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Cycle parking in Edinburgh, where have we got to?

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  1. resurf
    Member

    8 spaces just added earlier this week on Holyrood Road outside Hemma.

    Posted 7 years ago #
  2. Frenchy
    Member

    Obligatory request to add any new bike parkign you see to OSM:

    http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=12/55.9304/-3.2217&layers=C

    Posted 7 years ago #
  3. resurf
    Member

    @Frenchy - yes I added it to OSM on the day.

    Posted 7 years ago #
  4. himupstairs
    Member

    new racks have just been installed at the end of great stuart street.

    here: https://goo.gl/maps/Mw8E6s1LhpQ2

    Posted 7 years ago #
  5. Klaxon
    Member

    I posted a spreadsheet a while ago of where to go spotting

    Pics welcome as I'm not in town this week

    Posted 7 years ago #
  6. crowriver
    Member

    A cluster of shiny new racks near the Playhouse, spotted last light on my way home.

    Posted 7 years ago #
  7. Shore racks now in (behind the bench just at the corner near the Sandport bridge). Enough parking for 6 bikes, which is a start - though once it gets warmer you have 6 times that many bikes chained to every available railing / post & fence along the Shore.

    Hopefully they'll put more in when they get more cash.

    Posted 7 years ago #
  8. chdot
    Admin

    "Hopefully they'll put more in"

    Remove car parking?

    Posted 7 years ago #
  9. wingpig
    Member

    Midlothium rather than Edinburgh: there appears to be no actual bicycle parking at Sainsbury Straiton. There are some barriers to stop trolleys blocking a fire exit, so I started locking up on the trolley side. A youth in a tabard approached and spake incomprehensibly for a bit, then motioned that I should move to the fire-escape side and said more clearly that "[name denoting an apparent colleague] needs to drive in there". I pointed out that it was a fire escape, that the other similar steel barrier things further up were also fire escapes and asked if there was any actual cycle parking, at which the being wandered off. I moved to the café's fire escape, then swapped ends when it became apparent that there was a large crack forming between the two halves of the top bar.

    Slightly earlier, Pentland Plants offered two sizes of not-bolted-down wheel twister:

    IMG_20170217_140602790 by wingpig, on Flickr

    As I was leaving a person in a cycling costume (who had entered the store when my wife was in the queue for the till, leaving his bike just outside the office, into which he went) stopped and had a wee chat about the paucity of parking, about high he seemed to be in some sort of position to do something. Apparently they get lots of CTC people in the summer.

    Posted 7 years ago #
  10. chdot
    Admin

    "

    Some 223 racks providing 466 new spaces will pop up along Edinburgh’s key thoroughfares including Princes Street, Leith Walk and Nicholson Street.

    "

    http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/our-region/edinburgh/hundreds-of-new-bike-racks-on-their-way-to-edinburgh-1-4370668

    Posted 7 years ago #
  11. Colonies_Chris
    Member

    223 x 2 = 446. Where are the other 20 coming from? Are there some racks for 4 bikes?

    Posted 7 years ago #
  12. chdot
    Admin

    No!

    "

    The second phase of the scheme will see 233 racks – providing 466 spaces - put in place on some of the city’s key thoroughfares, including Princes Street, Leith Walk and Nicolson Street.

    "

    http://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/blog/newsblog/post/1136/bike-and-shop-thanks-to-new-city-cycle-racks

    Wonder if CEC has corrected the mistake, or EN curiously added when copying.

    Posted 7 years ago #
  13. Klaxon
    Member

    Added to OSM

    4 on Montgomery St
    4 at 'The Street' (Picardy Place)
    3 in lieu of the Elm Row pigeons
    4 extra at St Leonard's Land
    1 at Tesco Express Holyrood (a pet want of mine! yay!)

    Posted 7 years ago #
  14. Klaxon
    Member

    The aforementioned Tesco Express Holyrood rack is already at an angle that can only mean it's had a lovetap from a white van man

    Posted 7 years ago #
  15. Stickman
    Member

    Railings removed and 8 racks installed outside the Filmhouse.

    Posted 7 years ago #
  16. fimm
    Member

    "My" racks outside the Gorgie Road Co-op have arrived!!
    (IIRC the location was already on the list when I suggested it...)

    Posted 7 years ago #
  17. Rosie
    Member

    @Stickman, fimm

    Great news both. There's a real lack of cycle parking along Gorgie Road.

    Posted 7 years ago #
  18. fimm
    Member

    Used them this evening. Very convenient, much better than locking up to a drainpipe!

    Posted 7 years ago #
  19. Stickman
    Member

    3 new racks on St John's Road, outside the new Costa Coffee. Good job.

    Posted 7 years ago #
  20. chdot
    Admin

    Photo -

    "

    (((Alan Alexander))) (@trapprain)
    11/03/2017, 18:51
    .@CyclingEdin Bike racks just been installed at new @CostaCoffee shop on St Johns Road EH12 11-03-17

    http://pic.twitter.com/lcL0GiJYPY

    "

    Posted 7 years ago #
  21. Stickman
    Member

    ...And three more on St John's Road at Manse Road!

    Posted 7 years ago #
  22. chdot
    Admin

    Posted 7 years ago #
  23. HankChief
    Member

    & Western Corner

    Posted 7 years ago #
  24. Stickman
    Member

    3 now at Station Road/St John's Road

    Posted 7 years ago #
  25. Frenchy
    Member

    Three outside the chippy at Gilmerton, another outside the bank.

    Drum St has gone from 0 to 9 bike racks in the space of 6 months.

    Posted 7 years ago #
  26. biketrain
    Member

    Anyone have any resent experience of cycling parking at Murrayfield stadium, particularly the West Stand?

    I intent to park and (bike)ride for the Rugby match on Saturday. Hopefully that will give me a quick getaway along the tram path to the west after the match.

    Posted 7 years ago #
  27. SRD
    Moderator

    new racks - proper ones! - at Waitrose Morningside. Hallelujah!

    Posted 7 years ago #
  28. chdot
    Admin

    Contributed

    Posted 7 years ago #
  29. chdot
    Admin

    How many years since 'promised'??

    Posted 7 years ago #
  30. gkgk
    Member

    Morningside miracle! I wrote to them 5 years about those racks. I hope they have more than 4 in total though - pretty busy there these days.

    Posted 7 years ago #

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