http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: "Selfish Cowgate parkers ‘putting lives at risk’ " en Thu, 21 May 2026 03:46:46 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15281#post-381002 Thu, 04 Sep 2025 08:42:11 +0000 chdot 381002@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="https://www.edinburghinquirer.co.uk/p/was-closed-cowgate-the-pedestrian" rel="nofollow">https://www.edinburghinquirer.co.uk/p/was-closed-cowgate-the-pedestrian</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15281#post-380234 Tue, 08 Jul 2025 02:48:05 +0000 CycleAlex 380234@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I remember it being pretty hopeless when the Cowgate was ‘closed’ to traffic in the 2019 version of Summertime Streets. Continuous non-compliance with no enforcement. Hopefully lessons have been learnt, or perhaps I’m just optimistic. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15281#post-380232 Mon, 07 Jul 2025 17:37:47 +0000 MediumDave 380232@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"Ze children of ze night....vot beautiful music zey make..." </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15281#post-380228 Mon, 07 Jul 2025 14:33:39 +0000 Morningsider 380228@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>The Cowgate is Edinburgh's music street? A bold rebrand! I mean, it still looks like the old centre of late night beer chugging and chundering, with Niagras of wee flowing from closes and the sounds of surreptitious rutting coming from its darker corners. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15281#post-380222 Mon, 07 Jul 2025 08:20:52 +0000 chdot 380222@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>“</p> <p>The city’s music street, Cowgate, is to go car-free from 3pm onwards this summer in an expansion of the Capital’s Summertime Streets programme</p> <p>“</p> <p><a href="https://www.edinburghinquirer.co.uk/p/from-traffic-sewer-to-capitals-car?" rel="nofollow">https://www.edinburghinquirer.co.uk/p/from-traffic-sewer-to-capitals-car?</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15281#post-195997 Fri, 14 Aug 2015 16:49:43 +0000 cc 195997@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Brilliantly put :-) Yes, you see that every week! Easy to avoid them when they're following the white line.<br /> But festival kids seem immune to this - they're drawn to the cycle lane. As are their parents. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15281#post-195980 Fri, 14 Aug 2015 15:47:16 +0000 neddie 195980@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>As any small child knows, the white line down the middle is a massive draw. It's something to walk along, something to follow...</p> <p>Hmmm, a white line. I wonder where it leads...</p> <p>Maybe it leads to the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15281#post-195859 Fri, 14 Aug 2015 08:34:42 +0000 cc 195859@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>The cycle lane on MMW is completely covered with pedestrians kids etc</em></p> <p>It's been rare this week for me to encounter less than half a dozen young children scampering about on the MMW cycle lane. </p> <p>May this hellish festival soon be over! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15281#post-195820 Thu, 13 Aug 2015 18:14:53 +0000 chdot 195820@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"Raises the question about whether the 'give way' line applies to those on foot as they don't apply other than on roads"</p> <p>Technically (legally) MMW <em>is</em> a road, so <em>maybe</em> they are OK. </p> <p>Don't know how that affects the 'half peds only' aspect. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15281#post-195815 Thu, 13 Aug 2015 16:47:34 +0000 mgj 195815@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Its not a cycle lane; on one half of the shared space cyclists are not allowed. Makes no sense at all, especially with the speed at which one can freewheel down it. Raises the question about whether the 'give way' line applies to those on foot as they don't apply other than on roads as far as I can tell from the HWC. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15281#post-195813 Thu, 13 Aug 2015 16:43:22 +0000 gembo 195813@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Coogate totally mental at the moment. The latest thing is the cowshed venue expanding down to the roundabout and calling itself St James Gate Brewery. Certainly the beer lorries abide. Also The Irn Bru must get Through </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15281#post-195812 Thu, 13 Aug 2015 16:13:29 +0000 SRD 195812@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>The cycle lane on MMW is completely covered with pedestrians kids etc Possibly because the pedestrian side is full of people handing out leaflets... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15281#post-195810 Thu, 13 Aug 2015 15:53:42 +0000 Rabid Hamster 195810@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Coo'gaaten is a shambles! But it is only the Festival! Normal business will resume in a few weeks where only drunks, revellers, and homeless will lose their legs in this dark glory hole! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15281#post-195808 Thu, 13 Aug 2015 15:49:27 +0000 dougal 195808@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"Campaigners also want to have the pavements improved to cope with the increase in revellers."</p> <p>This makes it seem like the pavements are broken because of all the extra pedestrians. Or that the broken pavements would be fine if it wasn't festival season? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15281#post-195806 Thu, 13 Aug 2015 15:39:08 +0000 Fountainbridge 195806@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Bollards have been fitted in the past few days to "stop" vehicles parking inside the pend.</p> <p><a href="https://flic.kr/p/wmiH8k"><img src="https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5818/19920488213_625cf37722_n.jpg"></a><a href="https://flic.kr/p/wmiH8k">Capture</a> by <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/130059894@N04/">Paul Fountain</a>, on Flickr </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15281#post-195799 Thu, 13 Aug 2015 14:37:48 +0000 kaputnik 195799@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>so when they're loading, the pavement is about 1 foot wide?</p> <p>The vehicles also back up 2-deep inside the little pend on the left, just out of shot here. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15281#post-195795 Thu, 13 Aug 2015 14:20:29 +0000 Fountainbridge 195795@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>SOCO is an interesting place. Seems CEC insisted on a loading area - which is shared with the pavement. If you look down from South Bridge you can see the stones laid in to the pavement.</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/130059894@N04/M01Hk5" rel="nofollow">https://www.flickr.com/gp/130059894@N04/M01Hk5</a></p> <p><a href="https://flic.kr/p/wm9d8V"><img src="https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5700/19918634683_751cc7a698.jpg"></a><a href="https://flic.kr/p/wm9d8V">140204145402IMG_0241</a> by <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/130059894@N04/">Paul Fountain</a>, on Flickr </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15281#post-195732 Thu, 13 Aug 2015 09:48:14 +0000 kaputnik 195732@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>The area around that new "SoCo" development is particularly bad. What architects put on the plans as "public realm" should be interpreted as parking / loading bays. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15281#post-195725 Thu, 13 Aug 2015 09:34:18 +0000 chdot 195725@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/transport/selfish-cowgate-parkers-putting-lives-at-risk-1-3857377" rel="nofollow">http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/transport/selfish-cowgate-parkers-putting-lives-at-risk-1-3857377</a> </p>