http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: welcome to Edinburgh en Wed, 10 Jun 2026 22:11:10 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=5135#post-54821 Fri, 27 Jan 2012 23:31:53 +0000 Smudge 54821@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Only one pothole? and surely that paint is far too fresh to be an Edinburgh cycle lane...<br /> Oh and the cycle lane should be just narrower than the handlebars, be full of draincovers and have a car (or cars) parked in it :-/ </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=5135#post-54820 Fri, 27 Jan 2012 23:19:15 +0000 ruggtomcat 54820@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>+1 on the pigs head. And Jakeys shouting out of car windows. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=5135#post-54815 Fri, 27 Jan 2012 21:17:13 +0000 crowriver 54815@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Big permanent circular blue sign with shared path symbols on a huge lamp post slap band in the middle of the path. White line demarcating peds (with wee stick man painted on); and bikes (stick bike); ped zone is not obstructed by post, bike zone is. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=5135#post-54812 Fri, 27 Jan 2012 20:29:14 +0000 Uberuce 54812@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Car parked in the ASZ with door being swung open. I'm merging dooring, lane-parking and ASL-hopping for the sake of visual brevity, although I know with depressing certainty that an ASZ dooring must have happened, purely by the simple and miserable laws of stupidical statistics. Not specific to Edinburgh, I admit. </p> <p>A chap or chapess gaily ice-skating along a cycle path does at least narrows it down to 'North European country with terrible winter cycle provision.'</p> <p>I can't quite think of a visually neat way of putting it, but the likes of the Broomhouse or Hollyrood cycle paths that require you to cross a fast lane of oncoming traffic to join. Bike tyre tracks going across said lane, and a chalk outline of a cyclist in the middle, perhaps? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=5135#post-54807 Fri, 27 Jan 2012 19:21:04 +0000 PS 54807@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Road work signs blocking the cycle lane. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=5135#post-54799 Fri, 27 Jan 2012 16:37:44 +0000 Kirst 54799@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Maybe the bin could be on fire. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=5135#post-54798 Fri, 27 Jan 2012 16:36:05 +0000 Cyclingmollie 54798@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Kirst: <em>"I would add a pig's head, possibly on fire"</em></p> <p>Funniest thing I've read all day. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=5135#post-54797 Fri, 27 Jan 2012 16:34:39 +0000 kaputnik 54797@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>When I do this "properly" on the computer, it will be much easier to include more of the above details on it.</p> <p>A giant street bin blocking the end is required too, as is a first bus and smoke coming out of it (taxi is parked, hence no exhaust)</p> <p>I think the foreground can have a dog walker on one side of pavement and a dog on the other, with the stretchy lead in between.</p> <p>There will be an Edinburgh skyline along the background. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=5135#post-54795 Fri, 27 Jan 2012 16:18:39 +0000 Arellcat 54795@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@cb, ah yes, buckets. We could call it the <a href="http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=63#post-127">City Hierarchy Of Infrastructure for Cycling in Edinburgh</a>. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=5135#post-54793 Fri, 27 Jan 2012 15:51:21 +0000 Kirst 54793@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I can't see the picture from my work pc but from the comments I get a sense of what it is. I would add a pig's head, possibly on fire, and someone walking a dog on a long lead. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=5135#post-54792 Fri, 27 Jan 2012 15:46:58 +0000 crowriver 54792@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>You need a huge skip lorry or bin lorry thundering down the road too. Like the red and white roadworks barriers though. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=5135#post-54791 Fri, 27 Jan 2012 15:44:46 +0000 recombodna 54791@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Some dog mess and the pavement blocked by christmas trees..... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=5135#post-54788 Fri, 27 Jan 2012 15:16:01 +0000 cb 54788@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"Giant buckets at the end of the cycle lane à la Gifford Park?"</p> <p>Did the picture remind you of Gifford Park too?</p> <p>I like it! (the pic, not Gifford Park) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=5135#post-54785 Fri, 27 Jan 2012 15:06:13 +0000 LaidBack 54785@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Rusty bike with one buckled wheel chained to railings? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=5135#post-54778 Fri, 27 Jan 2012 14:57:58 +0000 wingpig 54778@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>A bit of the pavement coned-off so that pedestrians would be diverted into the cycle lane?<br /> Giant buckets at the end of the cycle lane à la Gifford Park? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=5135#post-54777 Fri, 27 Jan 2012 14:54:56 +0000 Cyclingmollie 54777@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>The taxi's not belching enough fumes. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=5135#post-54776 Fri, 27 Jan 2012 14:52:41 +0000 DaveC 54776@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>The red and white behind the Taxi are the lego bollards on Princes Street. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=5135#post-54775 Fri, 27 Jan 2012 14:43:34 +0000 SRD 54775@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>i wasn't sure what the red and white bit behind the taxi was meant to represent? but i agree with arellcat, a big lothian bus behind the taxi would be realistic. a first bus would give a better sense of the risks! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=5135#post-54771 Fri, 27 Jan 2012 14:35:39 +0000 Arellcat 54771@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>That pothole really isn't big enough, you know. And maybe a bus behind the taxi, just to maximise the public transport angle. :-) What about a traffic light post somewhere inconvenient, too?</p> <p>Actually, you probably need a winter version and a summer version. The winter one will have huge piles of snow on the sides of the road and a sheen of ice on all the cycle intrastructure. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=5135#post-54769 Fri, 27 Jan 2012 14:25:07 +0000 kaputnik 54769@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="http://yfrog.com/h03f8ktj"><img src="http://a.yfrog.com/img612/8978/3f8kt.th.jpg"></a></p> <p>An idea I've had in my head. This is just the sketch / prototype completed over lunch.</p> <p>Without wanting to cluter the design up with "too" many things - what else does it need to highlight some of the failings that need addressed before we even think about calling it a "world class cycling city?"</p> <p>Sorry, Yfrog thumbnails don't appear to be working, perhaps if you copy/paste this it might work;</p> <p><a href="http://a.yfrog.com/img612/8978/3f8kt.jpg">http://a.yfrog.com/img612/8978/3f8kt.jpg</a> </p>