http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: WoL Path Resurfacing en Thu, 09 Apr 2026 05:21:38 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=21036&page=4#post-369730 Sun, 13 Aug 2023 20:13:39 +0000 gembo 369730@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Fully open there was 20 metres not quite finished at Waulkmill on Friday but I cycled down the whole length Saturday </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=21036&page=4#post-369728 Sun, 13 Aug 2023 18:18:47 +0000 vladimpala 369728@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Cycled up WOL path from the canal on Friday evening to find the path blocked off at Waulkmill Loan. Cycled up from Colinton today and the path is no longer blocked - don't know if it's officially open, or if someone had just moved the fencing. So in theory - now complete and rideable for the full length. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=21036&page=4#post-369691 Fri, 11 Aug 2023 18:47:57 +0000 gembo 369691@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>On hold to polis Scotland now as the motorbikes have started </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=21036&page=4#post-369678 Thu, 10 Aug 2023 19:55:30 +0000 gembo 369678@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Open and paved from canal to waulmillloan</p> <p>Cycled it tonite FeckinA</p> <p>Get up there and use it before some more Sh1t happens </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=21036&page=4#post-369644 Tue, 08 Aug 2023 19:44:39 +0000 gembo 369644@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>The thread from the sh1t show on Lanark Road has drifted into the WoL Path resurfacing thread?</p> <p>Barriers around knockillbraehead were half hearted tonight so I chance it up</p> <p>Looks finished </p> <p>But HERAS closing tunnel at west end. I told the dog Walker he might be able to squeeze through as I trundled back down to knockillbraehead with my mighty Brae Panniers and back up to the sh1tshow that is Lanark Road. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=21036&page=4#post-369642 Tue, 08 Aug 2023 19:31:35 +0000 Dave 369642@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>We cycled in to the festival the other day with the kids and encountered the Lanark road lack of cycle lanes. Agreed with my better half that we won't take the kids down there any more after the number of close shaves. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=21036&page=4#post-369631 Tue, 08 Aug 2023 10:12:20 +0000 Bigjack 369631@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Yes, just encountered that. Lanark Rd “cycle lane” is now a car park again most of the way up. I have criminally cycled up the footpath obviously giving way to any pedestrians but ready with my answers if the police stop me. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=21036&page=4#post-369616 Mon, 07 Aug 2023 14:34:12 +0000 ejstubbs 369616@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>There's a section closed just east of Spylaw Park currently.</em></p> <p>As I discovered today when I tried to ride from the canal to Colinton and beyond: the walkway is closed southbound from GR NT214693 as far as Colinton Station - about ¼ mile in total. The trouble is, there doesn't seem to be any straightforward way past it.</p> <p>I tried going over the Kate's Mill bridge, then back over the river again to the path that takes you to the steps up to <a href="https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@55.9090377,-3.2566819,18z?entry=ttu">Dell Road</a> but that was comprehensively Heras'ed off as well at GR NT215693. Going the other way at Kate's Mill means a long detour via Katesmill Road, Patie's Road and Colinton Road, then through Colinton village before you can drop back down to the walkway at Colinton Station via the somewhat perilous right turn at the bottom of Gillespie Road, and continue southbound from there. Total detour, including backtracking from the closure on the walkway, would be about 2 miles (and no signage provided to assist with route finding, as far as I could see).</p> <p>I ended up backtracking on the walkway as far as <a href="https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@55.9148473,-3.2603351,18.27z?entry=ttu">Knockillbraehead</a>, which took me out on to Lanark Road (<em>still</em> devoid of DYLs and wands, grrrr) from which point you can dodge in and out of the bike lane avoiding parked cars until you reach Spylaw Avenue, from where you can snick through to Gillespie Road eastbound and a much less dodgy left turn to regain the walkway at Colinton Station. Total detour, including backtracking from the closure on the walkway, about 1½ miles (and again no signage as far as I could see).</p> <p>There was another almost-but-not-quite-blockage under the bypass, where a party of workies surrounded by Heras was laying some final bits of tarmac. The fellow I spoke to was happy for folks to slip past outside the fencing, and reckoned they'd be done in the day. So a pretty minor disruption, in the overall scheme of things. