http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: "Let's rescue Britain's forgotten 1930s protected cycleways" en Tue, 19 May 2026 14:28:20 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17651#post-250812 Mon, 22 May 2017 18:46:40 +0000 Blueth 250812@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I seem to remember a fair bit beside the A8 etc when we drove to Hamilton decades ago. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17651#post-250775 Sun, 21 May 2017 22:01:08 +0000 chdot 250775@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p052zgp6" rel="nofollow">http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p052zgp6</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17651#post-249610 Wed, 10 May 2017 12:59:21 +0000 threefromleith 249610@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@arellcat I play a lovely game of 'Slalom Cycling' along the Bankhead section of the path, sweeping left &amp; right to avoid the rippled, bumpy surfaces patchworking the original, much smoother surface.*</p> <p>Such a pity they always manage to ruin a good cycling surface when they have to dig bits up &amp; reinstate them.</p> <p>*I can only do this around 6.20 - 6.30am-ish, when there's usually no-one else around on the path. Other times I have to let the bike take a pounding! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17651#post-249607 Wed, 10 May 2017 12:56:38 +0000 Stickman 249607@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>Why is it so difficult to create a cycling surface free of undulations, when you can drive on a motorway and marvel at the smoothness*?</em></p> <p>The section from Pinkhill to Balgreen was beautifully smooth when opened but is already breaking up with tree roots. </p> <p>New bit of M8 is (currently) perfect. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17651#post-249605 Wed, 10 May 2017 12:50:14 +0000 Arellcat 249605@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I've cycled that path only once, and it just about turned me incomfortable too.</p> <p>Why is it so difficult to create a cycling surface free of undulations, when you can drive on a motorway and marvel at the smoothness*? The Broomhouse cycle expressway is very rippley in places, but the Stenhouse section is as good as anything I've encountered**.</p> <p>* Apart from the A90 north of Perth<br /> ** Burnt out motorbikes notwithstanding </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17651#post-249599 Wed, 10 May 2017 11:57:29 +0000 SRD 249599@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I've only ever ridden it with the kids, so we stayed on the path but it is, as you say, horribly bumpy and incomfortable to ride. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17651#post-249589 Wed, 10 May 2017 10:34:44 +0000 amir 249589@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>It certainly is very bumy - ever since they resurfaced it a year or so ago. I did make a comment but I didn't follow up. Obviously nothing done about but a very poor job. I use the dual carriageway or more likely avoid completely. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17651#post-249485 Tue, 09 May 2017 12:38:58 +0000 Murun Buchstansangur 249485@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Is the Longniddry one the path paralleling the dual carriageway eastbound? If so, it's horribly bumpy to ride. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17651#post-249481 Tue, 09 May 2017 12:20:58 +0000 ih 249481@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/bike-blog/2017/may/09/how-80-forgotten-1930s-cycleways-could-transform-uk-cycling" rel="nofollow">https://www.theguardian.com/environment/bike-blog/2017/may/09/how-80-forgotten-1930s-cycleways-could-transform-uk-cycling</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17651#post-247866 Tue, 25 Apr 2017 14:44:52 +0000 jonty 247866@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Not quite: <a href="https://goo.gl/maps/RMFSG2At2uJ2" rel="nofollow">https://goo.gl/maps/RMFSG2At2uJ2</a></p> <p>Bit close though... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17651#post-247865 Tue, 25 Apr 2017 14:28:34 +0000 PS 247865@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Looks like that has already been lost to the dual carriageway, then? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17651#post-247850 Tue, 25 Apr 2017 13:07:55 +0000 Arellcat 247850@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>No doubt about it. Check out the 1958/59 1:2500 map west of Longniddry on the A198:</p> <p><a href="https://www.old-maps.co.uk/#/Map/343136/675209/12/100954" rel="nofollow">https://www.old-maps.co.uk/#/Map/343136/675209/12/100954</a></p> <p>I had no idea! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17651#post-247835 Tue, 25 Apr 2017 11:45:59 +0000 SimonS 247835@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>North side of the A198 dual carriageway to the west of the village? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17651#post-247817 Tue, 25 Apr 2017 10:49:03 +0000 chdot 247817@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Inc Longniddry</p> <p><a href="https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=1yoi-eZVATatYQfhMiKh4PpaSQro&amp;hl=en&amp;ll=53.740408485742506%2C-2.1884652999999616&amp;z=6" rel="nofollow">https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=1yoi-eZVATatYQfhMiKh4PpaSQro&amp;hl=en&amp;ll=53.740408485742506%2C-2.1884652999999616&amp;z=6</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17651#post-247813 Tue, 25 Apr 2017 10:45:14 +0000 PS 247813@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Anyone any idea where exactly the "A1/Longniddry" section identified on the map is? Presumably it's next to the old A1... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17651#post-247812 Tue, 25 Apr 2017 10:42:53 +0000 Stickman 247812@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Kickstarter project from the ever-fascinating Carlton Reid:</p> <p><em>In the 1930s, Britain's Ministry of Transport commissioned the building of 500-miles of protected cycleways. Between 1934 and 1940 at least 280-miles of these innovative cycleways were actually built, usually both sides of the new "arterial roads" springing up all over the country.</p> <p>Some of these cycleways still exist, but they are not today understood to be cycle infrastructure: they should be rededicated. Others are buried under a couple of inches of soil: they could be excavated. </em></p> <p><a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/carltonreid/lets-rescue-britains-forgotten-1930s-protected-cyc/description" rel="nofollow">https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/carltonreid/lets-rescue-britains-forgotten-1930s-protected-cyc/description</a> </p>