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The Pope's Coming to Edinburgh

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  • Started 14 years ago by Wendy
  • Latest reply from ruggtomcat

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  1. Wendy
    Member

    On the 16th September, Edinburgh will be visited by Pope Benedict XVI, resulting in many road closures throughout the city.

    To enable a quick commute to work in the city centre, the Bike Station has teamed up with Essential Edinburgh to provide all day secure cycle parking in St Andrew Square!

    You'll be able to leave your bike securely locked up from 8am to 6pm.

    Dr Bike will be there from 8am to 12pm to fix minor problems such as brakes and gear cables on your bike, and the coffee shop in St Andrew Square will offer a 5% discount to anyone who uses Dr Bike!

    Don't let the road closures stop you from getting to work on the 16th!

    Posted 14 years ago #

  2. spitfire
    Member

    and the EEN gets funnier and funnier

    Posted 14 years ago #

  3. Cyclingmollie
    Member

    Spitfire, I agree. I normally think the EEN comments are a cess-pit but for once some of them have been quite funny. I liked the one the other day which suggested that the combination of the Pope's visit and the potential for the tram sitting on Princes Street to prevent people from getting a good view would cause an EEN comments "perfect storm".

    Posted 14 years ago #

  4. Arellcat
    Moderator

    It's really quite amazing. First CEC finds the money to resurface (really quite nicely) Churchhill, and now it's been sending out the emergency pothole fillers to Morningside Road. The same road chdot and I travel so frequently and which is worse than George Street is now sporting a whole load of big black patches of sort-of-tarmac, which at least has made the 30mph freewheel a little more comfortable. I thought, as I rode home, about what to include in a FoI request about why they couldn't have done it sooner and without the remarkable coincidence of the man in white visiting the city.

    Sideways rant aside, well done to The Bike Station for arranging a huge dollop of common sense! :)

    Posted 14 years ago #

  5. chdot
    Admin

    "emergency pothole fillers"

    Pretty bad job too.

    Posted 14 years ago #

  6. Arellcat
    Moderator

    Is it me, or is the affluence of each respective area in Edinburgh inversely proportional to the quality of its roads?

    Posted 14 years ago #

  7. ruggtomcat
    Member

    its just you, they are all shocking...

    Posted 14 years ago #

  8. chdot
    Admin

    "Is it me"

    Yes.

    You haven't been to Barnton Av lately.

    Posted 14 years ago #

  9. Wendy
    Member

    Thanks Arellcat :)

    Posted 14 years ago #

  10. cb
    Member

    ""emergency pothole fillers"

    Pretty bad job too. "

    I agree. I obviously hadn't put two and two together and thought 'pope' when I saw work being done at the bottom of the hill the other day. In fact I was dismayed to realise that they were just doing a wee fix up job around a manhole cover rather than resurface /the entire road/ as is required.

    Cycling down Morningside Road actually gives me a sore head.

    Posted 14 years ago #

  11. ARobComp
    Member

    When the pope comes I'm going to ask him for a rocket and a pony!!

    Posted 14 years ago #

  12. recombodna
    Member

    I wish the pope would drive down more roads in the city! Constitution street would be good!!

    Posted 14 years ago #

  13. chdot
    Admin

    New tarmac


    More pix here.

    Not sure if the repainted lamp posts are part of this 'project' as they have been repainted along the whole street.

    Posted 14 years ago #

  14. chdot
    Admin

    http://www.lothianbuses.com/more-info/news/traffic-news/449-the-papal-visit.html

    Posted 14 years ago #

  15. cb
    Member

    Story I heard is that he has a pal in Churchhill and he is going to be stopping in for a cup of tea (then presumably heading off down Morningside Road).
    if this is true (and why on earth shouldn't it be?) then I bet said pal wishes he'd invited pope over a long time ago if it meant he'd get a new road out of it.

    Posted 14 years ago #

  16. cb
    Member

    St Andrew Square bike park:

    http://news.scotsman.com/edinburgh/Bike-park-for-pontiff39s-visit.6527927.jp

    Posted 14 years ago #

  17. 1lesscar
    Member

    cb - The official residence of Cardinal Keith O'Brien is in Churchill so I'd imagine he's off there for a visit / chat.

    Posted 14 years ago #

  18. kaputnik
    Moderator

    St Andrew Square bike park:

    Hurrah for the bike station. And what an indictment of the utter lack of safe, secure and accessible cycle parking in central Edinburgh.

    Posted 14 years ago #

  19. recombodna
    Member

    Wow 5% off a coffee what an incentive!! We should welcome right wing homophobes into our city more often.

    I really hope this works though. It would be great to see an army of cycling commuters but I suspect all we'll get is tailbacks as people just take their cars regardless.

    Posted 14 years ago #

  20. chdot
    Admin

    http://edinburghnews.scotsman.com/topstories/Commuters-urged-to-plan-ahead.6530122.jp

    Posted 14 years ago #

  21. Kirst
    Member

    And Ian Paisley is coming to protest that the Pope is coming.

    Posted 14 years ago #

  22. recombodna
    Member

    Woohoo 2 @******** fir the price of one!!!!

    Posted 14 years ago #

  23. kaputnik
    Moderator

    Who's protesting about Ian Paisley coming to town then? There could be an infinite loop of protests and counter protests.

    Posted 14 years ago #

  24. recombodna
    Member

    I'm gonna protest about the pope and protest about Ian Paisley protesting about the pope. neu!!

    Posted 14 years ago #

  25. ruggtomcat
    Member

    So i went for a look at this...

    arrived about 11.50, the secure bike parking (wich looked abandonded) was a row of crowd barrier type fences with a couple of fallorn looking MTBs locked to them, not an attendant in sight, and no DR bike :( And i need to get my bell tightened too.

    After that letdown i had to race the pontiff! (appologies for double posting :P )

    Posted 14 years ago #

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