http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: State of cyclepaths en Thu, 21 May 2026 07:34:41 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1956&page=2#post-21517 Fri, 14 Jan 2011 20:05:57 +0000 Arellcat 21517@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>The Union Canal towpath as far as Cultins Road is entirely passable, though the stretch next to Calder Crescent still has a long wide strip of ice down the middle. I picked the wrong side to go around this afternoon and discovered the evidence of post-snowfall dog walkers. :-(</p> <p>The canal itself is still largely frozen, but it's floating ice now so probably not too structural. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1956&page=2#post-21515 Fri, 14 Jan 2011 19:57:58 +0000 SRD 21515@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Horrible potholes on cycle path (?NMW) between MMW and Buccleuch St. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1956&page=2#post-21513 Fri, 14 Jan 2011 19:47:12 +0000 ruggtomcat 21513@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>State of the cyclepaths right now.</p> <p>Porty -&gt; clerk street. No bother, the odd ridge of ice still in place but otherwise fine.</p> <p>Meadows: Massive pothole next to the old east end playground, lots of rotting leaves making things greasy.</p> <p>Getting from there to Haymarket, you have to be creative.</p> <p>Haymarket -&gt; South Queensferry: Atrocious, several areas of widespread sheet ice, a LOT of rotten vegetable matter, two points where the winnows from the snowplough have completely blocked the path.</p> <p>Roseburn -&gt; Ferry Road: Lovely, overgritted if anything. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1956&page=2#post-21467 Fri, 14 Jan 2011 12:37:49 +0000 riffian 21467@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>CEC undertook at 'Staff Travel Survey' in 2008 which revealed an impressive 10.1% of respondents cycled to work.<br /> Although I think that cyclists are more likely to respond to these types of surveys - so maybe 10.1% is an over-estimate.<br /> They were offering incentives of the chance of winning Bike co-op vouchers so this also clearly skews the sample! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1956&page=2#post-21461 Fri, 14 Jan 2011 11:53:55 +0000 Cyclingmollie 21461@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>The last time I filled in a voluntary return form on how I get to work (as a part-time Council employee) was at least three years ago. So there should be figures available but they will be a bit out of date. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1956&page=2#post-21380 Thu, 13 Jan 2011 16:40:18 +0000 wingpig 21380@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Ages ago everyone in my popular city-centre-based financial services company had to fill in a questionnaire describing whence and by which means they commuted, at the behest of the council (possibly due to something related to the city centre offices' justifications for their large underground car parks). There was nothing about routes (except implicitly for the likes of the staff who lived in Fife and said they commuted by train) but some time after the assessment was complete a map showing the staff's geographic distribution was released. If the council makes other large city-centre employers do this sort of thing they really ought to make themselves, as one of the largest. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1956&page=2#post-21378 Thu, 13 Jan 2011 16:32:11 +0000 spytefear 21378@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@SRD - Oh I think it is a questionnaire I answered during my time at CEC... It's the kind of thing that keeps someone in a job remember...<br /> @ruggtomcat - well I sent an email, more to see if anybody ever reads that mailbox, if nothing comes back I might FOI it later.<br /> <strong>FOI - a fun hobby for all the family</strong><br /> In association with ACME </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1956&page=2#post-21375 Thu, 13 Jan 2011 16:15:42 +0000 SRD 21375@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I'd be surprised if they collect data on how employees travel to work, much less their routes, but could well be wrong. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1956&page=2#post-21371 Thu, 13 Jan 2011 15:33:33 +0000 ruggtomcat 21371@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>do eeeet!!!! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1956&page=2#post-21356 Thu, 13 Jan 2011 13:40:55 +0000 spytefear 21356@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>have just discovered the email address <a href="mailto:cycling@edinburgh.gov.uk">cycling@edinburgh.gov.uk</a> on the cooncil's <a href="http://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/info/1504/walking_and_cycling">wonderful cycling (and walking) pages</a><br /> Going to ask them how many council workers get to work by bike and if they use these paths... Can anyone say FOI? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1956&page=2#post-21347 Thu, 13 Jan 2011 11:45:28 +0000 Cyclingmollie 21347@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>The Innocent was awful yesterday as Anth said on another thread. There must have been a thaw which allowed bike tyres to leave deep furrows which froze later into tramlines. I came home through Portobello instead and had a friendly encounter with a bus driver who let me through at the pinch point on Brighton Place. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1956&page=2#post-21341 Thu, 13 Jan 2011 10:44:37 +0000 Min 21341@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Innocent is beginning to melt for those interested. There were some clear sections and some ultra slippery sections. Folk travelling east to west were able to ride round the side but there was too much vegetation for me to do that. I should think if it stays mild it should be passable by tomorrow-tunnel to Duddingston West anyway. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1956&page=2#post-20889 Sat, 08 Jan 2011 14:47:55 +0000 ruggtomcat 20889@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I mean boo Im writing a complaint </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1956&page=2#post-20888 Sat, 08 Jan 2011 14:47:04 +0000 ruggtomcat 20888@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>woo the internet wins again, thanks 'nik :) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1956&page=2#post-20887 Sat, 08 Jan 2011 14:41:02 +0000 kaputnik 20887@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I passed it coming down Duddingston Park. AS the Holyrood Park was closed I had intended to cut up that way, gentleman on MTB with super-knobblies was coming out and advised me not to be as foolhardy as take the road bike that way, said he had been constantly on the verge of falling over, it was slushy, slow going and very hard work. Looked like he knew what he was about so I took his advice and pushed on up towards Cameron Toll, Dalkeith Road and home. