http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Alastair Dalton: We should give bikes right of way en Mon, 18 May 2026 09:46:19 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15810#post-205735 Tue, 01 Dec 2015 22:32:59 +0000 Klaxon 205735@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I've been thinking for some time the light priority on Whitehouse Loan and Marchmont Road should be changed to cycleway-green being default, with loops for vehicle detection, as on both roads it is objectively the more important route. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15810#post-205655 Mon, 30 Nov 2015 21:03:11 +0000 crowriver 205655@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Because then the minister can justify a one-off investment, rather than a regular commitment. Also he gets to pick his favourite/most politically expedient.</p> <p>Cynical, moi? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15810#post-205643 Mon, 30 Nov 2015 17:53:30 +0000 dougal 205643@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I don't understand why we need a "design competition", rather than just following best practice. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15810#post-205642 Mon, 30 Nov 2015 16:52:43 +0000 Rob 205642@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Great to see some coverage for ideas like this. I wonder if the Scotsman visitors are any better than EEN ones ...</p> <p><blockquote><em> ie pay some road tax </em></blockquote></p> <p><em><blockquote>All cyclists to wear helmets as a legal requirement, also lights at night and a £ 100 fine if you cycle on pavements and to have insurance.</blockquote></p> <p><blockquote>I thought cyclists had lots of cycle lanes "which have kerbs to separate them from other vehicles" ?</p> <p>The rest of us call them pavements!</blockquote></em></p> <p>... never mind then.</p> <p>Has anyone had any success engaging people who make comments like this? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15810#post-205637 Mon, 30 Nov 2015 14:58:54 +0000 nevelbell 205637@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I think it's a brilliant idea! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15810#post-205636 Mon, 30 Nov 2015 14:50:35 +0000 chdot 205636@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Very good, he must have been following CCE!</p> <p>"</p> <p>The Scottish Government’s Transport Scotland agency understands this, and last week launched a design competition to encourage more segregated cycle lanes, which have kerbs to separate them from other vehicles.</p> <p>Transport minister Derek Mackay said such lanes, common in the Netherlands and Denmark, would “encourage less confident cyclists to make day-to-day journeys by bike”.</p> <p>This is not before time, since some of the few existing examples in Scotland fall far short of what is needed to attract more people to try cycling.</p> <p>...</p> <p>For a start, you wouldn’t know such routes existed without a cycle map, since they are omitted from many road atlases and online street plans.</p> <p>Sustrans, the cycle path developers, generally does a good job maintaining and signposting main routes, and local authorities have started upping their game.</p> <p>However, other paths are so badly signed that only the determined would give up.</p> <p>But even on the national cycle network route between Edinburgh and Glasgow, there have been lengthy section closures that would be unacceptable on the roads.</p> <p>" </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15810#post-205634 Mon, 30 Nov 2015 14:18:07 +0000 cb 205634@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="http://www.scotsman.com/news/alastair-dalton-we-should-give-bikes-right-of-way-1-3959984">http://www.scotsman.com/news/alastair-dalton-we-should-give-bikes-right-of-way-1-3959984</a> </p>