So having had the ebike for a few weeks now and being out on it every other day, the novelty of my initial route along the water to Cramond & back is beginning to wear off enough I'm looking at other potential ways to potter about while staying off the roads as much as I can(I'm actually finding close passes less hair raising than I thought I would, but the thought of some junctions is still a bit much), but figuring out where to go is proving harder than I thought it would be.
Google maps etc use the same marking to mean Quiet Route, some(but not all) unsegregated lanes(ie, Bicycle Gutters), and "there's a bus lane along a portion of the road, good luck we're all counting on you". Sometimes the marking for segregated track becomes the marking for the previous for no discernible reason. Trying to follow the routes on Streetview shows long stretches of the re-designated sidewalks along the really big roads with no signage at all to indicate where exactly a shared path starts or ends(even when the "tells" that it's switched to using an imageset from a different Streetview car run remain consistent, so there's no reason to believe there should be signs it's missing out on). One extremely busy road with a high speed limit will be marked as a shared pavement, another equally busy and fast road isn't.
Is there actually a comprehensive map or list out there with a more granular level of detail, or do you just have to ride around and hope for the best?
posts
