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OTOH, the constriction does persuade some of the speeding cyclists flitting down Valleyfield drive to slow down (e.g. me). It's a pedestrian route that has been made dual use, and as such it's a poor compromise. We're not paranoid, a lot of the things that we see as annoyances are deliberately placed specifically to slow/interrupt cyclists. It's the same reason that lights are phased to interrupt the traffic flow in towns, prevent build up of speed.
It's why I tend to stick to roads these days.
@srd, this clearly needs to be settled with a themed PY... Fake peds to walk along the line while formers on their wide variety of steeds attempt to pass each other?
Fake peds
Do you mean.....robots? Replicants?
Worse.. cyclists without bikes!
Won't work unless you get people in the very early stages of cyclism. Once you're too far gone, you start shoulder-checking just to walk to the office water machine.
Took about four months for me, I think. It is....too late for me.
Re getting past people who are on the absurdly narrow cycle path. If they're facing towards you, another strategy, or is it a tactic, is simply to stop and wait for them to move out of the way. Alternatively, get a silly sounding bell and ring it while riding towards them in a friendly and unthreatening fashion. That's my usual technique and it works most of the time. You still get the occasional deliberate numbskull on MMW though mutter mutter
I use NMW only infrequently, and only ever eastbound. It's so bumpy and narrow that it becomes a chore to ride on; oncoming cyclists I find generally keep to the left (the tree side) and there isn't room to pass without going onto the pedestrian bit.
If I'm not in a hurry, I might use NMW. If I am in a hurry, I use the road. The cut-through between Valleyfield St and Melville Drive is in my view absolutely essential for anyone riding east because the only alternatives are massive energy and time wasting detours around Ponton and Semple Street, or Whitehouse Loan and Warrender (plus cobbles). Making Tarvit Street two-way for bikes and moving the pedestrian crossing slightly east would improve things hugely, plus it would eliminate the suicidal right turn out of Gilmore Place for many cyclists.
Alternatively, get a silly sounding bell
All my bikes have bells. I'm also working on a dual Air Zound system that will cut through concrete.
Cool! I'd love to hear it when it's finished. Perhaps from a safe bunker some miles away.
I sincerely hope that they don't route the proposed 'family network' connection between the canal and the Meadows via Leamington Terrace.
This would make the the route very circuitous and introduce a hill (in both directions!).
Cities become more attractive to everyone when cycles and pedestrians are offered direct routes, and motorists offered circuitous ones.
The most sensible route would be via Lower Gilmore Pl/Gilmore Pl/Tarvit St or South canal towpath/vacant land/Lochrin Pl/Home St/Tarvit St.
Of course, that would mean the council taking brave decisions, removing parking and making roads one way to create a protected route...
Seems the development at the end of Lochrin Place has started (more student flats). Hope the through route is coming -
Fletcher Jospeh architects to be sent to the naughty step for use of comedy faux-handwritten typeface on official drawings.
Commencement. The east end of NMW has been scraped and Heras-fenced off.
I find it a touch sad just how excited I am about this improvement. My bum and wrists are excited too...
Perhaps warrants a new thread, but the archaeology statement for Lochrin Basin makes interesting reading too:
Cycle storage is marked on the ground floor plan:
Those links seem to be dead, Arellcat.
I note that chdot had the same problem linking to the files directly. Maybe the short URLs will work.
The City Development Portal seems to generate session-only links to files, perhaps a deliberate attempt to spite easy dissemination of the appropriate documents?
There was a tar-laying machine on the scraped-off path section this morning.
I *think* it works if you link to the download page (ie not the doc, but the page you download the doc from). An ungainly system.
Started indeed: 
I came across this this morning too. Lorries reversing all over the path too so a bit dicey. They did seem to be watching out though and had people outside directing.
Watch out, there were lorries parked on (and blocking) the Middle Meadow Walk cycle path at lunchtime today, at the junction with North Meadow Walk.
Looking on the bright side, it's good to see NMW being improved at last.
Even better straight on -
But final verdict will depend on the details...
cycled beside it yesterday, lovely looking thing, cant wait!
Have been told that the section from MMW west will be open in time for the Breakfast bike rides on the 19th
Nice white line already painted on one section of it last night.
Interestingly riding home last night I saw a couple of people riding ON the path. Not sure what they were going to do on reaching the western end, as the barriers still looked intact.
... ride round them? ;o)
On a recent pic I saw that you could just ride on the grass to the side.
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Ian Stark (@ianstk)
06/06/2013 09:19
New Meadows cycle path @CyclingEdin pic.twitter.com/H16JTQ63CN
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