http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: WEATN - West Edinburgh Active Travel Network (WEL) en Sun, 05 Apr 2026 16:09:41 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18145&page=5#post-372717 Fri, 05 Jan 2024 11:02:41 +0000 chdot 372717@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>“</p> <p>I'm happy to confirm that the West Edinburgh Link is in the final stages of technical design and the Council have an engaged, though not yet appointed the contractor. Works are due to start in 2024.</p> <p>“</p> <p>Any updates?</p> <p>“</p> <p>2023 – Construction Phasing begins<br /> Regular project updates throughout<br /> 2024 – Construction due for completion</p> <p>“</p> <p><a href="https://westedinburghlink.info/who-how-when/" rel="nofollow">https://westedinburghlink.info/who-how-when/</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18145&page=5#post-370392 Wed, 13 Sep 2023 11:52:38 +0000 neddie 370392@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Nevermind, Dr Arthur will be along shortly to propose a gold-plated elevator down to the WoL path. SNP/Greens to pay for it of course </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18145&page=5#post-370391 Wed, 13 Sep 2023 11:37:43 +0000 Murun Buchstansangur 370391@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"Bigger problem may be the indirectness - not sure how they're planning on connecting it to anything east of Hailes Gardens."</p> <p>According to the diagram <a href="https://westedinburghlink.info/project-details/">here<br /> </a> , it's Hailes Approach, Spylaw Bank Rd and the stub of Dell Rd, then 'somebody else's problem'. </p> <p>What's that, Lassie? There's steps after that to get onto the Water of Leith path (as far as I recall)? Oh well </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18145&page=5#post-370390 Wed, 13 Sep 2023 11:27:05 +0000 fimm 370390@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Hailes Gardens come out at the top of Spylaw Bank Road. While I'm not in general in favour of cries of "this is unsuitable because hills!", the only reason I have cycled up Spylaw Bank Road is to hurt myself by doing hill reps... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18145&page=5#post-370389 Wed, 13 Sep 2023 11:23:27 +0000 Frenchy 370389@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>While since I've been down it, but pretty sure its surface is fine, and it's adopted.</p> <p>Bigger problem may be the indirectness - not sure how they're planning on connecting it to anything east of Hailes Gardens. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18145&page=5#post-370386 Wed, 13 Sep 2023 11:07:08 +0000 neddie 370386@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Is Hailes Gardens viable for an active travel route? A lot of the roads round there are unsurfaced / unadopted... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18145&page=5#post-370382 Wed, 13 Sep 2023 10:45:53 +0000 chdot 370382@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>“West Edinburgh Link” is this the same as WEATN?</p> <p>“</p> <p>Following a discussion at @ColintonCC yesterday evening, I'm happy to confirm that the West Edinburgh Link is in the final stages of technical design and the Council have an engaged, though not yet appointed the contractor. Works are due to start in 2024.</p> <p>The design layout for the Lanark Road (Hailes Gardens - my Ward) crossing is shown below, though it is worth noting that this design may be subject to some alterations following technical design - the alignment and shared use layout of the crossing will remain.</p> <p>.”</p> <p><a href="https://x.com/CllrScottArthur/status/1701867669157253282" rel="nofollow">https://x.com/CllrScottArthur/status/1701867669157253282</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18145&page=5#post-370258 Fri, 08 Sep 2023 11:42:42 +0000 neddie 370258@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Nah mate, they're too busy setting up bogus consultations - wasting precious council officer time - INSTEAD OF JUST DOING THE RIGHT THING (and implementing their own policy) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18145&page=5#post-370257 Fri, 08 Sep 2023 09:27:12 +0000 toomanybikes 370257@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>It's late summer. Has this started yet? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18145&page=5#post-366092 Fri, 27 Jan 2023 17:22:54 +0000 chdot 366092@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>“</p> <p>It's set for late summer 2023.</p> <p>“</p> <p><a href="https://twitter.com/cllrscottarthur/status/1618964812104351744" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/cllrscottarthur/status/1618964812104351744</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18145&page=5#post-364593 Fri, 04 Nov 2022 17:54:18 +0000 CycleAlex 364593@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Given it is (was?) one of perhaps only three high quality segregated routes it’s so frustrating to see big chunks of that <em>actual</em> segregation ripped out. </p> <p>South Gyle Crescent and Bankhead Avenue in particular are enormous drops in quality. Not forgetting essentially the entire north section, including bridge, has already been thrown into the long grass. