http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Meanwhile in Aberdeen en Tue, 19 May 2026 08:42:33 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19519#post-341745 Thu, 10 Dec 2020 17:45:46 +0000 I were right about that saddle 341745@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Aberdeen council is a death cult. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19519#post-341729 Thu, 10 Dec 2020 16:27:23 +0000 CycleAlex 341729@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Aberdeen leading the way as usual. <a href="https://twitter.com/aberdeenCF/status/1336931606876069894?s=20" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/aberdeenCF/status/1336931606876069894?s=20</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19519#post-317999 Mon, 18 Nov 2019 21:53:57 +0000 Arellcat 317999@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>This route studiously avoids the nice houses. Horror.</em></p> <p>Aberdeen clearly has been planning for this for ten or twenty years, really ever since the demolishing of the Belmont, Kittybrewster and Central cattle auction markets. The grassy strips around, for example, Kittybrewster Square are almost magically aligned with the existing roads. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19519#post-317969 Mon, 18 Nov 2019 15:02:18 +0000 I were right about that saddle 317969@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Aberdeen has been engaged in slo-mo suicide since the seventies. If they'd kept the Victorian market and renovated the Green and everything they'd have a rival to the Grassmarket. Hoodlums. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19519#post-317968 Mon, 18 Nov 2019 14:58:42 +0000 Snowy 317968@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>In any case the proposed pedestrian bit is, er, 320 metres. Somewhat less than a mile. What, a blatantly misleading headline in the P&amp;J? Gasp.</p> <p>However, the proposal is probably a good starting point. If they get that done in Aberdeen, they're really onto something... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19519#post-317965 Mon, 18 Nov 2019 13:26:15 +0000 I were right about that saddle 317965@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Nobody calls it the Granite Mile. The whole city centre's granite.</p> <p>I think the beach used to be called the Golden Mile before people had sight of Spain. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19519#post-317960 Mon, 18 Nov 2019 12:59:57 +0000 Stickman 317960@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><blockquote>Leading Aberdeen retail bosses have called for the urgent pedestrianisation of the city’s famous Granite Mile</blockquote></p> <p><a href="https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/news/aberdeen/1890648/aberdeen-retail-bosses-call-for-union-street-pedestrianisation/" rel="nofollow">https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/news/aberdeen/1890648/aberdeen-retail-bosses-call-for-union-street-pedestrianisation/</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19519#post-315142 Thu, 03 Oct 2019 14:14:43 +0000 I were right about that saddle 315142@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Aberdeen is insane. They won't stop until they've built Birmingham <em>circa</em> 1975.</p> <p><a href="https://www.aberdeencity.gov.uk/sites/default/files/2017-12/Berryden%20Preliminary%20Layout.pdf">This route</a> studiously avoids the nice houses. Horror. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19519#post-315139 Thu, 03 Oct 2019 13:57:20 +0000 Frenchy 315139@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>The AWPR bypass in Aberdeen has, for now, reduced traffic in Aberdeen itself. So, naturally, the city council is looking to capitalise on that by reallocating road space to more sustainable modes of transport. Right?</p> <p>Haha, of course not. Instead they're building a dual carriageway through the middle of the city.</p> <p><a href="https://www.aberdeencity.gov.uk/services/roads-transport-and-parking/berryden-corridor-improvement" rel="nofollow">https://www.aberdeencity.gov.uk/services/roads-transport-and-parking/berryden-corridor-improvement</a></p> <p>Route is roughly this: <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/directions?engine=graphhopper_car&amp;route=57.1515%2C-2.1091%3B57.1658%2C-2.1159#map=13/57.1622/-2.1029" rel="nofollow">https://www.openstreetmap.org/directions?engine=graphhopper_car&amp;route=57.1515%2C-2.1091%3B57.1658%2C-2.1159#map=13/57.1622/-2.1029</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19519#post-303502 Thu, 21 Mar 2019 12:50:21 +0000 chdot 303502@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>“</p> <p>The brakes may be put on the much-lauded Alive After Five scheme</p> <p>“</p> <p>Whatever happened to the Edinburgh equivalent? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19519#post-303498 Thu, 21 Mar 2019 12:23:35 +0000 Stickman 303498@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Conservative councillors look at evidence and find free parking isn’t a cure for all ills:</p> <p><a href="https://www.scotsman.com/news/transport/free-parking-fails-to-lure-shoppers-into-aberdeen-city-centre-1-4886397" rel="nofollow">https://www.scotsman.com/news/transport/free-parking-fails-to-lure-shoppers-into-aberdeen-city-centre-1-4886397</a></p> <p>“John Wheeler, convener of Aberdeen City Council’s operational delivery committee, said the figures “speak for themselves”.</p> <p>The Conservative councillor added: “We obviously trialled it and officers have come back with recommendations based on the data obtained that it has not really been successful.” </p>