http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: "Teen assaulted and robbed on Blackhall cycle path" (walking) en Fri, 22 May 2026 08:11:39 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14065#post-174641 Thu, 04 Dec 2014 18:11:27 +0000 fimm 174641@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I must have cycled along the cycle path about 8:15 on Wednesday. Didn't notice anything suspicious. Just some cyclists! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14065#post-174636 Thu, 04 Dec 2014 17:49:57 +0000 Dave 174636@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>My better half doesn't use the path even though she has a weekly journey that basically goes from one end of it to the other, on safety grounds. (Drives instead).</p> <p>I haven't really noticed it to be too bad at the times I'm commuting, even the videos of people stealing motorbikes when I watched them back made me realise that actually they were posing just about zero threat to me. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14065#post-174629 Thu, 04 Dec 2014 17:20:58 +0000 dougal 174629@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@threefromleith Next time a bit of <a href="http://homepage.ntlworld.com/jimmy_fatwing/SelfProtection/cycle.htm">bicyclist self-defence is in order</a>?</p> <p>Obviously I hope there is no "next time"... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14065#post-174608 Thu, 04 Dec 2014 14:36:53 +0000 threefromleith 174608@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I was once on the same bridge fixing a puncture (in summer) and set off sharpish before fully inflating the tyre after overhearing two passing junkie-types discussing who was going to belt me with the pole one was carrying and who was going to grab my bike... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14065#post-174607 Thu, 04 Dec 2014 14:35:19 +0000 stiltskin 174607@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Within sight of my kitchen window (assuming they mean the viaduct and not the bridge over the A8)<br /> I always tend to think that the Roseburn end of the path is 'safe':-( </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14065#post-174604 Thu, 04 Dec 2014 14:30:29 +0000 DaveC 174604@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Hope they catch the culprits, though even I chose not to walk alone in some places!</p> <p>That Wester Coates Terr is a 'well dodgy area'! Some locals only have a 63 plate Range Rover Evoke! Imagine the shame!! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14065#post-174586 Thu, 04 Dec 2014 14:06:10 +0000 threefromleith 174586@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Good old EEN - surely the Wester Coates Terrace entrance is onto the Roseburn Path? It even says so on Google Maps.... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14065#post-174553 Thu, 04 Dec 2014 12:14:09 +0000 chdot 174553@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"</p> <p>The incident happened just after 9pm on the Blackhall cycle path.</p> <p>A 16-year-old was walking home and entered the path at Wester Coates Terrace when he saw three males standing on the bridge area.</p> <p>"<br /> <a href="http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/crime/teen-assaulted-and-robbed-on-blackhall-cycle-path-1-3624861" rel="nofollow">http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/crime/teen-assaulted-and-robbed-on-blackhall-cycle-path-1-3624861</a> </p>