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  1. chdot
    Admin

    Been a busy day on Twitter.

    Comments/action on Leith Links path.

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    Lesley Hinds (@LAHinds)
    23/04/2014 08:58
    @CyclingEdin @Edinburgh_CC @urbancyclist @seansauzee @SRDorman @ChrisJConway agreed. comments always welcome to improve that aim welcome

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    Cycling Edinburgh (@CyclingEdin)
    23/04/2014 09:01
    @LAHinds not up to commenters to improve @Edinburgh_CC implementation!

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    Cycling Edinburgh (@CyclingEdin)
    23/04/2014 09:08
    @LAHinds too many compromises eg Leith Links and Seafield - being done NOW

    @adamrmcvey @urbancyclist @seansauzee @SRDorman @ChrisJConway

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    Lesley Hinds (@LAHinds)
    23/04/2014 09:16
    @CyclingEdin @adamrmcvey @urbancyclist @seansauzee @SRDorman @ChrisJConway comments have come in, asking questions and action!

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    BUT

    So many other things that have got CCEers commenting. - and many having to be modified (sometimes more than once)

    North/Middle Meadow Walk tactiles

    Crawford Bridge chicanes

    Leith Links tactiles & chicanes

    Taxi rank at Haymarket

    Crossing railings at Hermiston

    Various Family Network signs

    And?

    Posted 10 years ago #

  2. kaputnik
    Moderator

    Broomhouse Path (contractor mess and tactiles)

    Marchmont Road toucan crossing (inadequate explanation recieved)

    Random, short-lived Bus Stop removed at top of MMW opposite Doctors.

    Posted 10 years ago #

  3. SRD
    Moderator

    "Marchmont Road toucan crossing (inadequate explanation recieved)"

    I have long explanation received in print. (how did they get my address?).

    Can share. doesn't make sense. maybe that's what you mean by 'inadequate'.

    Posted 10 years ago #

  4. wingpig
    Member

    Nonslip surface at Criagleith.

    A90 duplication.

    Posted 10 years ago #

  5. chdot
    Admin

    "A90 duplication"

    And other errors on that map.

    Posted 10 years ago #

  6. SRD
    Moderator

    there was the hermiston one that got fixed - misplaced chicanes again i think?

    Posted 10 years ago #

  7. crowriver
    Member

    Seafield Road/Street junction: toucan crossings.

    Seafield Road East railway: bridge lamps conflict with crash barriers/chevron sign supports.

    Badly placed bollard at east end of North Meadow Walk path.

    Railway/road bridge between St Mark's Place and Hope Lane: badly spaced chicanes. On the cycle route to the soon to be built Porty High School too!

    Posted 10 years ago #

  8. DaveC
    Member

    The new path between Barton golfist parks has left a deep hole/dpression in the middle of the left lane where the new path comes out on the east side. Its clear when wet as a large puddle forms but otherwise a depression, enought to cause a rider to have a wobble is in the midle of the left lane, where riders ride onto the new path.

    Posted 10 years ago #

  9. DaveC
    Member

    The new stones on the inside of the Craigleith junction (north side) where coming down Blackhall path and turning left onto the NEPN heading for Crewe Toll, are spilling onto the surface. Unless pushed back (I don't carry a broom as std - but maybe I should) I can see a rider comming off here.

    Posted 10 years ago #

  10. wingpig
    Member

    Noticeable depressions in path corresponding to lamppost-wire trenches beneath Leith Links New bit.

    Stupid one-way stuff in new development between Dundee St and canal.

    Posted 10 years ago #

  11. Snowy
    Member

    South Gyle Access where the Toucan crossing in place during tram bridge works has stupidly been reinstated as a permanent Pelican crossing, neatly severing the Broomhouse cycle path. Cretinous #fail.

    Posted 10 years ago #

  12. PS
    Member

    The wonderfully wide Cormiston Road (arterial road) has recently been resurfaced with lovely smooth tarmac, but the Council appears to have forgotten to put segregated or even mandatory cycle lanes on it. Must be an oversight.

    Posted 10 years ago #

  13. Stickman
    Member

    The crossing at Balgreen Road at the end of the new cycle path being a Pelican and not a Toucan.

    Posted 10 years ago #

  14. paul.mag
    Member

    Having to cross the A720 as it approaches Gogar Roundabout when using the cycle path as cars either accelerate to get through the lights or get up to speed. Given that this piece of road needs to be crossed when using a cycle path surely some infrastructure to help is required.

