CityCyclingEdinburgh was launched on the 27th of October 2009 as "an experiment".
IT’S TRUE!
CCE is 15years old!
Well done to ALL posters
It soon became useful and entertaining. There are regular posters, people who add useful info occasionally and plenty more who drop by to watch. That's fine. If you want to add news/comments it's easy to register and become a member.
RULES No personal insults. No swearing.
I have been cycling down the jetty after the WoL visitor centre for over ten years. Even have a medal awarded for brass rubbing skills to prove it.
The decking which connects the path to saughton park and the aqueduct can be skippy when wet or icy, So I take it easy.
Today I spotted a new sign on a pole saying Cyclists Dismount Surface Slippy.
This is not good.
CEC are planning on putting up signs on the entrance to Edinburgh saying 'Cyclists Dismount, Cr*p Infrastructure'
And that's part of the National Cycle Network. Marvellous.
The fun part is if you try to be clever and keep riding round the corner to the bottom of the canal steps. The wooden slats grip perfectly well when at 90* to your wheel. Suddenly encountering the slats at the steps, turned 90* round again, while leaning into the corner always provides for some interesting front wheel behavior. Many an icy Autumn or Winter morning commute back when I was at school taught me it is probably best to dismount when going up there if nothing else.
Of course, then you have to stop and dismount while still on the main path, on which everyone else is now expected to be doing the same according to the signs even if they're going straight on. I mean it's been fine for literally 10 years or so hasn't it?
My understanding was that the 'Cyclists Dismount' actually meant 'Hazard Ahead: If you're cycling and you hurt yourself then don't come to us crying/litigating'.
And not, you know, an instruction to jump off your bike!
The sign clearly indicates the hazard that cyclists face, Slippy surface. The action indicated ie to dismount is the option which the authorities hope will result in less claims for injury?
"And not, you know, an instruction to jump off your bike!"
Problem is, people walking along there, cyclist coming the other way, perfectly safely and slowly, pedestrians have a stick with which to beat the cyclist for not abiding by the rules.
East Lothian seem to become a little more enlightened. As report by Cyclingmollie earlier, the northern most ped bridge over the Esk in Musselburgh has had the "cyclist dismount" signs replaced by "cyclists give way to pedestrians".
But who doesn't have a stick to beat cyclists with these days?! Almost standard issue these days...
"And that's part of the National Cycle Network"
That bit of WoL isn't.
Part of Council investigating which other part of CEC put sign up.
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