http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Route suggestion - Currie to Kings Buildings avoiding main roads en Tue, 19 May 2026 17:08:23 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19363#post-298537 Tue, 01 Jan 2019 15:57:20 +0000 Morningsider 298537@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Gembo's route is good - but instead of going through Firrhill High School and the old City Hospital, I would go along Oxgangs Road North, cut in at Firrhill Crescent and follow the path alongside the Braid Burn through Colinton Mains Park and Braidburn Valley Park - rejoining Gembo's route at the end of Greenbank Crescent. </p> <p>Depending on your friend's tolerance of gunk, they might prefer going through The Hermitage rather than Braid Hills Drive. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19363#post-298534 Tue, 01 Jan 2019 14:17:58 +0000 Moose 298534@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>thanks both! Already looking to be a much more direct route. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19363#post-298531 Tue, 01 Jan 2019 12:48:42 +0000 Roibeard 298531@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I'm not in route-finding mode, but Cluny Gardens have been found to be unpleasant, particularly west-bound.</p> <p>I now tend to use the Hermitage and then cut right to KB.</p> <p>It may not (or should not!) be fast, but it's definitely more pleasant. Speed is limited by other path users and the surface, although I've found the surface to be fine under most states of weather.</p> <p>That said, I don't usually head west from KB, I'm usually going east to KB. So, whilst I use the path west-bound from home, I don't tend to make the right turn at the junction south of KB.</p> <p>Robert </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19363#post-298530 Tue, 01 Jan 2019 12:40:12 +0000 gembo 298530@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>HNY<br /> Blinkbonny. Jk Rowling Stables, Colinton through Firrhill school, through the old city hospital, down to morningside then right then left after the garage, goes uo very sternly, one tricky junction then the beauty of braidhills avenue. Obviously not arrived at KB but getting there. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19363#post-298529 Tue, 01 Jan 2019 12:09:40 +0000 Moose 298529@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Happy 2019.</p> <p>Was talking to someone who would like to become a regular commuter in 2019 but has been put off by negative experiences on taking the direct route on mainly arterial roads.</p> <p>I have been looking at google maps and can get down the WOL, along the canal. But then become a bit unstuck as not sure whether to come off at meggetland and cut through the railway track to Myreside, or come off at Harrison Gdns at try from there via some quiet roads up through Gillsland.</p> <p>Cluny Gardens has also stuck in her mind as a 'never again' route. Any suggestions? I don't know the hermitage paths that well but I wondered if there was a route there that could find its way to KB? </p>