CityCyclingEdinburgh was launched on the 27th of October 2009 as "an experiment".
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CCE is 15years old!
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Ok, I know that’s most places, but I was here with a 9yo yesterday and was still (a bit) shocked at how bad it is.
We were turning right - than left rather than cross the Crewe Toll roundabout.
Without the SfP wands on Ferry Road we would not have been going this way at all!
Without the SfP wands on Ferry Road we would not have been going this way at all!
Interestingly, Jeremy Balfour MSP tweeted yesterday about "the hated Spaces for people Scheme that has caused nothing but hassle for the people of Edinburgh".
Yeah, his tweet didn’t get much support…
Bit further along Ferry Road -
So much space, so much potential.
Whenever I've looked at a map of that area, Ferry Road stands out as the missing side in a triangle of cycle paths.
https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=16/55.9644/-3.2505&layers=C
The main issue with Ferry Road is it pinches down quite a bit when it hits Inverleith Gardens and at several other points after that on the way into Leith in a way that would require a level of rethinking the cooncil have always shied away from when they have the nice convenient not-driver-antagonising railway path running parallel.
TBH North Edinburgh as a whole is a bit of a ****show because there isn't any really contiguous stretch of wide road suitable to complete an outer ring road with the Bypass, so the only way I can think to really fix it is to be quite radical; a circulation plan that shunts traffic East out to the Bypass through Leith and West out along Telford Road to Maybury Road, with everything North and directly South of Ferry Road turned into a series of LTNs, and Ferry Road itself thoroughly filtered between Granton Road and North Junction Street with a mix of one-way turnoffs for residents and a few bus gates(eg bus gate the entire area around the junction at Inverleith Row, which is currently a pollution hotspot - combined with removing a lot of parking that lets you turn the Row itself into a N/S active travel and public transit corridor into the city centre).
Don't know that even the Greens are willing to go as far as that kind of plan though.
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