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Cycling in Seville

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  • Started 7 years ago by sallyhinch
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  1. sallyhinch
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    So as a reward for the last few weeks/months/years of flat out cycle campaigning a few of us are planning a weekend in Seville after the election.

    Part of the excuse for the trip is to experience Seville's famed transformation for ourselves but, as with our Amsterdam trip, we won't be exclusively measuring kerbs or intensively looking at infrastructure. We will want to get on bikes and experience it for ourselves. If we also find out how useful bikes are for partaking of the local nightlife and/or touristing and cake-eating opportunities then that would be grand. We will be quite demob happy after POP and Walk Cycle Vote but I have promised to write a blog for the Cycling Embassy so we will have to pay a bit of attention to the infrastructure

    Has anyone visited Seville & cycled there and have they any advice both on the cycling and the nightlife/touristing/cake eating aspects? Should we arrange to rent bikes or just rely on the bike hire? How easy is it to navigate and/or find the cycling infrastructure? And is there anything we really shouldn't miss?

    Posted 7 years ago #

  2. sallyhinch
    Member

    My take on Seville - https://www.cycling-embassy.org.uk/blog/2017/05/12/cycling-in-seville-never-mind-the-width-feel-the-network - and another take here https://storify.com/ereather/five-go-mad-in-seville

    highly recommended for a cycling holiday (indeed any holiday) but if you struggle when temperatures top 30C, pick April rather than May

    Posted 7 years ago #

  3. Kim
    Member

    I think you have just answered the question about "has anyone visited Seville & cycled there".

    Your social media output showed your struggles to find a decent cup of tea and how you had to go native and drink sangria instead... Must have been a great hardship ;-)

    Posted 7 years ago #

  4. sallyhinch
    Member

    ah, the tea picture was a bit of a joke - the Spanish did reasonable tea apparently. The main thing is they don't mess around turning oranges into marmalade but make wine out of them instead, a vast improvement

    Posted 7 years ago #

  5. Rosie
    Member

    Interesting read. Slightly crappy paths that connect are better than occasional good paths that don't connect.

    Posted 7 years ago #

  6. rbrtwtmn
    Member

    Thanks Sally - useful reading, helpful assessment.

    Posted 7 years ago #

  7. Frenchy
    Member

    Interesting read. Slightly crappy paths that connect are better than occasional good paths that don't connect.

    This seems like the right way to do it, if you have to choose between "quality surface" and "connectivity". Get people using them, and the demand for superior quality will come.

    Not that I'm suggesting we don't do both!

    Posted 7 years ago #

  8. sallyhinch
    Member

    More on Seville, from a Scot living in the city http://jacwab.blogspot.co.uk/2017/05/seville-dense-and-consistent-cycling.html (who may have had a bit of a nudge from me during our visit to do some more blogging ...)

    Posted 7 years ago #

  9. Tulyar
    Member

    ISTR that Seville had a very large bikeshare operation, when OBIS report was being written in 2009-10 with various tariffs to suit local commuters and visitors.

    Many years ago the Expo in Seville used avenues of trees between the pavillions, watered at night, to cool down the air during the day, in place of air conditioned enclosed walkways

    Posted 7 years ago #

  10. Stickman
    Member

    https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/opinion/john-mclellan-even-in-seville-you-can-t-escape-edinburgh-politics-1-4726265

    I wonder if Cllr MacLennan noticed the cycling infrastructure or was he blinded by the tram?

    Posted 6 years ago #

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