http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: George Street - Very Slippery en Mon, 18 May 2026 18:08:46 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14108#post-175710 Fri, 12 Dec 2014 17:46:06 +0000 Cyclingmollie 175710@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>We walked along the roads last night on the way to/from the school concert. They had been treated; the pavements hadn't. Musselburgh has only had 2,000 years of pedestrianisation to get it right. TIM. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14108#post-175700 Fri, 12 Dec 2014 15:32:41 +0000 cc 175700@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>On my most memorable sighting of a council mini-tractor, it was being driven by a bored teenage boy. Definitely male. He'd got carried away - the thing was meant to be clearing snow off the pavements, but the driver seemed so bored that he'd simply floored the throttle to get the ordeal over with as quickly as possible. The result was that the mini-tractor was going so fast that it was bouncing <em>over</em> the accumulated snow, leaping and jumping crazily along the pavement at top speed - pedestrians were screaming and diving into the road to escape being flattened ... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14108#post-175697 Fri, 12 Dec 2014 15:13:34 +0000 kaputnik 175697@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>OK to balance things out - why can't we get a big lady out from the council with a <strong>MINI TRACTOR</strong>.</p> <p>Anyone know the current furryboots of the <strong>FLEET OF MINI TRACTORS</strong>. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14108#post-175686 Fri, 12 Dec 2014 14:28:11 +0000 Ed1 175686@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Oh yes the gender stereo typing why has to be a man?, although rarely hear the OECD considering to mandate the percentage of road diggers that should be of a specific gender. Typically seems the better jobs that that become “diversity issues. </p> <p>“get a little man out with a shovel?”</p> <p>The council road worker currently for better or worse are much more likely to be a man, but the real cause for concern in this sentence "little man". -)</p> <p>There is no reason to assume that a council man with a shovel would be little in height, as oppose to large or average height. Can only assume a reference to little in status, "little people", as council man with a shovel would typically be of lower than average social economic etc. </p> <p>The only metric that could assume would typically be little in relation to the population as a whole that could be applied to council man with shovel. </p> <p>“Little” has a bourgeoisie inference, "little people", tend to think would be politer to refer to the council workers as a pleb from the council.<br /> -)</p> <p>After much deliberation “little man” may have little gender implications in this context, as the phrase” little man” does not seem exclusively gender specific. </p> <p>Although may be an assumption that a man, it may still be correct to use this term in relation to a woman ?</p> <p>"A person who conducts business or life on a small or ordinary scale; an average person."</p> <p><a href="http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/little-man" rel="nofollow">http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/little-man</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14108#post-175678 Fri, 12 Dec 2014 13:23:43 +0000 chdot 175678@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I prefer woman with shovel -</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/chdot/15710433858/"><img src="https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7483/15710433858_d28f33a820.jpg"></a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14108#post-175675 Fri, 12 Dec 2014 13:11:22 +0000 LivM 175675@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>As per the Severe Weather thread... <a href="http://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/info/20047/severe_weather/506/winter_road_and_pavement_maintenance_map">Council winter road and pavement maintenance map</a> - it still has George St in red both ways, so perhaps someone with tweeting powers could point this out to the council and get a little man out with a shovel? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14108#post-175673 Fri, 12 Dec 2014 13:07:40 +0000 I were right about that saddle 175673@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@Morningsider</p> <p>Nip in by the Antiquary if you're down that way. I'm owe you beer. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14108#post-175672 Fri, 12 Dec 2014 13:01:30 +0000 Morningsider 175672@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I'm not sure the councils were caught out. It was pretty clear yesterday afternoon that there was likely to be a hard freeze overnight - clear enough that I cleared and salted our front path yesterday evening.</p> <p>Leamington Walk was ungritted this morning. I saw one of the (very few) cyclists come off - luckily their ego was bruised more than anything else. I was on foot, in anticipation of evening drinks. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14108#post-175671 Fri, 12 Dec 2014 12:57:46 +0000 chdot 175671@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Didn't have key to bollards... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14108#post-175669 Fri, 12 Dec 2014 12:56:30 +0000 DaveC 175669@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Spoke to my mate at Fife council lastnight, and he reconded they would be better gritting the paths first, then the roads, but apparently hospitals are dead against that idea. Even hospitals appear to want to force pedestrians into their cars! over public transport.</p> <p>He won't be quoted on that though. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14108#post-175668 Fri, 12 Dec 2014 12:51:57 +0000 kaputnik 175668@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>George Street "general traffic" lanes were gritted, the cycle lane was not... They weren't so much as caught out as just weren't bothering to do that bit. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14108#post-175666 Fri, 12 Dec 2014 12:49:47 +0000 paddyirish 175666@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@DaveC </p> <p>Caught out or calculated risk (i.e.winging it) in trying to preserve limited stocks?</p> <p>Saying that, an operating gritter went past me as I was riding through Inverkeithing about 5.30 last night. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14108#post-175663 Fri, 12 Dec 2014 12:45:48 +0000 DaveC 175663@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I think most coucnils appear to have been caught out? Fife roads were icing up lastnight at middnight and not gritted or salted this morning when I left for work. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14108#post-175658 Fri, 12 Dec 2014 12:30:30 +0000 tarmac jockey 175658@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Careful if cycling on George Street - it's treacherous.</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/revstar/15816551890/" rel="nofollow">https://www.flickr.com/photos/revstar/15816551890/</a> </p>