http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Leith to Portobello (Links Pl to Constitution St) en Mon, 06 Apr 2026 18:21:39 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12651&page=2#post-223376 Thu, 16 Jun 2016 18:23:33 +0000 urchaidh 223376@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>There's now a trench which looks like it's taking a power cable from the beach side of the path to the dropped kerbs on both sides of the road. I suspect a controlled crossing, but my google-foo is weak so I can't confirm. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12651&page=2#post-223296 Thu, 16 Jun 2016 10:51:54 +0000 urchaidh 223296@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>You're right, there is a long dropped kerb already. My memory from this morning is that the new pair (for there is a matching one on the other side of the road) is further south and pedestrian sized.</p> <p>Will take a better look this evening. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12651&page=2#post-223281 Thu, 16 Jun 2016 10:11:43 +0000 wingpig 223281@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Isn't there already a slightly lower bit to the kerb around there, for vehicles wanting to park outside the prom gates or the occasional police car/ambulance accessing the prom? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12651&page=2#post-223280 Thu, 16 Jun 2016 10:02:20 +0000 urchaidh 223280@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>New dropped kerb with blister tactile paving is being installed on Seafield Road East, just north of where the ramp up from the prom ends, about 50m south of the end of Fillyside road.</p> <p>This is a hellish road to cross - wide, busy and fast. No sign of any crossing assistance (island, toucan) but that may be coming. Anyone know any more? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12651&page=2#post-223215 Wed, 15 Jun 2016 13:04:10 +0000 wingpig 223215@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I sometimes go all the way up the new bit beside the tennis cours/community croft, do a bit of cobbling to get to the cut-through to Constitution St at Wellington Place, then go through Coatfield Lane/Giles Street for a little less traffic if I'm dragging a youngster. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12651&page=2#post-223213 Wed, 15 Jun 2016 12:56:56 +0000 ih 223213@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"I've no idea where the council are going (literally or metaphorically) with the path ending on Constitution Street."</p> <p>I suppose the idea is that by cycling a little way south on Constitution St you link up with the Leith Roseburn Cycle Superhighway. It kinda works, I do it regularly especially when I want to check who's parking in the cycle lane on Leith Walk. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12651&page=2#post-223211 Wed, 15 Jun 2016 12:36:50 +0000 urchaidh 223211@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@erob - the sketchy cobbled/one way bit past the police station is, sadly, the best way at the moment. I've no idea where the council are going (literally or metaphorically) with the path ending on Constitution Street.</p> <p>I stay on Queen Charlotte Street from the Links then pick through to the Sadnport Place bridge for the WoL path. If it's just me I follow the shaky one way around, with the kids I shortcut using the pavement on Tolbooth Wynd. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12651&page=2#post-223207 Wed, 15 Jun 2016 12:17:37 +0000 Rob 223207@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Where is the Water of Leith side start of this route? Does it bypass the sketchy cobbled/one way bit passed the police station?</p> <p>Edit: Found it - <a href="https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@55.9722059,-3.1691527,3a,75y,151.48h,67.32t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s9xRBgomSHqRmHhgBmT8keA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656">here</a></p> <p>What's the best way to join the Water of Leith from there? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12651&page=2#post-223197 Wed, 15 Jun 2016 11:28:15 +0000 wingpig 223197@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>The section beside Links Gardens is currently plastic-barriered-off so that EdinCore can keep turf and soil on the bike path whilst they install fibres in a trench which is thankfully in the grass. The last set of tactiles beside the tennis courts are a bit wobbly as they've been lifted and not yet regrouted. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12651&page=2#post-196605 Fri, 21 Aug 2015 21:46:00 +0000 tk 196605@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>And already the area they have seeded with grass by the chicanes has been mangled by bikes </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12651&page=2#post-196592 Fri, 21 Aug 2015 18:32:26 +0000 wingpig 196592@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>That, I relieve, makes this work include a Crummock mistake, maintaining their record in that regard. