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Edinburgh Leisure @Ed_Leisure 27 Apr
Please Note the car par at Meadowbank is currently full. Please use Public transport if you can.
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CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Leisure
(Not) cycling to leisure...
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Posted 11 years ago #
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Ah but Meadowbank is, like, right on the edge of the city or something, and on a main road, so it's too far and too dangerous to cycle to.
Posted 11 years ago # -
To be fair, it's very well served by buses with a stop just outside.
There is some pretty well used bike parking outside the main entrance to Meadowbank: a row of Sheffield stands. There is also a long railing right outside too, and quite a few cyclists prefer to use this (including myself when on the tandem). If the extra gym/indoor football/gymnastics class participants were all to cycle in when the car park was full, it would be chaos.
Posted 11 years ago # -
To be fair, it's very well served by buses with a stop just outside.
But that's not the point. Some people don't like, or don't want, to use buses. I've lost count of the number of times I've questioned a venue's organisers for providing loads of 'how to get here' information for air and rail passengers, drivers, bus and taxi passengers, but perish the thought of someone rocking up on two wheels. It's completely off the radar for far too many venue management staff across the UK.
Posted 11 years ago # -
Meadowbank on my list of places that needs pop leafleting - perhaps some laminated posters and a couple of runs of handlebar leafleting? anyone up for it?
Posted 11 years ago # -
I can easily divert my commute.
Posted 11 years ago # -
brill! was going to ask if you could do your work bike racks too?
let me know if you need flyers etc, or can self-provision
thanks!
Posted 11 years ago # -
Can probably self-provision. Someone else at work here has already told me she's going to leaflet when GreaseMonkey are in here doing a bike love-in thingy.
Posted 11 years ago # -
@Arelicat, yes I take your point.
However my point is that if they said "come by bike instead" there simply isn't the capacity for bike parking there to take much more than the current levels of cycle usage. I'm not saying that's a good thing, just the reality.
As a caveat, even if they did say that, I'm not convinced bike parking would increase hugely anyhow. Seems to be a strong correlation between gym membership/usage and car ownership (though I'm prepared to be proved wrong).
Posted 11 years ago # -
Seems to be a strong correlation between gym membership/usage and car ownership
Perhaps the people with bikes don't need to go to a building where they can sit on a bike that doesn't move.
Posted 11 years ago #
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