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18145&page=5#post-364590 Fri, 04 Nov 2022 13:44:48 +0000 acsimpson 364590@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Looking at the plans large sections of this latest design are being laid out with rubber blocks of one type or another. Hopefully that means it can be improved with proper one way segregated lanes in the future rather than the very poor 1.5m two way lanes they are currently specifying. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18145&page=4#post-364586 Fri, 04 Nov 2022 11:58:33 +0000 chdot 364586@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>“Is there any figures for what percentage of the active travel budget is paid to design consultants?</p> <p>100%?</p> <p>Ok, it just seems like it…</p> <p>More interestingly perhaps - as implied by all this - ‘how much is spent on RE-DOING stuff?’</p> <p>Sideways question - ‘how much is paid via Sustrans?’ (“via” - as anyone who pays attention knows - it’s SG/TS money).</p> <p>Subsidiary Q - how much longer will this money-go-round keep going??</p> <p>Also is there ANY chance of ‘lessons being learned’ about the need for speed - especially the legal processes AND <em>trying</em> things with armadillos planters etc?</p> <p>Does CEC ever use these?</p> <p><img src="https://media.marshalls.co.uk/d_no-image_bucaqf.jpg,w_380,h_400,g_auto,c_fill,f_auto,q_auto,fl_lossy/interlocking-traffic-blocks-6129.jpg "></p> <p><a href="https://www.marshalls.co.uk/commercial/product/interlocking-concrete-traffic-blocks" rel="nofollow">https://www.marshalls.co.uk/commercial/product/interlocking-concrete-traffic-blocks</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18145&page=4#post-364585 Fri, 04 Nov 2022 11:42:19 +0000 acsimpson 364585@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>At least Aecom will be happy. Is there any figures for what percentage of the active travel budget is paid to design consultants?</p> <p>The new designs are quite the good news bad news setup. Two stage toucan crossings on Calder Road are a bit rubbish but also putting them on South Gyle Access is more than a bit.</p> <p>At least the plans change the Dechmont Road crossing to single stage which I think is an improvement on the original designs (now closer to 10 than 5 years ago). </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18145&page=4#post-364584 Fri, 04 Nov 2022 11:34:05 +0000 jonty 364584@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><blockquote>Because if the significant redesign, the previous RSOs are void and they will have to go through them again...</blockquote><br /> <img src="https://i.imgur.com/8k22Fap.png"> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18145&page=4#post-364583 Fri, 04 Nov 2022 11:15:57 +0000 HankChief 364583@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>So, new designs are out</p> <p><a href="https://westedinburghlink.info/project-details/" rel="nofollow">https://westedinburghlink.info/project-details/</a></p> <p>Because if the significant redesign, the previous RSOs are void and they will have to go through them again... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18145&page=4#post-361154 Fri, 03 Jun 2022 15:01:17 +0000 chdot 361154@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Some new activity </p> <p><a href="https://twitter.com/marcogbiagi/status/1531942606434967559" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/marcogbiagi/status/1531942606434967559</a></p> <p>Detailed analysis of why the details need improving</p> <p><a href="https://twitter.com/david_mccraw/status/1532382905489666048" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/david_mccraw/status/1532382905489666048</a></p> <p>Some proposed consideration</p> <p><a href="https://twitter.com/cllrscottarthur/status/1532708322859798536" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/cllrscottarthur/status/1532708322859798536</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18145&page=4#post-358170 Wed, 26 Jan 2022 22:12:40 +0000 CycleAlex 358170@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Cllr Whyte's motion on the WEL CPO talks about the delays in progress before immediately saying the CPOs (being done to prevent more delays) should be scrapped.</p> <p>Checks out. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18145&page=4#post-358066 Fri, 21 Jan 2022 18:49:17 +0000 CycleAlex 358066@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Some good news in next week's <a href="https://democracy.edinburgh.gov.uk/documents/s41891/7.2%20-%20West%20Edinburgh%20Link%20-%20Compulsory%20Purchase%20Order.pdf">committee report</a> - included in the proposed compulsory purchase orders is land at the A8 crossing. Hopefully we might still see the improved crossing despite the rest of the section being paused. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18145&page=4#post-355503 Fri, 08 Oct 2021 17:04:53 +0000 CycleAlex 355503@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><blockquote>Hope the crossing of Glasgow Road is at least improved before then.