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Monday 29th - Ride the Route

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  1. I were right about that saddle
    Member

    @algo

    It from the Chipwrapper.

    Also 'cyclists' are upsetting people, but he said this wearing a polystyrene bicycle hat.

    Posted 8 years ago #
  2. algo
    Member

    ah yes - sorry I skimmed that bit... he's extraordinarily inconsistent - my brain hurts

    Posted 8 years ago #
  3. crowriver
    Member

    "A bunch of shops which expects to get its trade from passing vehicles usually looks a bit more like this than Roseburn Terrace. "

    Well aye, except there's a widened shared use footway on Seafield Road directly opposite. Oh and B&M stores even have bike parking... :-)

    Posted 8 years ago #
  4. Min
    Member

    IWRATS "It from the Chipwrapper."

    I rather like the subversive comment at the end though.

    There is currently only around 210 metres of protected cycleway across the whole of Edinburgh. The longest continuous stretch is 140 metres on St Leonard’s Street. In contrast, miles of protected cycleways stretch across cities such as London, Bristol, Copenhagen and Amsterdam.

    Posted 8 years ago #
  5. I were right about that saddle
    Member

    @Min

    It is an astonishing figure.

    Posted 8 years ago #
  6. wingpig
    Member

    I pointed out to my councillors that Till's Bookshop hadn't closed down despite the installation of a segregated cycleway outside it.

    Posted 8 years ago #
  7. chdot
    Admin

    IF Till's shuts it's because bookshops shut (even secondhand ones).

    That crossing will probably bring them business.

    Posted 8 years ago #
  8. gibbo
    Member

    "The longest continuous stretch is 140 metres on St Leonard’s Street."

    I've been past that and never even noticed it.

    I suppose you don't look for what you never expect to find.

    Where's the other 70m?

    Posted 8 years ago #
  9. algo
    Member

    @gibbo - I imagine that refers to the bit on Buccleuch Street

    Posted 8 years ago #
  10. jonty
    Member

    This is the bit on St Leonard's: https://goo.gl/maps/nhjWCMoK7km

    And yes, you can follow it in the Meadows direction to find the bit on Buccleuch Street.

    Posted 8 years ago #
  11. kaputnik
    Moderator

    he's extraordinarily inconsistent

    The inconsistencies seem to be a hallmark of this sort of misinformation and fearmongering campaign. You don't need to be right if you can get people scared and worried.

    I don't need to reiterate any of the examples I got from the brief discussion a Roseburn trader insisted on having with me on Monday, you can guess them all and most of them contradicted themselves in the following or even same sentence (i.e. it was both simultaneously too wide and too narrow, nobody would use it but it didn't offer high enough capacity...)

    Posted 8 years ago #
  12. Rosie
    Member

    Cafe Colpamio - can recommend for a cappuccino that is like the ones you get in Italy, not Starbucks.

    Lovely wee cakes as well.

    Posted 8 years ago #
  13. LivM
    Member

    Just said to my husband... "Well if there's one good thing come out of all of this it's that Colpamia have impressed a new group of customers". If only other traders had impressed similarly!

    Posted 8 years ago #
  14. Stickman
    Member

    LivD: yes, I went back there yesterday afternoon with my wife en route to Cramond. The espresso was stellar: best I've had in Edinburgh.

    At the previous hate-fest I overheard someone say that the florists were moving round onto the main road and that Colpamio was considering extending next door. If so then I hope they put some cycle racks in as it will definitely go onto the "Cafes" thread here with high recommendation.

    Posted 8 years ago #
  15. Stickman
    Member

    Some campaigning and pressure does pay off.

    Alistair Grant of the EEN asked on Monday where to buy a second hand bike. Today he's tweeted a picture of his new bike. Small victories.

    If anyone spots him then give him a wave - he seems a nice guy.

    Posted 8 years ago #
  16. HankChief
    Member

    I always say, you get someone to make that first journey by bike AND if they have a good experience they will be hooked.

    Posted 8 years ago #
  17. Iratesheep
    Member

    The guy who runs Till's seems very pleased with the cycle way even though it's titchy.
    He likes the larger pavements and the increase in footfall.

    I suspect he'd even be happy to go on the record as a supporting voice if he were asked.

    Posted 8 years ago #
  18. daisydaisy
    Member

    Where's Tills?

    Posted 8 years ago #
  19. Klaxon
    Member

    End of the Meadows, at the very beginning of the innocent link path

    Posted 8 years ago #
  20. chdot
    Admin

  21. daisydaisy
    Member

    Tills looks lovely. I'll go in next time I'm passing.

    Posted 8 years ago #
  22. gembo
    Member

    Is it still the wee American guy that sold me a wheen of paperbacks 1987-1990?

    I think the route does bring people from the meadows to the shop for example Morningsider and I go that way after peters yard instead of Forrest road?

    Posted 8 years ago #
  23. chdot
    Admin


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