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12651&page=2#post-196588 Fri, 21 Aug 2015 17:01:35 +0000 ih 196588@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>And you know the best thing? They've set the chicanes in both directions so that you are forced to ride right in front of the school gates on the pedestrian side! Just where the children exit, and the mums congregate. Genius.</p> <p>If they really had to put a bit of fence there (which they don't) they could have put up a short section outside each gate, but parallel with the path along the segregation line. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12651&page=2#post-196586 Fri, 21 Aug 2015 16:52:21 +0000 wingpig 196586@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I had foolishly thought they'd learnt their lesson and removed them with the intention of not replacing them. Twernips, all. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12651&page=2#post-196583 Fri, 21 Aug 2015 16:33:13 +0000 The Boy 196583@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Workmen back today to install two sets of chicanes. Almost exactly the same as the two the removed a couple of months ago but with addition of an optimistic extra 30cm or so protruding onto the grass in an impotent attempt at stopping cyclists from nipping round them. My dog walks just got far less pleasant along that stretch.</p> <p>Public money being spent on digging holes and filing them in again. Awesome. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12651&page=2#post-196466 Fri, 21 Aug 2015 08:53:14 +0000 The Boy 196466@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>One of the annoying things about that section was the dropped kerb on the pedestrian side of the path only such that cyclists coming onto the path from the road rather than the Links section of off-road path would swing off to 'my' side of the path before moving back across.</p> <p>Looks like they have dropped another section of kerb to the right of the turning circle to the other side of the tactiles rather than simply dropping a wider section next to the existing bit.</p> <p>Looks like the designers have decided that there is a path and cyclists will use that path whether it makes sense for them to do so or not. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12651#post-196456 Fri, 21 Aug 2015 07:25:11 +0000 bdellar 196456@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Yup, they've moved the tactiles that were placed RIGHT in the middle of a curve, to slightly to one end of the curve. </p> <p>So, still dangerous in the wet, and largely unusable... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12651#post-196438 Thu, 20 Aug 2015 21:11:07 +0000 The Boy 196438@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>This was going on outside my flat and I'm still none the wiser about what they were actually doing apart from relaying some tactiles at slightly different angle. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12651#post-196369 Thu, 20 Aug 2015 09:47:07 +0000 wingpig 196369@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Maybe they're installing a small tarmac area for the recycling bins to sit on, which would at least make it easier to hoick them off the path every time I pass.</p> <p>A large Crummock van with a Crummock tarmac-bothering machine was parked right across the enlarged entrance to the path from Links Gardens Lane, with the path itself blocked by orange plastic fencing with a man behind it chipping out a tactile. Further heavy plant was being manoeuvred into Links Gardens Lane, meaning you had to bump up an undropped kerb back onto the new path after squeezing around the back of the large van. I asked them if they could perhaps not block the alternative route on/off the path if they were working on the path itself as I went past. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12651#post-196365 Thu, 20 Aug 2015 09:33:40 +0000 kaputnik 196365@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>They've also laid an area (an isosceles trapezium with its base along the path) of 'stuff'</em></p> <p>There's any number of brand names for it, but I believe the common or garden name is "grass reinforcement mesh". </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12651#post-196363 Thu, 20 Aug 2015 09:24:38 +0000 urchaidh 196363@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><strong>Crummock Watch Update</strong></p> <p>They're currently re-laying a block of tactiles adjacent to the bend on Links Garden Lane, no idea why. Maybe installing a turnstile.