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Today's rubbish pedestrians

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  1. CocoShepherd
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    Enjoying a nice ride this afternoon with the warm sun on my back. Cruising slowly along the shared use NCN route 764 as I dodged dogs on and off leads, kids with balls, pedestrians with headphones etc. Until I begin to approach a pair of peds from behind. "Excuse me" I say at a carefully chosen volume so that they could hear me but weren't alarmed or scared. They both turned round having heard me and one stepped in towards the left hand side as I slowly passed. Happy that the three of us had successfully negotiated a passing without incident I was off on my merry way until one of them shouted "Oi, where's your bell?".

    Bugged me for the rest of the ride for all sorts of reasons.

    Posted 3 years ago #

  2. mga
    Member

    Saw a woman run directly into the path of a cyclist on North Meadow Walk causing a minor collision. Cyclist got verbals from her partner and other bystanders as they cycled away despite it not being their fault.

    Posted 3 years ago #

  3. Frenchy
    Member

    Pedestrian crossing Comiston Road this morning patronisingly expressed his gratitude and amazement that I had stopped at the red light. Apparently I wouldn't believe how many cyclists jump red lights.

    Very not sure how being such a condescending [rule 2] about it to someone who has stopped is at all helpful to his cause.

    Posted 1 year ago #

  4. mcairney
    Member

    Old woman walking her dog up Arthur’s Seat standing in the middle of the road holding a ball while said dog was snuggling around the undergrowth at the side of the road. Didn’t really cause me too much trouble but this was at lunchtime when the road is open to motorists!

    Posted 1 year ago #

  5. cb
    Member

    I can recognise a few of these:

    https://youtube.com/shorts/dehop4T13Uk?feature=share

    Posted 1 year ago #

  6. the canuck
    Member

    All of them. I'm coming home across the North Bridge this month, and the number of people who appear genuinely shocked that cyclists and drivers expect to move on a green light...

    I could understand if they'd started crossing on a green man and then the drivers were honking, but no, they haven't checked (or checked but went anyway), and the drivers should be grateful to cyclists for weaving through the walkers and getting the message across gently (and safely).

    Posted 1 year ago #

  7. neddie
    Member

    That's because most visitors coming from civilised continental cities would expect that a street like the Royal Mile would be fully pedestrianised

    Posted 1 year ago #

  8. mcairney
    Member

    I'm not sure if this is an over-reaction on my part but when doing laps round Arthur's Seat I had a jogger in the middle of the road on the downhill from the high road to the roundabout jogging right down the middle (as in on what would have been the dividing line between 2 lanes) with their dog jogging alongside on the pavement. Very difficult to pass safely with a satisfactory passing distance and the gradient made slowing down sufficiently difficult as well, particularly as I'd already picked up a decent amount of speed at the point where he'd became visible. I've got no issue with pedestrians using the road when it's closed to traffic but at least leave enough room for other people to pass you safely!!

    Posted 1 year ago #

  9. the canuck
    Member

    "That's because most visitors coming from civilised continental cities would expect that a street like the Royal Mile would be fully pedestrianised"

    True, but in the first place, I'm not sure how the city would cope if the North Bridge was a decorative feature--if all of the Royal Mile was blocked, there would be a heck of a lot of delivery and public transport forced to the East and West ends--those are already quite quite congested.

    In the second, I was referring to the northern end, Princes street--sorry, didn't make that clear.
    In general, I did notice over the summer that the ability to observe lights seemed to have deteriorated. I don't remember it being that bad in previous summers.

    Posted 10 months ago #

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