CityCyclingEdinburgh was launched on the 27th of October 2009 as "an experiment".
IT’S TRUE!
CCE is 16years old!
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Well my complaint was a blanket report of the WoL walkway being ungritted along with the canal towpath and access paths ;-)
I don't see why you can't say "X Road between point a and B, multiple potholes creating a serious risk of injury to cyclists" or similar, then if someone is hurt they've been told and have to prove they couldn't have done anything as opposed to didn't know??
Anyone done the porty-> innocent railway path today? Going to take the Significant Other on a snow romp in the Hermitage :)
I passed it coming down Duddingston Park. AS the Holyrood Park was closed I had intended to cut up that way, gentleman on MTB with super-knobblies was coming out and advised me not to be as foolhardy as take the road bike that way, said he had been constantly on the verge of falling over, it was slushy, slow going and very hard work. Looked like he knew what he was about so I took his advice and pushed on up towards Cameron Toll, Dalkeith Road and home.
woo the internet wins again, thanks 'nik :)
I mean boo Im writing a complaint
Innocent is beginning to melt for those interested. There were some clear sections and some ultra slippery sections. Folk travelling east to west were able to ride round the side but there was too much vegetation for me to do that. I should think if it stays mild it should be passable by tomorrow-tunnel to Duddingston West anyway.
The Innocent was awful yesterday as Anth said on another thread. There must have been a thaw which allowed bike tyres to leave deep furrows which froze later into tramlines. I came home through Portobello instead and had a friendly encounter with a bus driver who let me through at the pinch point on Brighton Place.
have just discovered the email address cycling@edinburgh.gov.uk on the cooncil's wonderful cycling (and walking) pages
Going to ask them how many council workers get to work by bike and if they use these paths... Can anyone say FOI?
do eeeet!!!!
I'd be surprised if they collect data on how employees travel to work, much less their routes, but could well be wrong.
@SRD - Oh I think it is a questionnaire I answered during my time at CEC... It's the kind of thing that keeps someone in a job remember...
@ruggtomcat - well I sent an email, more to see if anybody ever reads that mailbox, if nothing comes back I might FOI it later.
FOI - a fun hobby for all the family
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Ages ago everyone in my popular city-centre-based financial services company had to fill in a questionnaire describing whence and by which means they commuted, at the behest of the council (possibly due to something related to the city centre offices' justifications for their large underground car parks). There was nothing about routes (except implicitly for the likes of the staff who lived in Fife and said they commuted by train) but some time after the assessment was complete a map showing the staff's geographic distribution was released. If the council makes other large city-centre employers do this sort of thing they really ought to make themselves, as one of the largest.
The last time I filled in a voluntary return form on how I get to work (as a part-time Council employee) was at least three years ago. So there should be figures available but they will be a bit out of date.
CEC undertook at 'Staff Travel Survey' in 2008 which revealed an impressive 10.1% of respondents cycled to work.
Although I think that cyclists are more likely to respond to these types of surveys - so maybe 10.1% is an over-estimate.
They were offering incentives of the chance of winning Bike co-op vouchers so this also clearly skews the sample!
State of the cyclepaths right now.
Porty -> clerk street. No bother, the odd ridge of ice still in place but otherwise fine.
Meadows: Massive pothole next to the old east end playground, lots of rotting leaves making things greasy.
Getting from there to Haymarket, you have to be creative.
Haymarket -> South Queensferry: Atrocious, several areas of widespread sheet ice, a LOT of rotten vegetable matter, two points where the winnows from the snowplough have completely blocked the path.
Roseburn -> Ferry Road: Lovely, overgritted if anything.
Horrible potholes on cycle path (?NMW) between MMW and Buccleuch St.
The Union Canal towpath as far as Cultins Road is entirely passable, though the stretch next to Calder Crescent still has a long wide strip of ice down the middle. I picked the wrong side to go around this afternoon and discovered the evidence of post-snowfall dog walkers. :-(
The canal itself is still largely frozen, but it's floating ice now so probably not too structural.
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