</p> <p>They've also laid an area (an isosceles trapezium with its base along the path) of 'stuff' (no idea what you call it, hexagonal matting just below the surface through which grass will grow) outside the easternmost gate. Doesn't look like they've done anything at the other gate yet.</p> <p>Obviously, logistical considerations dictate waiting 'til the week the schools go back to do some work outside of a school, rather than attempt this during the prior six weeks of school holiday when there would have been no crowds of kids/parents twice a day. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12651#post-193942 Sat, 25 Jul 2015 08:13:25 +0000 bdellar 193942@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>The tactiles on the new curvy path as you leave St Mary's are pretty awful. They're at about a 30 degree angle to the path, and right on a bend. </p> <p>And the tactiles right at the start of the new path across the Links are bad too. They're right in the middle of where you turn.</p> <p>I've noticed that folk cycle on the pedestrian side at both places...</p> <p>Other than the badly placed tactiles, it's a good addition. But it doesn't join up with WoL yet... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12651#post-193706 Tue, 21 Jul 2015 13:55:08 +0000 wingpig 193706@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I've used it to get children to allotments a few times. I filmed but haven't yet posted the convolution required to get from the John's Place crossing to the WoL with the least amount of on-road, cobble or dismount. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12651#post-193682 Tue, 21 Jul 2015 10:08:27 +0000 chdot 193682@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"</p> <p> Kirsty Lewin (@KirstyLewin)<br /> 21/07/2015 09:51<br /> Some pics of Leith Links cycle infrastructure improvements - come on Porty/Leith no excuse now! #cycling #schoolrun </p> <p><a href="http://pic.twitter.com/Kk41MExBvo" rel="nofollow">http://pic.twitter.com/Kk41MExBvo</a></p> <p>" </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12651#post-192984 Thu, 09 Jul 2015 23:49:18 +0000 wingpig 192984@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Almost finished...<br /> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSxdeqHOcb0" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSxdeqHOcb0</a><br /> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EQB4chwAhM" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EQB4chwAhM</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12651#post-192547 Sun, 05 Jul 2015 11:09:49 +0000 wingpig 192547@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Possible weak point - the corner where the very wide path from the park turns onto the widened shared footway has been put back (fresh mortar on the kerbstones) where it was, leaving what could turn out to be a narrow pinchpoint:</p> <p><a href="https://flic.kr/p/vyT1XY"><img src="https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/553/19406428102_23841d3978_n.jpg"></a><br /> <a href="https://flic.kr/p/vyT1XY">IMG_20150704_183536016</a> by <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/wingpig/">wingpig</a>, on Flickr </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12651#post-192249 Wed, 01 Jul 2015 13:01:17 +0000 wingpig 192249@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Nothing noticeably catastrophic so far. Hopefully the soft-looking mud next to the bike side will be seeded to help firm it up more quickly, in case escape/diversion thereupon is required. Presumably the surface next to the tactiles at Links Gardens will be freshened at some point, rather than left as crumbly cement. The widening of the path opposite the new level toucan also sensibly starts well before the crossing.</p> <p><a href="https://flic.kr/p/vr9q2e"><img src="https://c2.staticflickr.com/4/3769/19318900375_aec0db6e6d_n.jpg"></a><br /> <a href="https://flic.kr/p/vr9q2e">IMG_20150630_215055978</a> by <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/wingpig/">wingpig</a>, on Flickr<br /> <a href="https://flic.kr/p/uui7Rc"><img src="https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/429/18698191333_139bae4c2d_n.jpg"></a><br /> <a href="https://flic.kr/p/uui7Rc">IMG_20150630_215129170</a> by <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/wingpig/">wingpig</a>, on Flickr<br /> <a href="https://flic.kr/p/v9yY59"><img src="https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/366/19131310448_2a4d8e374e_n.jpg"></a><br /> <a href="https://flic.kr/p/v9yY59">IMG_20150630_215148000</a> by <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/wingpig/">wingpig</a>, on Flickr<br /> <a href="https://flic.kr/p/voQRfQ"><img src="https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/468/19292840256_7da2e497f6_n.jpg"></a><br /> <a href="https://flic.kr/p/voQRfQ">IMG_20150630_215201616</a> by <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/wingpig/">wingpig</a>, on Flickr<br /> <a