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New Spokes leaflet on cycle campaigning (may contain CCEers)
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Posted 4 years ago #
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Seems very heavy with CCE people and other people I also know. Also looks less cluttered. Content as interesting as ever.
Well done Spokes for this newsletter and maintaining their record of helping cyclists for decades.
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"Braidburn Terrace will become one-way for motorists" at flippin' last! Why did it take Spokes/Sustrans involvement to make this happen? It's been a horrible, pointless rat-run for years: basically a single lane road due to all the parked cars*.
Which way is it going to be one-way for motor vehicles? I assume eastbound, as part of the "safer cycle link from Braidburn Park to The Hermitage" so that people on bikes won't have to deal with motor vehicles trying to bully their way through westbound, and eastbound motor vehicles will jolly well just have to be patient.
* Not long ago I experienced a road rage incident on Braidburn Terrace when myself and a motorist coming the other way got in to a bit of an 'after you Claud. No, after you Cecil,' muddle trying to negotiate numerous parked cars on opposite sides of the road. The driver behind me became very irate at this momentary delay and began gesticulating wildly. I think he had initially become frustrated at having to follow me at no more than a strict 20mph along Hermitage Drive. As we waited for the green light at Comiston Road he wound his window down and began haranguing me - not that I could hear him, since my own windows were closed. He then ostentatiously got out his mobile phone (illegally) and photographed me. When the lights changed I continued straight across on to Greenbank Crescent (the only reason I had gone down Braidburn Terrace in the first place - normally I avoid it like the plague) and he disappeared up Comiston Road at a rate which suggested that his pants might actually be on fire. I made a note of his number plate and checked it on the DVLA web site when I got home: not taxed, no MoT. Felt that warm schadenfeude glow when I dobbed him in to 101...
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I'd assume it'll be eastbound since they won't then need to change the traffic lights. Being ambitious they could fill in the slip road there at the same time and put a Just Eat dock down.
Posted 4 years ago # -
slip road
Almost every day I used to ride up Braid Road and turn right onto Braidburn Terrace, and I was either riding with my eyes closed or I've had a brain failure because I absolutely cannot remember that little turny left lane.
Mind you, ever since they resurfaced Comiston Road, from Morningside clock up to Greenbank, I haven't used Braid Road more than a couple of times. They'll need to resurface Comiston Road again because those bus stops southbound are looking like they were hit by anti-runway penetration weapons.
Posted 4 years ago # -
They ought to put a second set of one-ways at Braid Ave and Midmar Ave in the opposite direction, to stop-up the rat-run in the other direction...
Posted 4 years ago # -
TRO/RSO for the one way on Braidburn Terrace is up: https://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/downloads/download/14394/tro1950---one-way---braid-crescent-and-braidburn-terrace / https://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/downloads/download/14395/rso2001---redetermination---braidburn-area
It'll be one-way eastbound with contraflow cycling, shared use at the lights with a new build-out. New speed-cushions and a new crossing on Braid Road too.
They're also actually doing what I mentioned up thread and are filling in the sliproad - the mini-roundabout is getting changed to a give way with priority to Braid Road.
Posted 4 years ago # -
I missed when this was posted first - thanks for the Overlander link!
Yes, agree that the leaflet is more readable than before. Still needs to double the whitespace at least and get a good hard edit in on the text.
That Sheriffhall line-up at the parliament made me smile as I have encountered all three IRL and very much trust they hit all the nails on the head.
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Re: Braidburn Terrace, etc.
If I am reading the plans correctly, it looks as though only the to-be-constructed areas will be 'redetermined' as cycle track, and not the existing adjacent sections of the existing footways, which would leave people cycling restricted to a narrow sliver (particularly adjacent to Braid Road) rather than having the full width available as shared use?
Shurely shome mishtake?
This would probably not be an issue in practice, but in theory/legality it would be (and we certainly couldn't be doing any illegal activities…)?
Should the whole widths of the existing footways not also be being redetermined at the same time (being 'footways' rather than 'footpaths' it is presumably not legal to cycle on them)?
Posted 4 years ago # -
@davecykl The TRO plan shows the pavement on the west of Braidburn Terrace as being a 'Shared facility' so it might well be a mistake. Perhaps the pavements there have already been re-determined at some point?
https://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/downloads/file/26954/braidburn-terrace-planPosted 4 years ago #
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