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=21036&page=4#post-369612 Mon, 07 Aug 2023 11:56:08 +0000 redmist 369612@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>There's a section closed just east of Spylaw Park currently. I'm not sure what the diversion is. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=21036&page=4#post-369389 Sun, 23 Jul 2023 17:37:26 +0000 gembo 369389@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Currently all open, though think some locals have moved the fence as there is a stretch west of Waulkmill Loan still to have the tar.</p> <p>The ramp access near Kingfisher Estate is still closed. At the bottom an iron chicane is in place quite nice and wide enough.</p> <p>So much HERAS though it was like finishing a stage of the Tour de France. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=21036&page=4#post-369248 Wed, 12 Jul 2023 21:16:13 +0000 gembo 369248@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Yes still there but they use astroturf now on the tee and green. Also massive rebuild extension as the owner who turned the paddock into the course sold it I think. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=21036&page=4#post-369246 Wed, 12 Jul 2023 20:26:24 +0000 ejstubbs 369246@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>The one-hole golf course is still there, isn't it? I'm pretty sure I caught a glimpse of it by peering over the hedge last time I went past, and it's still showing on <a href="https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@55.8912189,-3.3225263,99m/data=!3m1!1e3?entry=ttu">Google Maps satellite view</a>. Still a bit bizarre, though... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=21036&page=4#post-369245 Wed, 12 Jul 2023 18:40:40 +0000 gembo 369245@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Goes all the way from canal to Waulkmill Loan the wee kicker just before Balerno.</p> <p>Used to be a Piggery, also a one hole golf course. </p> <p>Really great. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=21036&page=4#post-369168 Thu, 06 Jul 2023 09:19:25 +0000 AKen 369168@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I did a rainy day ride home along the WoL on Tuesday evening. Pleasingly, despite the very heavy rain, there was not a single puddle on the new surface between Lanark Road and Currie. </p> <p>The odd bits that are still unsurfaced, mainly before the tunnel, were still rubbish. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=21036&page=4#post-368902 Sat, 24 Jun 2023 15:17:00 +0000 gembo 368902@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Or use the lovely Lymphoy off road </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=21036&page=3#post-368901 Sat, 24 Jun 2023 14:56:34 +0000 chdot 368901@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>“</p> <p>Resurfacing is continuing apace now around 1/2 mile upstream of Currie Kirk. Walkers might be able to pass along the river side but bike and horses will not to please divert onto the Lanark Road between Waulkmill loan / Kirkgate. </p> <p>“</p> <p><a href="https://twitter.com/wolct/status/1672198127791513603?" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/wolct/status/1672198127791513603?</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=21036&page=3#post-368564 Fri, 09 Jun 2023 07:27:43 +0000 gembo 368564@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>The fake closure has been dismantled. Last night I went up to just before Kinauld new brick house village and took steps up the road through blinkbonny and back down Kirk brae and back onto path at the engine shed/international design centre/actually just a nice big house now after Currie Kirk and continued on my merrie way. Chuckies get a bit big again at Balerno but the road roller has been out. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=21036&page=3#post-368513 Wed, 07 Jun 2023 09:34:44 +0000 steveo 368513@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>A dog walker I was speaking to managed to get round the barriers in the (very dry) drainage ditch but I didn't fancy wrestling the bike through them and over the feet of the heras fences.</p> <p><em>All possible diversions will involve a flight of steps and/or nettles.<br /> </em></p> <p>Or the main road!</p> <p>Hopefully this lasts and we don't need this faff again every couple of years. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=21036&page=3#post-368511 Wed, 07 Jun 2023 08:00:49 +0000 gembo 368511@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>There is a wee barrier saying path closed</p> <p>The boys who told me Dunno did also appear later on having circumnavigated the HERAS</p> <p>Then ironically some pranksters have set up a fake HERAS detour with stuff the actual organizers have left lying around.</p> <p>All possible diversions will involve a flight of steps and/or nettles.</p> <p>Even on my nettle path I stopped and got out of the way of a couple of kids on bikes and their mums behind them. The shut path is being well used but for non locals I would aim for his Mattness at Juni Green just now. Cafes etc abound canal back via Barberton? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=21036&page=3#post-368509 Tue, 06 Jun 2023 23:26:14 +0000 chdot 368509@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>SO</p> <p>Whoever is ‘in charge’ of this is doing NOTHING to sign alternative routes?? