http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Christian Path - work begins! en Sun, 17 May 2026 12:17:03 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3327#post-123812 Wed, 04 Sep 2013 08:11:20 +0000 cc 123812@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I've revived this thread just in case anyone else has, like me, been cycling between Portobello and Duddingston for <em>years</em> but has somehow not twigged that the Christian Path is <em>exactly</em> the route needed to almost totally eliminate any cycling along Portobello High Street <em>and</em> cut out the awful ride along the cobbles of Brighton Place, that road which the number 42 bus takes as it trundles towards Duddingston then goes under the railway bridge.</p> <p>I took the Christian Path last night and hallelujah. Great path, great route. I'm a convert. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3327#post-39139 Wed, 24 Aug 2011 10:15:56 +0000 DaveC 39139@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>'none for the bars' eek...</p> <p>Nice vid Anthony, </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3327#post-39122 Tue, 23 Aug 2011 23:40:59 +0000 Cyclingmollie 39122@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>One hand for the phone, one for a skinny latte and none for the bars - see 0:39. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3327#post-39120 Tue, 23 Aug 2011 23:33:29 +0000 kaputnik 39120@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>did you tape the phone to your head? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3327#post-39118 Tue, 23 Aug 2011 23:18:32 +0000 Wilmington's Cow 39118@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Actually the gate is pretty widely spaced, easy to use. Strange though that there's not one at the Brighton Place end where there's much more chance of flying out from the path on the road!</p> <p>Video was really a test, as well, of what can be done in-phone - used the 'splice' app (helps to have my entire music library on the phone as well... ;) ) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3327#post-39116 Tue, 23 Aug 2011 22:58:37 +0000 kaputnik 39116@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I'm glad part of the budget was spent on non-regular bike unfriendly barriers at the start...</p> <p>Had to get that moan in first! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3327#post-39106 Tue, 23 Aug 2011 21:01:58 +0000 Wilmington's Cow 39106@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>How very odd that that has the 'fastest route' being using the road, with a traffic-lit junction and hideously cobbled street, being half a mile long, taking 2m47s. Whereas the Christian Path is flat, smooth, 0.2 miles and allegedly takes 3m57s...</p> <p>Bear in mind my video above, with intro and so on, is 1m24s and I <em>wasn't</em> riding quickly (since I was holding the phone up... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3327#post-39103 Tue, 23 Aug 2011 20:30:40 +0000 chdot 39103@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>HERE - <a href="http://edinburgh.cyclestreets.net/journey/872494" rel="nofollow">http://edinburgh.cyclestreets.net/journey/872494</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3327#post-39102 Tue, 23 Aug 2011 20:30:25 +0000 Cyclingmollie 39102@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>That's good news - and a nice video. I didn't know that about Terry Christian. It was closed last month when we tried to get to PEDAL Porty market that way. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3327#post-39101 Tue, 23 Aug 2011 20:15:47 +0000 Wilmington's Cow 39101@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Had a look on the way home</p> <p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1w2m_dy5l9A" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1w2m_dy5l9A</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3327#post-39089 Tue, 23 Aug 2011 16:43:39 +0000 chdot 39089@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"<br /> @John_Lauder</p> <p>John Lauder</p> <p>@CyclingEdin @sustrans Many thanks: here's a reminder of how the path used to look. </p> <p><a href="http://pic.twitter.com/v4Ff5RE" rel="nofollow">http://pic.twitter.com/v4Ff5RE</a></p> <p>" </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3327#post-39087 Tue, 23 Aug 2011 16:32:28 +0000 Wilmington's Cow 39087@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I rode down there a month or two back - rideable but rough - that looks great! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3327#post-39084 Tue, 23 Aug 2011 16:28:19 +0000 chdot 39084@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"<br /> @John_Lauder</p> <p>John Lauder</p> <p>Pleased to report the Christians Path in Portobello now open. Congrats to Phil and Clary who made it happen. @sustrans pic.twitter.com/QwcjIRj</p> <p>"<br /> <a href="http://pic.twitter.com/QwcjIRj"><br /> <img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6192/6073052999_15ef4dc754.jpg"></a></p> <p>Photo John Lauder </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3327#post-34782 Sun, 03 Jul 2011 07:51:32 +0000 gembo 34782@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>the tea and scones are good. Our secretary went and took her daughter [who is a wedding dress designer, young, attractive and blonde]. Phil the Greek asked our secretary - 1. Have you got any more of these at home? [referring to the daughter] and 2. Much call for wedding dresses these days?</p> <p>Instead of parking at duck pond, park at Porty Baths and cycle up - you could use the Christian cut through and there is another cut through - if I am right Fishwives Row or somesuch - quite a nice wee cut through too. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3327#post-34750 Sat, 02 Jul 2011 11:00:22 +0000 wee folding bike 34750@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I sometimes visit Edinburgh for the zoo and castle. I'll probably be over for the museum and check out if they screwed it up as much as the former transport museum in Glasgow.</p> <p>We now have a transport themed art installation.</p> <p>When we go to the castle I park at Holyrood duck pond and cycle up the hill.</p> <p>I'm very much afraid that my mum is going to a garden party with Brenda at Holyrood. I tried to talk her out of it but she's going with my auntie. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3327#post-34737 Sat, 02 Jul 2011 07:34:24 +0000 gembo 34737@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>would not be a great cut through from Airdrie tho and no SQA down that way unless you were sent to investigate an inordinate number of assessment arrangements at the High School (actually not excessive just Edinburgh's biggest overall no.of pupils on roll but nothing compared to the massive ones in Fife).</p> <p>Tricky whose younger uncle Finley Quaye from Edinburgh, once saw a Christian in Christiansands, a locality in Bristol </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3327#post-34730 Fri, 01 Jul 2011 22:45:05 +0000 wee folding bike 34730@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Great, so as a follower of Maltodextrin, the FSM, a frisbiterian and ordained minister in the Church of the Latter Day Dude I am excluded from a Christian path. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3327#post-34718 Fri, 01 Jul 2011 21:21:45 +0000 gembo 34718@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Nice cut through </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3327#post-34713 Fri, 01 Jul 2011 21:09:28 +0000 chdot 34713@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="http://edinburgh.cyclestreets.net/journey/872494" rel="nofollow">http://edinburgh.cyclestreets.net/journey/872494</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3327#post-34711 Fri, 01 Jul 2011 21:03:34 +0000 gembo 34711@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>nice paths</p> <p>where do they go to and from? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3327#post-34707 Fri, 01 Jul 2011 20:30:49 +0000 chdot 34707@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><img src="http://desmond.yfrog.com/Himg614/scaled.php?tn=0&amp;server=614&amp;filename=7xiws.jpg&amp;xsize=640&amp;ysize=640"></p> <p>Work by Sustrans. <em>Photo by John Lauder of Sustrans</em> </p> <p>More here - <a href="http://yfrog.com/h8pi6fdj" rel="nofollow">http://yfrog.com/h8pi6fdj</a></p> <p>"<a href="http://www.kosmoid.net/portobello/mountlodge">Named after Portobello Provost Christian who campaigned for it as a shortcu</a>t" <a href="http://www.railbrit.co.uk/imageenlarge/imagecomplete2.php?id=23977">to Portobello Station</a> (RIP) now a useful route - not least for walking/cycling to Porty High. </p>