“at the junctions at either end, i.e. Gillespies crossroads and Inglis Green Rd.“
Well yes but
I suggest this is even more of a bottleneck -
Taken yesterday after the ride.
CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Infrastructure
Direct Action 6pm Wednesday 23rd (Lanark Road Ride): and subsequent developments
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Posted 3 years ago #
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A lot of traffic goes up Craiglockhart Road, the right turn there usually seems busier than the run into Slateford Road.
Posted 3 years ago # -
Well yes, ‘traffic’ just goes where it can…
Posted 3 years ago # -
The critical mass folks are making a good effort to make their rides positive and family friendly - they came along to support this - if you're around consider going along too!
https://twitter.com/EdCriticalMass/status/1404763816794247168?s=20
Posted 3 years ago # -
Think they brought the music too?
Posted 3 years ago # -
@neddie good point RE: the junctions being the main factor in journey times for cars in urban areas.
In a past life I objected to the 20mph zones coming in...they happened and....it made absolutely no difference to my journey times! In fact they generally made my journeys less stressful (easier to get out of side streets, less accelerating and decelerating, easier to "get into lane" etc).
I'd hope that I'm not the only person to make that observation.
Posted 3 years ago # -
“In a past life“
Tell us more…
Posted 3 years ago # -
“Confessions of an ex-petrolhead” has a certain ring to it
Posted 3 years ago # -
@kim Harding, doyen of EdFOC used to be a driving instructor until one day on the road to Damascus from his home town of Tarsus he had a conversion.
Posted 3 years ago # -
The irony being he was in Damascus as a learner had taken several wrong turns while practicing the Currie test route
Posted 3 years ago # -
“Confessions of an ex-petrolhead”
Great confession!
Thanks
Posted 3 years ago # -
Cuh mon Robert if they don’t you will feckin complain you weren’t consulted. Ps are you more than 75 per cent Gammon?
Posted 3 years ago # -
The Lib Dems will do anything for votes and change their stance to the side making the most noise on everything.
Posted 3 years ago # -
Almost a year on, up for consultation again -
http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20966&page=2#post-361350
Posted 2 years ago # -
Dear Professor
I was cycling down this protected cycle lane this week and thought what a great thing that this has stayed despite the actions of the other Professor wanting to park outside his house. Please don’t mess this up now or I will call you a bad word.
Watching you now
Gembo.
Posted 2 years ago # -
Apparently
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We are looking at 7am to 7pm x 7 days, trial on Lanark Road coming soon.
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https://twitter.com/cllrscottarthur/status/1632491641159274496
Posted 1 year ago # -
Heads up - Lanark Road has been given the surface dressing treatment recently, so lots of loose gravel at the moment.
The cycle lanes have been removed, and there are no road markings. It really shows just how wide the road is.
Posted 1 year ago # -
It is a six lane highway
Posted 1 year ago # -
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Resurfacing of Lanark Rd happening apace this morning. Cars being towed if in way. Lot of loose chippings so speed limit currently 20mph. Road markings and protected cycle lanes to be reinstated within the week according to the road crew.
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Posted 1 year ago # -
Hmm. Was excited at first as the surface for much of Lanark Rd especially downhill is nightmarish, but between the cars sweeping the loose material they tear up out of that crummy style of surface into the cycle lane and the bus stops inevitably becoming moonscapes again in short order, who knows if it'll be a real improvement.
Posted 1 year ago # -
Resurfacing using loose chippings always seems to me to be a shoddy, cheapskate way of "resurfacing" a road, and especially inappropriate/ineffective for a road that carries a high volume of traffic and has some non-trivial surface defects like the nasty linear joints down the stretch of Lanark Road where it goes under the WoL walkway bridge. It also seems to lead to excess chippings being 'swept' either side of where the four-wheeled traffic goes and, worse, down the centreline between where their wheels go. In other words, dodgy surfaces along the part of the road where two-wheeled vehicles are more likely to want to go than four-wheeled.
(I encountered a country lane near Kinross the other week when I was out on my motorcycle which had a raised pile of loose chippings all the way down the centre of the more or less single track carriageway. On top of that, the 'resurfacing' had been significantly less than 100% successful in filling the potholes along the 'normal" i.e. four-wheel vehciles' - wheeltracks. The result being that every so often I found myself faced with the choice of riding through a nasty-looking pothole, or taking my chances on the loose chippings - a far from ideal surface to have under your tyres when you're trying to perform an avoiding manoeuvre. So that was an interesting few miles. Thanks P&K Council.)
Posted 1 year ago # -
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It's high time the imbeciles who think it's ok to dump loose gravel on busy roads were made to ride them. Almost went down turning off the cycle track at Melville Drive west end. No warning from there. Most of surface pretty unusable.
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https://twitter.com/blueapex/status/1681025256012537856
WHAT IS ALL THIS NONSENSE???
Is it in any way ‘cost effective’?
Has there been ANY sort of risk assessment?
Posted 1 year ago # -
Went up Lanark Road last Thursday. White lines had been painted delineating the centreline, and the bike lanes. However:
(a) The parking areas had not been painted in. My guess is that the machine used to do the job mentioned above can't do complicated, short lines at funny angles, so those are going to have to be done later more manually;
(b) Probably because of (a) the DYLs had not been replaced, so the mandatory bike line was being happily parked in by all and sundry. (I did notice that the "no parking at any time" signs were still present - do those have no validity without the yellow lines to accompany them?)
(c) No sign yet of any wands being replaced.Basically, motorists were inconvenienced for 24 hours at most, whereas cyclists are still waiting to get their dedicated infrastructure made usable again after more than two weeks.
Didn't it occur to anyone that the most vulnerable road users should have had the maintenance carried out to completion on their dedicated infrastructure first, with motor vehicle infrastructure being done subsequently? Probably not a practical proposition if the "maintenance" consists of chucking down buckets of tar and loose chippings, though, as that likely requires the whole road surface to be clear. So here's an idea: WHY NOT DO THE JOB PROPERLY RATHER THAN IN A CHEAPSKATE HALF-@RSED WAY?
Posted 1 year ago # -
I was almost certain someone challenged Scott Arthur on Twitter or Facebook after the surface dressing, about when the SfP bollards would be replaced, and he replied "within the week" or words to that effect. That would have been nearly a month ago. Unfortunately I can't track the exchange down now. Anyone recollect similar?
Posted 1 year ago # -
You may have been thinking of this tweet from Longstone Community Council.
"Road markings and protected cycle lanes to be reinstated within the week according to the road crew."
Posted 1 year ago # -
Thanks Frenchy. That's aged well :)
Posted 1 year ago # -
The good news is that it's given us time to experience (and video) the horror that is the "SWEM design" without bollards...
Posted 1 year ago #
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