http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Canal towpath closure at Viewforth en Thu, 21 May 2026 17:42:15 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16796&page=5#post-246796 Thu, 13 Apr 2017 22:39:35 +0000 chdot 246796@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>This'll be the <em>pedestrian</em> detour -</p> <p><img src="https://c1.staticflickr.com/3/2841/33861331742_94b2d1fb8b.jpg"> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16796&page=5#post-246774 Thu, 13 Apr 2017 17:30:07 +0000 jules878 246774@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>The final phase of works at Boroughmuir will commence onsite on Monday 10 April 2017 with an estimated programme of 10 weeks working maximum.</p> <p><a href="https://www.scottishcanals.co.uk/news/works-at-boroughmuir-union-canal/" rel="nofollow">https://www.scottishcanals.co.uk/news/works-at-boroughmuir-union-canal/</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16796&page=5#post-246555 Tue, 11 Apr 2017 14:46:28 +0000 Claire 246555@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Ah apologies! I thought the feeder went all the way along the canal to Gilmour Place. My mistake. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16796&page=5#post-246551 Tue, 11 Apr 2017 13:57:40 +0000 SRD 246551@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>We've never used canal for HP feeder. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16796&page=5#post-246550 Tue, 11 Apr 2017 13:48:17 +0000 Claire 246550@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Also an issue for Harrison Park. It was a vital link between Dalry and Gilmour Place for us. We all just took it easy. Not keen on being forced onto road along Dundee Street, as it's a traffic light controlled junction and then a right turn across traffic back up to Leamington lift :/ If group is really big it will be a stress. Hankchief is asking if towpath can temporarily be reopened. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16796&page=5#post-246548 Tue, 11 Apr 2017 13:42:43 +0000 SRD 246548@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>did you use the canal last year? would have thought your group was a bit big to do that comfortably? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16796&page=5#post-246547 Tue, 11 Apr 2017 13:41:37 +0000 chdot 246547@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"</p> <p>The new school was set for a June 16 opening but is now not expected to be opened until January next year - some 17 months after the original date of August 2016.</p> <p>"</p> <p><a href="http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/our-region/edinburgh/new-boroughmuir-high-school-delayed-for-6th-time-1-4416972" rel="nofollow">http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/our-region/edinburgh/new-boroughmuir-high-school-delayed-for-6th-time-1-4416972</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16796&page=4#post-246546 Tue, 11 Apr 2017 13:40:41 +0000 Claire 246546@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Ten weeks' work commencing on towpath from 4 April: <a href="https://www.scottishcanals.co.uk/news/works-at-boroughmuir-union-canal/">https://www.scottishcanals.co.uk/news/works-at-boroughmuir-union-canal/</a></p> <p>Puts a bit of a dent in our CorstorBurn feeder ride to PoP... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16796&page=4#post-246542 Tue, 11 Apr 2017 12:51:04 +0000 SRD 246542@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>School not opening until 2018 - didn't gembo say that here a few weeks ago?</p> <p><a href="http://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/newboroughmuir" rel="nofollow">http://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/newboroughmuir</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16796&page=4#post-245870 Sun, 02 Apr 2017 17:19:51 +0000 Colonies_Chris 245870@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Yep. Cycled the length from Slateford to the lift bridge at lunchtime. Viewforth section not properly surfaced yet, but definitely open. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16796&page=4#post-245866 Sun, 02 Apr 2017 16:25:09 +0000 bill 245866@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>The towpath appears to be open today (Sunday)... unless it was Fata Morgana </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16796&page=4#post-245680 Wed, 29 Mar 2017 18:53:27 +0000 gembo 245680@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>We can get through both ways, have t divert via leamington lift bridge but go along towpath towards akva etc </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16796&page=4#post-245679 Wed, 29 Mar 2017 18:47:29 +0000 CJC 245679@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Diversion at fountainbridge closed tonight when I passed. Blocked by a big crane and other lorries. No other signed diversion for pedestrians. Lots of cars doing u-turns and cyclists and peds looking very lost. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16796&page=4#post-245515 Mon, 27 Mar 2017 19:05:09 +0000 gembo 245515@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>The school is about a year behind now i think </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16796&page=4#post-245475 Mon, 27 Mar 2017 10:23:40 +0000 jdanielp 245475@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@edd1e_h where did you hear that? It certainly looks like they aren't progressing very quickly so I'm not surprised it's going to take longer than five weeks, but mid-June?! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16796&page=4#post-245473 Mon, 27 Mar 2017 09:50:10 +0000 neddie 245473@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Apparently, the towpath at Viewforth is likely to be closed until mid-June.</p> <p>Which is quite a bit longer than the 5 weeks 'planned*' at the beginning of March</p> <p>*'Planned' as in stated on a sign the evening before closure - hardly good PR. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16796&page=4#post-244700 Tue, 14 Mar 2017 20:27:20 +0000 gembo 244700@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Police still going door to door on that street tonight, well looked that way to me. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16796&page=4#post-244689 Tue, 14 Mar 2017 19:08:53 +0000 chdot 244689@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Curious -</p> <p>"</p> <p>“After full and careful consideration of the facts and circumstances of the case, they were liberated from custody pending further inquiries and did not appear in court.”</p> <p>"</p> <p><a href="http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/crime/three-arrested-over-edinburgh-flat-death-probe-are-released-1-4392078" rel="nofollow">http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/crime/three-arrested-over-edinburgh-flat-death-probe-are-released-1-4392078</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16796&page=4#post-244598 Tue, 14 Mar 2017 10:33:51 +0000 gembo 244598@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Yep, still one car there today </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16796&page=4#post-244592 Tue, 14 Mar 2017 09:40:37 +0000 fimm 244592@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>That would explain the big police van ("Police Command Centre" or something) parked on the pavement by the Dundee Street Sainsburys.<br /> (I'm still tempted to put it in the rubbish parking thread...)</p> <p>Edited to add photo of said van on the BBC:<br /> <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-39254894" rel="nofollow">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-39254894</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16796&page=4#post-244581 Mon, 13 Mar 2017 20:48:30 +0000 gembo 244581@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Same again tonight with the paving at the top where you come off the canal all taped off </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16796&page=4#post-244514 Mon, 13 Mar 2017 11:28:42 +0000 chdot 244514@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>To stop rogue cyclists?</p> <p>Or -</p> <p><a href="http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/our-region/edinburgh/police-treating-death-of-man-in-edinburgh-flat-as-suspicious-1-4390528" rel="nofollow">http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/our-region/edinburgh/police-treating-death-of-man-in-edinburgh-flat-as-suspicious-1-4390528</a></p> <p>UPDATE</p> <p><a href="http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/our-region/edinburgh/fountainbridge/three-detained-over-death-in-fountainbridge-flat-1-4390919" rel="nofollow">http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/our-region/edinburgh/fountainbridge/three-detained-over-death-in-fountainbridge-flat-1-4390919</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16796&page=4#post-244508 Mon, 13 Mar 2017 11:03:21 +0000 jdanielp 244508@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Very heavy police presence on Gibson Terrace this morning with at least five officers along the length of the road. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16796&page=4#post-244442 Sat, 11 Mar 2017 20:09:24 +0000 LaidBack 244442@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Junction at Viewforth, St Peter's Place now open.<br /> <a href="https://flic.kr/p/SNcZH3"><img src="https://c1.staticflickr.com/3/2818/33340737576_ff70eda5e1.jpg"></a><a href="https://flic.kr/p/SNcZH3">Return of red ASLs in Edinburgh?</a> by <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/66067108@N08/">LaidBackBikes</a>, on Flickr </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16796&page=4#post-244437 Sat, 11 Mar 2017 18:18:57 +0000 chdot 244437@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><img src="https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/592/32565300753_40d003854b.jpg"></p> <p><img src="https://c1.staticflickr.com/3/2896/33251811821_d6b45868e1.jpg"></p> <p><img src="https://c2.staticflickr.com/4/3881/32565415273_9923cff09c.jpg"> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16796&page=4#post-243890 Thu, 02 Mar 2017 22:07:44 +0000 Fountainbridge 243890@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>wonder which Boroughmuir kid will having the honour of being the first in the canal</em></p> <p>There's a tall metal fence separating the playground from the path.</p> <p>Path also being widened according to plans, but assumes canals and developers can work together (which I doubt)</p> <p><a href="https://flic.kr/p/RjmNMb"><img src="https://c1.staticflickr.com/4/3698/32369238164_171d92227a_n.jpg"></a><a href="https://flic.kr/p/RjmNMb">Canal-at-viewforth</a> by <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/130059894@N04/">Paul fae Fountainbridge</a>, on Flickr </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16796&page=4#post-243872 Thu, 02 Mar 2017 18:45:40 +0000 jdanielp 243872@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>The detour is a whole lot less stressful now with the 20 mph limit. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16796&page=4#post-243866 Thu, 02 Mar 2017 16:47:51 +0000 gembo 243866@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>they will need to keep generating a current or Weil's disease will be a threat </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16796&page=4#post-243857 Thu, 02 Mar 2017 14:39:46 +0000 AKen 243857@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I wonder which Boroughmuir kid will having the honour of being the first in the canal? Having an open quayside right next to a school entrance - what could go wrong? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16796&page=4#post-243848 Thu, 02 Mar 2017 13:38:20 +0000 jdanielp 243848@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>The path will presumably end up a bit wider, assuming that they don't install street furniture on the new plaza area? </p>