@gembo I'm seeing Disney+, Amazon gift cards and some ad about a free coffee. You've not been looking up ridiculously long cars again recently by any chance?
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Scottish Govmt announces £10m for pop up cycle/walking lanes
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Ad blocker dudes, ad blocker.
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Morningside Road -
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Significant west-side footway widening to aid social distancing and business queuing, with cycle lane marking to support cyclists travelling uphill.
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@bax
I use Opera. Built-in VPN and ad blocker.
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Reading the EN Alison Johnstone piece, I see their no.1 Most Read is still a 2019 opinion bit comprising various furious reader response comments to a previous non-critical bike piece. Not something I'll be funding.
On Chrome, I think uBlock Origin works better than adblock pro (or adblock plus?) as it does not seem to get stopped by sites asking for whitelisting.
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Death on a stick in Glasgow
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Hang on, is that a contraflow bike lane painted on a main road with out a kerb or something?
What utter idiot designed that and have they even seen a bike before?
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I think we'll see what little has managed to popped up, popping down in even shorter order cos CARS.
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And he urged the city to build on the measures it had already taken to encourage walking and cycling.
“Over the course of the lockdown we saw an incredible explosion in active travel and willingness and enthusiasm of people to move around Edinburgh using bikes particularly.
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Think I have said this before - if the Council want people to walk or cycle instead of taking the bus then there needs to be a network of high quality walking and cycling routes that mirror the Lothian Buses route map.
A few wand segregated routes which disappear at bus stops, junctions or where roads get a bit narrow won't cut it. The scale of ambition just seems so low. The Morningside Road scheme will include:
,,,cycle lane marking to support cyclists travelling uphill.
This sounds a lot like an advisory cycle lane - need I say more.
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I'm going to get myself one of those jobs where I warmly encourage people to do the right thing but am not held to account if they don't.
It's a life goal. Watch me fly.
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The first cone on the way past Civerinos on Forrest Road was lying flat - I reinstated it as best as I could but it had been deformed at the base I would guess by being driven over. For reference if they are lying flat and not deformed, you insert them then twist 90 degrees.
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Alex Cole-Hamilton is opposing the measures proposed in Edinburgh West.
LibDems gonna LibDem.
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"they are extreme, and in some cases ridiculous"
"there will be pressure to make them permanent and I'm determined to work with the community to stop that" https://twitter.com/harts_cyclery/status/1281152123535872000?s=20Posted 3 years ago # -
I stood an looked at the wands on Old Dalkieth Road. They stop at the pedestrian refuge as this forms a pinch point.
The absence of something can be a more powerful artistic statement than the same thing's presence.
Still, extreme and ridiculous.
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A C-H chasing the votes like a bad politician
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My understanding is that at least one of the people raging at him is or was one of his activists.
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@IWRATS, yeah that would be a cushy, if soul destroying number. You'd have a job for life!
Something something "ambassador" or "champion" or even "czar" though the last of these sounds like you might actually have to make people do stuff. Best steer clear: enjoy an easy life just issuing warm, soothing inspirational words that make folk feel good, which they can then quietly ignore while claiming to be doing the right thing. Win-win!
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They say social media is dangerous in that politicians can do targeted messaging, but in the olden days, a libdem councillor could have targeted Costorphone with anti-change messages and over in another bit of town I would never know, so definitely an upside of sorts to twitter etc.
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As the roads became freer of cars, they grew full of possibility. Rollerblading and skateboarding have come back into fashion. Sales of bicycles and electric bikes have skyrocketed.
But there is a catch: Cities are beginning to cautiously open back up again, and people are wondering how they’re going to get into work. Many are worried about the spread of the virus on public transit. Are cars our only option? How will we find space for all of them?
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https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/09/opinion/ban-cars-manhattan-cities.html
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Noticed that the proposed lanes on the A702 go behind parking - a first in Edinburgh?
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They do that a bit going down from A70 to A71 at Chesser/Asia end might want to say Slateford
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They do that a bit going down from A70 to A71 at Chesser/Asia end might want to say Slateford
Are you sure? Chesser Avenue cycle lanes are definitely on the outside of the parking: StreetView from last year.
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Don't think any part of Chesser Avenue has floating parking
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Oops I read that wrongly.
Inside parking - how will that work - gingerly to avoid car dooring.? I mean always possible on outisde but do take strong primary myself
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Amusingly, the parking on Chesser seems to require drivers to break the law if they want to use it, because the mandatory cycle lanes are defined with a solid white line, meaning cars may not cross them.
Dreadful implementation because it simply teaches drivers that a solid white line doesn't mean anything.
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@Snowy - I think, like for footways, accessing a designated parking space or a driveway is an explicit exemption in the "Don't drive in mandatory cycle lanes" legislation.
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