Dear all, i have again mixed feelings about the EEN article ive linked to, he confesses to a few lawbreaking things he has done on a bike.
Good, bad or just ugly??? You decide.
RJ
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Another gem EEN cycle related article????
(11 posts)- Started 10 years ago by Radgeworks
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His admissions of guilt:
- "the first dilemma: go up Lauriston or hop on to the pavement to nip up the High Riggs"
- "and up to the West Port. Technically, Lauriston Street is one-way, but again if nothing is coming it’s safe to cross over and head down to the Grassmarket"
- "a woman standing on the corner of Holyrood Road at 10pm, not trying to cross the road who, when I saw there was nothing at all in sight and went through on red, inquired whether I was f*****g colour blind. No, dear, just doing what millions of pedestrians do."
And this isn't so clever either:
"a target of ten per cent of all journeys being made by bike by 2020 was set, but those 192 rush-hour bikes on Lothian Road this month represented 20 per cent of the traffic.
So maybe that 2020 vision is not as ambitious as it seems."
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Meh. Filler.
The point about using the Mound lane and being courteous and everything is right. At the moment. It'll be interesting to see how little conflict is created trying to use it, no matter how responsibly, at the height of tourist season when the pavements are chocka, and then when the trams are running and people are running to get to the stop.
As for the justifications for RLJing and riding on the pavement... Sigh.
Posted 10 years ago # -
So an ex-tory staffer writes an article about cycling but hasn't been able to find the revised Cycling Action Plan for Scotland published earlier this year, mentioning the original CAPS published in 2010 instead.
[Insert political insult here].
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Not the journalist's words, but something he quotes from the council;
Here is the city council’s advice for cycling along the tram line. In summary, the tracks are made for trams, not your bike, so mind out:1. Cross the tracks close to a right angle;
2. Keep your wheels out of the tram tracks;
3. Take care when cycling in the rain;
4. Wait for the green light, a tram could be coming;
5. Trams are quiet, you may not hear them until they are very close;
6. Plan how you will cross the tracks;
7. You may prefer to get off your bike.
Words literally fail me.
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Excellent trams-and-bicycles advice has been landing freely in these peoples' laps for, what, the last decade or so at least? And yet they still manage to achieve this astonishing pinnacle of callous ignorance.
This aspires to be a European capital city. I don't think anyone in the council can have been to continental Europe in the last few decades.
7. You may prefer to get off your bike.
and walk the bike between the tram tracks from York Place to Haymarket Yards? With hundreds of people doing that it'd certainly cut down the risk from speeding trams.
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"... I saw there was nothing at all in sight and went through on red, ... just doing what millions of pedestrians do."
Just doing what millions of pedestrians do legally, unlike what you did.
An article presumably under the guise of being positive towards cyclists ends up including a number of examples to feed the anti-cyclist brigade. Could do (much) better.
Posted 10 years ago # -
Total drivel.
Avoid increasing EEN hits.
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Beside the illegalities, why not creating a cycle path from Lauriston Place to High Riggs? it would be easily accessible going northwards and cyclist going southwards can be stopped at the Tollcross traffic light.
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Dunno whether a biker means a motorised or pedalled biker, but what the hell has it got to do with the crime? More EEN bias.
Posted 10 years ago # -
That article was without point?
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