http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: "Glasgow 2014: Closure of bike routes ‘absurd’ " en Mon, 18 May 2026 16:12:57 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13027#post-158291 Mon, 30 Jun 2014 10:10:02 +0000 Tulyar 158291@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Agreed - so much hot air and no serious thought about venue connections.</p> <p>Example 1 - route between Parkhead (Velodrome/Emirates etc) and City Centre, circuitous and piecemeal. I predict at least a couple of cycle injury crashes related to poor design detail on London Road half-done segregated lane (riding in to kerbs or bollards)</p> <p>Example 2 The Hydro (and SECC) despite being less than 100m from Finnieston Station (Exhibition Centre might fail Trades Descriptions Act test?) here is no route directly to the station (one could be delivered (just) using existing bridges and structures) The SECC link to the station doesn't actually connect with either, and is an embarassment - especially when measured against the connection between the NEC and Birmingham International.</p> <p>As for the Connect 2 route in to the city centre, the concept is good but the overkill with traffic signals destroys its convenience and time savings. Most of the traffic signals can be replaced by Give Way markings, and given the lack of any reliability in the detectors at some of the signalled junctions, using 'give way' or even combining the cycle phase with a general traffic phase offers a win-win of not holding back motor traffic for an unused cycle phase, and not holding back cycle traffic for lack of detection. I think that sometimes traffic signals are the outlet for boys (and some girls) who never had a big enough train set to play with when they were younger &lt;ducks&gt; and just want to have total control over all flows of all traffic (hence guardrailing, green men, countdown displays etc).</p> <p>Perhaps a new thread on a psychiatric analysis on traffic engineers and the Cnut/Canute syndrome (a misguided belief that they can control traffic flows using signs, lines, and coloured lights) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13027#post-158257 Sat, 28 Jun 2014 20:03:43 +0000 drnoble 158257@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Doesn't surprise me at all. GCC would regularly close off NCN75 through Glasgow Green whenever there was an event on, and there was never a signed diversion (or even notice that the path was closed until you got to the security folk asking where your ticket was!</p> <p>Hardly doing anything to promote sustainable transport though. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13027#post-158252 Sat, 28 Jun 2014 17:04:20 +0000 chdot 158252@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"<br /> Green Glasgow (@greenglasgow)<br /> 27/06/2014 15:55<br /> 'Sustainability at the core of #glasgow's #CommonwealthGames bid' John Mason Head of Business @Glasgow2014 explains. pic.twitter.com/gjZAkXMgtC</p> <p>" </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13027#post-157646 Sun, 22 Jun 2014 13:19:20 +0000 chdot 157646@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"<br /> COMMONWEALTH Games organisers have been criticised for closing major cycle routes and siting bike parking up to half a mile from venues – despite urging spectators to pedal to events.</p> <p>Three sections of the national cycle network (NCN) in Glasgow, used by hundreds of cyclists a day, will be shut during the Games for venue security. A stretch of route seven along the Clyde beside the SECC – a traffic-free path into the city centre from the West End – will be cordoned off, even though it is outside the venue’s security perimeter.</p> <p>"</p> <p><a href="http://www.scotsman.com/news/transport/glasgow-2014-closure-of-bike-routes-absurd-1-3452730" rel="nofollow">http://www.scotsman.com/news/transport/glasgow-2014-closure-of-bike-routes-absurd-1-3452730</a> </p>