    Posted 10 years ago #

  15. Arellcat
    Moderator

    http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=4466#post-47330

    Posted 10 years ago #

  16. DaveC
    Member

    "Having to cross the A720 as it approaches Gogar Roundabout when using the cycle path as cars either accelerate to get through the lights or get up to speed. Given that this piece of road needs to be crossed when using a cycle path surely some infrastructure to help is required.
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    This should have been fixed when they put ni the new bridge for the trams. Easy add on, but lazy as always CEC.

    Posted 10 years ago #

  17. Nelly
    Member

    At least the Broomhouse Path at Makro has been fixed.

    <snigger>

    Posted 9 years ago #

  18. Focus
    Member

    Unbelievable!

    Posted 9 years ago #

  19. Stickman
    Member

    I would describe that as Quality.

    Posted 9 years ago #

  20. Focus
    Member

    As in QBC, I take it? ;-)

    Posted 9 years ago #

  21. minus six
    Member

    Respect due

    Cycle budget in safe hands

    Posted 9 years ago #

  22. PS
    Member

    How does it go again? "Model cycling city"?

    Of course, it's probably designed as a warning chicane to slow you down, ready for the dismount and 5 minute wait to walk across the South Gyle Access Road...

    Posted 9 years ago #

  23. Nelly
    Member

    "5 minute wait to walk across the South Gyle Access Road"

    Nah, I just have a quick look and scoot across, course if I go under a bus it will be my fault and not because CEC/Tramco cocked up the junction. ;-)

    Posted 9 years ago #

  24. calmac
    Member

    The "path" alongside the A8 by Ratho Station is pathetic. A narrow, broken-up, disjointed shambles that squeezes past bus stops and all manner of street "furniture".

    There's a decent path from Newbridge on to Broxburn, and it's not too hard to get from the Broomhouse path to Ingliston. This is a real missing link for commuting into the city.

    A handful of brave souls cycle the main road - this must be about as much fun for them as it is for the drivers overtaking them on what is a 70mph stretch.

    Posted 9 years ago #

  25. threefromleith
    Member

    Oh dear.... that's just pathetic. I suppose they can turn round and say "we've sorted the junction boxes blocking the cycle lane" now though, with a barely-straight face. Squeezing peds and cyclists going both ways into a single, narrowed lane already causes conflict, and this isn't solving it.

    Laughable.

    Posted 9 years ago #

  26. dg145
    Member

    @calmac ... my commute. The section from Newbridge Roundabout, from the flyover bridge over the M9, is extremely patchy.

    It starts off with a 'Cyclists Dismount' sign as you come off the bridge - with no indication of when you might re-mount so no-one observes it. Then the section to just after the houses at Ratho Station is narrow, with a poor, rutted surface, placing cyclists and walkers in close conflict - especially at the even narrower sections running beside the bus-stops.

    Then there is a short, but relatively wide and decently surfaced section running beside the airport runways before you hit the tree-root, pot-hole infested narrows running up to the airport turn-off.

    The section of path from Newbridge to the RBS bridge is the least enjoyable part of my commute. Sometimes - generally in the better weather - I just give it a miss and head straight up the A8. It's much faster, not least because of the adrenalin rush you get from the continual fast, close passing.

    So, path = safer but slower and bumpier. Road = quicker, better surface but potential danger.

    Roll the dice ...

    Posted 9 years ago #

  27. neddie
    Member

    The only solution to the Broomhouse Path at Makro is a ped/cyclist overbridge across S. Gyle Access. I mean there is no way they could move those cabinets, or move the ped xing.

    Bridge...

    Only answer...

    Posted 9 years ago #

  28. acsimpson
    Member

    "Only answer..."

    That or close the road and remove the lights. Filling in under the bridge seems to be Network Rails preferred option for maintenance and there's at least another 6 ways into South Gyle after all ;-".

    Posted 9 years ago #

  29. paul.mag
    Member

    @dg145 the A8 is my daily commute as well (starting and ending)ingilston P&R and have also started at Uphall or Linlithgow and the "cycle path" from Newbridge to RBS is just a pavement that's been designated shared use so the council can say they have done something. As you and @calmac say is a rutted, bumpy, narrow route that brings cyclists into conflict with pedestrians. I've actually been forced off the path in the past by them at the bus stop as they refused to move.

    Posted 9 years ago #

  30. calmac
    Member

    Glad others have had the same joys on the A8.

    While I'm on a roll, what's the best wat through the Gyle from the Broomhouse path? I generally end up on the pavement alongside the main road, but the big roundabout at the entrance to the shopping centre, and crossing the end of the bypass, are both unpleasant barriers.

    Posted 9 years ago #

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