CityCyclingEdinburgh was launched on the 27th of October 2009 as "an experiment".
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I see the council is pushing the "Quiet Routes" again on social media and various posters in obscure places around town as part of their walk / cycle campaign.
Or, encouraging people to take long, circuitous and often impractical routes to keep them off the direct, arterial routes that actually go in a relatively straight line to their destinations.
My thoughts;
Quiet Routes by andy a, on Flickr
I took a route the other day, which I had taken once before (still used a post-it map from helpful colleague). Basically a quiet rat run with hugely wide streets up from Broughton High School to Ravelston Dykes it was both a quiet route and direct, one bad right turn then take your chances on the new rough road that is R Dykes and down to saughtonhall. However all worked out so well I took tram route out to Bankhead and then canal and heriot watt. Now this was more meandering but a mighty powerful head wind
So I can see all sides to this debate but prefer the Magnificent Octopus poster over the cooncil one.
After spotting the chat about the Roslin - Gilmerton path on here the other day I thought I'd check it out on an extended commute home. It was brilliant until it turned into the Quiet Route 61 where it literally took me round the houses at Gilmerton, then suggested I venture through Niddrie where I promptly got lost in Bandit Country as a few of the blue signs were turned in the wrong direction. It was Quite a Route.
Bandit Country, eh? Scary.
I knew there was something wrong with this sign - never looked at it closely enough to see that some wag has indeed turned it through 180°.
'Bandit Country' may be a bit of a melodramatic description, but I did see a burnt out car. An Australian friend once had a pomegranate thrown at him while cycling through that part of the world. Luckily he was wearing a helmet although the seeds were a pain to remove.
An Australian friend once had a pomegranate thrown at him
There is a deep and multi-layered joke lurking in there somewhere....
That sounds affy posh. When people start pelting you with kale and goji berries, you know the cause is lost.
I sympathise, and I'd love safe direct routes - although in my case my route to work (along "Quiet Route 6" I think, aka Lauder Road) is almost as direct and hugely nicer than the far narrower and busier main road ("Quality Bike Improvement Corridor" aka Causewayside).
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