CityCyclingEdinburgh was launched on the 27th of October 2009 as "an experiment".
IT’S TRUE!
CCE is 15years 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.
I've often struggled to put into words my utter frustration at the urban planner's obsession with building right-angles into every single piece of walking and cycling infrastructure possible. This diagram by my friend over at Copenhagenzine illustrates it perfectly;
A Short History of Traffic Engineering by Mikael Colville-Andersen, on Flickr
It also captures that the cycle/foot path only being as good as what it's connected to.
I think a lot of the right angle stuff is based on the concept of ensuring that fleshy bodies don't go shooting out in front of 2 tonne bringers of death. They'll argue it's a "safety first" thing, but it's also a "car first" thing.
@PS undoubtedly some of it is that, however you only have to go near a newly "designed" housing estate or shopping shed to be confronted with the same thing - everything running in a series of endless right angles that seem to confound you ever getting where you want to go.
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