CityCyclingEdinburgh was launched on the 27th of October 2009 as "an experiment".
IT’S TRUE!
CCE is 16years old!
Well done to ALL posters
It soon became useful and entertaining. There are regular posters, people who add useful info occasionally and plenty more who drop by to watch. That's fine. If you want to add news/comments it's easy to register and become a member.
RULES No personal insults. No swearing.
Ok quick question that I think may be useful. What one change would make your commute safer?
For me it would be removing all parking from the bridges to south clerk street. There should be plenty of room to keep away from everyone but there is always someone parked there. Main culprits are the bottleneck at crosscauswayside as you come into town and the festival theater which *always* has something outside it.
over to you!
Resurfacing Restalrig Road. On the way to work there are a series of inter-surface-deposition-section ruts past which I have to pick a side. Going on the left puts me too close to parked cars whilst to the right puts me in that special position which enrages idiots as it looks too obstinate. On the way back there's a series of utility covers and mini-potholes at the point where it's tricky to pick a line to get into position to turn off, due to oncoming traffic having to be in the middle of the road to avoid all the parked cars on their side and following traffic trying to overtake after being blocked by the recent series of traffic islands.
Otherwise, forcing all drivers to listen to a special commuter radio service which broadcast soothing music over which "just slow down... you'll get there in the end... you won't save five seconds by overtaking that cyclist... look, there's another car just in front of them... that's the car which was in front of you two miles back... just ease off the accelerator and save some fuel... whilst you're at it, why not leave a little braking distance just in case you're so focussed on looking for overtaking opportunities that you forget to watch traffic lights and then seem perplexed when the vehicle in front of you stops, maintaining their position in the lane..." and so on.
A bespoke hand built hub bike..... Mainly just because that'd be nice....
Other than that - Nicer surface through meadows as at the moment I go around the road just to avoid the crappy surface east to west (already discussed this morning so won't go on!) Also a bike filter at the cally exchange to allow bikes to move from the western approach to shandwick place and vice-versa without dismounting.
Banning of neds from the Innocent.
Mine is a sorta combined one;
On-road cycle lanes / ASLs only to be painted in where council has funds in place for their upkeep.
combined with...
On-road cycle lanes / ASLs can not double as car parking spaces / loading zones. They're one or the other and not both - despite the quantum thinking of the council.
combined with...
On-road cycle lanes shall not be painted where there is no yellow / red lines to prevent parking over them. They will not skip between single and double lines between junctions, they will be one or the other and not both.
Cycle safety is not just a "peak time" concern.
"They're one or the other and not both - despite the quantum thinking of the council."
Mehehe. Schrodingers Cycle Lane.
A complete redesign of the Picardy Place roundabout and Leith Street.
Advanced Bike Trafic Lights wherever there is an Advanced Stop Line.
Repave George Street.
I'd like a new path round the bay in Inverkeithing as my current ride takes me up and over Inverkeithing instead of round at sea level. But thats outwith this question I believe.
@DaveC I think there is the difference between safety and convenience / scenery yes. Unless going through Inverkeithing is particularly risky in itself?
@DaveC
Local divit councillor newsletter claims they are poised to demolish the paper mill, so perhaps its back on the cards...
Eventually.
do something about the two direction at the bottom of Ardmillan - cycling to Dalry is difficult when cars think Murieston road is a straight on and doesn't need indicating. Especially scary when it is a big van or lorry
as it is I have worked out the timing so I can set off from the lights changing to green from Harrison Road, coast down slowly dabbing the brake (n almost instinctive number of times) watch the traffic heading from Henderson Ter to Murieston wait to get their go time as the lights change and then use my speed to pas the stationary traffic on the right and get onto Dalry before they get moving. However if someone doing the afore mentioned Henderson to Murieston doesn't get out of the way it can often block the entire junction causing me to have to zig zag through three or four cars in a gridlock
Oh and resurface the entire of Dalry but mainly the bus stop opposite the Shell garage as that nearly had me off when a car was too close to the cycle lane (indeed the wing mirror was IN the cycle lane then they had the cheek to beep me when I managed to pass then tried to turn left OVER me into Cathcart place after beeping and me skidding to a halt *deep breath* tw-un-t)
Have you got a link bax please?
I'll ask my local prospective councillor on Friday in the pub. He has said in the past, if any builders were to buy the land to develop it would have to have a coastal continuation of the existing Fife Coastal Path, as a condition of permission.
Resurface entire section outside civil service broomhouse all the way to edinburgh park station - choice between lunar surface / raised metalwork, or ride out in what can be a danger zone.
Course, I could use the path, but I gave up ice skating in my teens, plus would need a MTB at the moment due to nonsense tramworks
I;m with laputnik on this one:
"On-road cycle lanes / ASLs can not double as car parking spaces / loading zones. They're one or the other and not both - despite the quantum thinking of the council."
Have you got a link bax please?
Readers comments also of note.
Install some sort of part-time traffic signals on the Calder Road roundabout at Longstone Road. Terrible sightlines at all times, and it becomes impervious to cross traffic at peak times because east and westbound drivers occupy the roundabout.
No motor vehicles in bike lanes, ever, under any circumstances.
Hmm yes. I could possibly change mine to have a dotted kerb along all cycle lanes and particularly where there is a right hand T-junction so that drivers going straight on can't just drive over you.
One more - cyclists allowed to turn left on red light.
Been mentioned before, done in Paris now I think, controversial perhaps but might be worth a go.
No more parking up Morningside Road.
Free parking for vans!
Change all 30mph limits in town to 20mph and enforce it rigorously.
Allow cyclists to turn left on red light. It would be great for me and for lots of other folk too I'm sure.
Pedestrianise George Street, with bike lane demarcation.
@DaveC
have now found Alice McGarry's local SNP newsletter:
Inverkeithing Harbour Update
It has now been accepted that the Harbour and Ballast Bank is in council ownership. Realistically, I can't see any prospect of major work being done in the area until the paper mill problem is resolved.
Caldwell's Paper Mill
The mill will be demolished within the next 6 months. Contractors are on site removing asbestos etc. The site is designated in the Local Plan for Housing.
Redesign the access points to and from the cycle paths around the Royal Park including removing the awful bit where the path crosses the Hunters Bog access road.
Rigorous enforcement of bus/cycle/taxi lanes. I'm looking at you, Mr MacDonald's lorry this morning.
Repaint all the contraflow cycle lanes, and grant me the skills to cycle directly over any cars that park on the double-yellows, blocking the lane and forcing me to overtake into oncoming traffic. Hopefully the spikey tyres would result in a neat holepunch effect.
You must log in to post.
Cycling in Edinburgh Flickr group
Video embedded using Easy Video Embed plugin
posts