http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Access to Canonmills Tesco en Tue, 19 May 2026 17:49:55 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14642&page=2#post-296988 Tue, 04 Dec 2018 19:55:23 +0000 chdot 296988@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="https://twitter.com/cllrcmiller/status/1070004960086122497" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/cllrcmiller/status/1070004960086122497</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14642#post-296984 Tue, 04 Dec 2018 18:52:40 +0000 the canuck 296984@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>WR comely bank could use more cycle locks, but the ones currently there don't seem to stop rule 2 eejits locking up in the wheelchair access ramps. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14642#post-296919 Tue, 04 Dec 2018 00:33:54 +0000 chdot 296919@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Further reply from Iain Whyte about Craigleith/Sainsbury’s -</p> <p><a href="https://twitter.com/cllrwhyte/status/1069735669080182784" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/cllrwhyte/status/1069735669080182784</a></p> <p>Previous thread -</p> <p><a href="http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16940" rel="nofollow">http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16940</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14642#post-296917 Tue, 04 Dec 2018 00:18:16 +0000 chdot 296917@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Not complaining or questioning validity.</p> <p>Thread moved on.</p> <p>Another Conservative has joined in</p> <p>“<br /> If it was Sainsbury’s Blackhall, Waitrose Comely Bank or Scotmid Hamilton Place I’d be happy to lead.</p> <p>“</p> <p><a href="https://twitter.com/cllrwhyte/status/1069728204661895168" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/cllrwhyte/status/1069728204661895168</a></p> <p>Sainsbury’s Blackhall mmm (goes to look for other thread!)</p> <p>And now LW Green -</p> <p>“</p> <p>I already have an idea of where to start with this. Am in the office tomorrow so can make a start.</p> <p>“</p> <p><a href="https://twitter.com/susan4leithwalk/status/1069730320788963328" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/susan4leithwalk/status/1069730320788963328</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14642#post-296913 Mon, 03 Dec 2018 22:37:09 +0000 Murun Buchstansangur 296913@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>So are you going to chase the 4 Leith Walk councillors who, 2 days in, haven't responded at all (a Green councillor amongst them) or just complain about the 2 non-Tesco ward Tories who have at least given (valid-ish) responses, even if they're not to your liking? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14642#post-296911 Mon, 03 Dec 2018 22:20:10 +0000 chdot 296911@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Response just in!</p> <p><a href="https://twitter.com/CllrWhyte/status/1069701581304709120" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/CllrWhyte/status/1069701581304709120</a></p> <p>Personally I think this is buckpassing.</p> <p>Iain promoted the idea of hire bikes years ago (<em>before Boris</em>) - so not just about his ward.</p> <p>At least he supports cycling.</p> <p>Maybe get Nick on the case?? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14642#post-296910 Mon, 03 Dec 2018 22:14:00 +0000 chdot 296910@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>For local, I suggest that old fashioned thing - a letter, asking for a meeting! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14642#post-296907 Mon, 03 Dec 2018 22:00:43 +0000 dessert rat 296907@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>is there a local contact for that (any) Tesco ? Happy to take time to explain the issue. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14642#post-296903 Mon, 03 Dec 2018 21:48:56 +0000 chdot 296903@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>“who do we need to harangue? I am happy to pester people”</p> <p>“Presumably Tesco, possibly via sympathetic local councillors (Susan Rae?).”</p> <p>Yes, but Tesco clearly don’t understand/care.</p> <p>Are those stupid red things ignorance or contempt?</p> <p>Cllrs Mowat and Osler have responded to this -</p> <p><a href="https://twitter.com/cyclingedin/status/1068797008163598336" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/cyclingedin/status/1068797008163598336</a></p> <p>Will be interesting to see if this gets a reply -</p> <p><a href="https://twitter.com/cyclingedin/status/1069693255154049024" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/cyclingedin/status/1069693255154049024</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14642#post-296885 Mon, 03 Dec 2018 18:15:17 +0000 Frenchy 296885@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Presumably Tesco, possibly via sympathetic local councillors (Susan Rae?). </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14642#post-296884 Mon, 03 Dec 2018 18:12:11 +0000 dessert rat 296884@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>who do we need to harangue? I am happy to pester people </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14642#post-296883 Mon, 03 Dec 2018 18:07:44 +0000 McD 296883@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Action anybody? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14642#post-296821 Sun, 02 Dec 2018 09:45:57 +0000 gembo 296821@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I think canonmills Tesco was first Edinburgh supermarket with covered racks. Always rammed. The racks came out of the ground with sheer volume of use. They did fix them but have struggled to increase volume. Despite the opening of the Rodney street tunnel. The red things are hopeless. The big issue vendor used to look after your bike if you were just nipping in. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14642#post-296809 Sat, 01 Dec 2018 19:45:56 +0000 dessert rat 296809@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Yup racks are rubbish as well. One near the entrance which is always overfull and some pathetic red BSO thing right at the pedestrian pinchpoint towards the carpark - never seen a single bike on that one. They dgaf unless you're driving. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14642#post-296789 Sat, 01 Dec 2018 10:21:50 +0000 chdot 296789@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="https://twitter.com/cyclingedin/status/1068797008163598336" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/cyclingedin/status/1068797008163598336</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14642#post-296787 Sat, 01 Dec 2018 09:38:49 +0000 chdot 296787@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>STILL unsorted. </p> <p><img src="https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4806/32251507188_8f5976121e_z.jpg"></p> <p>Why does Tesco care so little for people who arrive on foot from New Town and North Ed?