http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Regeneration of Paisley... en Mon, 18 May 2026 03:39:35 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17676&page=2#post-367477 Sun, 09 Apr 2023 20:04:41 +0000 CycleAlex 367477@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>As much as I love new cycleways being proposed and built, it’s infuriating that some random nerd has to tell professionals to use their own guidance… </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17676&page=2#post-367473 Sun, 09 Apr 2023 15:35:59 +0000 Morningsider 367473@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Active travel cash being flushed down the pan again! Who would use a cycle lane which requires you to give way at multiple side streets? Inconvenient and probably more dangerous than sticking to the carriageway.</p> <p>Actual professionals created and signed-off these designs! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17676&page=2#post-367467 Sat, 08 Apr 2023 13:51:28 +0000 Yodhrin 367467@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>You really can't win with these types eh - no limits on access to vehicles and *more* parking spaces, yet still bleating about how it'll "kill the street" to put in a minimum-width bidirectional cycle lane and narrow a couple of crossings. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17676&page=2#post-367464 Sat, 08 Apr 2023 09:53:46 +0000 chdot 367464@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>“</p> <p>A consultation was launched earlier this month on plans to regenerate the Paisley street </p> <p>“</p> <p><a href="https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/in-your-area/renfrewshire/please-dont-kill-causeyside-street-27588612" rel="nofollow">https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/in-your-area/renfrewshire/please-dont-kill-causeyside-street-27588612</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17676&page=2#post-367463 Sat, 08 Apr 2023 04:04:41 +0000 CycleAlex 367463@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Came across a tweet about there being a whole mess over a new cycleway potentially being built in Paisley (as per). Looked at <a href="https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/0d4b646bd8d84485915b81df07f0e92f">the plans</a> and what on earth is this? How are we designing this give-way nonsense when Cycling by Design 2021, LTN 1/20 and the new Highway Code exist?</p> <p><a href="https://www.arcgis.com/sharing/rest/content/items/60a6216499e34c3da499e29bacf96999/data" rel="nofollow">https://www.arcgis.com/sharing/rest/content/items/60a6216499e34c3da499e29bacf96999/data</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17676&page=2#post-252288 Wed, 07 Jun 2017 23:28:15 +0000 Stickman 252288@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Good documentary on tonight about the history of Coats. Will be on iPlayer shortly. </p> <p><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08tl9nr" rel="nofollow">http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08tl9nr</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17676&page=2#post-249685 Wed, 10 May 2017 21:15:03 +0000 amir 249685@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I see Brian Smith, the famous cyclist is from Paisley. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17676&page=2#post-249426 Mon, 08 May 2017 22:02:02 +0000 chdot 249426@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="http://www.paisley.org.uk/2017/04/voluntary-arts-festival-shines-spotlight-paisley" rel="nofollow">http://www.paisley.org.uk/2017/04/voluntary-arts-festival-shines-spotlight-paisley</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17676&page=2#post-249285 Sun, 07 May 2017 20:17:43 +0000 chdot 249285@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2017/05/astonishing-tory-ferguslie-park-super-triumph/" rel="nofollow">https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2017/05/astonishing-tory-ferguslie-park-super-triumph/</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17676&page=2#post-249245 Sun, 07 May 2017 14:14:25 +0000 gembo 249245@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@nelly, Paisley dwellers are called Buddies? Prosaically from Body as in Gin a body meet a body comin through the rye.</p> <p>Body - somebody, anybody, nobody.</p> <p>Well that seems to be the root</p> <p>My old man when he ran the golf course near Neilston (nearish Paisley) had a green keeper that worked with him called Peter Weir. He played for Neilston Juniors then signed for St Mirren then Aberdeen, a cultured outside wing forward. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17676&page=2#post-249241 Sun, 07 May 2017 13:15:04 +0000 Nelly 249241@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I have a lot of time for Paisley dwellers.</p> <p>The St Mirren fans were great yesterday at Easter Road. Glad their team were not relegated.</p> <p>They deserve huge praise for not taking the easy route following one or other of the ugly sisters from Glasgow. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17676#post-249238 Sun, 07 May 2017 11:41:11 +0000 chdot 249238@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"</p> <p>Paisley Patterns will be broadcast on Radio Scotland on May 2nd at 13.32, repeated on Sunday 6th May at 0703. The Mill Lassies goes out the following week at the same times. Both will be available for 30 days online via the iPlayer. </p> <p>"</p> <p><a href="http://www.billykay.co.uk/pages/news2.asp" rel="nofollow">http://www.billykay.co.uk/pages/news2.asp</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17676#post-249133 Fri, 05 May 2017 20:14:06 +0000 gembo 249133@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@stickman, grammar good school. My dad was offered John Neilson when it first opened but given the lives we lead, he stayed in the village, did not sit highers, became a sheet metal engineer, built a golf course, became a pro, enjoyed himself. Thirty years of bad back though.</p> <p>If he had taken up his grammar school offer ( not The Grammar of course) who knows what would have transpired.