"Anyone cycling south from Charlotte Square towards Albyn Place"
Making the old downhill-so-it-must-south mistake (which gets me too I must say, especially north of George Street for some reason).
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Roseburn to Leith consultation begins (and the debate continues!) CCWEL
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Posted 2 weeks ago #
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He he cycle law need to check their details.?
I pointed this out to an old punk rocker glue sniffer I was working with once. But he insisted as he had come downhill from Wester Hailes to Muirhouse he was travelling sooth.
He was keen to pass the driving test theory part. I was less keen that this happened.
There is a very interesting monument at the bottom to the daughter of Scotland’s first statistician. Catherine Sinclair is the daughter, sir John Sinclair the statistician .A portrait by Raeburn of the dad hangs in portrait museum where he wears an enormous sporran over some tartan trews. Now this you don’t see very often.
Let’s hope these bollards on either side develop into an actual route. Catherine Sinclair was good at getting things done and installed drinking fountains across Edinburgh and benches to sit on. Also funded the Scott Monument. Wrote children’s books. Her sister and niece also writers. Bit religious.
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Someone has posted a video on twitter - direct video link:
Suppose if you are following the red cycle lane from Princes Street then you might think it is but having to squeeze through perpendicular defenders/wands should be a bit of a clue that it's not a cycle track...
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Very poor design - if you cordon off a space at the edge of a carriageway using cycle lane defenders then people will think it is a cycle lane.
I appreciate there are perpendicular defenders, but what Edinburgh cyclist couldn't imagine them being put there for whatever reason, possibly to stop folk parking/driving down the lane. A similar set up on Morningside Road (now several years old) has always had pedestrian symbols painted on the road - and I still see plenty of people cycling up it.
Posted 2 weeks ago # -
That it isn't a cycle track but just deliberate dead space to help justify splurging £30m on a George St design (without cycle lanes) is absolutely peak Edinburgh
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An unusual source…
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-04-19/edinburgh-s-unlikely-embrace-of-bike-lanes
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Response to concerns about queues on Roseburn Street / Russell Rd.
‘We have carried out queue length and vehicle turning counts at this junction in January 2024, and the result of this exercise have been compared against similar counts carried out in November 2018 as well as the Traffic Modelling exercise conducted in 2016 as part of the project’s initial consideration. The results of this exercise are detailed in the attached document.
Highlights:
Traffic modelling predicted increased queueing and journey times on Roseburn Street and Russell Road and this was reported to TEC during 2016. However, officers advised that in practice it was likely that traffic volumes on these streets would reduce as motorists chose to use other routes or modes for their journeys, resulting in more modest increases to journey time and queue lengths. Detailed designs were undertaken on this basis and have now been implemented.
Between 2018 and 2024 traffic volumes on Roseburn Street and Russell Road have reduced considerably. Peak hour northbound traffic on Roseburn Street has reduced by 57% in the morning peak and 66% in the evening peak. Peak hour northbound traffic on Russell Road has reduced by 40% in the morning and 34% in the evening.
Across this period maximum queue lengths on Roseburn Street have increased from 20 vehicles to 25 vehicles and average queue lengths during the busiest period (5pm-6:30pm) have increased from 10.8 vehicles to 16.8 vehicles.
Maximum queue lengths on Russell Road have decreased from 32 vehicles to 28 vehicles, but average queue lengths during the busiest period (5pm – 6:30pm) have increased from 10 vehicles to 23.3 vehicles.
This is in line with expectations – ie: the reduced capacity results in motorists re-routing, shifting mode, or opting not to travel, meaning there is reduced traffic volumes.
It is possible that any alterations to increase northbound capacity at this junction may result in increased traffic volume, which could result in little to no improvement to queue lengths. As such, no alterations are proposed. The junction is considered to be performing as intended.’Posted 1 week ago # -
How do we square reduced volumes with longer queues?
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Blocking the Roseburn Gds 'rat run' and including an 'all stop' phase in the lights to allow pedestrian crossings in all directions at Tescos
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Traffic evaporation working exactly as it should...
Build the city for the traffic you want, not the traffic that's already there
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@Murun Buchstansangar: Pity that the article starts with a photo captioned:
New cycling infrastructure slices through the narrow streets of grand terraces in Edinburgh.
The photo is of Melville Street, which the measuring tool in Google Maps indicates is about 25m wide! Which is probably how it is able to accommodate, in addition to the the cycle lane, two lanes for traffic, with parking spaces on each side, and two pretty generous pavements. This is what is used to look like before CCWEL.
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City Centre West East Link
Hear from Henry Whaley, Chair of the Roseburn Route Support Group who will explain how the campaign for the City Centre West East Link was run.
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https://www.edinburghmuseums.org.uk/whats-on/pedal-cycle-campaigning-edinburgh
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That Bloomberg UK News article upthread UK has an interesting take on this success D’Estime
If this 2 mile $29m segregated cycle route can happen in fuddy duddy old Edinburgh, it can happen ANYWHERE.
I SALUTE HANKCHIEF and Big Rurigdh for making this happen against all odds.
Posted 6 days ago # -
I got a taxi the other night and we were driving along Roseburn Street. The taxi driver made to turn along Roseburn Place, evidently wanting to rat run through Roseburn Gardens. I told him you can't do that. He said one day Edinburgh will be all cycle lanes. I said that would be lovely. He indicated that that would hurt taxis. I said people would still use taxis. He said taxis can't access. I said you can access, you just can't drive through it.
Conversation then languished.
Posted 4 days ago # -
Conversations like that put me off getting taxis.
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