http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Is this actually still a ‘bike lane’? en Tue, 19 May 2026 17:52:37 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18259#post-264316 Wed, 25 Oct 2017 09:48:12 +0000 unhurt 264316@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>No. Yes. Maybe. No coffee yet, I think it's affecting my visual comprehension... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18259#post-264313 Wed, 25 Oct 2017 09:43:45 +0000 I were right about that saddle 264313@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>Suitable for a Dutch style city bike?</em></p> <p>Are you mistaking the erosion gullies for the natural bike paths? Easily done for an Edinburgh resident.</p> <p>[<em>Thread back on track BOOM.</em>] </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18259#post-264305 Wed, 25 Oct 2017 08:45:43 +0000 unhurt 264305@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Nice direct routes to the top there. Suitable for a Dutch style city bike? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18259#post-264299 Wed, 25 Oct 2017 08:09:44 +0000 I were right about that saddle 264299@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@unhurt</p> <p>Spontaneous geological formation of cycle infrastructure not unknown. See the <a href="http://photos.wikimapia.org/p/00/03/48/01/40_full.jpg">parallel roads in Glen Roy</a> or North West Path Network as I call them. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18259#post-264295 Wed, 25 Oct 2017 06:53:09 +0000 unhurt 264295@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Urban geoengineering is a very nice idea! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18259#post-264289 Tue, 24 Oct 2017 21:48:59 +0000 jdanielp 264289@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@mgj isn't it "The rocks will melt with the sun before the Council allows repairs to be imposed on Edinburgh's roads."? ;)</p> <p>Although if that molten rock was carefully channeled and then allowed to cool then it might help make a remarkable improvement. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18259#post-264179 Mon, 23 Oct 2017 21:00:58 +0000 mgj 264179@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I think the sun turns into a dead star sometime before most Edinburgh roads are due to get resurfaced, for the benefit of cyclists or not.</p> <p>What does Edinburgh spend its money on?</p> <p>(Rather than congestion charges, should the Council not ban HGVs from the city, with deliveries via electric LGVs.) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18259#post-264095 Sun, 22 Oct 2017 20:56:05 +0000 LaidBack 264095@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>The lane is so bumpy that I go out into road when I can. As most bike traffic is heading for Valleyfield St, potholes and parked cars get me towards middle - not good though and drivers will contest you as everyone heads towards the red lights at King's Theatre junction.<br /> The grand plan is to bring through from canal onto Tarvit St by a new back lane (?)<br /> This 'link' well overdue.<br /> Of course Gilmore Place should be resurfaced too. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18259#post-264072 Sun, 22 Oct 2017 16:16:17 +0000 Klaxon 264072@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>One <em>could</em> argue that council recognised and is resolving the problems of surface treatment lanes by converting them all to red-chip lanes as and when the road is resurfaced.</p> <p>I'm not won over by that argument as the limited visual impact of red chips disappears entirely as soon as it gets dark or wet.</p> <p>And it's all moot as generally anywhere these lanes existed they were just parking anyway. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18259#post-264051 Sun, 22 Oct 2017 10:06:17 +0000 gibbo 264051@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>Meets all the requirements, narrow, dangerous, pointless, ends where its actually needed...</em></p> <p>..., no parking restrictions... </p> <p>I see the cyclist in pics 4 and 5 has the good sense to want no part of it. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18259#post-264048 Sun, 22 Oct 2017 09:29:35 +0000 chdot 264048@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="https://twitter.com/cyclingedin/status/922016863869194240" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/cyclingedin/status/922016863869194240</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18259#post-264047 Sun, 22 Oct 2017 09:27:36 +0000 steveo 264047@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>once you get to the Kings theatre end you also have lots of cars parked in it? So it must be a bike lane?</em></p> <p>I knew there was a standard attribute I'd forgotten, its even in the picture on the other side of road. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18259#post-264046 Sun, 22 Oct 2017 09:18:45 +0000 wingpig 264046@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Also noted in the Atlas (<a href="http://edinburghcouncilmaps.info/atlas/cecatlas.html)" rel="nofollow">http://edinburghcouncilmaps.info/atlas/cecatlas.html)</a>, so they should definitely realise it's there:</p> <p><a href="https://flic.kr/p/ZEA5ER"><img src="https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4453/37849012141_7f25fd26d5_n.jpg"></a><a href="https://flic.kr/p/ZEA5ER">http://edinburghcouncilmaps.info/atlas/cecatlas.html</a> by <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/wingpig/">wingpig</a>, on Flickr</p> <p><a href="http://edinburghcouncilmaps.info/atlas/cecatlas.html" rel="nofollow">http://edinburghcouncilmaps.info/atlas/cecatlas.html</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18259#post-264045 Sun, 22 Oct 2017 09:10:50 +0000 chdot 264045@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@ wingpig</p> <p>Useful find.</p> <p>Actually that’s what’s on the ground -</p> <p><img src="https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4489/37816655202_cc9cb4740f.jpg"></p> <p>So, CEC thinks it’s a “bike lane”.</p> <p>Shame there’s no mechanism for maintaining it (can’t be about money with the 10% budget). </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18259#post-264043 Sun, 22 Oct 2017 09:03:22 +0000 gembo 264043@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@steveo, once you get to the Kings theatre end you also have lots of cars parked in it? So it must be a bike lane? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18259#post-264042 Sun, 22 Oct 2017 08:35:16 +0000 wingpig 264042@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>According to the pseudoSpokes council On Foot, By Bike map (<a href="http://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/downloads/file/6463/explore_city_centre_area_and_north_edinburgh)" rel="nofollow">http://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/downloads/file/6463/explore_city_centre_area_and_north_edinburgh)</a>, only the bit on the last straight bit up to the junction:</p> <p><a href="https://flic.kr/p/CyqMyW"><img src="https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4498/23995807498_7775736e88.jpg"></a></p> <p><a href="https://flic.kr/p/YzN7kG"><img src="https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4476/37138419854_3766cecc1a_n.jpg"></a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18259#post-264040 Sun, 22 Oct 2017 08:19:28 +0000 chdot 264040@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"A thorny philosophical question?"</p> <p>Hope no thorns are involved. </p> <p>There have plenty of mentions on CCE of the section closer to the King's Theatre and the parking spaces on top. </p> <p>I cannot remember when this 'lane' went in, I assume it would have had a dotted white line delineator. </p> <p>Without that, is it a "cycle lane"?</p> <p>Is it included in CEC's list of cycle lane mileage? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18259#post-264039 Sun, 22 Oct 2017 08:15:59 +0000 steveo 264039@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Meets all the requirements, narrow, dangerous, pointless, ends where its actually needed and adds to the council's key metrics on being a model cycling city. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18259#post-264037 Sun, 22 Oct 2017 01:45:42 +0000 unhurt 264037@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>A thorny philosophical question? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18259#post-264035 Sat, 21 Oct 2017 22:56:33 +0000 chdot 264035@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><img src="https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4452/23987564668_f4463dc0db.jpg"></p> <p><img src="https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4509/37582288740_c290065b8c.jpg"></p> <p><img src="https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4475/37839864071_38b929d0ca.jpg"></p> <p><img src="https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4457/37582288080_5d395ddd2f.jpg"></p> <p><img src="https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4477/37808192112_7b1bd0ddf5.jpg"> </p>