The cynicism on this site is galling. Edinburgh brought in top place-making consultants from Scarfolk Bourgh Council to design the Picardy Community Space. I for one can't wait until it is revealed in its full glory.
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Picardy Place lanes taking shape
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Posted 4 years ago #
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Oh dear, google maps has even managed to captured the last cyclist who tried to use that, and has been flattened.
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Also the rain, which freaked me.
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Don't go into the advanced stop box heading south outside the Omni yet. The traffic lights are set in front of it, invisible to cyclists. Only for motor cars, you see. Tweeted @edinhelp.
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@wingpig
I did that already.
Today I had to get off the road to let a lorry back up. Banksman had mis-judged its length. Diesel everywhere. The hellscape cometh.
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The traffic lights are set in front of it, invisible to cyclists. Only for motor cars, you see.
Like the advanced greens at the big Liberton/Mayfield/Kirk Brae junction.
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@Arellcat
I did those too.
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At least your lorry had a banksperson. There was a wee dumper truck whizzing round there on Monday with not even it's driver watching where it was going.
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I also pinged @edinhelp about this. No reply as of yet, they seem to be ignoring the majority of my tweets these days... https://twitter.com/Lollercake/status/1176837589736800258
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They only seem to respond to tweets about overflowing bins these days, @EdinburghCycleCam.
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I'm particularly loving all the large vans and coaches using the cycleway just before the omni as a loading bay when I cycle past at around 07:45 in the morning. One almost every day.
I'd like to think they will only get away with this when the lane in closed and the traffic layout temporary. But suspect it's just a sign of things to come.
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@threefromleith - Sure seems that way. I might try phoning them tomorrow.
EDIT: @Juanito - Yeah, I've seen it a few times myself as well, mainly DPD or other couriers. If people park in it when it's open for business, I don't know if I'll manage to pass them without clipping their wing mirror. Oh well.
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But suspect it's just a sign of things to come.
The whole Picardy scheme is a blend of charming naivety and diabolical recklessness.
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@wingpig @EdinburghCycleCam Just went past our most holy gyratory and this seems to be fixed - lights are now in front of the ASL.
There’s a surprisingly large elevation difference between the new surface and the existing one
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@CycleAlex - yeah, noticed this on my way home today as well - hooray!
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@Juanito: That's really not good if coaches and vans are misusing the cycleway for illegal parking (and they will certainly also be damaging the kerbs and paving in doing so).
Just how stupid did the Council's streetscape designers have to be to not foresee that this could be a likely problem, that could easily, and should be, designed out simply by adding a row of bollards (or even planters, although how long plants might live healthier there, I don't know!).
Posted 4 years ago # -
how long plants might live healthier there, I don't know!
Just plant buddleia. Puts up with anything. Brings flutterbies.
Posted 4 years ago # -
Watched the digger driver building the hellscape flick an empty plastic coke bottle across the concrete and down into the hole with the service conduits using the bucket of his machine.
Very impressive precision and a boon for future (non-human?) archaeologists when they try to discern the ritual function of this circular emplacement.
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The temporary pedestrian crossing was switched off this morning, forcing pedestrians to have to wait for gaps in the selfishness to cross between the Playhouse and Tesco/Hertz corner.
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Was surprised to find northbound North Bridge backed up almost to the Royal Mile today - according to the travel twitter it is a Picardy Place tweak that's to blame and it's causing chaos over a pretty huge radius, also affecting the trams.
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Picardy Place: AVOID AVOID AVOID.
Posted 4 years ago # -
Seems to be backing up to Princes Street and delaying trams/buses as well
Posted 4 years ago # -
what have they actually done??
Posted 4 years ago # -
It's so horrible all the bicyclists were squirting out the sides through the cones onto the pavements.
I never even reached the heart of the darkness. Used the unopened 'cycle lane' in front of the Playhouse. Easter Road for home-time I think.
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There was some very big trucks with big loads (steel works it looked like) being driven down Leith Street and into the building site around 7.30. If that was the first of many deliveries that maybe the cause of the traffic jams
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Does anyone in the council administration cycle through there on a regular basis or is there some sort of Irn Bru recipe-style succession plan which prevents it?
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"What have the actually done?"
All traffic is being diverted to the left when you come down from Leith Street. I was one of those this morning who said "[Rule 2] this" and moved a cone (which they've put right together, meaning there is no gap to get through) to jump onto the closed segregated cycle way also.
It is indeed a clustermuckup at the moment.
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Interestingly that is closer to what is actually going to be the final design. Hrmm!
As far as I could tell last time they were experimenting with a kind of thunderdome-based priority system. Perhaps if you folks hadn't bailed out you'd have seen that taken to its logical conclusion and found yourself engaging in mortal combat with the driver of a Ford Focus hoping to get down Broughton Street.
Posted 4 years ago # -
Perhaps they could use the parallel traffic lights opposite the Omni for drag racing. First to reach the London Rd roundabout gets to survive (yet another new revenue stream for the council)
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