#cyclepaths — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #cyclepaths, aggregated by home.social.
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https://www.europesays.com/dk/81391/ Helsinki’s Bold Step: Investing in Cycling and Public Transport #BicycleLanes #BridgeProject #CityPlanning #CyclePaths #CyclingInfrastructure #Finland #helsinki #PedestrianFriendly #PublicTransport #TrafficManagement #UrbanDevelopment
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If you are a London cyclist - especially in the south-east area - please do fill out this consultation so we can keep a cycle path!
https://southwarkcyclists.org.uk/c4forever/#cycling #cyclists #london #southeastLondon #Rotherhithe #Lewisham #Southwark #cyclePaths #LondonCyclists #LondonCycles #bikesOfMastodon #cyclist
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If you are a London cyclist - especially in the south-east area - please do fill out this consultation so we can keep a cycle path!
https://southwarkcyclists.org.uk/c4forever/#cycling #cyclists #london #southeastLondon #Rotherhithe #Lewisham #Southwark #cyclePaths #LondonCyclists #LondonCycles #bikesOfMastodon #cyclist
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If you are a London cyclist - especially in the south-east area - please do fill out this consultation so we can keep a cycle path!
https://southwarkcyclists.org.uk/c4forever/#cycling #cyclists #london #southeastLondon #Rotherhithe #Lewisham #Southwark #cyclePaths #LondonCyclists #LondonCycles #bikesOfMastodon #cyclist
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If you are a London cyclist - especially in the south-east area - please do fill out this consultation so we can keep a cycle path!
https://southwarkcyclists.org.uk/c4forever/#cycling #cyclists #london #southeastLondon #Rotherhithe #Lewisham #Southwark #cyclePaths #LondonCyclists #LondonCycles #bikesOfMastodon #cyclist
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If you are a London cyclist - especially in the south-east area - please do fill out this consultation so we can keep a cycle path!
https://southwarkcyclists.org.uk/c4forever/#cycling #cyclists #london #southeastLondon #Rotherhithe #Lewisham #Southwark #cyclePaths #LondonCyclists #LondonCycles #bikesOfMastodon #cyclist
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Further along, there is a completely motor traffic free section where the foot and #cyclepaths run along side each other for nearly 1 km. There’s plenty of room for all here.
#MyWork #MyPhoto #CCBYSA #Android #Spring #UK #Biking #Bicycle #Infrastructure #Engineering #UrbanEnvironment
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I actually find people hashtagging every third word in their sentences to be a major access barrier for me, so I'll skip those posts or maybe even block repeat offenders.
I find it much easier to read if they write their post with plain text,
then a paragraph break, then their hashtagsFor example
"I love cycle paths! Cycle paths are great!
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A common urban intersection in the Netherlands https://bicycledutch.wordpress.com/2018/02/20/a-common-urban-intersection-in-the-netherlands/
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A common urban intersection in the Netherlands https://bicycledutch.wordpress.com/2018/02/20/a-common-urban-intersection-in-the-netherlands/
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A common urban intersection in the Netherlands https://bicycledutch.wordpress.com/2018/02/20/a-common-urban-intersection-in-the-netherlands/
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A common urban intersection in the Netherlands https://bicycledutch.wordpress.com/2018/02/20/a-common-urban-intersection-in-the-netherlands/
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A common urban intersection in the Netherlands https://bicycledutch.wordpress.com/2018/02/20/a-common-urban-intersection-in-the-netherlands/
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A bike ride on the high-quality cycling route Ede - Wageningen https://bicycledutch.wordpress.com/2024/09/18/a-bike-ride-on-the-high-quality-cycling-route-ede-wageningen/ #CyclePaths, #LongDistanceCyclePaths, #Wageningen
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Australian transport emissions are still growing.
"As a result, transport is expected to be our biggest-emitting sector by 2030. So, cutting transport emissions is crucial to Australia’s net-zero strategy."
