Cool. What they need is a quality bike corridor!
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"Sciennes Cycle to School Day"
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Posted 10 years ago #
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Yes... if this is the turn out with a 'less than quality' route then imagine what it would be like if cycling was safe and easy!
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This Friday again.
8:15 at KB (West Mains Road/Mayfield Road junction).
All welcome, ride takes about 15 mins.
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This looks fab!! I'd love to join you guys one day. :D
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Tomorrow again -
Leaving KB 8:15, picking up all along QBC.
All welcome.
Posted 9 years ago # -
Some pix
https://www.flickr.com/photos/chdot/sets/72157645005770373
Last ride of term June 20th, 8:15 @ KB.
All welcome.
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First 'monthly' ride of 2015. Picked up about 140 by the time it got to school -
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That's brilliant. Huge variety of ages. A 'civil disobedience' level of cycling but with a real purpose. The QBC was never intended for such levels of use!.
Posted 9 years ago # -
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The programme for the 2015 Edinburgh Festival of Cycling was officially unveiled by Commonwealth Games double silver medallist Louise Haston and Scottish elite mountain biker Kerry MacPhee alongside 150 pupils from Sciennes Primary School.
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Posted 9 years ago # -
This Friday again.
8:15 at KB (West Mains Road/Mayfield Road junction).
All welcome, ride takes about 15 mins.
Posted 8 years ago # -
STV due to appear too!
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What a place we live in where kids cycling to school is considered newsworthy.
Not meant in any way as a slur on the Sciennes event which I think is great.
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The notion was partly as a 'we're getting ready for PoP' (there will be a feeder ride from the school) but don't know if that'll get mentioned.
STV were a couple of streets 'early' about 1/2 of people join just after.
Almost 100 people at the school - not bad considering the dreich.
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It was quite an impressive number by the end. Sorry we didn't participate with photos at school: once we arrive at any destination it's impossible to keep kids kettled in the big bike for long.
Posted 8 years ago # -
It's always wonderful to see these pictures.
I must have just missed the ride: that photographer was packing up and going away when I passed this morning.
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"What a place we live in where kids cycling to school is considered newsworthy.
Not meant in any way as a slur on the Sciennes event which I think is great."
x 2
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"It's always wonderful to see these pictures."
https://flickr.com/photos/19473027@N00/sets/72157663738228004
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Nice plug for POP here http://stv.tv/news/east-central/1346933-up-to-a-hundred-to-take-part-in-schools-cycling-event/
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Feedback from a colleague: today, there were kids on the footway and adults on the footway accompanying them. Footways were being blocked at junctions, with some elderly footway-users in particular struggling to cross safely. The group were apparently taken up Sciennes House Place, which is through a valid cycle contraflow but an unsegregated one on a very narrow road which happened to be into the path of an oncoming car, with the person at the head of the ride taking the corner very widely - Sciennes Place further on is not open to motor traffic and is a lot wider. Anyone on here on the parent council or know any of the organisers who can feed this back to them?
Posted 5 years ago # -
Sounds like the person feeding back was on the ride. Can they not feed back directly?
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The person feeding back was walking to work on the footway, but found their passage hampered and observed others having difficulty. They provided some direct feedback to participants but seemed to get a "but it's cycle to school day" sort of reply.
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Perhaps they should have all been in cars and parked / driving along the footways instead?
Or how's about the person 'feeding back' the following: "There's not enough space for all the latent demand to cycle to school, let's make some safe space for them" ?
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Feedback from a colleague of mine who took part (and used the opportunity to cycle to work for the first time themselves) was that while they were waiting to join the group, them in the bike lane, child in the lane with one wheel on the pavement, child got shouted at very aggressively by someone passing to get off. Which I take to support @neddie's point, really.
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child got shouted at very aggressively
I despair for this country.
Are we now a country full of red-faced gammons shouting at children and other people who seem a bit different?
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@wingpig - noted and I've passed this on. Do thank your colleague for the suggested alternative route - I appreciate fresh eyes on problems.
The ride uses the road, not the footway, so I'm not sure what can be done about parents coincidentally using the footway - encourage them to join the ride, I suppose!
However, I can speak a bit more for the route, being one of the folk that designed it.
Regarding Sciennes House Place, this is part of the risk assessed route, and contingency for oncoming vehicles is included within that. Drivers are encouraged to wait at a wider section as the ride passes, rather than proceed forward - the children aren't all confident or wobble free, so I'd be concerned for a driver's paintwork in the narrower sections.
Today I was part of the second batch and let an exiting driver clear the road prior to entering, I understand the first batch did meet a driver too, but that the driver was happy when pulling out of the junction.
Unfortunately, although Sciennes House Place is closed to through traffic, it is frequently filled by illegally parked vehicles (particularly at the bollard end), so isn't a reliable alternative. It's also half as wide as Sciennes Place (at both the narrowest and widest ends) and involves another set of traffic signals which tend to chop up the ride, potentially unpredictably. Worse still, there's a right turning lane to West Preston Street which would encourage drivers to travel close to, and parallel to, the ride at the approach to the traffic signals.
Various other alternative routes were considered through Newington, however this remains the safest and most controllable option. Should new road layouts or appropriate cycle infrastructure be provided (i.e. for the volume of cyclists!), I'm sure the route will be reviewed.
Robert
Posted 5 years ago # -
wingpig, does your colleague provide "direct feedback" to drivists when they can't immediately cross a road? Or to pavement parkers? Just wondering.
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Cheers, @Roibeard.
@Murun Please wind your attitude back a little. I'm reporting on behalf of someone else.
This forum contains plenty of mentions of where 'we' (cyclists) have provided direct feedback to motor vehicle operators, other cyclists or pedestrians/dog operators when they endangered us or acted thoughtlessly/carelessly.Posted 5 years ago #
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