http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: So, 11 years on... en Sun, 31 May 2026 10:51:04 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20389#post-339469 Wed, 28 Oct 2020 19:49:03 +0000 SRD 339469@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Unlike arellcat, I'm struggling to believe that it was *only* a year ago... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20389#post-339457 Wed, 28 Oct 2020 12:59:15 +0000 I were right about that saddle 339457@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Never knowingly understood as the late, great Ivor Cutler had it. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20389#post-339456 Wed, 28 Oct 2020 11:39:06 +0000 chdot 339456@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>“2020 has at least starkly revealed what we are up against“</p> <p>Cryptic!</p> <p>If you’re talking cycle infrastructure, some woolly arguments about ‘democracy’ have emerged. </p> <p>More important it has revealed that stuff CAN be done. </p> <p>Now we need to hope for/encourage new users and also work out how ‘temporary’ can become permanent (and better). </p> <p>Presume this requires changes to E/T/TRO rules? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20389#post-339455 Wed, 28 Oct 2020 11:21:41 +0000 I were right about that saddle 339455@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>All hail CCE, all hail those who sail in her, have sailed in her and will sail in her in the next eleven years.</p> <p>I will tell you this: 2020 has at least starkly revealed what we are up against. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20389#post-339453 Wed, 28 Oct 2020 10:01:15 +0000 chdot 339453@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>“ML makes CEC sloth look positively energetic!“</p> <p>Sad but true. </p> <p>As with all councils ‘what gets done’ (not just cycling) depends on both officials and councillors, the interaction between them and sometimes assumptions of what councillors want. </p> <p>Perhaps a bigger reason for priorities is what councillors think voters want. It seems MidL voters want to drive - possibly because the alternatives aren’t great... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20389#post-339452 Wed, 28 Oct 2020 09:40:32 +0000 Arellcat 339452@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>2020 to me really feels like a lost year: here we are at the end of October and I am having great difficulty understanding how it can be <em>a whole year</em> already since a bunch of us <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/66067108@N08/48964144011">gathered at Summerhall</a> to happily celebrate CCE at 10. Happy 11th birthday, CCE!</p> <p>Like many others, in March my commute disappeared overnight. Almost immediately I switched to spending my time exploring on my bike; faraway, mythical places of unimagined riches, like Rosewell, Glencorse, Carrington, Temple, Gladhouse, Penicuik House, Edmonstone House, Danderhall, Millerhill...all places I'd been past any number of times, but never to. I resurrected my blue mountain bike, rode it for a few months then splurged on a bouncy mountain bike to save my wrists and shoulders. I may be riding a lot less than I was last year, with no commute and pretty well no holidaying, but I've definitely been enjoying riding again.</p> <p>With uncharacteristic umbrage I prodded the Midlothian machine about one or two bicycular things over the past few months, but ML makes CEC sloth look positively energetic! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20389#post-339445 Tue, 27 Oct 2020 23:13:48 +0000 LaidBack 339445@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@chdot - 2020 the year that changed everything (but not enough?). </p> <p>Nice to hear of active grandchildren - inspired to see so many families adopting active travel, cargo bikes etc although the rise in driving your own PPE is now also evident.<br /> Hopefully Fife will stay in level 2. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20389#post-339443 Tue, 27 Oct 2020 21:28:23 +0000 gembo 339443@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@CHDot good that your grandchildren have bikes and also parents.</p> <p>Shame we can’t pub it but maybe Socially distanced meet outside Peter’s Yard / Soderberg this Friday is feasible ?</p> <p>Despite the sluggishness of Lockdown the CEC officers continued to get some wands in.</p> <p>We Travel In Hope </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20389#post-339442 Tue, 27 Oct 2020 21:19:54 +0000 chdot 339442@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>CCE went live 11 years ago</p> <p>My Diary reminder says 8pm</p> <p>Presume that’s true</p> <p>Don’t remember why</p> <p>On a personal level I now have 4 grandchildren (all well under 11, all with bicycles - parents too). I’ve also left Edinburgh - many reasons, including CEC sloth (not pretending I’ve moved anywhere more adept at wanting/enabling better). </p> <p>Quite a few CECers now have under 11s and some have also moved away. </p> <p>The (first) year of Covid has changed many things. Might even have caused the start of a bigger walk/cycling infrastructure than was managed in the previous 10 years. </p> <p>Not that that is likely to balance all the downsides. </p> <p>The wider environmental concerns have brought us Greta, and (?)</p> <p>I hope CCE remains of value to people in another 11 years! </p>