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1956&page=2#post-20886 Sat, 08 Jan 2011 14:35:12 +0000 ruggtomcat 20886@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Anyone done the porty-&gt; innocent railway path today? Going to take the Significant Other on a snow romp in the Hermitage :) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1956&page=2#post-20697 Wed, 05 Jan 2011 20:25:33 +0000 Smudge 20697@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Well my complaint was a blanket report of the WoL walkway being ungritted along with the canal towpath and access paths ;-)</p> <p>I don't see why you can't say "X Road between point a and B, multiple potholes creating a serious risk of injury to cyclists" or similar, then if someone is hurt they've been told and have to prove they couldn't have done anything as opposed to didn't know?? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1956#post-20696 Wed, 05 Jan 2011 20:15:49 +0000 kaputnik 20696@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Is there the facility to do a "blanket" report of</p> <p><strong>WHAT</strong>: giant potholes<br /> <strong>WHERE</strong>: everywhere</p> <p>? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1956#post-20694 Wed, 05 Jan 2011 20:07:59 +0000 ruggtomcat 20694@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"<em>Mind you, if everyone on here (and elsewhere!) took the opportunity to complain about the lack of gritting on their local cyclepath then maybe *they'd* get bored of being complained at rather than us being bored of complaining.</em>"</p> <p>this was my thinking, and also that I had not personally complained, which I shall now do! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1956#post-20686 Wed, 05 Jan 2011 19:01:03 +0000 Smudge 20686@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="http://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/a_to_z/service/940668/roads_and_roadworks" rel="nofollow">http://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/a_to_z/service/940668/roads_and_roadworks</a><br /> Mind you, if everyone on here (and elsewhere!) took the opportunity to complain about the lack of gritting on their local cyclepath then maybe *they'd* get bored of being complained at rather than us being bored of complaining.<br /> Especially if an embarrassing FOI request later in the year was to prove they had a large number of complaints made but had done nothing...? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1956#post-20681 Wed, 05 Jan 2011 16:31:14 +0000 chdot 20681@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"No, that's a 'yes' "</p> <p>That's encouraging. </p> <p>"and it's received the same blank response."</p> <p>I've been told that if you want Clarence to 'report back' you have to say so when you report a problem. </p> <p><em>However</em> the idea that <em>no-one</em> (not just people on here!) has reported the current (and recent) state of the cycle paths seems hard to believe. </p> <p>The reality is that almost nothing has been done apart from The Meadows (belatedly and inadequately) and some bits of NEPN. </p> <p>Clearly 'we' don't think this is good enough, but more importantly I think the past few weeks have shown that giving REAL priority (after the bus routes) to the walk/cycle network would benefit LOT of people. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1956#post-20680 Wed, 05 Jan 2011 16:09:47 +0000 Wilmington's Cow 20680@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>No, that's a 'yes' and it's received the same blank response. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1956#post-20679 Wed, 05 Jan 2011 16:05:51 +0000 ruggtomcat 20679@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>So thats a no then? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1956#post-20678 Wed, 05 Jan 2011 16:04:54 +0000 Cyclingmollie 20678@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>anth at work <blockquote>"It gets tiring after a while". </blockquote><br /> Especially when they've never heard of it and you have to explain where it is. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1956#post-20677 Wed, 05 Jan 2011 16:03:33 +0000 Min 20677@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Yeah. They are just not interested.</p> <p>Wingpig-that is a good point. I had been wondering if the extremely selective gritting was to do with individual councillors and their wards. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1956#post-20676 Wed, 05 Jan 2011 15:59:44 +0000 Wilmington's Cow 20676@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@ruggtomcat Complaining about the state of the Innocent Path is pretty much an annual event of pointing out the lack of any attempt at making it a rideable and walkable surface, as well as how busy and important a route it is, especially with Edinburgh being made into a model cycling city, followed by sympathetic noises from the council about grit boxes and a big sackful of nothing being done whatsoever.</p> <p>It gets tiring after a while. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1956#post-20675 Wed, 05 Jan 2011 15:49:09 +0000 wingpig 20675@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Haven't reported any gritting errors but I reported seven potholes last night.<br /> The impression I gained from the erratic off-road-north-Edinburgh-path-gritting was that the gritted bit suspiciously overlapped with the bit the police sometimes drive along in order to apprehend miscreant Piltonites. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1956#post-20671 Wed, 05 Jan 2011 14:46:23 +0000 ruggtomcat 20671@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Has anyone actually bothered complaining to the council? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1956#post-20667 Wed, 05 Jan 2011 13:25:43 +0000 SRD 20667@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Black ice very bad on path between canal and slateford around 11.15, mostly melted 45 min later. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1956#post-20664 Wed, 05 Jan 2011 12:36:57 +0000 kaputnik 20664@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Gritters were out on the "priority 1" (bus) routes this morning. Plenty black ice on untreated side roads / residential streets, making it all the more neccessary for rat-runners to drive loudly and closely up one's posterior as one took it a bit slowly round corners and over speedbumps. Must have been admiring the new mudguards or something. </p>