night. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12915#post-155757 Tue, 03 Jun 2014 17:58:28 +0000 Stickman 155757@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Avoid-avoid-avoid-avoid. </p> <p>Haymarket to Murrayfield just mental. </p> <p>People stepping off the pavement with no warning, cars dropping off weans in the middle of the road with doors being flung open, stupid u-turns and the bus lane full of parked coaches. </p> <p> I'm glad to be home and am bolting the doors and pulling up the drawbridge. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12915#post-155749 Tue, 03 Jun 2014 16:22:52 +0000 wee folding bike 155749@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>School was distinctly light on girls today. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12915#post-155746 Tue, 03 Jun 2014 16:01:41 +0000 Charlethepar 155746@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I'll be keeping well clear. Some of the sound is bound to leak out. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12915#post-155742 Tue, 03 Jun 2014 15:28:01 +0000 MeepMeep 155742@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Wingpig - you remember correctly. I think it was run by the Samaritans. I remember that they split up the week my Mum had submitted a birthday wish in the birthday notice pages of Smash Hits for me but it was pulled before publication to be replaced by pages for outpourings of grief from distraught Take That-ers.</p> <p>I've got to go to the SRU shop straight from work so will report back on childcare dumping ground status later. Will also report on the number of 11 years smoking suspicious-looking and -smelling cigarettes. ;o) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12915#post-155738 Tue, 03 Jun 2014 15:08:17 +0000 chdot 155738@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"when all this were fields"</p> <p>Gracie or WC? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12915#post-155736 Tue, 03 Jun 2014 15:02:49 +0000 wingpig 155736@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Take That had an actual helpline set up when they split up, IIRC. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12915#post-155732 Tue, 03 Jun 2014 14:47:37 +0000 Arellcat 155732@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Bless the little One Direction fans. Nothing changes in fandom though. 'We' had Bros, and then Take That, back in the day when all this were fields, etc. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12915#post-155729 Tue, 03 Jun 2014 14:38:21 +0000 wingpig 155729@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Lots of what I would assume to be members of the primary target demographic of The One Dimension were moving west along Shandwick Place just now. One colleague's daughter is apparently getting a half-day off school to go. I thought schools were supposed to be quite strict these days about pupils skiving for insufficiently acceptable reasons? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12915#post-155722 Tue, 03 Jun 2014 14:04:29 +0000 ARobComp 155722@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I was awoken at 6am by young ladies arriving to join the queue and loudly walking past my SOs house... </p> <p>There was a father dropping off a car load at 7:20 when we left for work. He was asking the steward where to deposit them. The roads have been cleared a-la match day and the road will be closed from 10-10 I think. Moved SO's car quite far around the corner. </p> <p>Seemingly there were people trying to set up camp in roseburn park so as to be at the front of the queue this morning. </p> <p>So in summary parents are using the queue as child care, and Directioners are mental. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12915#post-155720 Tue, 03 Jun 2014 14:00:23 +0000 RJ 155720@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Surrounding streets already had "no parking cones" deployed this morning ... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12915#post-155718 Tue, 03 Jun 2014 13:48:55 +0000 Stickman 155718@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Will the local residents be more upset by One Direction fans than when Oasis played there years ago? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12915#post-155717 Tue, 03 Jun 2014 13:47:03 +0000 HankChief 155717@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@kappers <em> Surrounding streets to be used as car parks?</em></p> <p>Won't it be worse than that with hundreds/thousands of parents sitting with their engines idling while they wait for the concert to finish and then driving round slowly trying find them. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12915#post-155711 Tue, 03 Jun 2014 13:36:05 +0000 kaputnik 155711@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>A tram takes about 200 people I think. It will take a lot of trams to move 60,000 screaming teenagers. They're going to have to bump up the every 12 minutes frequency to shift even a fraction of the attendees.</p> <p>Surrounding streets to be used as car parks? </p>