http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Caravan on Lower Gilmore Place en Fri, 22 May 2026 01:11:12 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9321#post-98006 Fri, 25 Jan 2013 14:02:26 +0000 fimm 98006@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I've no recollection of ever seeing a caravan there, but that M&amp;S van is a pain in the wherever... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9321#post-97981 Fri, 25 Jan 2013 11:16:07 +0000 chdot 97981@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Similar happened with a boat on a trailer in Leith a while ago. </p> <p>Someone brought a vehicle with a towball. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9321#post-97980 Fri, 25 Jan 2013 11:14:19 +0000 chdot 97980@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Power of the press... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9321#post-97978 Fri, 25 Jan 2013 11:12:45 +0000 kaputnik 97978@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>It was gone last night. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9321#post-97888 Thu, 24 Jan 2013 10:41:07 +0000 kaputnik 97888@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Having just checked the Edinburgh Trams byelaws, I can confirm they've got this covered off and you cannot park a caravan on the tramline. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9321#post-97880 Thu, 24 Jan 2013 09:28:00 +0000 chdot 97880@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"has anyone else noticed that pedestrians don't like walking on the pavements on Leamington Road and prefer to walk on the road"</p> <p>Yes, I think it's because the pavement is particularly narrow. </p> <p>There has been a LONG standing plan to put a contra-flow cyclelane here. </p> <p>Best option would be to remove all the parking. </p> <p>But ThisIsEdinburgh. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9321#post-97874 Thu, 24 Jan 2013 09:06:35 +0000 Min 97874@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>The hypocrisy is overwhelming. If the caravan was inconveniencing any of those long-suffering *OLAMs we would never hear the end of it. There would be Fury, Rage, Long-Sufferingness, people Up-In-Arms and possibly even some Spiralling thrown in for good measure.</p> <p>*Otherwise Law Abiding Motorists. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9321#post-97872 Thu, 24 Jan 2013 08:59:40 +0000 kaputnik 97872@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@bigjack yes indeed, even when dazzled by oncoming bike lights it's hard to get them to shift! This has now hit the <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-21162535">BBC News</a> website. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9321#post-97870 Thu, 24 Jan 2013 08:22:41 +0000 Bigjack 97870@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Possibly a double yellow line needed at that point? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9321#post-97869 Thu, 24 Jan 2013 08:21:39 +0000 Bigjack 97869@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Just a point on human behaviour but has anyone else noticed that pedestrians don't like walking on the pavements on Leamington Road and prefer to walk on the road - and not even when the pavement is icy or car-blocked - it just seems to be a strange trait- "the road is not a main through road so I'll walk on the road rather than the nice pavement" Talk about pavement cycling! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9321#post-97861 Thu, 24 Jan 2013 00:32:46 +0000 kaputnik 97861@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Let us not forget, if there's one thing the popular press and the motoring lot have it in for as much as cyclists, it's caravans and people who choose to live in caravans. Their occupants must be pushed out to the sides of society and treated as deeply suspect for their non-conventional way of life. And on the roads, they are to be actively discouraged, for "holding people up", "taking up the whole road" and are to be given the most discourteous and aggressive over-takes possible. Wait, am I talking about caravans or bikes? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9321#post-97856 Wed, 23 Jan 2013 23:34:29 +0000 crowriver 97856@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>Let's buy up as many old caravans as possible, tie them together and park them 1metre from the kerb.</em></p> <p>Ahem. 2.5 metres methinks.</p> <p>This story was in the Broken Record too. Some FB (motorist) friends have been chuckling over it... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9321#post-97855 Wed, 23 Jan 2013 23:19:31 +0000 Its_Me_Knees 97855@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>The caravan made it on to Reporting Scotland tonight. Much <em>schadenfreude</em> at the BBC over its proximity to the traffic warden HQ. </p> <p>I confess I've had few problems negotiating this 'obstruction'; when heading home over the canal (south-&gt;north) the oncoming cars tanking around that corner are far more difficult to avoid... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9321#post-97853 Wed, 23 Jan 2013 22:21:26 +0000 kaputnik 97853@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Fabulous idea :) Also, for residents of tenements having trouble getting the cooncil to permit cycle-storage sheds, seems the solution is a cycle-storage caravan on the pavement. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9321#post-97852 Wed, 23 Jan 2013 22:18:23 +0000 neddie 97852@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Let's buy up as many old caravans as possible, tie them together and park them 1metre from the kerb.</p> <p>Protected cycle lane anyone...? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9321#post-97813 Wed, 23 Jan 2013 16:35:08 +0000 EddieD 97813@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I've occasionally thought about getting a caravan (no, really) - I could save the hundred odd-quid a year* storage fee this way, and just leave it on my street. And gain useful storage space for my bikes.</p> <p>Hmmm...</p> <p>I see the caravan most days, and it is** awkwardly parked.</p> <p>*Place just south of the Tay Bridge, the figure is 18months old, and may have gone up.</p> <p>** Okay, was - I've been recumbent the last couple of days, and I use a different (longer) route... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9321#post-97799 Wed, 23 Jan 2013 14:28:31 +0000 Arellcat 97799@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>The caravan was parked in its spot on LGP when I passed it yesterday evening. If ever there was an invitation for spray paint and bricks, it's the EEN's article. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9321#post-97796 Wed, 23 Jan 2013 14:12:44 +0000 spytfyre 97796@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>This is now in polwarth somewhere I think I passed it the other night and thought "twonk" for parking it on a side street on a main road like LGP jeeeeeez </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9321#post-97681 Tue, 22 Jan 2013 16:22:39 +0000 kaputnik 97681@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I think they are hoping to incite some torches and pitchforks at dawn in an effort to combat a slow-news week </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9321#post-97679 Tue, 22 Jan 2013 15:48:40 +0000 DaveC 97679@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Great, maybe the EEN will have something else to complain about when its vandalised, after their advertising it's location and thats it's empty and unattended.</p> <p>tsk!!! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9321#post-97676 Tue, 22 Jan 2013 15:06:42 +0000 kaputnik 97676@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Have noted this caravan, it has a for-sale sign up on the window I think.</p> <p>Main issue for cyclists here in my daily experience is cars entering/exiting the underground car park of the serviced apartments on the corner or vehicles entering/exiting the garage premises. And the M&amp;S delivery van that insists on parking on the single yellows in the evening right at the lift bridge, so you cannot see what is coming from the left until you have made the turn.</p> <p>Oh, and the state of the road does more to force you into the oncoming lane than the caravan on the corner, it's a pure right-angle so you wouldn't be taking it on the extreme left anyway. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9321#post-97675 Tue, 22 Jan 2013 15:06:10 +0000 crowriver 97675@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Presumably the chipwrapper got this story from the loathsome Robertson, he of the 'charge double for work to cover parking fines' trade. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9321#post-97671 Tue, 22 Jan 2013 14:58:37 +0000 Baldcyclist 97671@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I like this (now thinking as car driver, not going to be appreciated much..).<br /> The owner should just make the back of the Caravan open, and operate as a ramp. Free movable city centre parking. :) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9321#post-97669 Tue, 22 Jan 2013 14:47:05 +0000 SRD 97669@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>The EEN can be really loathsome. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9321#post-97666 Tue, 22 Jan 2013 14:40:39 +0000 cb 97666@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"<br /> causing cars to swing out onto the opposite side of the road at a corner, where bicycles are coming round headed for the canal. We need to sort this oddity out before someone gets hurt<br /> "</p> <p><a href="http://www.scotsman.com/news/transport/caravan-is-parked-strife-for-powerless-attendants-1-2750940">http://www.scotsman.com/news/transport/caravan-is-parked-strife-for-powerless-attendants-1-2750940</a></p> <p>Not really a very newsworthy piece, only posted it because <a href="http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9299">Peter Robertson</a> got a mention. </p>