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Right, enough doom and gloom, what's the BEST bit of cycling infrastructure in town? (and I'm immediately ruling out the NEPN or the Innocent, I want to hear about those little handy bits, the fab cut-through, or the brilliant bike parking).
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I quite like being able to use the bus lane at least where the buses don't stop too much or there is enough room to overtake e.g. Mayfield Gardens.
I also like the showers at work - not really public though (although it is a university with no real security in the daytime).
Riding along fountainbridge this morning on my illplanned route to waverley, I was very taken with the drainage at the new intersection by the canal basin. Does anyone have a pic? basically drainage built into the kerb, rather than the road/gully. nifty!!!!
It's not for cyclists alone, but I love the A71 bus lane that runs from Wester Hailes roundabout all the way to Dalry Road.
Otherwise I vote for the few metres of cycle lane across the triangle of Forrest Rd/Bristo Pl/Teviot Pl. It's the one bit of infrastructure that makes me think Edinburgh is all continental and pro-cycling.
You'd best rule out Leamington Walk and MMW too.
The cyclist-exemption from the westward-only restriction of the east end of East Crosscauseway (coupled with the ability of the bicycle to sneak into the road from the Nicolson St end) - it's one of these simple little bits that saves a traipse around the block on ill-laid cobbles.
the Prom...
Controversial JP.... ;)
I am mentally cycling to work to try and come up with something.
Melville Drive lanes (during hours of operation) are great, allowing you to sail past the daily queue of traffic (could do with a feeder lane from Marchmont Road immhoo).
It's useful and saves a good mile and a half being able to cut past South Gyle railway station to get from Corstorphine to Gyle estate, although it's not been done in a very clever way (coming on the road you have to catch the lights and cycle onto the Toucan, bump through overly bumpy speedbumps past the school then bump across badly dropped kerbs outside station with badly located bollards, on a rather blind (but thankfully quite quiet) bend. Actually, scratch that, it's useful in spite of any efforts to make it cycle-friendly, not because of it!
The shared-use footway/pavement which allows cycles to slide smoothly past the queues and around the side of the lights when heading east through the Gogar roundabout.
It's perhaps not valid by dint of being non-public, but the bike park at the NHS Gyle building is accidentally better than design.
The designed part is that it's a covered set of Sheffields in plain view of the the ground floor offices, which is already pretty nifty, but the accidental part is that it's been appropriated by the building's smokers as their fag break shelter too. This ensures that there's constantly a group of people standing right beside your bike, deterring scrotes with boltcroppers.
The Toucan crossing at Bruntsfield Place with its own built out ramp and access lane from the road, which allows easy access to the Links and the Meadows. Turning right across traffic here would be pretty hairy at rush hour.
The Disused rail network with tarmac gets my vote.
Like Arlecat's fav, I wish they'd do the same with the A90 out to Cramond Brig. Cut down cars, make a wide cycle lane all the way out of town.
Removal of the stupid red and white water filled barriers and replacement of the bollards on Great Stuart Street into Moray Place - 321 ZOOOOM
Also the same bollards at the bottom of Glenfinlas Street if the traffic is right you can zoom from West End al the way down to Kerr Street (and again if timing at the lights or jumping off and walking it over the green man is permitted) I can get to Hamilton Place from the West End in no time at all. And much of it totally car free too.
I would also vote for the disused railway network of paths: very useful as a way to traverse Edinburgh from east to west, cutting out the busy traffic in the centre. Fantastic during daylight, a bit hairy and deserted after dark though.
I'm very fond of the teeny brick wall beside the Saughton Road/Broomhouse/Stenhouse crossroads, as you go towards the Gyle on the cyclepath. It's exactly what you need to stop yourself rolling down the hill when waiting at the lights.
I like the narrow bike 'roads' through the pavement that blocks the top of Wemyss Place just at my office and the dropped kerbs that let me swing off Queen Street and up to the office door one easy manoeuvre.
Just added them to the map. I like them too.
I was gonna suggest the top of Wemyss Place too. Not that I ever have much cause to use it.
The new Christian path is a huge improvement and great for avoiding the cobbles on Brighton Place.
I expect the new shared use path along Seafield Road will be heavily used at the weekends once completed,(although ironically it is much more dangerous at present).
I know it is greatly dismissed and the way it just stops without any real way to get across the junction is pretty rubbish but I am grateful for the Eyre Place contraflow as it is so much better than any of the alternatives.
I was thinking this morning as I bombed along with my mate, with a lane all to ourselves, that the Greenways are pretty marvellous.
"the Greenways are pretty marvellous"
Shame about the buses.
No, seriously - there should be more of them (and they should all be kept pristine green).
There is a similar dropped kerb path on York Lane to that on Wemyss Place. Its a shame the Heritage lot want to keep the cobbles.
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