SPOKES' take on the outlook for cycling in Edinburgh for 2018:
http://www.spokes.org.uk/2018/01/outlook-for-%F0%9F%9A%B2-in-2018-edinburgh/
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Edinburgh cycling outlook
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Posted 6 years ago #
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Very disappointed that Meadows to Canal seems to have completely slipped down the list in favour of the ‘big ones’. For the length of segregated lane it provides (yes I know there are challenges on Home Street but it’s literally like two hundred yards of segregation in total) it must surely be one of the more efficient potential projects anywhere in Edinburgh. (Yes I am selfish but I am completely out of patience with selfish drivers doing selfish stupid things in Gilmore Place and at the King’s junction.)
Posted 6 years ago # -
Cloudy with a chance of cycling.
Posted 6 years ago # -
So much for the overwhelmingly unassailable insidious cycle lobby...
Posted 6 years ago # -
South Edinburgh - the Land That Cycling Forgot.
Posted 6 years ago # -
Think the assumption is Southsiders travel Valley of the Gwangi style?
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@piosad - Yeah, that horrible dumping into Melville Drive and getting through Tollcross is a real put off for Southside to Fountainbridge and the Canal and points beyond. It's an essential link.
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@Rosie @piosad
I hate the King's Theatre junction right hand turn too and do it every other time I go to shop. I sometimes cycle up Leamington just to get away from Gilmore Place's terrible surface and the fact you always have to queue beside cars going left. Add in buses coming round and it's grade A difficulty right turn and a 'no go' for newbies.
On tours I always go into Meadows up via Bruntsfield - Montpelier is actually nicest / smoothest / least steep way but only if you are trying to add mileage and time.
In 2016 I cycled with the Dutch owners of Nazca bikes through by King's Theatre and they couldn't believe how rubbish it was in comparison with the Meadows paths. 'Such a short distance to put right!'.Posted 6 years ago # -
'Such a short distance to put right!'.
Fourthed re: Kings. Urgh!
Posted 6 years ago # -
@LaidBack
I work in Fountainbridge. I go Canal, Lochrin Place and do the right turn from there, sometimes walking to the pedestrian crossing. Kings is a nightmare - never clear when you have right of way. How that can be part of an NCN!Posted 6 years ago # -
I just negotiated the King's Theatre Junction on my usual commute home. I didn't enjoy it, but it was ok today.
Posted 6 years ago # -
@Rosie
I've used that route too. Off peak you can sometimes get round on right hand but always a lottery. I use that Lochrin cut through the other way and now canal has been re-paved it's even better.
All in all though this area is a barrier to cycling and needs road space re-allocated.
We only have to see the 'inventive' routes on other thread 'Ravelston Dykes to Holyrood' to prove this.Leamington is part of John Muir Way - they couldn't risk putting it through that junction :-)
Posted 6 years ago # -
@jdanielp it’s the last day of the school holidays. I expect it to be back to its usual self very shortly.
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@piosad I did wonder, but that explains quite a lot.
Posted 6 years ago # -
There was a massive queue of traffic attempting to travel east-bound on Gilmore Place this morning. Luckily there were only cyclists turning right in front of me as I headed across from Tarvit Street so it wasn't bad.
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