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An idea I've had in my head. This is just the sketch / prototype completed over lunch.
Without wanting to cluter the design up with "too" many things - what else does it need to highlight some of the failings that need addressed before we even think about calling it a "world class cycling city?"
Sorry, Yfrog thumbnails don't appear to be working, perhaps if you copy/paste this it might work;
That pothole really isn't big enough, you know. And maybe a bus behind the taxi, just to maximise the public transport angle. :-) What about a traffic light post somewhere inconvenient, too?
Actually, you probably need a winter version and a summer version. The winter one will have huge piles of snow on the sides of the road and a sheen of ice on all the cycle intrastructure.
i wasn't sure what the red and white bit behind the taxi was meant to represent? but i agree with arellcat, a big lothian bus behind the taxi would be realistic. a first bus would give a better sense of the risks!
The red and white behind the Taxi are the lego bollards on Princes Street.
The taxi's not belching enough fumes.
A bit of the pavement coned-off so that pedestrians would be diverted into the cycle lane?
Giant buckets at the end of the cycle lane à la Gifford Park?
Rusty bike with one buckled wheel chained to railings?
"Giant buckets at the end of the cycle lane à la Gifford Park?"
Did the picture remind you of Gifford Park too?
I like it! (the pic, not Gifford Park)
Some dog mess and the pavement blocked by christmas trees.....
You need a huge skip lorry or bin lorry thundering down the road too. Like the red and white roadworks barriers though.
I can't see the picture from my work pc but from the comments I get a sense of what it is. I would add a pig's head, possibly on fire, and someone walking a dog on a long lead.
@cb, ah yes, buckets. We could call it the City Hierarchy Of Infrastructure for Cycling in Edinburgh.
When I do this "properly" on the computer, it will be much easier to include more of the above details on it.
A giant street bin blocking the end is required too, as is a first bus and smoke coming out of it (taxi is parked, hence no exhaust)
I think the foreground can have a dog walker on one side of pavement and a dog on the other, with the stretchy lead in between.
There will be an Edinburgh skyline along the background.
Kirst: "I would add a pig's head, possibly on fire"
Funniest thing I've read all day.
Maybe the bin could be on fire.
Road work signs blocking the cycle lane.
Car parked in the ASZ with door being swung open. I'm merging dooring, lane-parking and ASL-hopping for the sake of visual brevity, although I know with depressing certainty that an ASZ dooring must have happened, purely by the simple and miserable laws of stupidical statistics. Not specific to Edinburgh, I admit.
A chap or chapess gaily ice-skating along a cycle path does at least narrows it down to 'North European country with terrible winter cycle provision.'
I can't quite think of a visually neat way of putting it, but the likes of the Broomhouse or Hollyrood cycle paths that require you to cross a fast lane of oncoming traffic to join. Bike tyre tracks going across said lane, and a chalk outline of a cyclist in the middle, perhaps?
Big permanent circular blue sign with shared path symbols on a huge lamp post slap band in the middle of the path. White line demarcating peds (with wee stick man painted on); and bikes (stick bike); ped zone is not obstructed by post, bike zone is.
+1 on the pigs head. And Jakeys shouting out of car windows.
Only one pothole? and surely that paint is far too fresh to be an Edinburgh cycle lane...
Oh and the cycle lane should be just narrower than the handlebars, be full of draincovers and have a car (or cars) parked in it :-/
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