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"POLLOCK HALLS TO FOUNTAINHALL ROAD/RATCLIFFE TERRACE CYCLE IMPROVEMENTS"

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  1. chdot
    Admin

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    The City of Edinburgh Council will shortly be undertaking traffic surveys within the Newington/Blacket area, and I would like to provide some further information on why this work is being carried out.

    The Council are in the early stages of investigating the potential for a cycle scheme which would connect the University of Edinburgh’s Pollock Halls of Residence with the recently implemented Quality Bike Corridor route, which runs from George IV Bridge to King’s Buildings. The route would also link to a proposed ‘family friendly’ route to Morningside.

    As part of the early project design process, some on-street traffic surveys will be carried out in the area of the potential route during the weeks commencing Monday 21 and Monday 28 January 2013.

    This work will comprise traffic surveys, pedestrian surveys and parking counts, and will be undertaken by street operatives and the use of temporary CCTV cameras fixed to existing street furniture. The work will be carried out in stages over the two week period, however not all elements of the survey will be conducted simultaneously and the programming of each element will be, to an extent, weather dependent.

    Following this survey work, the Council will be seeking your views on a number of issues from an early stage, prior to designing any preferred options which would then lead on to a more detailed consultation exercise in the future.

    "

    Posted 11 years ago #
  2. steveo
    Member

    They're still calling it quality...

    Posted 11 years ago #
  3. chdot
    Admin

    But they are not defining "quality"...

    Posted 11 years ago #
  4. chdot
    Admin

    Bit like Quality Street - some sweets are better than others.

    But at least you get a useful tin when they are all finished.

    Posted 11 years ago #
  5. Dave
    Member

    I guess it's a good time to ask the council how they intend to avoid wasting more money by creating something as bad as the Quality Bike Corridor linking to it... a failed implementation isn't quite so bad if it leads to improvements in the next one.

    Posted 11 years ago #
  6. neddie
    Member

    ‘family friendly’ route to Morningside

    Really? How could that be possible?

    They would have to take away parking...

    Or, just paint a few confusing 'cycle' signs in the middle of a bunch of already quiet roads and call it 'family friendly'

    Or, put the whole thing on stilts over the South-suburban railway...

    Posted 11 years ago #
  7. PS
    Member

    Make East and West Mayfield one way for motor vehicles (it's a grid system down there so there are loads of alternatives for cars going the other way), insert two-way cycleway in the other carriageway. North side looks best as it's mainly a back wall with few garage/driveways opening onto it. Job done. Now, where do I collect my consultancy fee?

    Posted 11 years ago #
  8. chdot
    Admin

    "Or, put the whole thing on stilts over the South-suburban railway..."

    Shhh.

    You might remind some people of the road building notions -

    Posted 11 years ago #
  9. Min
    Member

    But they are not defining "quality"...

    "Poor" is a quality!

    Posted 11 years ago #
  10. chdot
    Admin

    ""Poor" is a quality!"

    Quite!

    Posted 11 years ago #
  11. allebong
    Member

    Or, put the whole thing on stilts over the South-suburban railway...

    Right, someone get £200 million, and meet me down at Homebase...should have it built by next week.

    Posted 11 years ago #
  12. crowriver
    Member

    Forget it allebong. Richard Rogers is not signed up, you haven't met the Lord Provost in the lift. It'll never happen.

    Posted 11 years ago #
  13. gkgk
    Member

    Sounds like a bit of fun to me. Some superwide 20mph roads around there. I wish they'd have a bash at narrowing the roadways to 20mph-appropriate width and inserting the king of all cycleways into the resulting 8 metre wide gap.

    Posted 11 years ago #
  14. crowriver
    Member

    @gkgk, you mean like on Leith Walk? Oh wait...

    Posted 11 years ago #
  15. gkgk
    Member

    @crowriver Has that happened on Leith Walk? I'm not sure about that.

    Posted 11 years ago #
  16. gibbo
    Member

    "Following this survey work, the Council will be seeking your views on a number of issues from an early stage"

    Here are my views: if it's anything like the QBC, don't bother. A bike lane isn't a bike lane if you can park in it.

    Posted 11 years ago #
  17. kaputnik
    Moderator

    A bike lane isn't a bike lane if you can park in it.

    Second that. Painting a bike lane under parked cars gets us no futher forward, is a waste of money, and lets the council off the hook as they can say "what are you moaning, we 'built' you bunch of whingers a 'bike lane'". Then when the inevitable QBC-style scandal breaks, it's the fault of cyclists for being a bunch of uppity malcontents rather than the council for designing (I use that term loosely) and building (I use that even looser) a cr*p cycle lane, even though it was pointed out to them at every juncture how cr*p it was.

    Posted 11 years ago #
  18. crowriver
    Member

    @gkgk. "Oh wait..." was a clue.

    Posted 11 years ago #
  19. gibbo
    Member

    lets the council off the hook as they can say "what are you moaning, we 'built' you bunch of whingers a 'bike lane'"

    Yes, I'd rather have nothing - and everyone knows it's nothing - than for them to hide behind a laughably useless "solution".

    PS's suggestion earlier in the thread would be a genuine solution - and it's those types of proposals that should be on the table, IMO.

    Posted 11 years ago #
  20. gkgk
    Member

    @crow, I see what you mean, apologies.

    I'd welcome a review of the W. Mayfield junction with Mayfield Road. I keep getting tooted there (heading north) for not following the cycle lane into the gutter.

    Posted 11 years ago #

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