"Current domestic emissions by transport mode are skewed. The vast bulk (85%) of total annual carbon-dioxide-equivalent (CO₂-e) emissions comes from road transport. It’s followed by air (8%), rail (4%) and sea (2%) transport."
"From an emissions perspective, high-speed electric rail is a great alternative to road and air transport for travel between capital cities. It would result in deep emission cuts varying from 75–95%."
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https://theconversation.com/wondering-how-to-get-from-brisbane-to-melbourne-without-wrecking-the-climate-our-transport-choices-make-a-huge-difference-237396
#ClimateEmergency #ExtremeHeat #cars #transportation #roads #harm #footpaths #cyclepaths #MobilityDesign -
Killer roads
"Five people died and four were injured in three car crashes across NSW since 2pm Monday. Federal data released this week shows the national road death toll increased 7 per cent from 2022 to last year, while the NSW toll jumped 25 per cent."
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-01-16/horror-night-on-nsw-roads-with-five-dead-across-the-state/103323250They call for more data on the "death Toll", money and more (killer) roads, but never for a radical infrastructure redesign. No data on "roadkill" of native animals either.
#RoadDeaths #trauma #crashes #survivors #LifelongInjuries #sacrifice #RoadToll #SUVs #roads #FossilFuel #speed #Pedestrians #wildlife #MobilityDesign #walking #footpaths #CyclePaths
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Australians rely heavily on private vehicles - combustion engines or EVs
"Car dependence causes various problems that are not adequately accounted for in current pricing regimes. These include carbon emissions, productivity costs of congestion, traffic deaths and injuries to people and animals, respiratory and systemic diseases from exhaust and tyre particles, and cardiovascular disease from sedentary behaviour."
EVs "generate many of the negative impacts of conventional vehicles, electric vehicles are not a sustainable mode of urban transport. And there is increasing recognition that moving from internal combustion engine vehicles to electric vehicles won’t reduce the impact of climate change within emergency timeframes."
"Australian cities need to move quickly and decisively away from the car as a means of urban transport. The best way to reduce damage from car use in cities is to reduce usage overall. "
https://theconversation.com/the-high-court-decision-on-electric-vehicles-will-make-charging-for-road-use-very-difficult-216107
#EVs #PrivateVehicles #roads #FossilFuels #dependency #pollution #costs #cars #Walkability #CyclePaths #climate -
Berlin's influence spreading wide.
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Redesigning roads and intersections to put humans first – The Bellingen case
Bellingen just 'upgraded' Gleniffer Road (The $5.2M “gate way to the Promised Land”) and North Bank Road. Both put fossil fuel vehicles first and forgot emission free mobility for people.
But cyclists and foot traffic deserve the same direct routes that motorists have. Elsewhere they rethink transport planning to promote safer cycling and walking options. Another missed opportunity to put Bellingen on the map for pollution free country cruising.https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-07-29/pushing-bikes-in-the-car-capital/102659800
#Bellingen #PromisedLand #traffic #GlenifferRoad #WaterfallWay #NorthBankRoad #Roads #RoadUpgrades #FossilFuel #Infrastructure #tourism #network #so50s #cars #addiction #Ebikes #cycling #CyclePaths #Climate -
Redesigning roads and intersections to put humans first – The Bellingen case
Bellingen just 'upgraded' Gleniffer Road (The $5.2M “gate way to the Promised Land”) and North Bank Road. Both put fossil fuel vehicles first and forgot emission free mobility for people.
