http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Lothian St / Potterrow warning en Tue, 19 May 2026 01:29:50 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15274#post-195884 Fri, 14 Aug 2015 10:18:20 +0000 Wilmington's Cow 195884@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Cycled round there today. Nary a car about me, yet they retain two lanes, and the cycle lane simply removed. Bah. Need to take a picture - it's exactly this sort of set up I saw in Copenhagen, when pavement works meant diverting peds into the cycle lane. Oh, except they then fenced off (yes, fenced) a cycle lane, taking away a motorised traffic lane. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15274#post-195771 Thu, 13 Aug 2015 11:40:35 +0000 jdanielp 195771@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@gdm the evidence of such accidents is still commonly noticeable, although I am yet to actually witness one. Vehicles routinely cut fully across where a cycle lane should be (it runs up to the ASZ before the corner and then continues just around the corner, but conveniently vanishes at the crucual moment) as they turn left onto Lothian Street due to the speed at which the drivers choose to approach it... Be glad that you moved away - Boteco do Brasil is a noisy replacement to Negotiants. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15274#post-195762 Thu, 13 Aug 2015 10:58:44 +0000 gdm 195762@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Well, thank goodness they got rid of that monstrosity. We wouldn't have had an uninterrupted view of Appleton Tower if it had still been there. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15274#post-195761 Thu, 13 Aug 2015 10:55:31 +0000 chdot 195761@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Previously</p> <p><a href="https://flic.kr/p/bCawBV" rel="nofollow">https://flic.kr/p/bCawBV</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15274#post-195757 Thu, 13 Aug 2015 10:49:43 +0000 gdm 195757@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I used to live on Lothian Street and there were regular accidents at that section, with people hitting the wall or railing that used to run between the lanes. I always wondered how people could build up so much speed to lose control given they'd be coming from a tight turn from Forrest Road. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15274#post-195756 Thu, 13 Aug 2015 10:49:07 +0000 chdot 195756@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>CEC has extended the ideas into the 21stC in its own unique way</p> <p><a href="https://flic.kr/p/wYewkr"><img src="https://farm1.staticflickr.com/485/20327065319_fece39701f.jpg"></a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15274#post-195754 Thu, 13 Aug 2015 10:46:03 +0000 chdot 195754@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"I've never understood why it's important to shave two seconds off"</p> <p>You obviously don't have the 1960s Colin Buchananesque mentality. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15274#post-195750 Thu, 13 Aug 2015 10:38:30 +0000 AKen 195750@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>What is the point of two lanes of traffic here? I've never understood why it's important to shave two seconds off the journey from Bristo Place to Marshall Street. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15274#post-195703 Wed, 12 Aug 2015 17:55:57 +0000 emuir 195703@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I was there last Sunday and the first time crossing the road we did so by scrambling over the security fencing, which had been knocked down and trampled over. When going south I found the diversion signage very poor and if I didn't know about the underpass I would likely have been at a loss. </p> <p>It would have been good if the council had maintained the cycle lane and put in a temporary pavement by removing a lane of motor traffic. Further space could be found by removing the central barrier kerbing space.</p> <p>Pictures <a href="https://conflictbydesign.files.wordpress.com/2015/08/2015-08-09_barriers_and_signs.jpg?w=917">1</a> <a href="https://conflictbydesign.files.wordpress.com/2015/08/2015-08-09_barriers_south_from_road.jpg?w=917">2</a> <a href="https://conflictbydesign.files.wordpress.com/2015/08/2015-08-09_lothain_st.jpg?w=917">3</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15274#post-195477 Tue, 11 Aug 2015 12:02:05 +0000 chdot 195477@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>We'll now that the area is all developed not much chance of 'developer contributions'. </p> <p>'Best' chance might be for Museum to get mega-money to sort Chambers Street <em>and</em> Potterow(?) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15274#post-195476 Tue, 11 Aug 2015 11:56:38 +0000 cc 195476@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Yes. When the Informatics Forum got its planning permission there was mention of some long term plan to demolish the 'banked urban motorway' thingy and the student centre building and replace them with a much smaller road in something closer to its original alignment and a more naturally joined up George Square/Bristo Square/Old College stretch of more or less pedestrian niceness. No idea though whether that's still on the cards for some day. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15274#post-195475 Tue, 11 Aug 2015 11:53:53 +0000 chdot 195475@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><img src="https://farm1.staticflickr.com/488/20295627440_e89f8eb588.jpg"></p> <p><img src="https://farm1.staticflickr.com/284/19861071034_7696b5d671.jpg"></p> <p>(No "traffic" because Apple Maps removes it - but it it's pretty light most of the time really.) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15274#post-195472 Tue, 11 Aug 2015 11:39:48 +0000 chdot 195472@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Of course it's time Edinburgh's unique bit of 'urban motorway' (banked for speed) was removed - no need for all that duelled roadspace (or the underpass). </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15274#post-195470 Tue, 11 Aug 2015 11:34:23 +0000 cc 195470@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Oh I see, that's why. Thanks. Left hand, right hand, etc! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15274#post-195457 Tue, 11 Aug 2015 11:14:26 +0000 Wilmington's Cow 195457@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Hmmm, had seen something on Twitter last night about the underpass being closed without warning (how very Edinburgh Council I thought) and pedestrians being forced to take the road route.... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15274#post-195454 Tue, 11 Aug 2015 11:08:41 +0000 cc 195454@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>The team rebuilding Bristo Square closed a section of footpath on Lothian Street a week or two ago, telling pedestrians to cross the road and go round by the underpass. Presumably everyone ignored that silliness and walked on the road, so now the cycle lane has been fenced off as a makeshift pavement. Also, the fencing runs out a few metres before the pedestrian crossing traffic lights, so crowds of people are walking on the cycle path for those few metres. (The University has made its central campus area a hive of corporate festival activity so there are a lot of people about.)</p> <p>Here's a <a href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=55.94586&amp;mlon=-3.18916#map=18/55.94586/-3.18917">map</a>. </p>