I feel a bit stupid but I cannot figure out how to access waverley by bicycle. As it is, when I occasionally go there, I usually arrive from the south coming down Cockburn st, I pass through the roundabout and then arrive at a ramp. I'm forced onto the fairly narrow footpath which I have to share with pedestrians, trying to avoid them getting caught up in my pedals. I have to walk all the way to the bottom and then push my bike past the ticket office to get to the bike racks. It does not make a lot of sense and I have seen old posts about a bike path going down the ramps. Am I being dense? Is there a way to arrive on your bike?
CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Infrastructure
cycling into waverley
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Posted 5 years ago #
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The cycle access is on the north ramp, not the south. :) There's a gate with a spring when you get to the concourse.
Posted 5 years ago # -
A complete fail on Waverley station’s part that it is not obvious how to enter the station by bike
Posted 5 years ago # -
Watch out for the police van inevitably parked in the cycle lane at the bottom.
Posted 5 years ago # -
Ta - all - thanks very much. I sort of had a hunch I was being daft.
Posted 5 years ago # -
“There's a gate with a spring”
True, except that it’s an unnecessarily strong spring!
Posted 5 years ago # -
Isn't there access from Calton Rd as well?
Posted 5 years ago # -
Yes, up and down lifts too. (Access after steps, if coming from Leith St.)
Bike wheeling trough on steps.
Posted 5 years ago # -
Well, there's bike access in the sense that you can carry your bike in via Calton Road. If the same criteria were used for car access we'd not hear the end of it.
Posted 5 years ago # -
ok. i just remember seeing an opening into the station that way when i used that route last summer during the construction on Leith Street, it seemed to be on track level.
Posted 5 years ago # -
“it seemed to be on track level.”
That’s why there are lifts.
Would be nice if there was direct access to P20!...
Posted 5 years ago # -
i was trying to work out what dougal means--carry the bike in? i mean, if you're cycling to the train station, wouldn't it be better to arrive on the same level as the train you need to put the cycle on? and i wouldn't cycle inside the station, so i'm not understanding the carrying comment.
Posted 5 years ago # -
Cycled to Waverley yesterday with son in trailer. Four police vans parked in cycle lane. Plus an access crane thing parked up with bollards all around it.
The gate at the bottom needed three of us to get the bike/trailer combo through (me pushing bike, my husband physically lifting the trailer around the turns and a fortuitously-arriving stranger who kept the gate open). Could they possibly have put it in an easier place?
Posted 5 years ago # -
Need to get them to build in a wee nook somewhere on the cycle access ramp for the police van to park where it's out of the way. Hope they remember to keep a nice clear north-south path for people cutting through from the bus stops on Princes Street to the Fleshmarket Steps.
Posted 3 years ago # -
I'm planning to meet my aunt for coffee tomorrow at Waverley as she's got an hour to spend passing through. I'm planning to cycle but am I missing something about bike parking. One comes down the ramps and then do we have to push bikes to find bike racks? Is there a cycle route? I've only ever been to the station to get a train with a bike, never parked one there.
Posted 2 years ago # -
There's a map here, don't know how up to date it is:
https://www.nationalrail.co.uk/stations-and-destinations/stations-made-easy/edinburgh-station-planPosted 2 years ago # -
@Baldcyclist map looks accurate
@LivM it's pushing from the turning circle onwards
Posted 2 years ago # -
Thanks both :)
Posted 2 years ago #
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