I'm not sure if anyone has posted this here, but I was reading the CEoGB blog roundup and just found this. It's a blog post from someone in the Birmingham Cycling Campaign who was touring Edinburgh on a Brompton, quite a nice read! Lot's of comment on new and old infrastructure.
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Buster's Big Adventure
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Posted 8 years ago #
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Really excellent deconstruction of the city there.
Posted 8 years ago # -
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The tour guides will tell you about the way the streets were used as open sewers in the past. They still are, but now the sewerage is motor vehicles. There's not one road in the city centre that isn't used for motor traffic.
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Posted 8 years ago # -
Oh how good is this line....?
"When people cycle on the pavement that is a sure-fire indication that the infrastructure design is badly wrong. If the response to this is to put up a non-standard sign that says "No cycling on footway", that's a sure-fire indication that the council knows it's done it badly wrong but doesn't respect people enough to fix the problem"
Lots of this resonating, it's a really good piece.
Posted 8 years ago # -
Excellent piece. Always useful to have bad stuff to which we've become inured re-highlighted.
Posted 8 years ago # -
or good stuff to which we have become inured. He loves our bitmac surfaces that guy.
Posted 8 years ago # -
I particularly like the bit about Duke Street:
You might think this is an important A road. It isn't. It isn't even a B road. When a road this minor has traffic this bad a city is dangerously ill with car sickness.
What on Earth is going through the minds of people who allow this? Note the children taking advantage of the queuing traffic to cross the road. There are people trying to live in this vile, polluted environment.
Admittedly, it would have been better for Buster to go up Queen Charlotte St and hence to the Water of Leith but the point is still valid.
Posted 8 years ago # -
we used to call our middle child Buster, not sure why but it seemed to fit.
Posted 8 years ago #
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