http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Glasgow Transport Museum en Wed, 13 May 2026 03:27:50 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3083&page=2#post-34816 Sun, 03 Jul 2011 22:23:17 +0000 chdot 34816@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>THE night shot -<br /> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/blackpuddinonnabike/406001442/"><br /> <img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/100/406001442_203e330b3e.jpg"></a></p> <p>By guess who (not me). </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3083&page=2#post-34815 Sun, 03 Jul 2011 22:11:55 +0000 kaputnik 34815@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Rather like these ones?</p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kaputniq/5898721226/"><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5116/5898721226_39f4c6b051.jpg"></a><br /> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kaputniq/5898721226/">Can you see what it is yet?</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3083&page=2#post-34808 Sun, 03 Jul 2011 19:46:42 +0000 Cyclingmollie 34808@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>kaputnik: <em>"They're not bike racks. They're an art installation, that you just happen to be able to lock a bike to."</em></p> <p>Ah, like the one outside the Council offices I locked my bike to when they completely forgot to provide bicycle stands. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3083&page=2#post-34805 Sun, 03 Jul 2011 18:27:49 +0000 kaputnik 34805@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>They're not bike racks. They're an art installation, that you just happen to be able to lock a bike to. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3083&page=2#post-34804 Sun, 03 Jul 2011 17:52:12 +0000 chdot 34804@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5036/5897335117_c7e0c12e74.jpg"></p> <p>Photo andypreece</p> <p>"</p> <p>Cycle parking at new Riverside Museum has been reported as completed full on several occasions, and is quite full even on a wet day here. </p> <p>Stands are all at slightly different angles, so will cost somewhat more than standard stands.</p> <p>Also doubles as cycle parking for adjacent ferry to Govan for those not taking bike onto ferry.</p> <p>"</p> <p><a href="http://edinburgh.cyclestreets.net/location/31545" rel="nofollow">http://edinburgh.cyclestreets.net/location/31545</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3083#post-34799 Sun, 03 Jul 2011 14:59:13 +0000 chdot 34799@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Well done. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3083#post-34797 Sun, 03 Jul 2011 14:23:30 +0000 Hawkeye 34797@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>OpenStreetMap / Cyclestreets should now (soon) have an update for the Riverside museum and M74. </p> <p>:-) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3083#post-34362 Mon, 27 Jun 2011 22:43:52 +0000 wee folding bike 34362@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Had a big dosa in the Banana Leaf. It was strangely delicious and not like normal Scottish Indian restaurants. One of the friends I went with has spent the last two years in Sri Lanka and India and she loved it. We will be back before she goes away again in August.</p> <p>I caught the tail end of the Riverside show when I turned over for Newsnight, I'll get it on iPlayer later. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3083#post-34361 Mon, 27 Jun 2011 22:29:46 +0000 SRD 34361@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>programme on bbc 2 about this now (and presumably on catchiup later) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3083#post-34301 Mon, 27 Jun 2011 10:30:00 +0000 wee folding bike 34301@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>There were lots of classic busses running yesterday. They usually come from Bridgeton </p> <p><a href="http://www.gvvt.org/" rel="nofollow">http://www.gvvt.org/</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3083#post-34299 Mon, 27 Jun 2011 10:26:28 +0000 SRD 34299@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>We may have to go there too, as we are big fans of dosas. thanks for the tip! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3083#post-34298 Mon, 27 Jun 2011 10:24:46 +0000 chdot 34298@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="http://www.travelinescotland.com/journeyplanner" rel="nofollow">http://www.travelinescotland.com/journeyplanner</a> <em>does </em>know where "Transport Museum, Glasgow" is.</p> <p>Bizarrely it doesn't know about "Queen Street Station Glasgow"!!</p> <p>Random suggestions -</p> <p><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6055/5876580922_c2c9e68530.jpg"></p> <p><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5111/5876581018_42df5f942f.jpg"></p> <p>Doesn't seem to know about the <a href="http://www.glasgowlife.org.uk/museums/our-museums/riverside-museum/visiting/by-bus/Pages/default.aspx">special bus from George Square</a>. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3083#post-34293 Mon, 27 Jun 2011 10:15:28 +0000 wee folding bike 34293@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Tomtom doesn't know about the new "museum" either.</p> <p>It does sort of know about the M74 extension. It appears on the screen when you go past it on the M8. I'll try updating it tomorrow and see it has turned into a real road.</p> <p>Of course Tomtom doesn't know about our street and we've lived here for two years. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3083#post-34292 Mon, 27 Jun 2011 10:13:56 +0000 wee folding bike 34292@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I'm going to try out the Banana Leaf today, I meant to go a year and half ago but there were complications.</p> <p>Another thing which annoyed the memsahib was the cycle route painted on the pavement between Bunhouse Rd and the river. Boys were at risk from people on full suspension machines wearing all the "safety" kit the could find in the shop. Number 3 son was actually hit by one. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3083#post-34291 Mon, 27 Jun 2011 10:01:09 +0000 chdot 34291@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>New from old -</p> <p><a href="http://glasgow.cyclestreets.net/journey/856942" rel="nofollow">http://glasgow.cyclestreets.net/journey/856942</a></p> <p><a href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=55.86555&amp;lon=-4.30431&amp;zoom=16&amp;layers=M">Open Street Map doesn't seem to have caught up</a>, which is a bit disappointing. