http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Is Edinburgh city centre safe to cycle? I (nervously) tried it en Mon, 18 May 2026 22:34:17 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=21754#post-379878 Sat, 07 Jun 2025 11:50:54 +0000 mcairney 379878@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I agree with much of it. This paragraph highlights one of my pet peeves with any traffic infrastructure, not just road or cycling-specific:</p> <p>'What became clear to me is that cycling in Edinburgh is about knowing your routes, much as driving is. If I had actually studied the route properly and followed it along Melville Street, I wouldn’t have got in a fankle. Having now done the full examination, I would now happily take that route West.'</p> <p>We're taught that we should be able to navigate any road system independently however if navigating a route relies on intimate knowledge of said route then that's a failure from a design perspective.<br /> Across our entire transport network signage is sub-optimal and poorly maintained. Map routing sites like Google Maps/Komoot/Strava etc can help to some extent but I'm wary of over-reliance on them. On a more positive note I'll be looking forward to picking up a new Spokes map to do a bit of exploring! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=21754#post-379868 Fri, 06 Jun 2025 12:49:45 +0000 Morningsider 379868@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Love the quote supplied by Cycling Scotland from a "Leith resident" who works at Edinburgh Park lauding CCWEL and the Leith Walk cycling lanes as their cycling trips are "...almost completely on separated cycle lanes."</p> <p>I mean, I suppose that's true if you ignore the mile-long George Street. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=21754#post-379867 Fri, 06 Jun 2025 12:06:49 +0000 Stickman 379867@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>The Herald is running a series of articles about Edinburgh this week. </p> <p><blockquote>For me it was a lack of confidence about cycling through busy traffic. Finding that there are lanes across so much of the city really did make a difference - even if there are gaps in the network.<br /> On reflection it seems slightly crazy that I was nervous about cycling in traffic given I do driver and am sometimes part of that traffic, but that in many ways is the reason why. When you're sitting behind the wheel of a car, cyclists look so vulnerable.<br /> What will Edinburgh look like as a cycling city in two year's time, when the Tour de France comes to town? There's zero chance of us being like Amsterdam or Copenhagen in that tiny zip of time and with many of the infrastructure projects on hold it seems unlikely that it will seem very much different.</blockquote></p> <p><a href="https://archive.ph/AP0Eg" rel="nofollow">https://archive.ph/AP0Eg</a> </p>