managed to get from the lights on Princes St / the right turn to Waverley, down Leith St, through the Picardry mincer, across the London Rd RA and down as far as Jane St before I had a red light.
its really quick if there's no lights.
CityCyclingEdinburgh was launched on the 27th of October 2009 as "an experiment".
IT’S TRUE!
CCE is 15years old!
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managed to get from the lights on Princes St / the right turn to Waverley, down Leith St, through the Picardry mincer, across the London Rd RA and down as far as Jane St before I had a red light.
its really quick if there's no lights.
I got all greens up Dundas Street the other day. I did not feel amazing.
I've done my commute to work approximately 1,350 times now. Out of all of these there is only 1 occasion that I have managed to complete the full journey to the office without needing to stop!
It's never happened on the return journey.
Imagine a city centre where the traffic has been reduced to the point where traffic lights are no longer necessary.
Just imagine...
Amsterdam started taking them back out. It's a very big thing (I spoke to some of those involved). The media have kind of presented it as a radical experiment (and some experiment is involved) but actually it's them undoing a system which has broken down - looking for a way forward where cycling is the mainstay (and the lights are silly for that in many many places, and are thus disregarded in those locations), and where people driving are given back trust (guided by an excellent system of rules and designs).
Possibly old news for some here (it is old news, I heard about it at Velo-City 2001), but Odense, DK, introduced a "green wave" for cyclists where the traffic signals were instead timed to be green for cycling speed, rather than for motor vehicle speed. Green light posts were added alongside the cycleway: if you kept at the same speed as the 'flow' of these lights, you would get a green light at the junction when you arrived.
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