http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Meanwhile in Neston en Sun, 31 May 2026 19:34:25 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16848#post-230343 Sat, 10 Sep 2016 17:03:31 +0000 wrighrkuk 230343@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Thanks for posting this. Although I don't know the situation well, I think this post should be relevant to Edinburgh because there are, inevitably, some people saying the new Rosebank bike path should be put by a railway line, off the main street grid. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16848#post-230292 Fri, 09 Sep 2016 19:41:47 +0000 chdot 230292@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"</p> <p>The problem, it occurred to me as I rode on to Neston, was that the routes through Chester had not taken cyclists’ needs as their starting point but those of planners charged with finding a use for a troublesome old railway line or for finding a better use for the canal towpath. The attempt to signpost such a route for short-distance journeys seemed to me to misunderstand the way that most people’s short journeys actually work. If going shopping or on some other errand by bike, I will generally need to go to several places, rather than making the kind of clean trip from point A to point B that might be facilitated by a path that takes me entirely off the street network. While I don’t want to ride on a terrifying stretch of high-speed urban road, it’s not, either, a particularly pleasant experience to ride through one of England’s most picturesque, historic cities staring at the featureless grass bank of an old railway cutting.</p> <p>"</p> <p><a href="https://invisiblevisibleman.blogspot.co.uk/2016/09/a-long-ish-ride-confusing-signs-and-why.html" rel="nofollow">https://invisiblevisibleman.blogspot.co.uk/2016/09/a-long-ish-ride-confusing-signs-and-why.html</a> </p>