http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Morrison Street en Tue, 19 May 2026 07:58:19 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17431#post-343837 Mon, 11 Jan 2021 20:54:19 +0000 CycleAlex 343837@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Should be fixed now! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17431#post-343836 Mon, 11 Jan 2021 20:48:12 +0000 Frenchy 343836@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@CycleAlex - your link isn't working. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17431#post-343835 Mon, 11 Jan 2021 20:46:11 +0000 gembo 343835@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Is ardmillannstill blocked? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17431#post-343832 Mon, 11 Jan 2021 20:11:24 +0000 CycleAlex 343832@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>From an <a href="https://www.gov.scot/binaries/content/documents/govscot/publications/foi-eir-release/2020/11/foi-202000089683/documents/foi-202000089683---sustrans-fy2020-21-q1-report/foi-202000089683---sustrans-fy2020-21-q1-report/govscot%3Adocument/FOI-202000089683%2B-%2BSustrans%2BFY2020-21%2BQ1%2BReport.pdf">FOI I came across</a>:<br /> <blockquote>The Morrison Street project has progressed well in the last quarter during which the project scope has substantially increased. The project aims have been clearly defined and aligned through close partnership between CEC and Sustrans. Temporary cycle segregation and widened footways will be implemented along the corridor and inform the design of permanent measures.</blockquote> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17431#post-244404 Fri, 10 Mar 2017 17:30:41 +0000 Rosie 244404@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Tried Morrison Street last night. 2 lanes, awful, walked down the pavement, also awful among the stream heading to Haymarket.</p> <p>So down the convoluted way to Morrison Crescent, all around the houses and against the cars blocking the route to the end of Dalry Road and head along the A8 that way until further notice.</p> <p>Heading to Muireston pretty dicey now as well.</p> <p>Also Ardmillan Terrace still blocked I assume, &amp; the canal. </p> <p>Not nice out west at the moment. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17431#post-242951 Thu, 16 Feb 2017 14:22:00 +0000 Rosie 242951@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Morrison Street pavement is a scandal. Commuters from Haymarket to Fountainbridge/Lothian Road i.e. the financial district and major employers, spill out into the road. Try &amp; push your cycle along it. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17431#post-242950 Thu, 16 Feb 2017 14:18:52 +0000 Stickman 242950@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>From Gavin Barrie:</p> <p>"pavement restored early next week, closure for pedestrian safety due to heavy works &amp; keeping traffic moving."</p> <p>Keep the Great God Traffic Flow appeased by sacrificing pedestrians. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17431#post-242846 Wed, 15 Feb 2017 11:13:21 +0000 PS 242846@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>No excuse to not be providing for pedestrians with a road that wide. Not one.</em><br /> Especially as it is the key pedestrian link from Haymarket station to the city's main business district. In a joined-up planning world (or, indeed, a world class city) one of those lanes of traffic would be permanently transformed into a nice wide pavement.</p> <p>@Fountainbridge I think (hope) the Haymarket office development is going to be permeable to peds, with a walkway on a direct alignment in line with the railway tunnels (diagonal lines on your second plan) from the bottom left ped crossing to the corner of Morrison St and Morrison Link. This may explain why the taxi rank is going to take over that pavement space. Of course, that doesn't help peds who want to go to Atholl Place. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17431#post-242832 Tue, 14 Feb 2017 23:14:22 +0000 Fountainbridge 242832@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Looks like Morrison Street Pavement on the south side will be permanently turned over to a taxi ranks. The Haymarket pedestrian crossings will also be relocated.</p> <p><a href="https://flic.kr/p/Ry81hL"><img src="https://c1.staticflickr.com/3/2366/32524976260_459e9fe24d_n.jpg"></a><a href="https://flic.kr/p/Ry81hL">Morrison-Street-Taxi</a> by <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/130059894@N04/">Paul fae Fountainbridge</a>, on Flickr</p> <p><a href="https://flic.kr/p/Ry81Cf"><img src="https://c1.staticflickr.com/3/2246/32524977390_91d2573f37_n.jpg"></a><a href="https://flic.kr/p/Ry81Cf">haymarket-route</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=17431#post-242607 Fri, 10 Feb 2017 20:14:17 +0000 Fountainbridge 242607@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>No changes today to Morrison Street layout.</p> <p>So far no response from transport councillors or actual council that I'm aware of.</p> <p>Melvin Walk - presume you mean at Fountainbridge end. They've erected scaffold over the path so it shouldn't need to close again. It was closed for concrete pumping previously. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17431#post-242570 Fri, 10 Feb 2017 14:06:38 +0000 Frenchy 242570@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Thanks - would be a shorter route than the detour round Upper Grove Place.</p> <p>There used to be some tar in the gutter as a wee ramp in place of a dropped kerb - it's maybe gone by now though, and dropped kerbs would obviously be preferable. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17431#post-242563 Fri, 10 Feb 2017 13:35:52 +0000 Rosie 242563@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@Frenchy - don't know. Will check. It wasn't actually closed, only turned into one pedestrian wide corridor. </p> <p>Melvin Walk could do with dropped kerbs. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17431#post-242560 Fri, 10 Feb 2017 12:53:08 +0000 Frenchy 242560@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@Rosie - is Melvin Walk (opposite Gilmore Park) still closed? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17431#post-242559 Fri, 10 Feb 2017 12:45:21 +0000 Rosie 242559@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Morrison Street has become a no-go zone for me. Even at lunchtime it was a hideous experience.</p> <p>So - commuting from Fountainbridge - don't cycle along Fountainbridge because there are trenches dug along it in readiness for World War I.</p> <p>Morrison Street - death alley.</p> <p>So now it's a turn along Grove Street, Upper Grove Place and all its contours, down the 180 degree zigs &amp; zags to Morrison Crescent, turn along U shaped route to Dalry Place (blocked by cars 3/4 of the time of the time), on to Dalry Road, then turn into Haymarket. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17431#post-242546 Fri, 10 Feb 2017 11:00:24 +0000 Klaxon 242546@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>This was originally advertised a year ago, presumably the closure can be put in place at will</p> <p><a href="https://twitter.com/fountainbridge/status/699670519092813825" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/fountainbridge/status/699670519092813825</a></p> <p>@edintravel (a council account) reassured:<br /> <a href="https://twitter.com/edintravel/status/720944279531692033" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/edintravel/status/720944279531692033</a></p> <p>Hi Paul. I believe the nearside lane of Morrison St will be closed to accommodate a temporary walkway. ^J</p> <p>Which they did provide when they did the same closure last May<br /> <a href="https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@55.9461616,-3.2145535,3a,75y,284.3h,90t/data=" rel="nofollow">https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@55.9461616,-3.2145535,3a,75y,284.3h,90t/data=</a>!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sx41d1vJbSsVHWo0pcQefFw!2e0!5s20160501T000000!7i13312!8i6656 </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17431#post-242544 Fri, 10 Feb 2017 10:45:53 +0000 jules878 242544@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Update. Until mid/late March. Looks like it'll be worse from next week. </p> <p><a href="https://twitter.com/edintravel/status/829977887814144000" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/edintravel/status/829977887814144000</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17431#post-242541 Fri, 10 Feb 2017 10:08:49 +0000 Klaxon 242541@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>If they want to maintain 2 lanes of traffic they should be suspending the parking bays to do so, and have 2 narrow lanes. Signpost that HGVs and other wide vehicles are to straddle both.</p> <p>No excuse to not be providing for pedestrians with a road that wide. Not one.</p> <p>By way of an exemplar comparison, the <a href="https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@55.960677,-3.1816507,3a,75y,358.52h,85.88t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sxQq86-BGBEd3Yp5BYFEIQA!2e0!5s20160401T000000!7i13312!8i6656">Haddington Place worksite</a> ran by Ogilvie had zero pedestrian/construction interaction and they never closed the pavement. It was very well ran throughout the whole build, hats off. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17431#post-242540 Fri, 10 Feb 2017 10:07:40 +0000 fimm 242540@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Yes, I came through there yesterday quite late when there was not much traffic about and thought "that's going to be fun when it is busy". I'm going to just take the lane. Yes, there will be impatient drivers on my tail. They can wait. No, it isn't going to be pleasant. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17431#post-242539 Fri, 10 Feb 2017 10:05:04 +0000 Stickman 242539@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>So one pavement, one cycle Lane and three "car" lanes now reduced to two lanes of traffic.</em></p> <p>Still space for parking/loading on the north side though. </p> <p>Sigh. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17431#post-242538 Fri, 10 Feb 2017 09:39:58 +0000 jules878 242538@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>You have reminded me that there were two people were walking down the road.</p> <p>Not sure if there was space for them inside the fence, but presumably not if walking on the road.</p> <p>So one pavement, one cycle Lane and three "car" lanes now reduced to two lanes of traffic. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17431#post-242537 Fri, 10 Feb 2017 09:33:05 +0000 SRD 242537@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>is this the lane that was meant to be a pedestrian walkway?</p> <p><a href="http://www.livingstreetsedinburgh.org.uk/2017/02/07/pedestrian-group-hits-out-at-new-edinburgh-danger/" rel="nofollow">http://www.livingstreetsedinburgh.org.uk/2017/02/07/pedestrian-group-hits-out-at-new-edinburgh-danger/</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17431#post-242536 Fri, 10 Feb 2017 08:38:12 +0000 jules878 242536@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I've been away for a week and on my return I discover that one of 3 lanes of traffic and the cycle Lane have been absorbed into the Haymarket "car park" building site.</p> <p>I already felt vulnerable enough heading down there with cars whizzing past on both sides, but my first experience of the two lane set up yesterday was decidedly scary. </p> <p>How long will this street be like this? There's no sensible alternative route for cyclists.</p> <p>Apols if I've missed discussion on other thread. Not been paying attention for a couple of weeks. </p>