http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Haymarket Yards dropped kerb blocked today en Fri, 22 May 2026 05:59:33 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11349#post-128343 Tue, 15 Oct 2013 00:31:33 +0000 Focus 128343@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I've a feeling that's what they were doing when I spoke to the workmen on Sunday too. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11349#post-128177 Mon, 14 Oct 2013 09:45:18 +0000 kaputnik 128177@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Came from zoo direction on Saturday afternoon and there was a pile of vans, tankers, compressors and so forth going on.</p> <p>They had built a little tent on a bit of the tracks and there appeared to be some heavy duty pressure washing going. Tracks must be dirty from lack of use? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11349#post-128162 Mon, 14 Oct 2013 00:34:10 +0000 Focus 128162@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Good to hear. Hopefully their work is done. And mine too :-) And if they do return, they won't have an excuse for putting it in the wrong place! </p> <p>The way they'd positioned it also meant having to cross 2 thick power/airlines, one of which was around 5 or 6 cm in diameter. Only a bunny hop would have cleared that safely on a road bike. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11349#post-128159 Sun, 13 Oct 2013 23:55:36 +0000 wingpig 128159@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>There was nothing there this evening. There was a skip not too far from the path on the earthy/muddy bit but hopefully it'll stay where it is. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11349#post-128147 Sun, 13 Oct 2013 17:13:36 +0000 Focus 128147@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>An experiment in polite complaining! This is part of a test ride I did this afternoon, which I plan on posting about later but...</p> <p>Coming back from the city centre shambles (at around 16:50), I reached the dropped kerb at Haymarket Yards leading to the Roseburn Path, only to find tram construction vehicles parked on the kerb and with their compressor completely blocking access to the shared path on the dropped kerb. A workman called to me from the residents' car park, where he'd just got out of his van, to reassure me the path was open(nice man, thank you). He even told me where it led but I replied that I knew. </p> <p>Anyway, there were about a dozen men concentrated on the tracks and the compressor was in use. I stopped and calmly pointed out that the compressor was blocking the only dropped kerb access to the cycle path and asked if they could move it even a metre or so to one side to permit access. One of them assured me it would be moved. He sounded genuine enough about it and <em>maybe</em> they really didn't know they were blocking a cycle path, or at least that they were making access difficult.</p> <p><strong>Anyway, if anyone's heading that way today (or tomorrow even), it would be interesting to know that - if the compressor is still there - that it <em>has</em> been moved to one side.</strong> </p>