CityCyclingEdinburgh was launched on the 27th of October 2009 as "an experiment".
IT’S TRUE!
CCE is 15years old!
Well done to ALL posters
It soon became useful and entertaining. There are regular posters, people who add useful info occasionally and plenty more who drop by to watch. That's fine. If you want to add news/comments it's easy to register and become a member.
RULES No personal insults. No swearing.
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"Over recent time we have been in dialogue with both residents and customers, who want to make sure that these services continue to operate whilst ensuring that the roads authority deal with the issues caused by an increase in on- street and indiscriminate parking."
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"with cars routinely forced to drive on the pavement just to allow traffic to flow"
What can you even say?
Time to lose the monster buses in favour of smaller electric vehicles running more frequently. I remember the little green number 23s from years ago.
The obvious solution would seem to be double-yellow lines along Stanley Road and strict parking enforcement - traffic flows, buses pass etc. I assume that's what is being called for...
White van man parked on the kerb, blocking the cycle lane on Leith Walk, on double red lines, in a "keep clear" space for a bin.
I stopped and pushed the passenger side mirror in, which was much stiffer than I expected it to be. Thankfully the passenger helped me by trying to open the door into me while I was doing it.
Photos (Well, video stills) here: https://twitter.com/Lollercake/status/1136251063550562305
Perhaps LRT should be authorised to issue parking tickets. If their staff are having to go out to deal with issues anyway then a few extra minutes spent ticketing drivers each time should eventually help.
Video from the one I mentioned 2 posts up:
Entertaining Twitter stooshie as Adam McVey tells Bross Bagels to stop parking on the pavement:
https://twitter.com/adamrmcvey/status/1136903433309622275?s=21
Bross Bagels respond that the police told them it’s ok to park on the pavement for 20 minutes with their hazard lights on. The evidence they cite is a post from this forum discussing the Pavement Parking Bill!
Then to add to the laughs Nick Cook chimes in to say Adam is virtue signalling.
Edinburgh at its best.
It's still going by the looks of it. I vaguely know 'Mamma Bross' which helps to add to the entertainment factor...
Yesterday, I spotted a vehicle that had presumably either not had its parking brake applied properly or in which the parking brake had broken given that it had rolled out of one of the parking spaces just outside the front of the art college into the side of another parked vehicle ahead of it.
The bit of the Meadows behind the old Buccleuch Church is still a daily car park. Usually one car, which recently has become 2, and then this morning 3, with the third not even bothering to tuck into the little recess caused by the shape of the building - but rather just parking mainly on the pedestrian bit.
All because there's a gate to the lane beside it that is now permanently open.
It would be a real shame is if got shut and locked whie the cars were still there.
Re. Bross Bagels, it's a bit like the Breadshare issue of a few years ago. Challenged on the parking, react with anger and arrogance, then realise they've played the social media game wrong and misread the mood in the room.
I mean, I already don't go there cos I genuinely don't rate their bagels (too dense and flat); but certainly adds grist to the mill. All very odd for an organisation that prides itself on being so good at social media with its funny videos and so on.
Re: Bross Bagels. To add to all the good points above their last Food Hygiene rating was 'Improvement Required'. Just like their parking then!
A van with someone removing tools from the back parked half-on the footway at the pedestrian crossing between Waverley Bridge and TopShop this morning. Didn't even have his hazards on.
Someone found a padlock...
https://twitter.com/urbancyclist/status/1138701200273158149
Indeed, and I'd taken an old lock with me this morning :D ('tis my twitter that).
Someone found a padlock...
Turns out there's a thread for that.
I see edinhelp replied saying they've passed it on to the parking team - but didn't the parking team say before that there's nothing they can do because there's no double yellow lines or other parking restrictions there?
Yep. I retweeted the reply simply to get it out there, and people can chase them up and challenge them, because they'll likely come back again in an hour or so and say they can't do anything and it's a police matter.
There's a lot of vehicles using that access off Buccleuch St.
- Ice cream van.
- Random cafe workers (cafe by the playpark).
- Random other people who park* by the cafe.
- Council vehicles to service the toilets / playpark / tennis courts.
*The parking by the cafe is not official, just people taking advantage.
“Abstract pavement art”
Useful photo.
Presumably damage mostly due to CEC park vehicles?
Does CEC have (legal) right of passage on its own infrastructure?
Is the legislation tight enough to exclude all others?
(Or at least allow with explicit permission?)
CEC does, for maintenance purposes. Though I swear sometimes it looks like someone us taking a shortcut.
A Volvo, an Audi and a van parked in the taxi drop-off outside Haymarket station yesterday morning. Wouldn't have been quite so rubbish if they hadn't spaced themselves in such a way as to leave basically no usable room for any taxi that did want to drop someone off.
As with bus stops, it seems that the phrase "No stopping at any time" is incomprehensible to some otherwise apparently intelligent (e.g. capable of qualifying for a driving licence*) human beings.
* Discuss
Predictably CEC have responded by DM on Twitter to say it's a police matter.
WRT to the Haymarket drop-off area - it always really annoys me to see a police car parked there where it is clear that the policepersons who were using it are just patrolling the station and not responding to any kind of emergency.
From @VBaillie3 on Twitter:
"So the driver was tracked down and spoken to, and has said it wont happen again. Please do let me know if any other cars get spotted."
A much more direct and useful avenue of complaint when seeing things (infinitely more helpful than Edinburgh Council or the Polis!).
@fimm: Someone will be sure to correct me if I'm wrong but I believe that it's normally the British Transport Police who exercise jurisdiction over railway stations. So if Police Scotland are in attendance then I would imagine that it will probably be at the request of the BTP and, while not necessarily responding to a blue-light emergency, they will be attending a "situation" rather than just carrying out a normal patrol.
(Whether that excuses their parking is another question, best addressed by someone who knows more about that kind of stuff than I do.)
I think it is British Transport Police whose parking I am grumbling about.
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