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causing cars to swing out onto the opposite side of the road at a corner, where bicycles are coming round headed for the canal. We need to sort this oddity out before someone gets hurt
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http://www.scotsman.com/news/transport/caravan-is-parked-strife-for-powerless-attendants-1-2750940
Not really a very newsworthy piece, only posted it because Peter Robertson got a mention.
The EEN can be really loathsome.
I like this (now thinking as car driver, not going to be appreciated much..).
The owner should just make the back of the Caravan open, and operate as a ramp. Free movable city centre parking. :)
Presumably the chipwrapper got this story from the loathsome Robertson, he of the 'charge double for work to cover parking fines' trade.
Have noted this caravan, it has a for-sale sign up on the window I think.
Main issue for cyclists here in my daily experience is cars entering/exiting the underground car park of the serviced apartments on the corner or vehicles entering/exiting the garage premises. And the M&S delivery van that insists on parking on the single yellows in the evening right at the lift bridge, so you cannot see what is coming from the left until you have made the turn.
Oh, and the state of the road does more to force you into the oncoming lane than the caravan on the corner, it's a pure right-angle so you wouldn't be taking it on the extreme left anyway.
Great, maybe the EEN will have something else to complain about when its vandalised, after their advertising it's location and thats it's empty and unattended.
tsk!!!
I think they are hoping to incite some torches and pitchforks at dawn in an effort to combat a slow-news week
This is now in polwarth somewhere I think I passed it the other night and thought "twonk" for parking it on a side street on a main road like LGP jeeeeeez
The caravan was parked in its spot on LGP when I passed it yesterday evening. If ever there was an invitation for spray paint and bricks, it's the EEN's article.
I've occasionally thought about getting a caravan (no, really) - I could save the hundred odd-quid a year* storage fee this way, and just leave it on my street. And gain useful storage space for my bikes.
Hmmm...
I see the caravan most days, and it is** awkwardly parked.
*Place just south of the Tay Bridge, the figure is 18months old, and may have gone up.
** Okay, was - I've been recumbent the last couple of days, and I use a different (longer) route...
Let's buy up as many old caravans as possible, tie them together and park them 1metre from the kerb.
Protected cycle lane anyone...?
Fabulous idea :) Also, for residents of tenements having trouble getting the cooncil to permit cycle-storage sheds, seems the solution is a cycle-storage caravan on the pavement.
The caravan made it on to Reporting Scotland tonight. Much schadenfreude at the BBC over its proximity to the traffic warden HQ.
I confess I've had few problems negotiating this 'obstruction'; when heading home over the canal (south->north) the oncoming cars tanking around that corner are far more difficult to avoid...
Let's buy up as many old caravans as possible, tie them together and park them 1metre from the kerb.
Ahem. 2.5 metres methinks.
This story was in the Broken Record too. Some FB (motorist) friends have been chuckling over it...
Let us not forget, if there's one thing the popular press and the motoring lot have it in for as much as cyclists, it's caravans and people who choose to live in caravans. Their occupants must be pushed out to the sides of society and treated as deeply suspect for their non-conventional way of life. And on the roads, they are to be actively discouraged, for "holding people up", "taking up the whole road" and are to be given the most discourteous and aggressive over-takes possible. Wait, am I talking about caravans or bikes?
Just a point on human behaviour but has anyone else noticed that pedestrians don't like walking on the pavements on Leamington Road and prefer to walk on the road - and not even when the pavement is icy or car-blocked - it just seems to be a strange trait- "the road is not a main through road so I'll walk on the road rather than the nice pavement" Talk about pavement cycling!
Possibly a double yellow line needed at that point?
The hypocrisy is overwhelming. If the caravan was inconveniencing any of those long-suffering *OLAMs we would never hear the end of it. There would be Fury, Rage, Long-Sufferingness, people Up-In-Arms and possibly even some Spiralling thrown in for good measure.
*Otherwise Law Abiding Motorists.
"has anyone else noticed that pedestrians don't like walking on the pavements on Leamington Road and prefer to walk on the road"
Yes, I think it's because the pavement is particularly narrow.
There has been a LONG standing plan to put a contra-flow cyclelane here.
Best option would be to remove all the parking.
But ThisIsEdinburgh.
Having just checked the Edinburgh Trams byelaws, I can confirm they've got this covered off and you cannot park a caravan on the tramline.
It was gone last night.
Power of the press...
Similar happened with a boat on a trailer in Leith a while ago.
Someone brought a vehicle with a towball.
I've no recollection of ever seeing a caravan there, but that M&S van is a pain in the wherever...
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