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Gorgie Rd to Princes St

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  • Started 12 years ago by bluejeangirl
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  1. bluejeangirl
    Member

    Test routes was a bit of an adventure on Sunday, but I got to grips with everything pretty quickly, and more than anything I'm impressed with how good the lothian bus drivers are with cyclists! That was one of my main concerns!

    This morning i did Torphican St - Canning st - Lothian Road and it was all good, but I missed busier traffic having to be at work so early! But my shifts always change so I will hopefully always be able to miss the worst of it one way or another...

    Perfect cycling weather!!

    Posted 12 years ago #

  2. chdot
    Admin

    Well done.

    @on_lothianbuses very good at training their drivers.

    Posted 12 years ago #

  3. gembo
    Member

    Vast amount of mad driving on the roads of Edinburgh. The sun is to blame

    Posted 12 years ago #

  4. spytfire
    Member

    Well done bluejeangirl!
    there was a conversation in the changing room this morning about all the fair weather cyclists comeing out of hibernation ;)

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  5. chdot
    Admin

    "
    Kaputnik, via Baldcyclist, the trick is that Torphichen Place is being made two-way, so you go down Morrison St and then turn right at Diane's Pool Hall.

    "
    Actually NO - direction reversed -

    Slightly un-nerving going 'wrong way'!

    Posted 12 years ago #

  6. Arellcat
    Moderator

    @chdot: my mistake! Good heavens, what hope is there if map enthusiasts can't even read it right?

    Posted 12 years ago #

  7. spytfire
    Member

    Yeah I felt weird going that way too - the WoL defo the best way for me, lovely and peacful nobody trying to kill me.

    Posted 12 years ago #

  8. chdot
    Admin

    You rely on MAPS -

    in relation to tram 'works'??

    GottaBthere...

    Posted 12 years ago #

  9. spytfire
    Member

    to navigate tram works you need to be force sensitive so you can detect a 'disturbance'

    Posted 12 years ago #

  10. Min
    Member

    The tram works twang the shorts elastic of map enthusiasts.

    Posted 12 years ago #

  11. custard
    Member

    that just looks wrong!

    Posted 12 years ago #

  12. fimm
    Member

    bluejeansgirl, well done! Your thread seems to have become the place for a general moan about Haymarket tram works/station/etc...
    I obviously have not been in Edinburgh long enough to know about Haymarket station...

    Posted 12 years ago #

  13. cb
    Member

    I was bike number 25 on the Haymarket racks this morning which I felt a little guilty about, but the bike I doubled up with has plenty space to get out. I'm not sticking out /too/ much...

    Wheeling through the narrows was OK for the 10s I needed it to be OK for.

    Posted 12 years ago #

  14. Min
    Member

    "bluejeansgirl, well done! Your thread seems to have become the place for a general moan about Haymarket tram works/station/etc..."

    Hmm yes good point! Don't take it personally Bluejeansgirl, it is a bit of a "feature" of this forum that threads go off track! Glad your ride went well though and I hope the never ending tramworks are not too offputting.

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  15. spytfire
    Member

    @min "the never ending tramworks"
    Now sing it to the theme tune to "Never ending story"

    Posted 12 years ago #

  16. Arellcat
    Moderator

    it is a bit of a "feature" of this forum that threads go off track!

    "Off track", on a thread mostly about trains and trams! You might even say there's a tendency for threads to be "derailed"! I'll get my coat.

    I've decided not to bother with maps in relation to tramworks. I think I'll just go the long way around and avoid the area entirely. But then, that's exactly what TIE and CEC would like us to do. Maybe we should all attempt to use the prescribed diversions, and clog it up even more.

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  17. Roibeard
    Member

    @Arellcat - there are prescribed diversions? Or do you mean the motorised diversions, as I've not spotted any diversion signage for the cycle routes...

    Robert

    Posted 12 years ago #

  18. chdot
    Admin

    "

    David Miller (@BBCDavidMiller)

    3/28/12 8:10 AM
    Frustrated passengers at Haymarket. Ticket queue stretched out the door this morning. Is that normal @ScotRail?

    "

    Posted 12 years ago #

  19. cb
    Member

    The cancellation of several trains was more frustrating.

    What is it with the signals at Markinch and Ladybank and why does their failure always affect trains that go nowhere near them?

    Posted 12 years ago #

  20. alibali
    Member

    Frustrated passengers at Haymarket. Ticket queue stretched out the door this morning. Is that normal @ScotRail?

    Of course the "other" door was unused, while entry/exit/ticket queues all tried to use the one door. I was really popular trying to get a bike through! Went in by the unused door...

    Posted 12 years ago #

  21. chdot
    Admin

    "
    @cocteautriplets:

    Tried to cycle from George Street to Dalry Road without getting lost. Failed. #edtravcyc

    Original Tweet: http://api.twitter.com/1/cocteautriplets/status/186873546549637120

    "

    Posted 12 years ago #

  22. fimm
    Member

    An update on the Dalry Road works: about half of the area I guess they're going to do has been done. I rather like what they're done, too. The tarmac is the kind that has big black chippings in it - except in the cycle lanes, where it has big red chippings. You could argue that this makes the lane less prominent then if it had bright red tarmac, which is true, but I rather like the subtlety.

    There's a new traffic island going in near the railway bridge, which will create a proper pinch point. They seem to be widening the pavement in that area as well, which is good, but not further along by the wall, which I think could do with being widened as well, the pavement all the way along there is rather narrow.

    Posted 12 years ago #

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