</p> <p>Mhairi went to Lourdes (school not pilgrimage) and supports The Jags according to wiki </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17676#post-249132 Fri, 05 May 2017 20:09:22 +0000 Stickman 249132@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>gembo: mhairi grew up in Ralston - think that's in the Grammar catchment </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17676#post-249118 Fri, 05 May 2017 19:34:38 +0000 gembo 249118@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I am going to google to see if he went to Paisley grammar ( posh for Paisley, the I will see where mhairi black went, on the website SNPschooldays) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17676#post-249114 Fri, 05 May 2017 19:30:23 +0000 chdot 249114@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"</p> <p>I arrived in Edinburgh from Paisley via Dundee University and settled here after doing a masters’ in Law at Edinburgh University.</p> <p>"</p> <p><a href="http://www.theedinburghreporter.co.uk/2014/03/the-edinburgh-reporter-chats-with-councillor-adam-mcvey/" rel="nofollow">http://www.theedinburghreporter.co.uk/2014/03/the-edinburgh-reporter-chats-with-councillor-adam-mcvey/</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17676#post-248794 Thu, 04 May 2017 19:29:19 +0000 gembo 248794@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>The chapel in my village in Renfrewshire had been moved from Millport </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17676#post-248792 Thu, 04 May 2017 19:28:15 +0000 wee folding bike 248792@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>The bit my gran stayed in was a post war peripheral scheme. They even moved a church there.</p> <p><a href="http://www.theglasgowstory.com/image/?inum=TGSE00984" rel="nofollow">http://www.theglasgowstory.com/image/?inum=TGSE00984</a></p> <p>She should have gone to Riddrie after the war when they were moving people out of Townhead but she didn't want to humph a pram up stairs so she held out for a house in Pollok. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17676#post-248789 Thu, 04 May 2017 19:09:23 +0000 gembo 248789@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Poll ok is neither city centre nor peripheral scheme though but by the way big man </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17676#post-248787 Thu, 04 May 2017 19:02:04 +0000 wee folding bike 248787@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>it's easy. The city centre is in squares and then there are big post war schemes on the edges. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17676#post-248682 Thu, 04 May 2017 10:23:33 +0000 fimm 248682@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@wfb <em>"The Burrell is in Pollok park but… that's not quite the same as Pollok."</em></p> <p>Hmmm. Do I detect some sniggering at the back? ;-) Let's just say that the geography of Glasgow is not my strong point... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17676#post-248599 Wed, 03 May 2017 17:18:51 +0000 wee folding bike 248599@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Ohhh… and the maternity in Paisley is very near one of the oldest railway bridges in the world. It is a repurposed canal bridge. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17676#post-248598 Wed, 03 May 2017 17:18:09 +0000 wee folding bike 248598@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Yes, Rotten Row was in the middle of town. It's been demolished. I think maternity moved to the Royal and then there is a unit at the Death Star in Govan.</p> <p>The Burrell is in Pollok park but… that's not quite the same as Pollok.</p> <p>This was the entrance to the Ross Maternity. I'm not sure how much of the building is left now. By the time my wee sister was born, '68, we stayed in Paisley so obviously she was born in Elderslie. </p> <p><a href="https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@55.8348995,-4.395156,3a,75y,107.75h,91.72t/data=" rel="nofollow">https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@55.8348995,-4.395156,3a,75y,107.75h,91.72t/data=</a>!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sBVGxv16ux7dhmZ0iR7mlYw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656 </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17676#post-248568 Wed, 03 May 2017 08:24:27 +0000 fimm 248568@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@wfb we lived somewhere in the west of Glasgow and Mum had all her antenatal appointments at Rotten Row (?) but there were too many babies being born so we were sent off to Paisley for the actual event. </p> <p>We lived somewhere near the park that now houses the Burrell Collection - a small amount of googling suggests that is Pollock. We moved from Glasgow to Northumberland when I was two. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17676#post-248564 Tue, 02 May 2017 23:16:29 +0000 wee folding bike 248564@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>fimm me too. Stayed in Pollok so we were zoned for the Ross Maternity in Paisley. It's an old folks home now.</p> <p>I did stay in Paisley till I was three. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17676#post-248562 Tue, 02 May 2017 21:44:07 +0000 Diarmid 248562@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>My dad's family came from Paisley - great great grandfather was a clock maker - still have one of his clocks. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17676#post-248499 Tue, 02 May 2017 10:26:46 +0000 chdot 248499@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>For anyone who associates Paisley with boring -</p> <p><a href="http://www.renfrewshire24.co.uk/2017/04/26/scottish-water-launches-tunnel-boring-machine-in-massive-paisley-environmental-project" rel="nofollow">http://www.renfrewshire24.co.uk/2017/04/26/scottish-water-launches-tunnel-boring-machine-in-massive-paisley-environmental-project</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17676#post-248486 Tue, 02 May 2017 09:04:28 +0000 Cyclingmollie 248486@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>No discussion of Paisley is complete without mentioning...</em></p> <p>...that it was a snail found in a bottle of ginger beer in Paisley that started consumer protection law. </p> <p>And they used to make nice shawls. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17676#post-248485 Tue, 02 May 2017 08:54:39 +0000 amir 248485@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Some of my OH's ancestors come from Paisley. They emmigrated in the 1840s. I've been there a couple of times for research purposes - interesting place. This year the football team from her place of ancestry met with the football team from my place of ancestry in the Scottish Challenge Cup. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17676#post-248481 Tue, 02 May 2017 08:35:23 +0000 fimm 248481@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I was born in Paisley.<br /> I don't think I've been back since... </p>