http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Designing cycle paths for the disabled en Tue, 19 May 2026 10:48:30 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16437#post-236897 Fri, 18 Nov 2016 21:24:01 +0000 Rosie 236897@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Gosh - the video worked! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16437#post-236896 Fri, 18 Nov 2016 21:20:34 +0000 Rosie 236896@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Whenever the subject of disabled cycling comes up I mention my brother-in-law who had a serious stroke a few years back &amp; can't walk much. He got a 3 wheeled recumbent altered &amp; now belts around Auckland, New Zealand at considerable speed. </p> <p>It's done his physical and mental health no end of good.</p> <p>Can't do that clever posting video thing but this has some good cycling shots. It's a trailer for a documentary about him (he's an artist). Note Auckland's streets, which are mostly not cycle friendly thought there have been improvements in the last few years. </p> <p><a href="https://vimeo.com/188068199" rel="nofollow">https://vimeo.com/188068199</a></p> <p>.</p> <p><a href="http://tinyurl.com/gtc6lng" rel="nofollow">http://tinyurl.com/gtc6lng</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16437#post-221043 Thu, 26 May 2016 14:23:57 +0000 LaidBack 221043@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>While back the forum tackled CEC on the Hope St Lane bridge fiasco. This really made it impossible to cycle any 'non-standard' bike from Magdalene route to Portobello. </p> <p>The situation improved after hundreds were spent removing and re-positioning barriers. What we have now is merely bad but not totally impossible, although a three wheeled machine or tandem has to enter at a very exact angle. They don't have reverse gear.<br /> Really tricky for everyone on a recumbent trike including people with a stroke. However it's such a small market I don't think it registers and planners have no idea what any of these machines look like.<br /> I usually argue that the city will be even more full of electric mobility scooters so paths must be fit for them. See Scootathon event we supported. I do see an increase of people running these electric karts along edges of busy roads.</p> <p>WC- interesting about handcycles. We've only ever sold one. Bought by Fife Council along with the usual pedal variants of the Hase Kett. It's in for a repair after user rolled it at Innerleithen. With gravity anything can be accessible I suppose! Girl had lightweight handcycle for road use and had just rented out the council one. I did two circuits of local streets on it. Fantastic fitness aid! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16437#post-221023 Thu, 26 May 2016 13:03:05 +0000 sallyhinch 221023@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Norman at Free Wheel North in Glasgow put something together ages ago - I can't find it online but there are contact details on the website <a href="http://www.freewheelnorth.org.uk/" rel="nofollow">http://www.freewheelnorth.org.uk/</a></p> <p>I think there have been other efforts to get this more on the agenda among campaigners - I will point them towards this thread to see if they can help </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16437#post-221021 Thu, 26 May 2016 12:59:27 +0000 Cyclingmollie 221021@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>The <a href="http://www.fieldfare.org.uk/countryside-for-all/countryside-for-all-good-practice-guide/">Countryside for All Good Practice Guide</a> is an update of the BT Countryside for All Good Practice guide first published in 1987. It has advice on various aspects of accessibility including path design and signage. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16437#post-221018 Thu, 26 May 2016 12:46:28 +0000 chdot 221018@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Not <em>directly</em> relevant to this thread -</p> <p>"</p> <p>But in Edinburgh, as a one-off BBC documentary shows tonight, the war blind were not consigned to the fringes of society but were encouraged to work and live independently.</p> <p>In the programme, blind journalist Ian Hamilton examines how the First World War changed the lives of blind people in Britain forever.</p> <p>"</p> <p><a href="http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/our-region/edinburgh/wwi-changed-edinburgh-s-attitude-to-blindness-1-4138565" rel="nofollow">http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/our-region/edinburgh/wwi-changed-edinburgh-s-attitude-to-blindness-1-4138565</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16437#post-221008 Thu, 26 May 2016 12:27:34 +0000 i 221008@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>While this <a href="https://bicycledutch.wordpress.com/2012/12/06/who-else-benefits-from-the-dutch-cycling-infrastructure/">blog</a> doesn't go into much detail for guidlines its a nice demonstration of how accessible Dutch infrastructure is. Perhaps the CROW manual has more specific guidlines.</p> <p>Hope that's helpful. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16437#post-221005 Thu, 26 May 2016 11:51:54 +0000 Rosie 221005@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Thanks for that. Sustrans came up with a PDF and a link to this paper.</p> <p><a href="http://www.icevirtuallibrary.com/doi/full/10.1680/udap.14.00048" rel="nofollow">http://www.icevirtuallibrary.com/doi/full/10.1680/udap.14.00048</a></p> <p>PDF was a presentation at Cycle City Active City conference in Leicester in May and as I don't know how to post it here, I can email it to anyone interested. I'm on spokesATspokes.org.uk.</p> <p>I saw a guy hand-cycling on NEPN on Sunday and I did wonder how fully independently he could access the route. </p> <p>I also saw people on cycling operated boats on the canal the other week. A cycle strung between two floating things. Looked incredibly unwieldy and top-heavy and less fun than a kayak. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16437#post-220982 Thu, 26 May 2016 09:20:58 +0000 Wilmington's Cow 220982@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I'll be interested in this. New Scottish Handcycling organisation coming into being very soon (I can't give details yet, I've a very good friend heavily involved) and we were discussing just where and how a handcycle could get about.</p> <p>I've still got to have my shot on his new 'bike', looks great fun (if incredibly tiring!). </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16437#post-220976 Thu, 26 May 2016 08:48:32 +0000 chdot 220976@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I suppose it depends what is really meant by "fully accessible". </p> <p>There was a time when that merely meant 'useable by wheelchairs'. </p> <p>So no steps was vital (a notion completely forgotten about when CEC made the new WoL link at Roseburn Cliff).</p> <p>Similarly there was a fashion for very restrictive access designed to exclude motorbikes - they usually found a way round which was likely to be impossible for wheelchair users. How much the motorbikes was a problem in the first place is another matter. </p> <p>Now councils are keen on tactiles to 'allow' some routes to be more usuable by people with sight problems. </p> <p>This may or may not be actually increasing such use and is almost impossible to implement on the canal or NEPN. </p> <p>CEC is also keen on shared use (aka putting bikes on pavements - which are not always sutably widened first.)</p> <p>As for research/documentation perhaps best to contact Sustrans first. </p> <p>They at least will have the basics on ramps and barriers. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16437#post-220972 Thu, 26 May 2016 07:55:50 +0000 Rosie 220972@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I have had a query about designing cycle paths so you could promote your city/country's cycling routes as fully accessible for the disabled. Has anyone come across a paper or study that laid out the kind of design that would be required? </p>