</p> <p>Why is CEC so keen on <a href="http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=746&amp;page=388#post-296785">promoting ‘technological solutions’</a> rather than enabling existing ‘active travellers’?? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14642#post-185217 Tue, 07 Apr 2015 15:47:17 +0000 BenN 185217@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Also, just to keep the anti-this-store vibe going, the silly big wooden Tesco sign at the entrance completely obscures the dropped kerb at the top of the slope from left turning traffic:</p> <p><a href="https://goo.gl/maps/ykKDK" rel="nofollow">https://goo.gl/maps/ykKDK</a></p> <p>My solution is to have myself of the wife push the massive toddler-buggy across whilst the the other stands two metres uphill in the middle of the access road to stop traffic. Seriously.</p> <p>Have written to them about this, but was so pleased that we got the Big Hello of Death moved that I didn't push it. Now may be the time! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14642#post-185181 Tue, 07 Apr 2015 11:11:23 +0000 chdot 185181@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"I assume as cars can carry more away from Tesco they prefer customers to arrive by car, or better still van!"</p> <p>Yes</p> <p>BUT</p> <p>(My bold)</p> <p>"</p> <p>These changes, experienced by all the "Big Four" supermarkets, suggest that the era of the once-a-week big shop is nearing an end. People are tending to buy less but are shopping more frequently and have "segmented" their shopping, buying items from different places based on either price or <strong>convenience</strong>.</p> <p>"</p> <p><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-29442383" rel="nofollow">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-29442383</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14642#post-185177 Tue, 07 Apr 2015 11:01:20 +0000 kaputnik 185177@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>Now you are at it too! ;-)</em></p> <p>Indeed. Hoisted by my own pedantic petard.</p> <p><em>I assume as cars can carry more away from Tesco they prefer customers to arrive by car, or better still van</em></p> <p>Silly Tesco. Cyclists get to eat more, they should be encouraging people with transportation-induced appetites. Cake sales could be quadrupled! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14642#post-185174 Tue, 07 Apr 2015 10:48:37 +0000 DaveC 185174@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I assume as cars can carry more away from Tesco they prefer customers to arrive by car, or better still van! ;O) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14642#post-185173 Tue, 07 Apr 2015 10:47:37 +0000 chdot 185173@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canonmills" rel="nofollow">http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canonmills</a></p> <p>For extra completion CM PS closed in the '50s. </p> <p>Building is now flats (previously Canonmills Special School) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14642#post-185169 Tue, 07 Apr 2015 10:39:35 +0000 Min 185169@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>Ca<strong>nn</strong>onmill's</em></p> <p>Now you are at it too! ;-) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14642#post-185160 Tue, 07 Apr 2015 10:04:17 +0000 SRD 185160@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Agree. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14642#post-185159 Tue, 07 Apr 2015 10:03:32 +0000 kaputnik 185159@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>Tesco's</em> is bad enough on an "official" sign, but <em>Cannonmill's</em> is inexcusable. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14642#post-185156 Tue, 07 Apr 2015 09:56:49 +0000 chdot 185156@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"I am pretty sure that is not actually one-way. It just looks like it is."</p> <p>Well it's private land so no idea if a one-way is 'legal', there are a <em>couple</em> of signs -</p> <p><img src="https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7710/16442068124_387947a97e.jpg"></p> <p><img src="https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8722/16444360653_96b74566ef.jpg"></p> <p>(And room for a contra-flow cycle lane.) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14642#post-185155 Tue, 07 Apr 2015 09:53:34 +0000 SRD 185155@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Presume hedge mutilated to make people feel safer? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14642#post-185153 Tue, 07 Apr 2015 09:46:59 +0000 Min 185153@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>Also, as the road-way in is one-way from Broughton Road it feels like you're going the wrong way when trundling over from any of the path-access points.</em></p> <p>I am pretty sure that is not actually one-way. It just looks like it is. The bin lorries and a few other things go in and out the same way. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14642#post-185152 Tue, 07 Apr 2015 09:44:46 +0000 chdot 185152@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>The Google StreetView car managed to catch a couple of bikes!</p> <p><img src="https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8820/17038455436_861c492af3.jpg"></p> <p><img src="https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8781/16441993714_4a8f06a6a8.jpg"></p> <p>And when the hedge was in better nick. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14642#post-185149 Tue, 07 Apr 2015 09:02:19 +0000 wingpig 185149@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Also, as the road-way in is one-way from Broughton Road it feels like you're going the wrong way when trundling over from any of the path-access points.</p> <p>When I was there on Friday afternoovening the shed-racks were full, the red stands empty and every white pillar along the side of the car park path had a bike on. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14642#post-185142 Tue, 07 Apr 2015 07:40:06 +0000 gembo 185142@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>The original bike sheds, one of the first covered racks at Tesco canonmills has had another rack put outside and the curious red wheel benders that no one uses. These factoids plus your photojournalism suggest the winner is..... </p>