http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: canal towpath upgrade en Mon, 18 May 2026 11:09:15 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=470&page=3#post-191800 Wed, 24 Jun 2015 18:02:08 +0000 jdanielp 191800@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@gembo I was taken by surprise more than anything - apologies for not yet being at all proficient at spotting you back. I do remember reading your traffic comment... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=470&page=3#post-191789 Wed, 24 Jun 2015 16:39:09 +0000 gembo 191789@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I thought I posted a thing about complete traffic chaos in craiglockhart here? When i said Complete Chaos to jdanielp rigjht at the fence described he did smile. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=470&page=3#post-191730 Wed, 24 Jun 2015 09:25:56 +0000 jdanielp 191730@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@Chug I assume that it was the contractors who've moved the fence back off the path since yesterday afternoon when it was literally one-way beyond the metal chicane. They seemed to have done this so that they were able to dig up the ground right up to the edge of the towpath. This morning there were supports in place, protruding back into the dug out area, on which the fencing stood. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=470&page=3#post-191725 Wed, 24 Jun 2015 08:48:38 +0000 Chug 191725@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I agree that this fence is making the towpath almost one-way-at-a-time. The fence has flexed on and off the path over the last few days. Someone is moving it. I'm genuinely not sure whether it's the contractors or a towpath user.</p> <p>Just wait for the school to open, then we'll see how narrow the path really is! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=470&page=3#post-191671 Tue, 23 Jun 2015 15:27:20 +0000 jdanielp 191671@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>The fencing by the towpath at the Boroughmuir High School site has been moved even further onto the path towards the metal chicane/cut through area now that work is presumably about to begin on the new 'park' area at that part of the site. I'm glad that I was leaving work early today so that it wasn't too busy when negotiating that section, although tomorrow morning is likely to be a complete nightmare... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=470&page=2#post-188728 Mon, 18 May 2015 11:43:23 +0000 chdot 188728@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>New thread</p> <p><a href="http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14826" rel="nofollow">http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14826</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=470&page=2#post-186649 Thu, 23 Apr 2015 09:25:24 +0000 jdanielp 186649@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Not sure why they didn't complete the work at the time, especially given that traffic on the towpath was quite light during the Easter holidays, but they closed off the Gray's Loan bridge for towpath users on Tuesday and it remains shut. Due to a diversion to Morningside on Tuesday/Wednesday I only experienced this properly this morning and was unimpressed by the complete lack of provision for pedestrians and cyclists now having to cross Gray's Loan, which was very busy with traffic. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=470&page=2#post-184825 Wed, 01 Apr 2015 12:22:53 +0000 chdot 184825@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="https://flic.kr/p/rBEgYX"><img src="https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8751/16812464579_fe73f28f2b.jpg"></a></p> <p><a href="https://flic.kr/p/rzMLdZ"><img src="https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8732/16791292377_6aee2899f8.jpg"></a></p> <p>No obvious signs of this being done</p> <p><a href="https://flic.kr/p/qX7Kvs"><img src="https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7625/16376286744_6be981c847.jpg"></a></p> <p>Coincidentally you can't experience <em>all</em> the new surface as the edging is being altered. </p> <p><a href="https://flic.kr/p/rBxPh3"><img src="https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7599/16811204070_0a9684f622.jpg"></a></p> <p><a href="https://flic.kr/p/rzMRgV"><img src="https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7619/16791309367_abce59662b.jpg"></a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=470&page=2#post-184770 Wed, 01 Apr 2015 08:48:03 +0000 Chug 184770@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>The upgrade work is kind of curious - I'm not sure what was wrong with the existing surface. I wondered if they were going to tarmac the recently double-yellow-lined muddy and bumpy connection to Ogilvie Terrace. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=470&page=2#post-184754 Tue, 31 Mar 2015 20:37:52 +0000 jdanielp 184754@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>The wide section of canal towpath between the bridges at Harrison Park has been abruptly 'upgraded' today, which means that it is now covered in a layer of tiny bits of gravel that are not at all conducive to cycling over... Hopefully the loose bits will be swiftly cleared away. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=470&page=2#post-26634 Fri, 11 Mar 2011 17:08:32 +0000 David F 26634@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@mabs - they seem to have done most of the work quite quickly. Just the tarmac to go down and then put in some kind of ramp on the path it looks like. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=470&page=2#post-26574 Fri, 11 Mar 2011 11:45:34 +0000 chdot 26574@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"According to the chap I spoke to, they're tarmacing all the way to Falkirk!" </p> <p>Perhaps, but -</p> <p>CEC says -</p> <p>"The surfacing at Ratho is a localised project to tackle the very bad drainage issue in the cutting. We're contributing some funding along with Sustrans - I think the length is about 500m." </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=470&page=2#post-26555 Fri, 11 Mar 2011 01:22:13 +0000 ruggtomcat 26555@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I swear K-nick has an evil alter ego. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=470&page=2#post-26552 Thu, 10 Mar 2011 23:30:43 +0000 kaputnik 26552@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>pour a lot of cement in the canal itself. Job done! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=470&page=2#post-26550 Thu, 10 Mar 2011 23:20:41 +0000 Smudge 26550@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>smooth tarmac all the way to Falkirk would indeed be lovely, they could then widen it to a three laner, two lanes for bikes going east and west and another for pedestrians, oh and add movement sensing traffic lights at the bridges/narrow sections.. and then you'd have a <u>real</u> "cycling superhighway".