Got through today in the bit of road that is left to us - The kings taking up space on both sides at same time not optimal. No sewers. On the cycle path round the meadows after this the bike lane was chocka with joggers, students taking selfies holding cups of coffee, babies in prams. Almost at Tills I had pointed from a distance to a couple of women and a baby in a big pram blocking the whole bike lane whilst the walking side was entirely empty. As I passed one of the woman looked at me as if i had crawled out from under a stone [though perhaps that is how she always looks?] I meant to think inside thoughts but came out - Looks disgusted but at least on the correct side now. She did not like this. Can’t win em all
CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Infrastructure
Canal-Meadows (STILL NOT finally!)
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Parenting may have changed since my kids were that tiny but I quite liked paying enough attention to my surroundings to keep them out of traffic...
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The joggers are soooo bad if you're trying to walk there anytime around 6pm. Mostly just a problem that they like to run next to each other, so take up a lot of room, but some very aggressive.
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I am unduly obsessed with joggers occupying the white line between peds and cyclists.
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oh, me too.
but many, many years ago someone here gave a reason for it ? something to do with camber?
I just don't think people training seriously enough to worry about it should be on those paths, except maybe at dawn.
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@srd - camber maaaaaaybe? But also it is a space the peds and cyclists aren’t on because it isn’t a space. It is a border between spaces the joggers have adopted as their own.
100 years ago, well 39 years ago when i ran round the meadows i followed the Sri Chinmoy Mile [3 times if feeling spritely]. This is still there cut into the grass. But no one uses it, too muddy and doggy.
Poor Alan Spence put much time and energy into this mile track.
Same as the now dead disabled land owner who built separate infrastructure for walkers just to the side of the road through a wee gate which very few people ever use.
Up at Beech Avenue at Thriepmuir, the one @Fimm [RIP} called The Exponential.People are just weird. Other people I mean.
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I recall someone mentioning something about joggers around the Meadows/BL, running on the white line, elbows waving around in the cycle side's airspace...
http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15476&page=2#post-199810
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@wingpig some great. Old Campaigners on that thread for sure
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I didn't cycle last week due to being ill, but this morning the signs said no access to NCN 75 so I cycled around Leven Terrace and Glengyle Terrace, then on seeing the congestion down to the King's Theatre Junction I decided to go up Gillespie Place and Bruntsfield Place before turning right down Leamington Terrace and Leamington Road to reach the canal towpath. I will maybe do all of MMW then go up over Bruntsfield Links in the mornings for now which will also avoid the increasingly muddy NMW cycle path.
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Confirming what @jdanielp said - I passed here on Saturday afternoon (Also spotted @neddie there), and the signs said NCN 75 was closed and to divert around Glengyle Terrace, and the fence appeared to be covering the full road width.
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yes fence up to pavements today (unlike last week, when it said closed, but there was actually a decent path through next to pavement.
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