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Posted 7 years ago #
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There's a sentence in one of Bike Snob's books along the lines of cycling-enthusiasm involving "doing something normal that other people do but wearing $100 pants and talking about it constantly" which walking as a basic means of moving around lacks - you'd need to head into speedwalking or hiking or running to get the same sort of stuff-options as even light utility cycling.
Posted 7 years ago # -
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FOR most, taking in the Edinburgh sights involves a trip on an open-top bus or a stroll through the city’s cobbled streets and airy gardens.
One energetic Australian at this year’s Fringe has different ideas.
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Posted 7 years ago # -
I find an awful lot of people at this time of year walk in front of traffic at the top of St Mary's Street wearing sandals and the like. These suicidal types reduce for a week or so after the festival but pick up again when studes return. The red man is on but the itch to cross is strong. What can the council do yo prevent this?
Also walking with headphones on is deadly
Posted 7 years ago # -
We ended up behind one of those headphone tours last weekend. A silent disco is less silent when most of its participants are inebriated antisocial oaves who are humming/singing along loudly to the music whilst blocking the entire footway on both sides of the street.
Posted 7 years ago # -
"energetic Australian" - certainly an inventive way around CCE Rule 2.
Posted 7 years ago # -
Mrs LB took part in one of these 'silent' events. She complains about the festival goers taking up pavement space too :-)
Not her idea of course. Between that and Hare Krishna the pavements and bike/bus lanes become overspill. The latter gave my green recliner a blessing though. They also took on the Segovia guitar shredder on Lawnmarket and won!
If city was pedestrianised then a democrstic allocation of space could return.
City is a crazy place this time of the year.Posted 7 years ago # -
Zebra crossings are probably the only 100% method for stopping pedestrians crossing when they
shouldn'tdon't have priority.Posted 7 years ago # -
Was at the top of the Royal Mile yesterday to check the last of the Edinburgh Art Festival special commissions. Cycling up Johnston Terrace a relative pleasure. However the Lawnmarket was just mad. Tourists drifting aimlessly across the mini-roundabout in large numbers, mostly staring at phones or gazing up at the Dutch gable ends. In a way it was quite nice, as any vehicles (including me on the bike) had to slow to a crawl to make headway. I drew the line at the High Street throng however and took the Mound and Market Street with general traffic to get to Trinity Apse. Unpleasant, congested and smelly fumes but the High Street is impossible this time of year: I avoid it even as a pedestrian, unless I really want to see fire eating jugglers and be flyered into submission.
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