CityCyclingEdinburgh was launched on the 27th of October 2009 as "an experiment".
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"A new £2.75m 1km link road connecting Little France Drive with Greendykes Road, with a 200-metre bus lane for public transport, taxis and emergency vehicles only, enforced by a bus lane camera, has also come into use."
"The road also incorporates a two-metre footpath and a four-metre combined footpath/ cycleway and street lighting."
So what's it like, this new road?
Is that the 'safe cycle access to ERI' box now ticked?
Oh it's finally finished(?)
About a year late.
Was close by yesterday I'd have looked if I'd known.
Of course this should have happened before ERI was built.
ESPECIALLY the walk/cycle bit.
Would have helped people from Niddrie and Greendykes get there as patients or staff. Now there are hardly any houses in Greendykes!
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we’re looking forward to seeing a new bus service start operating on this road in the near future
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You'd have thought there would be a bus ready to 'cut the tape' as soon as the road was open...
If you go to Google Maps you can still see the Grrendykes housing estate. If you zoom right in the disappear and the newer view also shows the work-in-progress on the burn and new road.
I tried to access this today from Greendykes. No way through from there. The RIE end has been open all week.
I will recce from RIE tonight.
"No way through from there."
Doesn't really surprise me.
However there is a Right of Way from Pentecox through to Hunters Hall (and so Greendykes). Presume this is still rideable, (bit rough in places).
Not as convenient as the new tarmac of course - but at least a way round.
Any chance of photos later?
Looks like there needs to be a fair bit of OSM remapping!
Ok. It is possible to get through via Niddrie Marschial. Requires a dismount and cut through on a peds only section through Greendykes rd. But so much nicer than going over the Col de Craigmillar. Sorry, no pics. Maybe next week.
totally traffic free this evening. :)
"so much nicer than going over the Col de Craigmillar"
Both on the road and the stupid steps -
Sheer bliss! I have this nice shiny new road all to myself!
2013-06-10 16.50.16 by Tammytroot2, on Flickr
Ped cut through;
2013-06-10 16.55.52 by Tammytroot2, on Flickr
:)
What is the red and black bit to left of the lines??
The red is gravel. The black is just tarmac. It is not a cyclelane. Thr wide pavement on the right of the photo is a shared use path.
Drainage? Unfinished??
Probably unfinished.
I seem to be the only traffic on it at thr moment. There is a sign saying buses, taxis and bicycles only. :)
There is a sign saying buses, taxis and bicycles only
There's one of them near Kirspy Kerme too, for all the use it does. I believe the new section here is to be camera enforced though?
Saw another cyclist on my road yesterday morning.
We are currently the rush hour traffic!
Pity cyclists are prohibited. Or are they?
Signs say one thing (Bus and taxi only on road, cyclists on the shared footway), road markings say another...
Cue cries of "gerrof my road"...
Robert
"Pity cyclists are prohibited. Or are they?"
Interesting question.
If they've done the paperwork correctly, then probably yes.
However there is a nice wide cyclepath next to the road.
So...?
However there is a nice wide cyclepath next to the road. So...?
If width were the only determinate of quality, then that would be grand.
What I can't tell from the photograph, though, is whether usage of the shared pavement requires giving way to every side street, or worse, dismounting at every junction. Nor do I know how the shared pavement ends - with a nicely graded and safe return to the carriageway, or with a "cycle route ends" sign at the next junction without so much as a dropped kerb.
I am, however, pretty sure that the bus and taxi route doesn't need to give way, joins up with the main road sensibly and doesn't involve bouncing down a kerb!
Of course, first time use of all UK cycle infrastructure involves this gamble - it may be fine, but it may be dreadful and better to stay on the road, and if you're making good and safe progress on the road, the gamble isn't always worth taking.
Robert
(revealing his resigned-Vehicular-Cyclist-wishing-it-were-"Dutch" complexities...)
From the Hootsman article:
realigned to form a river corridor, with landscaping, footbridges...
And the landscaping already includes a couple of bikes, a car bumper, a mini-motorbike front wheel & the piece de resistance: a pram in the burn.
You can take the river out of Greendykes...
Eddie_h Said And the landscaping already includes a couple of bikes, a car bumper, a mini-motorbike front wheel & the piece de resistance: a pram in the burn.
Wot No Shopping Trolley!?!?
Thats place has REALLY gone down hill....
Failed to get onto the nice new shared path from the A7 end and could only look forlornly at it from the bus route.
How do you get onto it without bumping up a curb ? Path on city greendykes side is not dual use :-(
@holi,
From the Niddrie Mains Rd you can access either from Niddrie Marischal Via the ped cut through beside the tower blocks as in pic above, or cycle up Greendykes RD from the castle end. The barriers there are open.
By the way, under international dibs law, I claim this road for myself. Possession is nine tenths of the law!
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