<br /> And then I woke up :-/ </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=470&page=2#post-26544 Thu, 10 Mar 2011 22:00:54 +0000 kaputnik 26544@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@druidh sounds very similar to the surface between Auchendinny viaduct and Rosewell on the Penicuik to Dalkeith path. Like cycling volcanic ash </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=470&page=2#post-26543 Thu, 10 Mar 2011 21:43:26 +0000 druidh 26543@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I was down the WoL yesterday and there is some sort of energy-sucking new surfcae in place from Splash in Juniper Green all the way to the bridge in Colinton. Very soft, gray and smooth but already full of tyre tracks being cut into the loose wet surface. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=470&page=2#post-26540 Thu, 10 Mar 2011 20:34:41 +0000 Mabs 26540@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Path through Harrison park should be good as especially just now its not nice walking the bike through. I just hope it doesn't become a poo magnet like some parts of the canal. Any idea on how long it takes jobs like that to be completed in Edinburgh? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=470&page=2#post-26527 Thu, 10 Mar 2011 18:15:48 +0000 ruggtomcat 26527@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>tarmac to flakirk would be wonderful. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=470&page=2#post-26525 Thu, 10 Mar 2011 17:50:37 +0000 David F 26525@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>There is also work at Harrison park to put in a path from West Bryson Road to the tow path, where at the minute it is just a muddy football field. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=470&page=2#post-26519 Thu, 10 Mar 2011 16:38:20 +0000 splitshift 26519@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Tarmac climbing centre to falkirk ? scalled the M9 !<br /> Next someone will tell us that there are going to be lights as well ! Burke and Hare wouldnt like it ! Not entirely sure if I like that idea, sometimes its nice to just be the only person on the canal, in the mud and casually strewn trees !Then again, slick tyres and a tail wind, smooth ! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=470&page=2#post-26513 Thu, 10 Mar 2011 15:29:43 +0000 eastsidebikes 26513@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Hippi and I were out yesterday on the tandem, there was a construction team preparing the section near to ratho climbing centre for laying tarmac. According to the chap I spoke to, they're tarmacing all the way to Falkirk! Ace! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=470&page=2#post-4496 Sat, 27 Mar 2010 15:29:46 +0000 SRD 4496@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"also I love the dogs/peds/bikes pic near Harrison Gdns? on Canal"..."quite near, Bridge is Yeaman Place." </p> <p>Almost the view out my kitchen window...can be _very_ busy. No one out there now but some pigeons though... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=470&page=2#post-4482 Sat, 27 Mar 2010 14:46:47 +0000 steveo 4482@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Went along the canal for the first time in a long time today between slateford and fountain bridge, bloody hell its busy i'd hate to see that at rush hour I think i'll stick dodging the Airport bus.</p> <p>Though the tarmac was a nice change from what i was expecting from memory. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=470&page=2#post-4463 Sat, 27 Mar 2010 11:09:03 +0000 wee folding bike 4463@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>The Soliton wave episode of Star Trek, TNG, was on last week.</p> <p><a href="http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/New_Ground_(episode)">http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/New_Ground_(episode)</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=470&page=2#post-4457 Sat, 27 Mar 2010 09:39:23 +0000 gembo 4457@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>very small speed bumps have been inserted at Cutlins Road - sort of before a bridge ? if heading west. The torrential rain caused a few puddles but nothing like before, a man footering with Greenroofer's sign at Gogar Station Road told me the contractor is in Ratho (will check today) and presumably heading in towards Hermiston. Looks like the May Day jaunt to Falkirk will be paved to Ratho.</p> <p>Spotted the cormorant emerging from beneath the murky waters of the canal - a very oily bird.</p> <p>Graculus </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=470&page=2#post-4384 Fri, 26 Mar 2010 12:58:31 +0000 spytfyre 4384@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>There were nice pics of the Soliton Wave recreation at Heriot-Watt<br /> I look forward to trying the new tarmac at Lochrin on foot and on two wheels<br /> @chdot that pic is nothing new - I reckon dog walkers need to keep their dogs on a lead at all time unless in a large open space like... Harrison Park. Given that is where I live I used the canal daily to go to the Gyle (I think I already mentioned) and before that into town as I worked on Viewforth prior to that.<br /> Speeding along is a bad idea especially at the blind bridges, it was at the one near the mini Tesco on Colinton Rd (Meggetland) where I had my head on collision with idiot boy on a bike who didn't ring his bell when he was approaching from the other side. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=470&page=2#post-4360 Fri, 26 Mar 2010 00:00:47 +0000 gembo 4360@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>tried the tarmac at Lochrin basin today it is spectacular </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=470&page=2#post-4354 Thu, 25 Mar 2010 23:23:51 +0000 chdot 4354@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"near Harrison Gdns?"</p> <p>quite near, Bridge is Yeaman Place.</p> <p>- see busy? - Feb (2008)</p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/chdot/411814051/in/pool-unioncanal"><img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/124/411814051_bb4f03551c.jpg"></p> <p>March (2007)</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=470&page=2#post-4348 Thu, 25 Mar 2010 23:11:31 +0000 gembo 4348@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I did not know about theSoliton fibre optic cable linking Glasgow and Edinburgh beneath the towpath, I will tread with care. Thanks Chris, also I love the dogs/peds/bikes pic near Harrison Gdns? on Canal.</p> <p>The Spurtle - free newspaper of the Broughton area heralded the wee tunnel at Tescos in Cannonmills (A lovely wee tunnel) as the completion of route 75 and an event which at long last linked Glaswegians with sunshine and civilisation. Coming from the West I thought this was very funny. </p>