http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Tracking Rubbish Driving? en Mon, 18 May 2026 11:41:51 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15438#post-198769 Tue, 15 Sep 2015 08:37:09 +0000 Roibeard 198769@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@Brown - that looks like the sort of thing.</p> <p>I'm not in favour of reinventing the wheel, so if such a thing is a good idea, why don't we use it?</p> <p>I does seem to include recent incidents in Edinburgh, so worth a try again?</p> <p>Apologies to Kim for not remembering it!</p> <p>Robert </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15438#post-198750 Mon, 14 Sep 2015 18:23:48 +0000 sallyhinch 198750@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="http://bikeportland.org/2015/09/11/new-ride-report-app-gives-every-portlander-power-evaluate-streets-158767" rel="nofollow">http://bikeportland.org/2015/09/11/new-ride-report-app-gives-every-portlander-power-evaluate-streets-158767</a> (just Portland for now)</p> <p>It did sound as if the Near Miss Project people were going to look harder at road conditions, including infrastructure, in future rounds of analysis so it may be worth signing up for that if you haven't already <a href="http://www.nearmiss.bike/" rel="nofollow">http://www.nearmiss.bike/</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15438#post-198749 Mon, 14 Sep 2015 17:54:52 +0000 lorlane 198749@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I think it would be very useful for cyclists using unfamiliar stretches of road which perhaps have local notoriety but a first-time user might not necessarily appreciate the inherent risks brought about by signage/infrastructure that puts you in harms way or that which is regularly flouted by drivers who put you in harms way.</p> <p>As for how it might be acted upon by those who could make a difference - who knows? It's a bit like how the attention given to HGV/bike frequency of collisions statistics resulted in a campaign to make cyclists "stay back" from all manner of vehicles! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15438#post-198747 Mon, 14 Sep 2015 17:31:34 +0000 wingpig 198747@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14481" rel="nofollow">http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14481</a></p> <p>Didn't catch on. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15438#post-198742 Mon, 14 Sep 2015 16:56:24 +0000 Brown 198742@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Try</p> <p><a href="http://collideosco.pe/" rel="nofollow">http://collideosco.pe/</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15438#post-198733 Mon, 14 Sep 2015 16:30:51 +0000 dougal 198733@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Yeah, probably all non-segregated infrastructure... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15438#post-198713 Mon, 14 Sep 2015 14:28:32 +0000 wingpig 198713@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><blockquote><em>"...when it's on bad infrastructure..."</em></blockquote></p> <p>Wilfully bad infra, or just anything (everything) non-segregated? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15438#post-198700 Mon, 14 Sep 2015 13:46:40 +0000 dougal 198700@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@wingpig I only notice good driving when it's on bad infrastructure. If the driver has the chance of being dangerous (particularly if many drivers are dangerous in the same situation) then I really appreciate the good ones. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15438#post-198679 Mon, 14 Sep 2015 12:47:15 +0000 neddie 198679@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>If the incidents could be weighted/compensated against the motor-traffic "busy-ness" of a road, it could highlight bad spots relative to the type of road. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15438#post-198666 Mon, 14 Sep 2015 11:37:48 +0000 wingpig 198666@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>As with the good and bad infrastructure maps - if we mapped good driving too it's perhaps be useful as a way of identifying infrastructure which doesn't help elicit poor driver behaviour... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15438#post-198653 Mon, 14 Sep 2015 10:56:18 +0000 steveo 198653@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Its not a bad idea tbh. Even if the council don't care it would be handy to help divert newbies and experienced cyclists around. Though it might just end up looking like a map of busy roads. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15438#post-198651 Mon, 14 Sep 2015 10:51:30 +0000 wingpig 198651@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Hmm. Could we add it as a layer of annotations to the <a href="http://edinburghcouncilmaps.info/atlas/cecatlas.html">council atlas</a>? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15438#post-198633 Mon, 14 Sep 2015 10:07:11 +0000 Roibeard 198633@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Should we use Google maps to record rubbish driving? The goal being to highlight hotspots where engineering interventions are required.</p> <p>I caught an interesting article, probably middle of the night BBC News, on <a href="http://maps.safecity.in/">Safecity.in</a>, which is crowdsourcing the locations of sexual harassment or abuse on Indian streets. The idea being to alert visitors of areas to be more cautious, and to pressurise the authorities to act - the police are unlikely to be interested in a single report, however if an area is shown to be problematic to many, then action might be more likely.</p> <p>It struck me that there were parallels with the (much lesser) abuse and threatening behaviour experienced by cyclists - I say "much lesser" on the basis that actual harm to Edinburgh cyclists is much less likely than actual harm to Indian women.</p> <p>If we tracked where the <a href="http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3748">Rubbish Driving</a> was happening, could that make a difference en masse? We know that individual reports are unlikely to be progressed by Police Scotland, and those that are progressed are only due to the herculean efforts of the victim.</p> <p>Perhaps it's a rubbish idea, but perhaps the CCE hive mind might consider it valuable and have the expertise to implement it?</p> <p>Robert </p>