http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Open air swimming lane added to NMW en Tue, 19 May 2026 00:27:06 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10466#post-114704 Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:51:40 +0000 Snowy 114704@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>4-way temporary traffic lights may be required</em>...</p> <p>Presumably because they'll have to shut the flow off from that junction, or similar. The burst is at least a couple of hundred metres away from there. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10466#post-114699 Mon, 17 Jun 2013 12:50:19 +0000 SRD 114699@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"Scottish Water are attending to a burst water main at the east end of the Meadows. Traffic management details are yet to be decided but 4-way temporary traffic lights may be required at Melville Drive/Hope Park Terrace junction later today (Monday 17th). We will provide more details as we get them." </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10466#post-114679 Mon, 17 Jun 2013 11:34:29 +0000 DaveC 114679@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Free bike wash on NMW?? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10466#post-114678 Mon, 17 Jun 2013 11:28:56 +0000 lionfish 114678@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I for one welcome the new water feature - I don't remember it on the plans for the improved bike path, but it looks quite refreshing! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10466#post-114675 Mon, 17 Jun 2013 11:19:36 +0000 fimm 114675@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Reminds me of a when I was a student and something similar happened - my memory of the resulting fountain is that it was much bigger than that one, I assume it was a higher pressure pipe they'd punctured. I was in a chemistry lab at the time and the water pressure dropped noteably. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10466#post-114666 Mon, 17 Jun 2013 10:38:22 +0000 Morningsider 114666@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>edd1e_h - Scottish Water loses 629 million litres of water per day through leakage. This is actually pretty good, in 2002/3 they lost 1.12 billion litres per day!</p> <p>They won't be sweating this one. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10466#post-114661 Mon, 17 Jun 2013 10:18:17 +0000 neddie 114661@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Doesn't look like there's any urgency to fix it...</p> <p>Meanwhile millions of litres of drinking water wasted. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10466#post-114645 Mon, 17 Jun 2013 09:43:33 +0000 SRD 114645@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Video here: <a href="http://flickr.com/gp/53569811@N03/12aB45" rel="nofollow">http://flickr.com/gp/53569811@N03/12aB45</a></p> <p>better than the still </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10466#post-114641 Mon, 17 Jun 2013 09:21:18 +0000 SRD 114641@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7304/9066273190_e2f1fdd6d6.jpg"> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10466#post-114626 Sun, 16 Jun 2013 23:59:44 +0000 SRD 114626@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>That sounds pretty exciting. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10466#post-114564 Sun, 16 Jun 2013 13:39:48 +0000 neddie 114564@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I didn't remember seeing it in the plans, but due to the lovely weather we've been experiencing, CEC have decided to go one step further and add an open-air swimming lane to N. Meadow Walk. Super...!</p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bonsai_bonus/9055803537/"><img src="http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3813/9055803537_f6367e03b4.jpg"></a><br /> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bonsai_bonus/9055803537/">NMW swimming lane</a></p> <p>Once they've removed the temporary barriers, there will even be a 1.5 metre high fountain for the kids to play in... </p>