http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Turning right into Meggetgate en Mon, 18 May 2026 14:45:20 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12715#post-151350 Thu, 01 May 2014 13:21:54 +0000 ianfieldhouse 151350@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>What is it that's unsuitable about the path over the canal at the top of Allan Park Road? Too narrow on the bridge section? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12715#post-151273 Thu, 01 May 2014 10:18:36 +0000 cb 151273@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I suppose if coming from Longstone you could access the canal from the top of Redhall Gardens but I guess that's no use for torpedoists particularly as it introduces the aqueduct.</p> <p>Or, compromise by using some of the "unsuitable path from Allan Park Road" as far as the canal and doing a short bit of towpath to Meggetland View? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12715#post-151240 Wed, 30 Apr 2014 22:01:03 +0000 Snowy 151240@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I discovered that right turn once the new Sainsbury opened at Longstone and I was trying to find a quick way back up to Colinton Road. It's probably great, in the middle of the night. At commuting times, it's one of those on-a-bend right turns which has you very aware of the short squishy nature of your mortality. I've stopped using it. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12715#post-151239 Wed, 30 Apr 2014 21:45:20 +0000 chdot 151239@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"I was reasonably in favour of demolishing that house"</p> <p>Was done for Fleming Place. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12715#post-151237 Wed, 30 Apr 2014 21:42:30 +0000 robyvecchio 151237@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Maybe asking CEC for a convex mirror on the west side of the bridge might help? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12715#post-151236 Wed, 30 Apr 2014 21:33:36 +0000 Arellcat 151236@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>The actual vehicular entrance to Meggetgate has a dropped kerb, currently with a honking big drop to the tarmac once you cross the footway. Accessing Meggetland View was the one reason I was reasonably <em>in</em> favour of demolishing that house. The new kerb extends from Meggetgate to Allan Park Rd and round the corner a wee bit.</p> <p>CEC giving with one hand and taking away with the other.</p> <p>Of course, it's not just cyclists wanting to get to the flats, or even the canal. Slateford Station might be the destination, and is equally dangerous to get to. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12715#post-151234 Wed, 30 Apr 2014 21:24:41 +0000 SRD 151234@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>We frequently make the -- even worse? -- left turn from Chesser direction into Meggetgate. Are you suggesting there is kerb there too? ie on the actual meggetgate entrance/exit? (On second thought, realised you can't mean that). </p> <p>Sounds like we will be walking/pelicaning/backtracking a lot from now on then. </p> <p>What a pain! The one real dud note in an otherwise excellent route to dance classes, winter football, and big asda shops for us. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12715#post-151233 Wed, 30 Apr 2014 21:20:29 +0000 Kenny 151233@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Bloody hell - shortcut FTW! I hadn't considered that was the best way to get from Slateford Road to Colinton Road. I shall have to see whether the dangerous turn is more preferable to climbing up Craiglockhart Avenue. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12715#post-151229 Wed, 30 Apr 2014 21:06:35 +0000 gembo 151229@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Tricky right turn, that one. Did it a few times and the lane is good route to the canal. Can't think of way round it.</p> <p>Might pull in at chippy formerly known as The Codfather. Use traffic lights to walk across. I can see this is not ideal. </p> <p>If you were coming up from A71 and turning right at Asda would still be a tricky left turn</p> <p>Frustrating, good road now with new Tarmac and no good way to get on to it </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12715#post-151225 Wed, 30 Apr 2014 20:51:07 +0000 Arellcat 151225@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>If there's one thing I really dislike, it's having to sprint up hills with car drivers breathing down my neck. Craiglockhart Avenue is a case in point, and I've always looked for alternatives.</p> <p>I frequently want to get from Slateford Road to Meggetgate, in order to access the shared path that leads to the canal, in order to access Meggetland View, in order to get to my actual through-route of Colinton Road. As some here will know, the right turn into Meggetgate just before the railway bridge is incredibly dangerous, with no sight of oncoming vehicles until they're RIGHT THERE, and Chesser-bound vehicles zooming past on your left.</p> <p>The solution until now has been to turn right into Allan Park Road (itself quite a dangerous manoeuvre because the single lane under the bridge miraculously becomes two lanes), then immediately turn left onto the footway :-( and about 10 yards later turn right into Meggetgate. Here is the <a href="https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@55.925478,-3.245303,3a,50.9y,52.93h,80.89t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sS3T0Q1RHZuMBxHwihNZHfQ!2e0?hl=en">Streetview of how it used to be</a> (note the long low kerb). And this is <a href="https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@55.925749,-3.245216,3a,75y,41.33h,82.75t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sLS55lxu5dvk7BP2H39oEGQ!2e0?hl=en">the view when you're trying to do it legally</a>.</p> <p>For the last few weeks that footway has been under repair, and now it's all finished! The kerb is now full height, and a new dropped kerb is provided more or less in line with the pedestrian crossing refuge and the flight of steps to the <a href="https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@55.925464,-3.245211,3a,72.4y,42.99h,75.21t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sPI54Sj0TVPcA_b3UU--MRQ!2e0?hl=en">surveyors' premises</a>. This ably prevents cyclists from making the safe(r) but illegal manoeuvre above.</p> <p>Non-torpedoists, used to tight turning circles and light weight, may not appreciate just how inconvenient this new kerb setup actually is. I've spent an hour trying to think up how to 'complain' to CEC, because I'm not really without fault either: I've been using the footway here on almost every occasion in order to make the turn safely, even if the footway is rarely patronised by its intended users.</p> <p>Alternatives are now:</p> <p>* the legal right turn.<br /> * winching myself up Craiglockhart Avenue and Craiglockhart Gardens.<br /> * using the entirely unsuitable path from Allan Park Road to Craiglockhart Road North.<br /> * using the next available right turn, which is Ashley Terrace nearly a mile down the road, and which leads to the lung-bursting climb up and over the canal just to reach Gray's Loan.</p> <p>I have to admit I'm not really fancying any of those options. </p>