CityCyclingEdinburgh was launched on the 27th of October 2009 as "an experiment".
IT’S TRUE!
CCE is 15years old!
Well done to ALL posters
It soon became useful and entertaining. There are regular posters, people who add useful info occasionally and plenty more who drop by to watch. That's fine. If you want to add news/comments it's easy to register and become a member.
RULES No personal insults. No swearing.
"Cycling Safely near the Tramway"
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Warning; may contain images of CCE members.
"If do you have a crash when negotiating the rails please report it to 0800 328 3934 or info@edinburghtrams.com as a record is being kept of these incidents."
http://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/info/385/cycling_in_edinburgh/542/cycling/4
Warning; may contain images of CCE members.
Colin... how could you? ;-)
Warning; Also contains a picture of an Edinburgh tram moving! (on test track in Spain I think)
an Edinburgh tram moving!
barely! I hope they're a bit more sprightly when loaded with 200 eager punters.
That is quite obviously CGI, we all know these are just fibre glass mock-ups even the so called test vehicles in Spain!
Council Generated I....?
Intelligence
Bluddy cyclists blocking the pavements!
I nearly came a cropper the other day when turning right from Princes St into Waverley Bridge, having cruised between the tracks for most of the length of the street. That was probably my mistake, because although it was bone dry, I crossed the rails at just too shallow an angle and my front wheel bumped across, hesitated, then bumped back into the groove before being made to go where I wanted it.
Fortunately my ninja cycling skillz saved the day, but it was a close run thing.
In the many times I've cycled over the tram tracks on the Croydon Tramlink, I've only once come off when I crossed them at the wrong angle when trying to get through a set of lights whilst still green.
As with any cycling, you just need to be careful with how you do it.
"I've only once come off when I crossed them at the wrong angle"
That's the way to do it.
BUT
There's a case in today's ENews where someone came off after apparently being 'forced' into the tracks at effectively no angle - so that's perhaps an issue for the actual road layout/markings.
http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1483#post-14066
Don't know if Croydon has anything to teach Edinburgh(?)
Heh it was a different point on that junction that I came off:
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Croydon,+United+Kingdom&sll=35.817813,-97.558594&sspn=36.514115,75.849609&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Croydon,+Greater+London,+United+Kingdom&t=h&layer=c&cbll=51.379523,-0.100689&panoid=WWjYxRKKD5rGSo9efkh30g&cbp=12,43.11,,2,6.98&ll=51.379549,-0.100572&spn=0.008451,0.022724&z=16
Not being involved in the Croydon area much, I've not dealt with any cycling issues related to the tram.
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