The blustery weather today reminded me that McDonald Road could take some beating in a "windiest road in Edinburgh" contest - any other contenders out there?
I have, obviously, no scientific data of any sorts...
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Windiest road in Edinburgh?
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Posted 7 years ago #
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I would agree -cross wind in McDonald rd is very bad. Although not a road as such cramond by silverknowes esplanade when cycling from the cramond tower gets me.
Posted 7 years ago # -
There is a side street at the top of kingsknowe onto the Lanark road that the wind howls down blowing the unsuspecting cyclist from slow lane to fast lane.
Posted 7 years ago # -
Fountain Bridge, before they started rebuilding, when you turn the corner from Gardners Cresent, by the time you got rolling the wind would try to blow you all directions.
Posted 7 years ago # -
Broomhouse Drive. Not only is it angled along the prevailing wind, but there's basically nothing to act as a wind break along the entire length; the winds whistling off the blasted steppes of West Lothian have nothing to stop them on their route east.
Posted 7 years ago # -
Duddingston Low Road. No matter which direction the wind is blowing in the rest of the city, it's always in your face if you're cycling up from Duddingston.
It's so windy that there are downhill sections of that road where I can't even get up to 10mph.
Posted 7 years ago # -
+1 for Broomhouse.
Nearly got blown into a parked car on Dublin Street yesterday because I was going so slowly uphill as I passed a sidestreet wind-funnel.
Posted 7 years ago # -
+2 for Broomhouse! (and I'd like to extend the length of it as the 'windiest road' all the way up Bankhead to Ed Park Station & Tram Stop)
Posted 7 years ago # -
@gibbo
That's Windy Gowl.
Posted 7 years ago # -
+ 3 for Broomhouse. It has all the appeal of cycling in some brutalist Soviet housing scheme on the outskirts of Krasnoyarsk.
Posted 7 years ago # -
I remember cycling to Heriot Watt along Broomhouse Drive on a super windy day and being stopped in my tracks by its force. Absolutely brutal.
I'd give Dalry Road a runner up prize. When I used to kick about there my nickname for it was the Wind Tunnel.
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