http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: RIE - new access en Fri, 22 May 2026 04:01:52 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10391#post-114961 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 10:27:22 +0000 tammytroot 114961@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>By the way, under international dibs law, I claim this road for myself. Possession is nine tenths of the law! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10391#post-114959 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 10:23:59 +0000 tammytroot 114959@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@holi,<br /> From the Niddrie Mains Rd you can access either from Niddrie Marischal Via the ped cut through beside the tower blocks as in pic above, or cycle up Greendykes RD from the castle end. The barriers there are open. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10391#post-114944 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 09:27:24 +0000 holisticglint 114944@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Failed to get onto the nice new shared path from the A7 end and could only look forlornly at it from the bus route. </p> <p>How do you get onto it without bumping up a curb ? Path on city greendykes side is not dual use :-( </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10391#post-114943 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 09:27:21 +0000 holisticglint 114943@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <br /> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10391#post-114876 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:13:18 +0000 DaveC 114876@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Eddie_h Said <em>And the landscaping already includes a couple of bikes, a car bumper, a mini-motorbike front wheel &amp; the piece de resistance: a pram in the burn. </em></p> <p>Wot No Shopping Trolley!?!?</p> <p>Thats place has REALLY gone down hill.... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10391#post-114872 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 14:54:10 +0000 kaputnik 114872@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>You can take the river out of Greendykes... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10391#post-114869 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 14:47:05 +0000 chdot 114869@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/chdot/9075779666/"><img src="http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3751/9075779666_545799ae0a.jpg"></a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10391#post-114866 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 14:39:03 +0000 neddie 114866@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>From the Hootsman article:</p> <p><em>realigned to form a river corridor, with landscaping, footbridges...</em></p> <p>And the landscaping already includes a couple of bikes, a car bumper, a mini-motorbike front wheel &amp; the piece de resistance: a pram in the burn. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10391#post-114865 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 14:32:05 +0000 Roibeard 114865@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>However there is a nice wide cyclepath next to the road. So...?</em></p> <p>If width were the only determinate of quality, then that would be grand.</p> <p>What I can't tell from the photograph, though, is whether usage of the shared pavement requires giving way to every side street, or worse, dismounting at every junction. Nor do I know how the shared pavement ends - with a nicely graded and safe return to the carriageway, or with a "cycle route ends" sign at the next junction without so much as a dropped kerb.</p> <p>I am, however, pretty sure that the bus and taxi route doesn't need to give way, joins up with the main road sensibly and doesn't involve bouncing down a kerb!</p> <p>Of course, first time use of all UK cycle infrastructure involves this gamble - it may be fine, but it may be dreadful and better to stay on the road, and if you're making good and safe progress on the road, the gamble isn't always worth taking.</p> <p>Robert<br /> (revealing his resigned-Vehicular-Cyclist-wishing-it-were-"Dutch" complexities...) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10391#post-114860 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 14:05:31 +0000 chdot 114860@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"Pity cyclists are prohibited. Or are they?"</p> <p>Interesting question. </p> <p>If they've done the paperwork correctly, then probably yes. </p> <p>However there is a nice <em>wide</em> cyclepath next to the road. </p> <p>So...? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10391#post-114858 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 13:34:39 +0000 Roibeard 114858@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Pity cyclists are prohibited. Or are they?</p> <p>Signs say one thing (Bus and taxi only on road, cyclists on the shared footway), road markings say another...</p> <p>Cue cries of "gerrof my road"...</p> <p>Robert </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10391#post-114846 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 12:43:23 +0000 tammytroot 114846@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Saw another cyclist on my road yesterday morning.<br /> We are currently the rush hour traffic! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10391#post-114840 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 12:21:17 +0000 chdot 114840@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/chdot/9075980714/"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7290/9075980714_8498340584.jpg"></a><br /> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/chdot/9075980714/">new No Road for cars</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10391#post-113687 Mon, 10 Jun 2013 21:11:33 +0000 kaputnik 113687@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>There is a sign saying buses, taxis and bicycles only</em></p> <p>There's one of them near Kirspy Kerme too, for all the use it does. I believe the new section here is to be camera enforced though? