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Meadows Place improvement. Golden Bollard Award.
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Posted 14 years ago #
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"Er, so now it's cycle only????"
Well that wasn't what the mother with a pram thought, she insisted in walking right in the middle of the path. Did think of taking a photo, but then decided not.
Posted 14 years ago # -
quite tight for a pram to turn between the last bollard and the wee fence
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"quite tight for a pram to turn"
into what?
Posted 14 years ago # -
Right...
So they ignored Gembo's chain idea!
The owner of the blue Citreon is going to have to drive in from the other end now ;-)
Posted 14 years ago # -
THIS http://www.flickr.com/photos/semi-detached/318072857 is the sort of chain you want.
Posted 14 years ago # -
It's really much better now, although I agree it's a bit odd that they've painted 95% of the walkway for bikes - Friends of the Meadows will be up in arms!
I still don't understand why they didn't put half as many bollards in higher up, and keep the garden and paths the way they were. Isn't there anything better to spend money on than that? (red paint for the adjacent lanes on Melville Drive, say?)
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Posted 14 years ago #
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Better!
It is mortally embarrassing that it can take so many attempts though. Half the problem is that they try to segregate it at all though, when in practice you will often (always?) have to use the full width anyway:
Posted 14 years ago # -
I wrote to the council roads and cycling dept and all the local councillors when they put the bollards in the wrong place. The letter back said that the track was moved to allow the bin lorries to get their grab arm in play to pick up the bins. It also said a 20% turn was acceptable to cyclists. I was not convinced, and sent back a picture of the bollards - a couple of days later they were moved. I must say it was the Conservative councillor who managed to get the response, although the lib dem and the green one also wrote back.
It is clear that the designer had no idea, and probably the workmen made a mistake too.
JamesPosted 14 years ago # -
Some better news here (possibly part of the same "improvement"):
http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17876&page=3#post-272333
Posted 6 years ago #
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