http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Edinburgh cycling outlook en Tue, 19 May 2026 19:35:43 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18508#post-271865 Tue, 09 Jan 2018 11:25:51 +0000 jdanielp 271865@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>There was a massive queue of traffic attempting to travel east-bound on Gilmore Place this morning. Luckily there were only cyclists turning right in front of me as I headed across from Tarvit Street so it wasn't bad. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18508#post-271843 Tue, 09 Jan 2018 00:50:36 +0000 jdanielp 271843@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@piosad I did wonder, but that explains quite a lot. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18508#post-271839 Mon, 08 Jan 2018 23:00:58 +0000 piosad 271839@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@jdanielp it’s the last day of the school holidays. I expect it to be back to its usual self very shortly. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18508#post-271810 Mon, 08 Jan 2018 19:41:59 +0000 LaidBack 271810@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@Rosie<br /> I've used that route too. Off peak you can sometimes get round on right hand but always a lottery. I use that Lochrin cut through the other way and now canal has been re-paved it's even better.<br /> All in all though this area is a barrier to cycling and needs road space re-allocated.<br /> We only have to see the 'inventive' routes on other thread 'Ravelston Dykes to Holyrood' to prove this.</p> <p><em>Leamington is part of John Muir Way - they couldn't risk putting it through that junction :-)</em> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18508#post-271808 Mon, 08 Jan 2018 19:35:33 +0000 jdanielp 271808@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I just negotiated the King's Theatre Junction on my usual commute home. I didn't enjoy it, but it was ok today. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18508#post-271805 Mon, 08 Jan 2018 19:31:12 +0000 Rosie 271805@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@LaidBack<br /> I work in Fountainbridge. I go Canal, Lochrin Place and do the right turn from there, sometimes walking to the pedestrian crossing. Kings is a nightmare - never clear when you have right of way. How that can be part of an NCN! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18508#post-271801 Mon, 08 Jan 2018 19:20:05 +0000 unhurt 271801@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>'Such a short distance to put right!'. </em></p> <p>Fourthed re: Kings. Urgh! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18508#post-271799 Mon, 08 Jan 2018 19:14:11 +0000 LaidBack 271799@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@Rosie @piosad</p> <p>I hate the King's Theatre junction right hand turn too and do it every other time I go to shop. I sometimes cycle up Leamington just to get away from Gilmore Place's terrible surface and the fact you always have to queue beside cars going left. Add in buses coming round and it's grade A difficulty right turn and a 'no go' for newbies.<br /> On tours I always go into Meadows up via Bruntsfield - Montpelier is actually nicest / smoothest / least steep way but only if you are trying to add mileage and time.<br /> In 2016 I cycled with the Dutch owners of Nazca bikes through by King's Theatre and they couldn't believe how rubbish it was in comparison with the Meadows paths. 'Such a short distance to put right!'. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18508#post-271794 Mon, 08 Jan 2018 17:00:30 +0000 Rosie 271794@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@piosad - Yeah, that horrible dumping into Melville Drive and getting through Tollcross is a real put off for Southside to Fountainbridge and the Canal and points beyond. It's an essential link. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18508#post-271788 Mon, 08 Jan 2018 16:02:43 +0000 unhurt 271788@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Think the assumption is Southsiders travel <a href="http://images6.fanpop.com/image/photos/39700000/The-Valley-of-Gwangi-animated-gif-stop-motion-animation-39710231-500-281.gif">Valley of the Gwangi style</a>? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18508#post-271787 Mon, 08 Jan 2018 15:57:19 +0000 I were right about that saddle 271787@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>South Edinburgh - the Land That Cycling Forgot. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18508#post-271777 Mon, 08 Jan 2018 14:24:28 +0000 chdot 271777@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>So much for the overwhelmingly unassailable insidious cycle lobby... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18508#post-271775 Mon, 08 Jan 2018 14:17:53 +0000 jdanielp 271775@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Cloudy with a chance of cycling. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18508#post-271774 Mon, 08 Jan 2018 14:11:11 +0000 piosad 271774@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Very disappointed that Meadows to Canal seems to have completely slipped down the list in favour of the ‘big ones’. For the length of segregated lane it provides (yes I know there are challenges on Home Street but it’s literally like two hundred yards of segregation in total) it must surely be one of the more efficient potential projects anywhere in Edinburgh. (Yes I am selfish but I am completely out of patience with selfish drivers doing selfish stupid things in Gilmore Place and at the King’s junction.) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18508#post-271772 Mon, 08 Jan 2018 14:00:16 +0000 neddie 271772@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>SPOKES' take on the outlook for cycling in Edinburgh for 2018:</p> <p><a href="http://www.spokes.org.uk/2018/01/outlook-for-%F0%9F%9A%B2-in-2018-edinburgh/" rel="nofollow">http://www.spokes.org.uk/2018/01/outlook-for-%F0%9F%9A%B2-in-2018-edinburgh/</a> </p>