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"Car-Free Tourism: The best of Scotland without a car"
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Posted 9 years ago #
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The website is a great concept, and there is a lot of work gone into it.. Unfortunately it suffers with a lot of 'unfortunately there is no quiet cycle route to tourist site x'. One day Scotland.. One day..
Posted 9 years ago # -
Last year various bits of Visit Scotland started to make interested noise about increasing "cycle tourism", and started inviting "cycle tourism" related businesses to workshops to talk about it. However, this year things have gone rather quiet.
The one thing that did come out of one of the workshops which I attended, is a plan to extend the current VisitScotland Cyclists Welcome accommodation scheme to cover cafes/restaurants and visitor attraction (see criteria here).
Posted 9 years ago # -
The Paper Mill (Bistros & Brasseries) in Lasswade, has the Cyclists Welcome award and seems to be the first food and drink place to get it.
Posted 9 years ago # -
I cycled-camped at the weekend (first time with new stove) so was interested to see what their "cyclists welcome (caravan and camping)" criteria were.
Mostly pretty sensible: ability to charge your electrodevices, dry your clothes and safe storage.
Item 4, "You should have information on public transport suitable for bicycle carriage", was deemed so important they brought it round again for Item 6.
We noticed as we passed through Bathgate the sign calling it a Cycle Network Interchange. Very grand sounding, so why do the Bathgate trains have no dedicated bike storage?
Posted 9 years ago # -
Can't see a mention on its own website -
http://www.thepapermill-lasswade.co.uk
Would be nice if it had a railway path to it -
https://www.railscot.co.uk/Esk_Valley_Railway
A job for Sustrans??
Posted 9 years ago # -
why do the Bathgate trains have no dedicated bike storage?
So that no jobsworth conductor can claim that there is only space for two bikes and the space is full. Instead, there's space for as many bikes as can courteously get on the train (which I have seen being quite a few, when two or three consecutive rush-hour trains were cancelled. Those trains were not quiet, either...)Posted 9 years ago # -
and they've used OpenStreetMap for the mapping and routing. Win!
Posted 9 years ago # -
"and they've used OpenStreetMap for the mapping and routing. Win!"
But have they used OSM for the routing?
Take Culzean Castle for example (currently linked from the main page).
The route takes you down a track that isn't even on OSM!
OSM is definitely pretty poor once you get out of the major cities.
Mind you, in this case I'm not sure the chosen route looks all that attractive - see the end of the track on Streetview.
Posted 9 years ago #
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