http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Buster's Big Adventure en Tue, 19 May 2026 01:30:28 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15251#post-195089 Thu, 06 Aug 2015 15:08:10 +0000 gembo 195089@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>we used to call our middle child Buster, not sure why but it seemed to fit. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15251#post-195062 Thu, 06 Aug 2015 12:58:14 +0000 earthowned 195062@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I particularly like the bit about Duke Street:</p> <p><em>You might think this is an important A road. It isn't. It isn't even a B road. When a road this minor has traffic this bad a city is dangerously ill with car sickness. </em></p> <p><em>What on Earth is going through the minds of people who allow this? Note the children taking advantage of the queuing traffic to cross the road. There are people trying to live in this vile, polluted environment.</em></p> <p>Admittedly, it would have been better for Buster to go up Queen Charlotte St and hence to the Water of Leith but the point is still valid. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15251#post-195059 Thu, 06 Aug 2015 12:27:06 +0000 gembo 195059@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>or good stuff to which we have become inured. He loves our bitmac surfaces that guy. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15251#post-195053 Thu, 06 Aug 2015 12:01:33 +0000 wingpig 195053@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Excellent piece. Always useful to have bad stuff to which we've become inured re-highlighted. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15251#post-195051 Thu, 06 Aug 2015 11:59:18 +0000 Wilmington's Cow 195051@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Oh how good is this line....?</p> <p>"When people cycle on the pavement that is a sure-fire indication that the infrastructure design is badly wrong. If the response to this is to put up a non-standard sign that says "No cycling on footway", that's a sure-fire indication that the council knows it's done it badly wrong but doesn't respect people enough to fix the problem"</p> <p>Lots of this resonating, it's a really good piece. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15251#post-195049 Thu, 06 Aug 2015 11:54:11 +0000 chdot 195049@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"</p> <p>The tour guides will tell you about the way the streets were used as open sewers in the past. They still are, but now the sewerage is motor vehicles. There's not one road in the city centre that isn't used for motor traffic.</p> <p>" </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15251#post-195048 Thu, 06 Aug 2015 11:47:05 +0000 Min 195048@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Really excellent deconstruction of the city there. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15251#post-195042 Thu, 06 Aug 2015 11:29:11 +0000 UtrechtCyclist 195042@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I'm not sure if anyone has posted this here, but I was reading the CEoGB blog roundup and just found <a href="http://pushbikes.org.uk/blog/busters-big-adventure">this</a>. It's a blog post from someone in the Birmingham Cycling Campaign who was touring Edinburgh on a Brompton, quite a nice read! Lot's of comment on new and old infrastructure. </p>