But cyclists and foot traffic deserve the same direct routes that motorists have. Elsewhere they rethink transport planning to promote safer cycling and walking options. Another missed opportunity to put Bellingen on the map for pollution free country cruising.https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-07-29/pushing-bikes-in-the-car-capital/102659800
#Bellingen #PromisedLand #traffic #GlenifferRoad #WaterfallWay #NorthBankRoad #Roads #RoadUpgrades #FossilFuel #Infrastructure #tourism #network #so50s #cars #addiction #Ebikes #cycling #CyclePaths #Climate -
Redesigning roads and intersections to put humans first – The Bellingen case
Bellingen just 'upgraded' Gleniffer Road (The $5.2M “gate way to the Promised Land”) and North Bank Road. Both put fossil fuel vehicles first and forgot emission free mobility for people.
But cyclists and foot traffic deserve the same direct routes that motorists have. Elsewhere they rethink transport planning to promote safer cycling and walking options. Another missed opportunity to put Bellingen on the map for pollution free country cruising.https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-07-29/pushing-bikes-in-the-car-capital/102659800
#Bellingen #PromisedLand #traffic #GlenifferRoad #WaterfallWay #NorthBankRoad #Roads #RoadUpgrades #FossilFuel #Infrastructure #tourism #network #so50s #cars #addiction #Ebikes #cycling #CyclePaths #Climate -
Redesigning roads and intersections to put humans first – The Bellingen case
Bellingen just 'upgraded' Gleniffer Road (The $5.2M “gate way to the Promised Land”) and North Bank Road. Both put fossil fuel vehicles first and forgot emission free mobility for people.
But cyclists and foot traffic deserve the same direct routes that motorists have. Elsewhere they rethink transport planning to promote safer cycling and walking options. Another missed opportunity to put Bellingen on the map for pollution free country cruising.https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-07-29/pushing-bikes-in-the-car-capital/102659800
#Bellingen #PromisedLand #traffic #GlenifferRoad #WaterfallWay #NorthBankRoad #Roads #RoadUpgrades #FossilFuel #Infrastructure #tourism #network #so50s #cars #addiction #Ebikes #cycling #CyclePaths #Climate -
Redesigning roads and intersections to put humans first – The Bellingen case
Bellingen just 'upgraded' Gleniffer Road (The $5.2M “gate way to the Promised Land”) and North Bank Road. Both put fossil fuel vehicles first and forgot emission free mobility for people.
But cyclists and foot traffic deserve the same direct routes that motorists have. Elsewhere they rethink transport planning to promote safer cycling and walking options. Another missed opportunity to put Bellingen on the map for pollution free country cruising.https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-07-29/pushing-bikes-in-the-car-capital/102659800
#Bellingen #PromisedLand #traffic #GlenifferRoad #WaterfallWay #NorthBankRoad #Roads #RoadUpgrades #FossilFuel #Infrastructure #tourism #network #so50s #cars #addiction #Ebikes #cycling #CyclePaths #Climate -
Building cycle paths is just virtue signalling unless you maintain them (and keep drivers and their climate-killers off them) https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/letters/2023/06/09/cycle-path-maintenance/ #CyclePaths #Litter #Maintenance
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Cyklo-infraštruktúra v Trnave sa nám pekne rozrastá 😁
Snáď som nijaký cyklochodník nezabudol zmapovať... #openstreetmap #cyclosm #cyclepaths #Trnava -
Today’s #cycle trip was to #Exmouth which is about 18 km away by #bike mostly on #cyclepaths. It has been a bright sunny day but still a bit cool. This is a #photograph of the #ExeEstuary which opens out into the #EnglishChannel. It was #LowTide and so you can see #SandBanks in the middle of the #estuary which form a #habitat for #birds but also a #NavigationalHazard. You can see the opposite #bank too which is in #Starcross.
#MyWork #MyPhoto #CCBYSA #DSLR #Nikon #D7000 #Spring #Beach #Cycling
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The thread about the Fifth Day of Christmas; A theme of Five and Golden but not rings
This thread was originally written and published in December 2019.
This post in the Edinburgh and Leith themed Twelve Days of Christmas is preceded by a thread about Burdiehouse.