href="https://flic.kr/p/v9yW2m"><img src="https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/326/19131303558_5131f2afb2_n.jpg"></a><br /> <a href="https://flic.kr/p/v9yW2m">IMG_20150630_215258904</a> by <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/wingpig/">wingpig</a>, on Flickr<br /> <a href="https://flic.kr/p/v9FMZ6"><img src="https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/303/19132642299_43895f8b91_n.jpg"></a><br /> <a href="https://flic.kr/p/v9FMZ6">IMG_20150630_215333244</a> by <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/wingpig/">wingpig</a>, on Flickr<br /> <a href="https://flic.kr/p/v9yZ2Q"><img src="https://c2.staticflickr.com/4/3682/19131313678_2d7a275126_n.jpg"></a><br /> <a href="https://flic.kr/p/v9yZ2Q">IMG_20150630_215358462</a> by <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/wingpig/">wingpig</a>, on Flickr<br /> <a href="https://flic.kr/p/voQd3y"><img src="https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/537/19292715076_89ed859f33_n.jpg"></a><br /> <a href="https://flic.kr/p/voQd3y">IMG_20150630_215516134</a> by <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/wingpig/">wingpig</a>, on Flickr<br /> <a href="https://flic.kr/p/v9Gr3K"><img src="https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/472/19132766979_393e982efe_n.jpg"></a><br /> <a href="https://flic.kr/p/v9Gr3K">IMG_20150630_215530747</a> by <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/wingpig/">wingpig</a>, on Flickr<br /> <a href="https://flic.kr/p/v9yWCG"><img src="https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/487/19131305608_fea6c03504_n.jpg"></a><br /> <a href="https://flic.kr/p/v9yWCG">IMG_20150630_215605041</a> by <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/wingpig/">wingpig</a>, on Flickr<br /> <a href="https://flic.kr/p/vr8Psp"><img src="https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/461/19318784095_79bcf852cd_n.jpg"></a><br /> <a href="https://flic.kr/p/vr8Psp">IMG_20150630_215645453</a> by <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/wingpig/">wingpig</a>, on Flickr<br /> <a href="https://flic.kr/p/v9y9fo"><img src="https://c2.staticflickr.com/4/3718/19131149570_3c147bfeb0_n.jpg"></a><br /> <a href="https://flic.kr/p/v9y9fo">IMG_20150630_215736849</a> by <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/wingpig/">wingpig</a>, on Flickr<br /> <a href="https://flic.kr/p/uuie6g"><img src="https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/513/18698212333_1e628ea7d0_n.jpg"></a><br /> <a href="https://flic.kr/p/uuie6g">IMG_20150630_215802390</a> by <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/wingpig/">wingpig</a>, on Flickr<br /> <a href="https://flic.kr/p/uu8VJG"><img src="https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/339/18696397944_660db59493_n.jpg"></a><br /> <a href="https://flic.kr/p/uu8VJG">IMG_20150630_215824178</a> by <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/wingpig/">wingpig</a>, on Flickr<br /> <a href="https://flic.kr/p/voQMKy"><img src="https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/341/19292828466_97f7384a89_n.jpg"></a><br /> <a href="https://flic.kr/p/voQMKy">IMG_20150630_215839945</a> by <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/wingpig/">wingpig</a>, on Flickr </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12651#post-192091 Tue, 30 Jun 2015 09:56:21 +0000 wingpig 192091@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Crivens to Betsy. They're running out of opportunities to mess something up. I'll have to check the progress of the bit alongside the tennis courts and community croft. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12651#post-192088 Tue, 30 Jun 2015 09:51:33 +0000 urchaidh 192088@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Tarmac now being raised to kerb level. Crummock and/or Council vindicated. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12651#post-192042 Mon, 29 Jun 2015 13:13:52 +0000 urchaidh 192042@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>They appear to have decided on a compromise and raised the road surface about half way up to the kerb height. This still leaves enough of a kerb to cause problems for some cyclists, buggies, wheel chair users and maybe even peds.</p> <p>I can understand the need for a gentle/low hump, or even no hump, on a road used by buses but whatever they do with the road I can't understand why the path and road surface can't be designed/installed to the same height. Not sure if it's the council or Crummock, but someone has cocked up here. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12651#post-191899 Fri, 26 Jun 2015 11:09:19 +0000 urchaidh 191899@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>There are temporary traffic lights to allow for just a single lane through the Links Place crossing at the moment so they must be up to something. </p>