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10391#post-113679 Mon, 10 Jun 2013 18:36:57 +0000 tammytroot 113679@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Probably unfinished.<br /> I seem to be the only traffic on it at thr moment. There is a sign saying buses, taxis and bicycles only. :) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10391#post-113678 Mon, 10 Jun 2013 18:29:11 +0000 chdot 113678@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Drainage? Unfinished?? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10391#post-113676 Mon, 10 Jun 2013 18:26:44 +0000 tammytroot 113676@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>The red is gravel. The black is just tarmac. It is not a cyclelane. Thr wide pavement on the right of the photo is a shared use path. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10391#post-113675 Mon, 10 Jun 2013 18:21:03 +0000 chdot 113675@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>What is the red and black bit to left of the lines?? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10391#post-113673 Mon, 10 Jun 2013 17:59:22 +0000 tammytroot 113673@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Sheer bliss! I have this nice shiny new road all to myself!<br /> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/63612807@N02/9008657068/"><img src="http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3725/9008657068_85936fe669.jpg"></a><br /> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/63612807@N02/9008657068/">2013-06-10 16.50.16</a> by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/63612807@N02/">Tammytroot2</a>, on Flickr</p> <p>Ped cut through;<br /> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/63612807@N02/9007496537/"><img src="http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5331/9007496537_1aced673e4.jpg"></a><br /> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/63612807@N02/9007496537/">2013-06-10 16.55.52</a> by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/63612807@N02/">Tammytroot2</a>, on Flickr</p> <p>:) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10391#post-113519 Fri, 07 Jun 2013 22:40:31 +0000 chdot 113519@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"so much nicer than going over the Col de Craigmillar"</p> <p>Both on the road and the stupid steps -</p> <p><a href="http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=293" rel="nofollow">http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=293</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10391#post-113518 Fri, 07 Jun 2013 22:32:19 +0000 tammytroot 113518@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Ok. It is possible to get through via Niddrie Marschial. Requires a dismount and cut through on a peds only section through Greendykes rd. But so much nicer than going over the Col de Craigmillar. Sorry, no pics. Maybe next week.<br /> totally traffic free this evening. :) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10391#post-113461 Fri, 07 Jun 2013 15:36:17 +0000 chdot 113461@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Looks like there needs to be a fair bit of OSM remapping!</p> <p><a href="http://edinburgh.cyclestreets.net/journey/30163095" rel="nofollow">http://edinburgh.cyclestreets.net/journey/30163095</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10391#post-113457 Fri, 07 Jun 2013 15:29:25 +0000 chdot 113457@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"No way through from there."</p> <p>Doesn't really surprise me. </p> <p><em>However</em> there is a Right of Way from Pentecox through to Hunters Hall (and so Greendykes). Presume this is still rideable, (bit rough in places). </p> <p>Not as convenient as the new tarmac of course - but at least a way round. </p> <p>Any chance of photos later? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10391#post-113456 Fri, 07 Jun 2013 15:21:28 +0000 tammytroot 113456@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I tried to access this today from Greendykes. No way through from there. The RIE end has been open all week.<br /> I will recce from RIE tonight. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10391#post-113414 Fri, 07 Jun 2013 13:07:14 +0000 chdot 113414@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Oh it's finally finished(?)</p> <p>About a year late. </p> <p>Was close by yesterday I'd have looked if I'd known. </p> <p>Of course this should have happened before ERI was built. </p> <p>ESPECIALLY the walk/cycle bit. </p> <p>Would have helped people from Niddrie and Greendykes get there as patients or staff. Now there are hardly any houses in Greendykes!</p> <p>"<br /> we’re looking forward to seeing a new bus service start operating on this road in the near future</p> <p>"</p> <p>You'd have thought there would be a bus ready to 'cut the tape' as soon as the road was open...</p> <p>If you go to Google Maps you can still see the Grrendykes housing estate. If you zoom right in the disappear and the newer view also shows the work-in-progress on the burn and new road. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10391#post-113413 Fri, 07 Jun 2013 12:50:20 +0000 cb 113413@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="http://www.scotsman.com/news/scottish-news/top-stories/housing-and-jobs-boost-after-niddrie-link-finished-1-2959351">http://www.scotsman.com/news/scottish-news/top-stories/housing-and-jobs-boost-after-niddrie-link-finished-1-2959351</a></p> <p>"A new £2.75m 1km link road connecting Little France Drive with Greendykes Road, with a 200-metre bus lane for public transport, taxis and emergency vehicles only, enforced by a bus lane camera, has also come into use."</p> <p>"The road also incorporates a two-metre footpath and a four-metre combined footpath/
cycleway and street lighting."</p> <p>So what's it like, this new road?</p> <p>Is that the 'safe cycle access to ERI' box now ticked? </p>