The part of the song that all children love to belt out with gusto; On the fifth day of Christmas, my true love gave to me; Fiveways and Goldenacre. I’m really quite pleased with this one, although it does mean there’s actually two places to describe, even if they are quite close together.
Fiveways might not be familiar if you if you aren’t a regular cyclist, stroller, jogger or dog walker on the North Edinburgh Path Network in the Trinity area of the city, but it’s a rather obvious placename for where five different paths converge.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/131232392@N06/52144261048/
These paths are all old railway trackbeds, acquired by the then Lothian Regional Council in the 1980s and resurfaced for use as walking and cycling routes. There weren’t ever 5 railways here though, there was one railway crossing another which had a junction just north of the crossing.
Fiveways, the blue line of the Caledonian Railway crosses the olive green lines of the North British RailwayThe first railway here was the Edinburgh, Leith & Newhaven which opened a route from Scotland Street in the north of the New Town to Trinity (to serve Newhaven) in 1842. This line was extended into the city at Canal Street Station via the Scotland Street Tunnel, but in 1868 this awkward approach was bypassed entirely and a new connection was made from Abbeyhill, under Easter Road and Leith Walk, through Powderhall and connecting with the line to Trinity and Granton at Trinity Junction. This new branch had to pass under the Caledonian Railway, which in 1864 had built a line to North Leith (a station usually referred to as Leith North!) around the north of the city from a junction at Dalry Road station.
The lines from Scotland Street and Roseburn were closed and lifted in the 1960s, the diversionary route from Abbeyhill hung on for occasional traffic to an oil depot in Granton until 1984.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/117983829@N03/13842304435/in/album-72157643950735923/
When the trackbed was acquired by the council, it was landscaped into a level crossing, with the appearance of five distinct paths meeting here.
The five paths of Fiveways, left to right are; the North British line to Abbeyhill; the line to Scotland Street; the Caledonian line to Leith North, the line to Trinity and Granton; the Caledonian line to Dalry Road. CC-By-NC-ND 2.0, Chris Hill on FlickrThe fingerpost at the top of this post is a neat link to the Golden part of this thread as one of the signs is of course pointing to the nearby area of Goldenacre. As a place name, it is relatively modern; from the late 18th or early 19th century. Older forms go back to the later part of the 17th century as Goldenriggs or Goldenaikers. A rigg, an aiker or an acre all obviously referring to a unit of measurement for farmland. The “golden” part is either a colour reference; as is frequently used around the Lothians in reference to the wildflowers or crops that once grew here; or is a reference to the monetary productivity of the farmland at one time.
There were no structures at Goldenacre in a 1759 feuing plan of the lands of Wariston by Robinson. A house is marked, but not named, here on the 1804 town plan by Ainslie in a plot of land owned by the Duke of Buccleuch, which was at this time a salient of North Leith Parish on the south side of the Ferry Road. The principal house and name for the area at this time was Bangholm, with Goldenacre named and shown in the 1817 plan by Kirkwood.
Goldenacre and Bangholm(e), on either side of the Ferry Road, 1817 town plan by Kirkwood. Reproduced with the permission of the National Library of ScotlandVillas, and later tenements, began to appear along Inverleith Row and the Ferry Road throughout the late 18th and into the 19th century, but Goldenacre remained a nursery and market garden along with most of the land in the district. The 1876 town plan shows it clearly, with a range of garden structures and planting to the south of the house.