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3083#post-34290 Mon, 27 Jun 2011 09:59:49 +0000 SRD 34290@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>thanks! </p> <p>was thinking of Mother India </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3083#post-34289 Mon, 27 Jun 2011 09:57:10 +0000 wee folding bike 34289@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>It's about 10-15 minutes walk away.</p> <p>From the front door of the old one walk south up to the end of Bunhouse Rd and turn right to head west along Old Dumbarton Rd. Bear left into Ferry Rd. Keep going until you get to the Express way. Turn right down to the underpass. Walk along the side of the Kelvin, under the Express way and you're there.</p> <p><a href="http://goo.gl/maps/arLG" rel="nofollow">http://goo.gl/maps/arLG</a></p> <p>Is the restaurant the Banana Leaf? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3083#post-34288 Mon, 27 Jun 2011 09:45:08 +0000 SRD 34288@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>How far is the new museum from the old one? One of the best things about the old one was the very good indian restaurants nearby! i thought it had moved a long way, but the parking discussions suggest now. i am confused (and don't know glasgow that well) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3083#post-34287 Mon, 27 Jun 2011 09:41:41 +0000 wee folding bike 34287@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I wasn't keen to go yesterday, I'd been planning to leave it till the second half of July, but the memsahib insisted.</p> <p>On the plus side I did get a nice lunch in a real Italian cafe. There is a reconstructed one in the museum but I used a fully functioning establishment in Byre's Rd. They don't seem to care about it being a museum piece and neither do I. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3083#post-34285 Mon, 27 Jun 2011 09:14:53 +0000 chdot 34285@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"We parked outside the old museum because the Expressway was full of cars waiting to get in."</p> <p><a href="http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3273" rel="nofollow">http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3273</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3083#post-34282 Mon, 27 Jun 2011 07:31:43 +0000 wee folding bike 34282@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Went yesterday. </p> <p>We parked outside the old museum because the Expressway was full of cars waiting to get in. This meant we used the Expressway underpass to gain access. There are three bikes on the mural. A man in a top hat on an Ordinary has a cable actuated brake. The other two bikes have their chains on the left hand side.</p> <p>Almost all of the bikes are hanging off the ceiling where you can barely see them. You can tell they are bikes but that's about all.</p> <p>Most of the ships are in one big case and for about half of them you can see the bottom of the hull but not the deck.</p> <p>Most of the cars are on a Wall of Cars so you can see the bottom tier but above that you can see the suspension and inside of the wheel arches.</p> <p>There was already a leak which resulted in a bucket on the floor inside the back door.</p> <p>It's nice being beside the river. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3083#post-34185 Fri, 24 Jun 2011 02:38:29 +0000 Tulyar 34185@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Huge car park, for this site and cut off by A814 from main bus routes (which used to pass the road end for the old museum with a bus every minute during the day) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3083#post-33991 Tue, 21 Jun 2011 18:01:52 +0000 chdot 33991@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>" i think chdot was just trying to acknowledge that important role you fill :)"</p> <p>I think so too. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3083#post-33990 Tue, 21 Jun 2011 17:54:31 +0000 SRD 33990@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>don't worry splitshift we know you're a cyclist at heart, but you do a fine job of convincing the rest of us that not all lorry drivers despise us. i think chdot was just trying to acknowledge that important role you fill :) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3083#post-33986 Tue, 21 Jun 2011 17:34:51 +0000 splitshift 33986@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>thanks ! btw...just cause i drive a lorry dosnt mean i am a lorry driver !ride home tonight looks like a joy !:) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3083#post-33904 Mon, 20 Jun 2011 15:20:32 +0000 chdot 33904@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Free for lorry drivers and members of the public.</p> <p><a href="http://www.glasgowlife.org.uk/museums/our-museums/riverside-museum/Documents/RiversidePressPack.pdf">40 pages of info</a>. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3083#post-33903 Mon, 20 Jun 2011 15:15:36 +0000 splitshift 33903@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>hi all ! my cumputers got terminal illness, so i am using my phone, which means i cant see all links, but can snyone tell me, does the new museum have an entrsnce fee or is it, off the people and free ? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3083#post-33887 Mon, 20 Jun 2011 12:22:28 +0000 kaputnik 33887@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I will have to pay it a visit soon! Might give it a few weeks to quieten down though. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3083#post-33884 Mon, 20 Jun 2011 12:11:39 +0000 chdot 33884@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Opens tomorrow</p> <p>"<br /> from 21 JUNE 2011 opening hours will be: Monday to Thursday and Saturday 10am–5pm, Friday and Sunday 11am–5pm</p> <p>Sky Ride Glasgow - Sunday 11 September</p> <p>Now in its 3rd year, Glasgow's family cycling event will extend its reach to the new museum. Cycle to and from Riverside Museum via Glasgow Green, enjoying the sights along the way.</p> <p>Danny Macaskill Demo - Saturday 24 September</p> <p>See BMX stars Danny Macaskill and The Clan display their breathtaking skills and gravity-defying stunts agains the stunning backdrop of the new museum.</p> <p>" </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3083#post-32630 Thu, 02 Jun 2011 14:17:47 +0000 kaputnik 32630@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>Cyclists can enjoy a pleasant ride to Riverside Museum along the coast-to-coast National Cycle Route 75 that runs from Gourock to Leith passing​​​ through Glasgow's City Centre and along the Clydeside.</em></p> <p>Large parts of it are anything but "pleasant"... </p>