Looks like they are finally going to finish off that junction. Its well over due.
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Posted 10 years ago #
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That bit at St Andrew Square really should have the cycle lane protected by the parking bays.
And, TBH, should really be heavily traffic calmed. It's barely used by cars, such a waste of space.
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I took a little diversion along George St tonight for a look. There are black and white low barriers on the north (cycle lane) side of some of the centre parking spaces at the Charlotte Sq end. Are they new or have I just not noticed them before? Could be they're to stop cars from exiting from the parking spot into the cycle lane. A good idea if so.
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Yep - they've changed the bays to a more diagonal angle and put rubber 'bumpers' at the bike-lane end of each one. Only a few inches high though!
Posted 10 years ago # -
Any more reports from the front line?
Posted 10 years ago # -
Have just cycled along there - no change from Coxy's report 2 days ago...
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Wot no tumbleweed?
Posted 10 years ago # -
Not much happening
Posted 10 years ago # -
Not much happening, except that the cycle lane is now two blocks long!
I wonder where all of the displaced car parking has gone meantime?
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"I wonder where all of the displaced car parking has gone meantime?"
Haven't you heard? The EEN commenters were right and the world has come to and end due to parking spaces being removed.
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"I wonder where all of the displaced car parking has gone meantime?"
That's a very pertinent question. Which I suppose should be followed by:
"And if drivers are coping with these temporary restrictions, why re-instate a solution that contains parking on George Street?"
Answer probably involves parallels with the displacement of parking when the CPZs were being broadened, a lot of NIMBY and a pinch of school holiday.
Posted 10 years ago # -
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Buttons & Robin (@ButtonsAndRobin)
03/07/2014 18:26
Well this is exciting. @CyclingEdinhttp://pic.twitter.com/UOeFa38p87
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Posted 10 years ago # -
I saw some planters and flowers today. And more of those bumper things.
Posted 10 years ago # -
Rats are going to love that decking.
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Yes, went that way yesterday evening. You have to get off and walk round the barriers (no great hardship if it is evening & you're only going to the pub). Lots of bump things to keep the cars at bay, quite a few planters, and that decking which means that the cycle bit is narrowed right down to the painted space. At least the decking will demarkate the pedestrian and cycle spaces more obviously than paint alone.
Posted 10 years ago # -
The brown rat from kingsnowe has planned a holiday under that decking for the festival. Think it booked the las available bed as all the black rats from thistle street, the ones that moved to my cellar when Lyon and turn bulls became fishers have also decided to get out of the rest run of the thistle street eateries and moved to George street,
You are never more than a foot away from a rat on the George street decking.
Posted 10 years ago # -
Castle St & Frederick St junctions look as big a disaster as most thought beforehand.
At Charlotte Sq, there's a forest of planters so westbound bikes can't merge back into the left-turn traffic at the lights. Onto the traffic island looks like being the only option - I sense 'Cyclists dismount' appearing here soon.
CEC may well manage to make George St less cycleable after this, which would be remarkably incompetent, even for them.
Posted 10 years ago # -
CEC may well manage to make George St less cycleable after this, which would be remarkably incompetent, even for them.
We could have a test cycle-in one morning and go to Wellingtons for coffee instead of Peter's Yard.
Posted 10 years ago # -
Despite Stepdoh's erstwhile protestations, Wellington's coffee's not up to much.
Still haven't been along New George Street since the first day of modification-work.
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Hopefully, if it's a pilot, there will be something like this going on in the background (she says hopefully)
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Seem to have missed all of this, actually looks OK, must take a detour down there to try.
Where does it go (after George St)?
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This whole thing sounds bonkers. I guess I'll just need to suck it and see. I'll pick up the Kingsknowe Court Rat on the way home tonight - it will be huge and glossy by the time it's hoovered up a whole festival's worth of sub-decking morcels.
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"Where does it go (after George St)?"
Posted 10 years ago # -
Well it's sort of open -
But there are issues -
Posted 10 years ago # -
Well that's a very CEC way to end what is a very expensive piece of path...
* I'd like to assume that's not final, but T.I.E.
Posted 10 years ago # -
I can't help but laugh at it surely they are waiting for something to be delivered. Perhaps it's going to be a chicane barrier with a large cyclists dismount sign on it.
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Couple of 'End of Route' signs along with the 'Cyclists Dismount' ones and the job's a good'un!
Posted 10 years ago # -
The wooden fencing round the decking looks guy close to the edge of the cycle track!
I can see cyclists crossing to the other side of the track to give it enough margin.
Posted 10 years ago # -
Has CEC released (or even produced?!) the schematics for the junctions on this cycle route experiment? I'm keen to learn how the Charlotte Square bit is going to operate and whether it is going to require right-angled turns, straight after that lovely sweeping bend for westbound cyclists. I want to stay positive but I'm also really not sure how it can avoid lots of potential conflict with pedestrians.
If I'm given a choice between performing right-angled turns on cycle infrastructure, and mixing it up with taxi and car drivers, quite often I'll take the drivers.
Posted 10 years ago # -
"I have a great dislike of performing right-angled turns on a bike."
Also the right turn into GSt.
There used to be that odd button-controlled filter.
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