</blockquote> Alas it looks like everything north of South Gyle Crescent, including the bridge itself and crossing over the A8, is <a href="https://democracy.edinburgh.gov.uk/documents/s39331/7.3%20-%20Active%20Travel%20Investment%20Programme%20Update.pdf">on hold until at best 2026</a>. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18145&page=4#post-355047 Mon, 27 Sep 2021 08:52:00 +0000 acsimpson 355047@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>There are so many little things which have been postponed to be part of WEATN. The stairs behind Craigmount for instance.</p> <p>With funding increasing is there hope this might be brought forwards again? Currently not looking good for any improvements before my primary age kids leave Craigmount. How many new roads will be conceived and built in that time? Quite damning really. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18145&page=4#post-355030 Sun, 26 Sep 2021 16:43:18 +0000 crowriver 355030@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Apparently, the city has committed to "Prioritise investment in expanding Edinburgh’s walking and cycling routes to connect local services and amenities."</p> <p>Prioritise, as in kick into the long grass? Nothing say prioritise like "deferred till 2026 funding cycle".</p> <p><a href="https://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/news/article/13220/draft-strategy-sets-out-how-edinburgh-will-strive-to-become-a-climate-ready-net-zero-capital-by-2030" rel="nofollow">https://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/news/article/13220/draft-strategy-sets-out-how-edinburgh-will-strive-to-become-a-climate-ready-net-zero-capital-by-2030</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18145&page=4#post-355029 Sun, 26 Sep 2021 16:31:10 +0000 crowriver 355029@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Yeah, what's the rush? Not as if the Council have declared that there's a climate emergency or anything. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18145&page=4#post-355028 Sun, 26 Sep 2021 15:37:39 +0000 CycleAlex 355028@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Mostly, some widened paths/junction improvements too but those had already been cut down a bit. Perhaps the extra time will allow some more proper segregation. 2026 funding cycle presumably also means it won't be built until 2027/2028. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18145&page=4#post-355027 Sun, 26 Sep 2021 14:22:27 +0000 Frenchy 355027@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>Section from Gyle Park to East Craigs deferred till 2026 funding cycle.</em></p> <p>This is basically the East Craigs LTN, yeah? </p> <p>Hope the crossing of Glasgow Road is at least improved before then. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18145&page=4#post-355021 Sun, 26 Sep 2021 12:32:35 +0000 CycleAlex 355021@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><blockquote>Estimated delivery date/timescale 2023/24<br /> sections from Wester Hailes to South Gyle Complete. Section from Gyle Park to East Craigs <strong>deferred till 2026</strong> funding cycle.</blockquote></p> <p>ATSR6 <a href="https://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/downloads/file/30005/17-september-2021">here</a>. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18145&page=4#post-345501 Tue, 02 Feb 2021 20:47:56 +0000 acsimpson 345501@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>The paths are a grey area. The last official line from the council that I have seen is that they are roads adopted as footpaths and therefore no vehicles are allowed under the road traffic act. They are maintained by the council, however they have never appeared on any lists of adopted road produced by the council and as far as I am aware no evidence of such adoption has been seen.</p> <p>To make mater greyer a shared use sign recently appeared at the north western exit onto Maybury Road. Presumably it was erected by the builders from the other side of the road but why would they have paid for it if the council didn't request it. Does that mean that cycling was never banned, has recently been allowed or something else? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18145&page=4#post-345495 Tue, 02 Feb 2021 19:46:08 +0000 chdot 345495@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>If there’s money to make it wider?</p> <p>In what sense is cycling ’not allowed’. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18145&page=4#post-345493 Tue, 02 Feb 2021 19:34:14 +0000 Frenchy 345493@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>This would be the opportunity to change that! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18145&page=4#post-345487 Tue, 02 Feb 2021 18:50:03 +0000 chdot 345487@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>“I understand that they were unable to use the existing path network as it was too narrow”</p> <p>I thought there was some question about the <em>legality</em> of cycling here, or am I thinking of somewhere else? </p>