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Stephen Stormonth (@stormie67)
03/02/2017, 1:46 pm
As a car driver, there is very noticeable increase in cyclists on the road since the New Year. Good to see.
https://twitter.com/cyclingedin/status/827448948507959296
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CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Commuting
More of 'us' ?
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Posted 7 years ago #
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I don't do regular trips and am not usually out at morning rushhour time, but the last few days there just seem to be more people using bikes - even yesterday in the wind.
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Noticed that the other day at Fountainbridge/Gardener Crescent junction. More cyclists than cars.
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big gang of us going round semple street. Cars having to back off this morning
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Yep, now regularly part of a chain of 6 or 7 heading along West Coates - same in other direction and both morning and evening rush hour.
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I noticed definitely a lot more commuting ladies in the past 2 weeks.
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Come to think of it as the canal is blocked, I'd guess my Fountainbridge stream had been diverted.
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7 cyclists waiting at the temporary traffic lights at the Dalry/Gorgie Roads junction last night. Well 6 waited and the last one there went through the red :-(
Only 2 were not wearing helmets - me and the red light runner...Posted 7 years ago # -
Hmmm...
Someone has parked in 'my' 'big bike' parking space at work with just a tandem.
The cheek of it. Maybe we should have a middling sized bike space as well...
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There was a humorous tangle of improbable bikes in the office today. The 'big bike' space was occupied by a tandem, then someone seem to have abandoned a monster contraption of Circe Helios, trailer and trailer-mounted bike next to it in a rather pointed way. :-)
I confirmed with the owner of the tandem that it weighed less than my Elephant Bike.
When doing my regular count of bikes in the bike park at lunch time, I counted the bike on the trailer as 'one' and the Helios as 'another'. 134 bikes in the bike store today.
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"I counted the bike on the trailer as 'one' and the Helios as 'another'."
I thought the point of the count was to determine the number of people cycling to work.
134 only stands if the tandem brought two people to work there.
(How does figure compare with last year?)
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Figure up on last year by some margin. We've actually got more people riding in at the moment that came in at the peak of summer a couple of years ago. We also celebrated the 1,000th person to join the work BUG today.
However, there are a certain number of things that I brush under the carpet when quoting these numbers:
1) There are more people working here now than there were last year, by a considerable margin.
2) While 1,000 people have joined, some have also left. We actually have 687 active members in the BUG right now.I've never claimed the count of bikes was anything other than a count of bikes, so feel legitimate in claiming the bike on the trailer as 'one', as it was definitely in the bike store at lunchtime today, and that's my sole criterion for it being in the count. :-)
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in a rather pointed way
I thought it was in a rather neat way to still get into the space but leave access for other bikes. I wouldn't have fancied my chances of finding a better spot.
Thankfully the (just a) tandem is not a frequent visitor to the big bike space, although I was talking to a potential cyclo-commuter last week who whether there was space for him to park his trailer.
All good stuff :-)
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Eight other cycles heading east along Princes Street this hometime.
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For idle amusement, I sometimes count the number of bikes I see being ridden whilst I'm on my way to work (from Currie to the High Street via canal and Meadows). The highest numbers - no great revelation - seem to be on sunny summer evenings before the universities finish. Highest was about 170.
My methodology is not very scientific - the longer I get stopped at lights the more bikes I can count passing...and I sometimes lose count.
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@Aken I often count the number of bikes that come past me on canal towpath between Hermiston and aqueduct in the morning. Most common is zero, next most common is 1 (boy that comes in from Linlithgow wears bandana and is shifting). I am not fast there is just nobody going that way. Plenty going out the way.
Numbers coming past me pick up after the aqueduct for sure. Ironically as there is room to speed west of the aqueduct but east of the aqueduct is the time to take it easy.
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In my 7 minutes or so on the towpath from East Harrison Park to the turn off just past the cycle counter I counted 14 cyclists this morning. More cyclists than pedestrians.
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NEPN between Roseburn and Leith was fair hoaching with cyclists on Tuesday when I was coming home from work.
Lots of kids out with their families on bikes since the schools are on holiday.
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A few days ago I was walking through George V Park and saw a man looking in my general direction yelling "brakes! brakes!" I turned around to see a toddler presumably doing his first bit of solo (rush hour!) cycling a bit behind me. I grinned and he did the real-life equivalent of ":-/" back at me.
One more of 'us!'
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Published on our intranet BUG discussion forum at work today...
"This morning, for the first time since I started working at [this office] back in 2005, I put all excuses out of my head and finally cycled to work. You could really feel the energy in the changing room when I arrived."
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"finally cycled to work"
Well it is http://cyclefridays.wordpress.com
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I passed 18 cyclists between Pinkhill and the entrance to Roseburn Park this morning.
For the past few days there have been at least 8 in the ASZ on West Maitland Street.
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I never used to see any other cyclists going the same way as me on my "long commute" to Livingston - not even in Edinburgh (plenty going the other way). Yesterday I was passed (the horror ;-) ) by two! There are more cyclists in Livingston too: I was passed by a speedy women in West Lothian Clarion kit.
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Loads of cyclists seen going upstream on the path between M'burgh and Whitecraig on my commute this am in the opposite direction. Where are they going?
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My colleague just tapped me on the shoulder and excitedly told me he cycled to work today from South Gyle. He used the quiet back roads and paths to get to Haymarket, where he locked his bike up and walked the rest of the way. He wasn't confident to get through the junction - I don't blame him.
He usually takes the tram but cycling was quicker.
He really enjoyed it and is working out if he needs anything to cope with cold/wet weather. I told him that his hill walking gear is plenty!
Nearly reached a majority of my team cycling!
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"He usually takes the tram but cycling was quicker"
Presume he doesn't live that close to the tram stop.
Maybe point him to
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Yeah, it's about a 10 minute walk for him.
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"More of 'us' ?"
Yes.
And, importantly (I think) more sorts of people (that's not in any sense meant to be judgemental!).
This was was taken yesterday at the top of Marchmont Road on the way to PY.
On the diagonally opposite side of the crossing was another woman with a younger child, both on bikes.
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Did the Mud Road route today - sharp left before auchengray really gets started, no mud and 500m of new Tarmac up to the railway bridge. Round to wilsontown up to Braehead and down to Carnwath.
The apple pie had two separate couples who had been out cycling , then me and my pal Tom. As we were leaving two women cyclists were coming in. We had also spotted to women up early returning as we were going out.
Moira came into the apple pie - she is in fact always there (a local person who is now retired though used to car pool to her work n George st) she had ear muffs on for the winter wind but ordered the Scottish summer delicacy a strawberry tart. It had a massive strawberry. We tarried to see how she would cope and she made us wait whilst talking to the couple from fauldhouse. She then went for a big bite off the top. Went well, but I made her laugh so she made a dog's breakfast of the rest of it.
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Whilst openly enjoying a cake in a Corstorphine cafe yesterday dressed as a cyclist (prominent pannier & fingerless gloves), in walk 5 female cyclists dressed in various bright pastel colours & outside were 2 short haired, skinny jeaned, leather jacketted lads locking uo thier bikes.
It all felt very different (in a good way) and I commented as such on twitter - which Frank then retweeted...
Times, they are a changing...
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