CityCyclingEdinburgh was launched on the 27th of October 2009 as "an experiment".
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I had to go to Lauriston Place for a medical appointment at 9am yesterday. Normally I cycle to Haymarket just after 7:30am and I see cyclists.
HOW MANY CYCLISTS did I see yesterday??!! Lots. A group of us going up Henderson Terrace, and then when I got to the King's Theatre junction there were 5 bikes in the ASL with a blue car behind them, so I joined another cyclist behind the blue car and by the time we moved off there were 5 bikes there too.
I was away last week but feel like I have returned to find a noticeable increase in the number of cyclists crossing the Meadows in the morning, on the towpath, primarily in the mornings as well, and locking at the relatively new bike shed at work which was overflowing this morning for the first time. I had to lock mine to the one clear strut.
Semester started a few weeks ago, but there's been a noticeable increase in the number of bikes parked at KB this week compared to last week.
I was the fifth of five cyclists heading south on Leith Walk up the cycle lane as far as Macdonald Road this morning. I briefly pondered not doing so as the road was so relatively quiet. There was a bit of pearl-clutching on the I Love Leith FB page last week, so four people will probably warrant an "it's like the Tour de France" from whoever it was said that about Seafield Road. threefromleith engaged with the thread at one point, which stemmed from someone being asked why they weren't using the cycle path on Links Gardens.
At 0725 this morning I saw more bikes (five, including me) on Myreside Road than cars (four) in the time I was on it.
Maybe not commuters and cyclists being a minority blah blah blah....
Waiting for a lift this morning in Dalry I counted 27 bikes in the 15 minutes or so I waited just after 08:00.
Coming back from a short holiday break down the A9 / M90 I was amazed at the number of vehicles with bike racks on the back / roof - At one point I reckon it was at least 25%....
I was on the canal almost from the basin out as far as Lanark road on my way to nursery pick up today and there were basically no cyclists. It was eerie! My memories of commuting along it are rammed with cyclists even in winter
@Dave - Yesterday had a bad forecast yet I did four journeys on bike and two on foot and remained dry.
I am seeing lots more groups of young riders. Not uncommon now to see four riders going somewhere by bike.
I followed a pose up MMW and onto Forest Road - late teens I reckon using SfP then going up both isdes of traffic queue at hotel works on George IV Bridge. Lights were green so they got through ok.
At 9.30pm coming back from Summerhall say four women on road bikes with good lights coming onto Meadows. Looked like they had been out of city and just splitting to go home. Also saw around another 10 bikes and not tall deliveroo. Most had decent lights.
On the canal bridge at Viewforth I often see families in large groups coming down from Bruntsfield. The bike count varies a lot it seems but younger riders are noticeable now. Many ride pavements of course as been brought up to fear traffic. Maybe another reason why e-scooters are a thing.
Using my cargo bike to take a donated bike from Morningside to the Bike Station this morning I encountered many people on bikes, but notably: an Urban Arrow (I think) with a full rain cover and a Circe Helios (both on Grange Road), a Tern GSD with two kids on board on Canaan Lane, a trailer with a child in on Woodburn Terrace and a box trike with two children in on Balcarres Street (this last one being part of a bike minibus that looked like it was in its way back from football).
I know this was a ride through a leafy part of South Edinburgh, and I know that several of these bikes cost as much as a car, but still, there's reason for optimism.
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In some parts of Europe, a quarter of all journeys are made by bike. In Britain the figure is 2%. Can anything persuade us to leave our cars and get pedalling? Perhaps the unlikeliest of towns - Darlington - holds the key. Matt Seaton reports
It's a damp, chilly day in Darlington. Oli Lougheed assures me, a softy southerner up from London for the day, that it's not usually like this. Here, on the eastern side of the Pennines, he says, it may be cold in winter, but it's normally clear and dry. Lougheed is not, in fact, from the local Tourist Board, but he does work for Darlington. He is the town's cycling officer, and today he is showing me how the town is making itself more cycle-friendly. Which explains his anxiety about the grim weather: as we make our way from the station to the town centre, there are not many cyclists in evidence.
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2006/jan/09/transport.lifeandhealth
Purely anecdotal, but noticing in the last few months I am coming across more cyclists from Queen's Drive in Holyrood Park onto London Road and out east to Portobello Road at evening rush hour. Assume most of them are commuting. Up until a month or two ago I would only occasionally see fellow-cyclists. Now often have to share the ASL at Jock's Lodge. I hope the trend keeps going.
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I agree with most of what Jonathan Liew says (UK cycling boom was not here to stay and lack of institutional will could keep it away, 6 February). However, his article doesn’t seem to entirely separate the sport of cycling from the activity.
I have been a cycle ride leader and cycle trainer since 2009 – a few years before the boom times. I was put off the racing side in the early 1980s when I found that cycling clubs were really just golf clubs on wheels. The “Rapha cafe bore” equates to 1980s golf bore. I loved riding the velodrome in Glasgow, pre-pandemic, until I rediscovered the golf club mentality of the 80s. I have never returned.
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