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@Gembo - the bike lanes on Ratcliffe Terrace are "advisory" (they have a dashed white line), rather than "mandatory" (solid white line). They obviously have double yellow lines/loading flashes, so parking in them is not allowed, but they're not "mandatory" bike lanes.
@fimm - if you have the time and patience, you could consider phoning 101 about that in future.
@Frenchy, I was more thinking of the two big yellow lines down the side of the road next to the pavement which you have also spotted. They mean no parking unless the warden is not there and if he comes nip out and move your vehicles every day as far as I can work out?
Yeah, I'm just being pedantic about "mandatory" - the enforcement issue is exactly the same.
Doesn't help when the wardens don't always bother to ticket the cars parked there, either - I've seen them go straight from KB to the Tesco at the top, passing straight by illegally parked cars at Ratcliffe Terrace.
Monday this week at about 4pm, a Land Rover Discovery parked fully on - and fully blocking - the pavement on Slateford Road, outside the Dhammapadipa Temple. It was on the dropped kerb access to the temple's parking area so if one felt a little bit charitable one might hypothesise that they didn't properly understand the exception which allows driving on the pavement for the purposes of accessing property...
...nah, they were just being lazy and selfish.
Anyone else tired of the grey Vauxhall car/van that is always parked in the bike lane just outside Totty Rocks on Barclay Place just before the turn off onto Whitehouse Loan. Not sure if it is theirs or maybe the electricians next door but it is there pretty much every day. Perhaps they have an arrangement with the traffic warden? It forces you out into the stream of traffic just as the road narrows and starts going uphill.
Probably to do with Totty Rocks - the electrician has a Landy with the reg 60 WAT, although it could be another employee of course.
3 builders vans on the grass of South Meadow Walk near Meadow Place. Treating it as all-day free parking...
Hardly news this, but it confirms @klaxon's comment that it's now well-known that if you don't want a ticket you should just double park. Bubbles bathrooms were here for days...
one repercussion is that the bin didn't get emptied...
Someone needs to bounce that van into the main carriageway and off the cycle lane
Car with Dutch plates half on, half off the pavement of Craigmillar Park yesterday as I passed. Hazards on, moves to park fully on the pavement, completely blocking it.
I just about have enough Dutch to shout 'In Scotland the Bicycle is King!' through the driver's window but I didn't because deep in my heart I know Dutch people are cool and mean no harm. They probably just stopped for a smoke.
http://i.imgur.com/DIk2Aal.jpg
Just round the corner I encountered @IWRATS' favourite cleaning company van parked fully blocking the pavement as well.
@Frenchy
I am tempted to hire him for the worst cleaning job ever.
Much better to get him to quote then tell him why he's not getting the job.
Pushed the bikes past a car being carefully positioned on this piece of pavement this afternoon. It was wet, and we were late for the cinema, otherwise I would have photographed it for this thread.
How did the driver of the car rationalise to themselves that it was somehow OK to park there?
How did the driver of the car rationalise to themselves that it was somehow OK to park there?
"I won't get a ticket."
"I’ve got my family coming to stay, so that’s two extra cars trying to find somewhere to park"
So some Inverleith residents don't want people from outside the area parking there because they have family and friends from outside the area who might want to park there?
I hope that they are consistent and don't drive or park anywhere outside the Inverleith area.
Many days there is a vehicle with flashing lights in front of Tesco's in Fountainbridge. I feel less annoyed with commercial delivery vehicles & taxis than with private cars as I think the former are doing this as part of their job. Does anyone else have that reaction, or are they equally malevolent towards both?
My empirical observations of commercial delivery vehicles is that they will preferentially park on a pavement / bike lane / bus lane / junction / crossing or somewhere equally antisocial if it means not "holding up the traffic". As a last resort they'll just pull over and pop the flashers on if there's nothing better to inconvenience within shouting distance. Yes they're only "doing a job" and the whole business model of these delivery companies probably doesn't give the driver the time per delivery to find somewhere proper to stop and walk the rest of the way before their online tracking tool tells them they're falling behind and to speed up or lose pay. But that still doesn't mean it's right or that we should tolerate antisocial or dangerous parking or road behaviour just because someone's job dictates it.
"Free" parking at the Royal Infirmary is really getting out of control. There are cars all over the grass verges, cycle paths. Everywhere.
Yesterday a car managed to park right smack in the middle of the cycle path alongside the Infirmary making it impossible to get past. I had to dismount to avoid the wing mirror.
To whom would one complain about the access way to the builder's car park bit along that stretch? Those metal plates the width of the shared path were bad enough before but one has been knocked squint, the attempt at an approach ramp on that side obliterated and it's now simply a hazard whether on foot or wheels. I hailed a hi-viz builder to enquire about it but it was his first day on the job, of course.
http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/traffic-wardens-turn-blind-eye-957784
I wonder how much of this is going on and whether bacon rolls are all that are exchanged.
Always wondered about the car/van thing that always seems to be parked outside Totty Rocks at Bruntsfield in the bike lane. Maybe the yellow peril are getting free Nicola Sturgeon outfits from her outfitter?
A coach (Ratho Coach lines) parked this morning on the "urban clearway" on the northbound carriageway of Lothian Road, disgorging it's load of passengers into the Caledonian Hotel and forcing traffic to pass. He wasn't even at a bus stop.
As an aside, i travel through the northern end of Lothian Road twice daily, I've often thought it would be a great idea to remove the two bus stops at the northern end of Lothian Road going both directions as, if you get a few buses at each stop it forces cyclists out into some fairly unaccommodating traffic (although now I keep right and plan ahead) There are bus stops on both Princes Street and outside the Sheraton both directions too, so these could easily be removed and folk just spend five minutes walking, it's hardly miles. Interested to see what the views on here are.
Easy, I'll just dump the car on a DYL in this bike lane while I go for a peesy, Lemon Squeezy driving instructor on Hope Park Crescent yesterday.
Golf parked on Hill Street (one way eastbound) facing west. I've no doubt at all that it was reversed two-thirds of the way down the street to reach the (legal) parking space it was occupying, no siree. And, equally, that it was going to be reversed the rest of way on departure...
Ratho Coaches parked right across the NCN1 cut through between Charlotte Sq and Randolph Place this morning. Thought to myself what news it would make if it did a similar thing on the A1.
Does seem to be a recurring problem, I've already emailed Edinburgh Tours following similar regular parking... any suggestions as to a permanent solution?
@edinburgh87
(A) Greatly inconvenient for those of us who approach those stops from the west.
(B) It makes sense for there to be bus stops at that part of that street.
(C) I don't think making bus travel less convenient is the way to solve Edinburgh's traffic/pollution problem.
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