http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Monday 29th - Ride the Route en Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:06:07 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16781&page=6#post-229411 Fri, 02 Sep 2016 08:04:54 +0000 chdot 229411@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="https://www.cyclestreets.net/journey/to/55.941191,-3.183006/Till%27s+Bookshop" rel="nofollow">https://www.cyclestreets.net/journey/to/55.941191,-3.183006/Till%27s+Bookshop</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16781&page=6#post-229408 Fri, 02 Sep 2016 07:25:46 +0000 gembo 229408@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Is it still the wee American guy that sold me a wheen of paperbacks 1987-1990?</p> <p>I think the route does bring people from the meadows to the shop for example Morningsider and I go that way after peters yard instead of Forrest road? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16781&page=6#post-229406 Fri, 02 Sep 2016 07:19:20 +0000 daisydaisy 229406@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Tills looks lovely. I'll go in next time I'm passing. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16781&page=6#post-229401 Thu, 01 Sep 2016 22:54:06 +0000 chdot 229401@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="https://www.facebook.com/Tills-Bookshop-278315098875890" rel="nofollow">https://www.facebook.com/Tills-Bookshop-278315098875890</a></p> <p><a href="https://www.yelp.co.uk/biz/tills-bookshop-edinburgh" rel="nofollow">https://www.yelp.co.uk/biz/tills-bookshop-edinburgh</a></p> <p><a href="http://www.spottedbylocals.com/edinburgh/tills-bookshop" rel="nofollow">http://www.spottedbylocals.com/edinburgh/tills-bookshop</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16781&page=6#post-229399 Thu, 01 Sep 2016 22:40:05 +0000 Klaxon 229399@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>End of the Meadows, at the very beginning of the innocent link path </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16781&page=6#post-229397 Thu, 01 Sep 2016 22:35:01 +0000 daisydaisy 229397@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Where's Tills? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16781&page=6#post-229392 Thu, 01 Sep 2016 21:51:56 +0000 Iratesheep 229392@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>The guy who runs Till's seems very pleased with the cycle way even though it's titchy.<br /> He likes the larger pavements and the increase in footfall. </p> <p>I suspect he'd even be happy to go on the record as a supporting voice if he were asked. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16781&page=6#post-229388 Thu, 01 Sep 2016 21:30:55 +0000 HankChief 229388@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I always say, you get someone to make that first journey by bike AND if they have a good experience they will be hooked. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16781&page=6#post-229375 Thu, 01 Sep 2016 20:42:40 +0000 Stickman 229375@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Some campaigning and pressure does pay off. </p> <p>Alistair Grant of the EEN asked on Monday where to buy a second hand bike. Today he's tweeted a picture of his new bike. Small victories. </p> <p>If anyone spots him then give him a wave - he seems a nice guy. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16781&page=6#post-229110 Tue, 30 Aug 2016 22:28:02 +0000 Stickman 229110@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>LivD: yes, I went back there yesterday afternoon with my wife en route to Cramond. The espresso was stellar: best I've had in Edinburgh. </p> <p>At the previous hate-fest I overheard someone say that the florists were moving round onto the main road and that Colpamio was considering extending next door. If so then I hope they put some cycle racks in as it will definitely go onto the "Cafes" thread here with high recommendation. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16781&page=6#post-229067 Tue, 30 Aug 2016 20:34:39 +0000 LivM 229067@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Just said to my husband... "Well if there's one good thing come out of all of this it's that Colpamia have impressed a new group of customers". If only other traders had impressed similarly! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16781&page=6#post-229064 Tue, 30 Aug 2016 20:21:14 +0000 Rosie 229064@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Cafe Colpamio - can recommend for a cappuccino that is like the ones you get in Italy, not Starbucks.</p> <p>Lovely wee cakes as well. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16781&page=6#post-229006 Tue, 30 Aug 2016 16:02:13 +0000 kaputnik 229006@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>he's extraordinarily inconsistent </em></p> <p>The inconsistencies seem to be a hallmark of this sort of misinformation and fearmongering campaign. You don't need to be right if you can get people scared and worried.</p> <p>I don't need to reiterate any of the examples I got from the brief discussion a Roseburn trader insisted on having with me on Monday, you can guess them all and most of them contradicted themselves in the following or even same sentence (i.e. it was both simultaneously too wide and too narrow, nobody would use it but it didn't offer high enough capacity...) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16781&page=6#post-228992 Tue, 30 Aug 2016 14:59:25 +0000 jonty 228992@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>This is the bit on St Leonard's: <a href="https://goo.gl/maps/nhjWCMoK7km" rel="nofollow">https://goo.gl/maps/nhjWCMoK7km</a></p> <p>And yes, you can follow it in the Meadows direction to find the bit on Buccleuch Street. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16781&page=6#post-228989 Tue, 30 Aug 2016 14:55:24 +0000 algo 228989@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@gibbo - I imagine that refers to the bit on Buccleuch Street </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16781&page=6#post-228982 Tue, 30 Aug 2016 14:45:06 +0000 gibbo 228982@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>"The longest continuous stretch is 140 metres on St Leonard’s Street."</em> </p> <p>I've been past that and never even noticed it.</p> <p>I suppose you don't look for what you never expect to find.</p> <p>Where's the other 70m? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16781&page=6#post-228910 Tue, 30 Aug 2016 12:54:51 +0000 chdot 228910@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>IF Till's shuts it's because bookshops shut (even secondhand ones).</p> <p>That crossing will probably bring them business. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16781&page=6#post-228899 Tue, 30 Aug 2016 12:46:43 +0000 wingpig 228899@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I pointed out to my councillors that Till's Bookshop hadn't closed down despite the installation of a segregated cycleway outside it. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16781&page=6#post-228896 Tue, 30 Aug 2016 12:41:56 +0000 I were right about that saddle 228896@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@Min</p> <p>It is an astonishing figure. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16781&page=6#post-228858 Tue, 30 Aug 2016 12:07:55 +0000 Min 228858@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>IWRATS "It from the Chipwrapper."</p> <p>I rather like the subversive comment at the end though. </p> <p><em>There is currently only around 210 metres of protected cycleway across the whole of Edinburgh. The longest continuous stretch is 140 metres on St Leonard’s Street. In contrast, miles of protected cycleways stretch across cities such as London, Bristol, Copenhagen and Amsterdam.</em> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16781&page=6#post-228843 Tue, 30 Aug 2016 11:57:23 +0000 crowriver 228843@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"A bunch of shops which expects to get its trade from passing vehicles usually looks a bit more like this than Roseburn Terrace. "</p> <p>Well aye, except there's a widened shared use footway on Seafield Road directly opposite. Oh and B&amp;M stores even have bike parking... :-) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16781&page=6#post-228788 Tue, 30 Aug 2016 10:57:59 +0000 algo 228788@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>ah yes - sorry I skimmed that bit... he's extraordinarily inconsistent - my brain hurts </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16781&page=6#post-228784 Tue, 30 Aug 2016 10:53:18 +0000 I were right about that saddle 228784@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@algo<br /> <a href="http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/our-region/edinburgh/d-day-for-cycleway-in-edinburgh-amidst-anger-and-division-1-4216167"><br /> It from the Chipwrapper.</a></p> <p>Also 'cyclists' are upsetting people, but he said this wearing a polystyrene bicycle hat. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16781&page=5#post-228779 Tue, 30 Aug 2016 10:44:42 +0000 algo 228779@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@IWRATS - where's that quote from? I like the idea that PG says we caused all the traffic by stopping on the old bridge, but from what's written there, it seems we should have stopped and blocked the entire road. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16781&page=5#post-228777 Tue, 30 Aug 2016 10:40:15 +0000 Stickman 228777@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"Ringing their bells" - because the best way to hear an alternative viewpoint is being shouted at when riding a bike through a busy main road. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16781&page=5#post-228774 Tue, 30 Aug 2016 10:35:37 +0000 I were right about that saddle 228774@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>When asked about Roseburn protesters jeering cyclists, he admitted emotions were running high. “The problem is people are very angry and upset at the way cyclists have addressed this. They don’t seem to want to engage. “That was an expression of frustration, because we were hoping people would stop. And they were ringing their bells. There was a concerted plan to ring bells as a sign of ‘We don’t give a toss’.</em></p> <p>The shouts of 'B*gger off' were invitations to stop and chat and the tinkling of bells an instruction to b*gger off. Did anyone see a white rabbit? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16781&page=5#post-228768 Tue, 30 Aug 2016 10:24:05 +0000 ih 228768@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@algo and @edd1_h "<em> do you remember he told us that you can't trust Alison Johnstone because she voted against the congestion charge? </em>"</p> <p>I don't know if Alison voted against the congestion charge, but 2 points;</p> <p>I'm surprised the cafe owner appeared to support the con.ch which would seem to be against his own 'passing trade' interest.</p> <p>There was a recent post and link (actually might have been an @srd tweet) where an English city (Nottingham?) had introduced a workplace parking levy which is much more efficient at reducing unnecessary car commuting than con.ch and provides funding for extentions to their tram network. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16781&page=5#post-228765 Tue, 30 Aug 2016 10:21:03 +0000 crowriver 228765@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"There are three main 'clusters' in Edinburgh - Stockbridge, Morningside and South Side."</p> <p>Also Leith Walk and top of Easter Road.....so that's at least five main 'clusters'. Probably Portobello High Street too, that makes six.</p> <p>Fave comment on the EEN article so far: "They look like a bunch of trendy bible class teachers." (I presume he means the serried ranks of cyclists, grinning in the direction of the photographer with religious zeal in their eyes). </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16781&page=5#post-228757 Tue, 30 Aug 2016 10:08:11 +0000 neddie 228757@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>knocking down one side of the street to fit an extra couple of lanes in</em></p> <p>Or how 'bout 1.6 billion for a motorway style flyover and some sort of spaghetti off-ramp system landing motors directly at the doors of the shops?</p> <p>Like this: <a href="https://goo.gl/maps/YY4e6Hhyk492" rel="nofollow">https://goo.gl/maps/YY4e6Hhyk492</a></p> <p>Or this: <a href="https://goo.gl/maps/75erTMcK1QB2" rel="nofollow">https://goo.gl/maps/75erTMcK1QB2</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16781&page=5#post-228756 Tue, 30 Aug 2016 10:05:36 +0000 daisydaisy 228756@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@LivD I have stood by the Roseburn Bar considering buying a card from that shop, and then decided it's not worth my while going all the way to the crossing and back just to get a card. The new crossing as part of the re-design would have made it easy. </p>