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=21036&page=3#post-368507 Tue, 06 Jun 2023 22:38:37 +0000 steveo 368507@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Haha, I went up to and over that bridge then decided on discretion and retreated back! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=21036&page=3#post-368506 Tue, 06 Jun 2023 21:11:10 +0000 gembo 368506@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@steveo yes I think I know where you went wrong as I went up the same steps at Kinauld and also came across the further closed bit. I asked some lads if it was really closed they said Dunno. I then went up a wee path maybe even the start of the poets Glen but then immediately turned west over a wee bridge which after some pushing and nettles and lifting bike ended on a wee path that I felt would return me to the WoL path and just about got there when some piled up HERAS stopped me getting back on to path. I retraced my steps maybe fifty yards and met my pal Stu also on same route we pushed down onto path and was all plain sailing to Balerno, path has no asjplhalt yet but has been prepped. Gonna be great and finished in a few weeks bumpy the look except my e the wee bit at Colinton which when they close has no possible diversions, I am a bit tingly from nettle stings is my only issue. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=21036&page=3#post-368504 Tue, 06 Jun 2023 20:41:14 +0000 steveo 368504@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I got properly lost this evening. Going out there is a random bit of fence just after the path from Lanark Road which I ignored. Got to the Kinauld section assumed more of the same and ended up stuck in the estate. After a going up a set of steps back on to the WOL path it turned out there was a second closed section. I gave up and went the road to Currie kirk.</p> <p>Coming back I came off at Currie kirk and tried to rejoin the path at Blinkbonny road. Instead of going into teh estate I ended up following the road and then a path through to Woodhall. Eventually got back to the WOL path at Colinton! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=21036&page=3#post-368501 Tue, 06 Jun 2023 18:51:14 +0000 gembo 368501@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Took a trip up the closed sections beyond Kinauld Mill Village</p> <p>Required going up onto country footpath, some stingin nettles then back down</p> <p>Definitely coming down from Balerno to meet the Kinauld section</p> <p>Also steps near me being turned into ramp access Bit steep</p> <p>Nota Bene beyond Colinton towards town some lads or vigilantes have used the HERAS that has just been left around to form a fake closure, you can get round it, totally fake. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=21036&page=3#post-368478 Mon, 05 Jun 2023 21:31:53 +0000 steveo 368478@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Yeah I tried that last week, got a little lost but just kept riding through folks driveways till I found the path again!</p> <p>I'm really not sure how it can be so lumpy its so thick and the weight of the machines packing it down, the underlying path shouldn't make any difference </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=21036&page=3#post-368474 Mon, 05 Jun 2023 19:29:42 +0000 gembo 368474@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Yes a bit bumpy in places but still fab</p> <p>Goes up to Kinauld Mill now My mate tonight went through the new houses to try to get back on.</p> <p>Will here back how he fared</p> <p>He has scouts to take to KrisPY Kreme </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=21036&page=3#post-368465 Mon, 05 Jun 2023 08:53:12 +0000 Dave 368465@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I'm quite looking forward to getting the kids on there with the scooters and roller skates. I've only tried it once lower down and thought it was strangely lumpy considering it's now a two year, 2nd attempt project. It's like the surface is sound, but not properly levelled </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=21036&page=3#post-368345 Wed, 31 May 2023 10:09:03 +0000 steveo 368345@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I went up on Monday for the first time in months. Thats a great surface just irritating that they wasted the money doing the work last year with a surface that everyone told them wouldn't last the winter. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=21036&page=3#post-368279 Fri, 26 May 2023 10:50:32 +0000 acsimpson 368279@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I guess it'll be similar to the NEPN. Early enough in the day before there's a lot of dog walkers about it'll likely be a route of choice. However when it's busy or covered in leaves less so. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=21036&page=3#post-368249 Thu, 25 May 2023 10:19:21 +0000 redmist 368249@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Once its done right up to Balerno will the roadies heading out of town use it rather than Lanark Rd ? I would. </p>