1876 Ordnance Survey town plan. Reproduced with the permission of the National Library of ScotlandA noteable resident of Goldenacre was Lieutenant General Sir William Crockat (or Crokat), who retired to No. 52 Inverleith Row in 1830 after a 23 year career in the army which had left him invalided. He defied expectations of the fever received at Walcheren and injuries received in Spain and from which he suffered for the rest of his life and spent a long 44 years retirement here. Crockat was the youngest son of John Crokat Esq. of Hawkfield in South Leith, a master slater. It was as Captain Crockat that he was the last officer who had been in charge of the imprisonment of Napoleon Bonaparte on St. Helena, who had been present at his death and who had arrived back in Britain with the despatches that brought news of his death. For his efforts, Crockhat was awarded £500 and a promotion. It is alleged that he cut a lock of hair from the head of the deceased and presented it to his sister as a keepsake. In his obituary it was noted that among his keepsakes from his time on St. Helena, he had in his possession a silver plate and knife used by Napoleon and which bore the Imperial eagle; a portrait of him as a boy, taken from his Imperial snuff box; a wooden spatula that he used to clean his gardening spade in exile; a cordon worn by him during the “100 days campaign”; his silk stocking and garter; and a carved spirits case of cocoa nut wood.
The death of Napoleon, by Charles Steuben. Crockat is the officer in the red jacket with his back to the artist on the far right © Rebecca Young/Fondation NapoléonIn 1887 the suburban tranquillity of Goldenacre changed when the Edinburgh & Northern Tramways cable hauled tramway reached here as its northern terminus. Suddenly this quiet patch of market gardens was a desirable development plot just a few minutes away from the city centre by tram car and inevitably it was soon feud for building. Within 2 years of the arrival of trams, the old house and its gardens and nursery were gone, and new streets of tenements had sprung up; Bowhill, Montague, Royston, Monmouth and Goldenacre Terraces. These other street names were all derived from family connections of the landowner, the Duke of Buccleuch.
Goldenacre has its place in Scottish rugby lore, the playing fields of George Heriot’s School being created from the old Banholm Nursery in 1899, the school trust having long been the feudal superior landowner of them. The centrepiece to the playing fields is the red brick 1901 sports pavilion.
The Pavilion at Goldenacre, CC-by-SA 2.0 Sandy GemmillThe sports grounds were extended in 1926 with the opening of New Goldenacre, a senior rugby pitch for the Heriot’s FP team complete with a grandstand. At the time this was one of the finest rugby grounds in the country.
The Grandstand at New Goldenacre, CC-by-SA 2.0 Sandy GemmillThe Edinburgh and Leith twelve days of Christmas thread continues with a post about the Guse Dub.
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#Lochend #Logan #Restalrig #StMargaret -
#Toronto '#Bikelanes & sidewalks still have a tendency to become makeshift #parking spaces for entitled #drivers. Bollards & other dividers separating #bike lanes from the #street regularly disappear. In too many places, the #curbs still haven’t been properly cut to create smooth ramps for people using #wheelchairs or pushing #strollers.
And #driver behaviour is atrocious, with almost no regular enforcement.'
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@modacitylife This (click through and scroll up ☝️☝️☝️)! North American urbanists talk about the wonders of the cycling network of “Amsterdam” seemingly without realizing that every city, every town, and every tiny village has a similar network, and each of these is connected by a rural #cycling network. You can ride #bikes safely anywhere you want to go in the whole country of the #Netherlands (those paths in the attached image are #CyclePaths, not highways).
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It seems #yegcc isn’t even much of a hashtag yet on Mastodon, so I’m not sure how many people will care about this, but…the city council in #Edmonton (city of about a million people in western Canada) just opted to fund this bill, which includes ONE HUNDRED MILLION NEW DOLLARS to expand the network of protected #bikelanes!
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A good day for #cycling today and the #CyclePaths were pretty busy this morning. It’s generally good to see people of all ages out there; friends, families and some more keen #cyclists but the weekend does bring out what I call #SundayRiders who only come out very occasionally and just generally get in the way or are not fully in control of their #bikes. It tends to be the middle aged who are worst at this...
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The Sun’s out and it’s a warmish winter day. The shared paths and #CyclePaths were crowded with #pedestrians in places. I thought we were still in #lockdown. Few people with masks too and little social distancing too. Very disappointing.
#Bike #Biking #Cycle #Cycling #Bicycle #Pandemic @mastobikes
