http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: South Gyle Crescent en Mon, 18 May 2026 23:01:23 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8171#post-187537 Sat, 02 May 2015 15:28:44 +0000 HankChief 187537@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>From Persimmon Homes on twitter </p> <p>@hank_chief Edinburgh City Council confirmed following inspection to the site, that the Chicane Barriers meet with their requirements. 1/2</p> <p>@hank_chief These have been placed as a temporary measure to meet with traffic management requirements, residential area and nearby school.</p> <p>Not sure why CEC think that cycling by design doesn’t apply here. I have asked... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8171#post-187424 Thu, 30 Apr 2015 21:13:41 +0000 HankChief 187424@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Hmmm. Just popped by the Gyle to see the newly adjusted chicane &amp;...</p> <p>...doesn't look like it has moved at all.</p> <p>Disappointing to say the least </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8171#post-186684 Thu, 23 Apr 2015 12:06:26 +0000 HankChief 186684@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Just heard on twitter that they have moved the chicanes...</p> <p>May need a trip down via the Gyle to take a look. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8171#post-185130 Mon, 06 Apr 2015 18:42:38 +0000 HankChief 185130@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I agree they are probably temporary and that there is an increased risk from all the tipper and delivery trucks coming and going with their poor visibility and large blindspots , it's just whether non compliant chicanes are the answer.</p> <p>If the housebuilder doesn't think that compliant chicanes would mitigate the risk sufficiently then maybe they should employ someone akin to a lollipop person during peak times of kids going to &amp; from the High Schools. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8171#post-185112 Mon, 06 Apr 2015 14:56:50 +0000 Edinburgh Cycle Training 185112@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Maybe they are temporary?</p> <p>Previously that was an entrance for future development so virtually no vehicles used it at all. With plant and site traffic - big tippers - using it regularly now, a more visible warning than just signs isn't a bad idea. </p> <p>The site traffic tends to leave a lot of mud on that roundabout these days. Bit slippy for those of us on two wheels. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8171#post-185078 Sun, 05 Apr 2015 21:17:33 +0000 HankChief 185078@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@Kappers / Bikeability - that building site off South Gyle Wynd has decided that having an entrance off a residential road is terribly dangerous and put in a couple of tight chicanes...</p> <p><a href="https://flic.kr/p/rDqxhB"><img src="https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7634/16832417487_c2b7346dd0_z.jpg"></a><a href="https://flic.kr/p/rDqxhB">Non compliant chicanes</a> by <a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/91842878@N03/">HankChief</a>, on Flickr</p> <p><a href="https://flic.kr/p/rFbmWq"><img src="https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8771/16852284100_3278870484_z.jpg"></a><a href="https://flic.kr/p/rFbmWq">New (too narrow) chicanes</a> by <a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/91842878@N03/">HankChief</a>, on Flickr</p> <p>I have let Persimmon know (via twitter) that they aren't compliant with the standard 3metres between barriers and a minimum 1.5m gap beside each barrier.</p> <p>Not impressed and does give a worrying concern about how they make entrances safe... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8171#post-181904 Thu, 26 Feb 2015 17:14:51 +0000 Edinburgh Cycle Training 181904@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Is the "pavement" on the south side of South Gyle Crescent shared use?</p> <p>The kerbs were dropped at all its road junctions a year or so back. The signage coming off the segregated Bankhead path suggests the continuing "pavement" is shared. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8171#post-181898 Thu, 26 Feb 2015 14:45:27 +0000 Edinburgh Cycle Training 181898@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Unfortunately, the "cycleway" through this development looks like it is just another shared use pavement, which is going to be intersected 9 times over its 125m main stretch. once by access to a car park, twice by roadways and 6 times by driveways.</p> <p>I think I'd rather the developer was made to resurface the existing path. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8171#post-181888 Thu, 26 Feb 2015 13:56:07 +0000 kaputnik 181888@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Okay so strictly speaking this refers to South Gyle Broadway / Access, not the Crescent, but this thread is close enough.</p> <p>I noted yesterday that they're building on the wedge of land between Meadow Place / Broomhouse Road, the railway and the North Gyle estate, that used to be part of the St Augustine's School playing fields (before the campus co-located with Forrester).</p> <p>There's a small footpath which skirts the boundary of this land alongside the railway, but it's not really a useful or suitable cycling route. I turned up the plans of the development on the planning portal (13/05183/FUL if you're intersted) and noted that it has a path connection to this footpath, as well as what seems to be a segregated path through the development footnoted as "3m wide footway/cycleway", which would give access between the existing dirt path and a new junction onto the Roundabout where South Gyle Crescent / Broadway and Access meet. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8171#post-166574 Tue, 30 Sep 2014 08:32:36 +0000 Nelly 166574@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@cb</p> <p>From Balgreen (Jenners) you can also nip onto the path alongside the tram which subsequently picks up the broomhouse path all the way to EP.</p> <p>FWIW, I do some of your route daily and my variation is - Ashley Terrace, Slateford, Hutchison Crossway, Eltringham Terrace, (Pelican Crossing across) Gorgie Road, Fords Road, Stenhouse Cross, Broomhouse Path, cross tram tracks at EP station. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8171#post-166570 Mon, 29 Sep 2014 22:48:21 +0000 chrisfl 166570@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Hmmm, good question, it was originally added as a footway then upgraded to a cycleway. </p> <p><a href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/64816131/history" rel="nofollow">http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/64816131/history</a></p> <p>Possibly, moving it back to footway with bicycles as permissive might make sense? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8171#post-166525 Mon, 29 Sep 2014 14:53:02 +0000 cb 166525@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Last week I had five days of commuting Morningside to Edinburgh Park. It didn't involve Redheughs Avenue, but I do have a question about South Gyle Broadway for the EP/SG regulars.</p> <p>OSM seems to suggest that the pavement on the north side of the road is shared use, but I couldn't see any actual signs on the ground to back that up so in the end I used the bus lane (and anyway there were quite a few pedestrians on the pavement so cycing down it would have been not much fun).</p> <p>Some more general observations on my commute:</p> <p> - I think my favourite route was the one I tried first: Balcarres St, Ashley Terrace, Hutchison Crossway to Balgreen, then route 9 (continuing along South Gyle Road to get to EP).</p> <p> - Going via the Craiglockhart woods/pond then via the canal was very pleasant and almost identical to the above route in terms of distance/time. Cultins Road not so good and no idea how you're *supposed* to get over the tram tracks. Link path from EP Station to EP was quite busy with peds.</p> <p> - Broomhouse path alternative to route one was OK, but I got very lucky with the lights at the various crossings.</p> <p> - I tried the path that loops round the north of Forresters. A bit b-b-b-bumpy and not sure now enjoyable it would be on a gloomy winter's evening.</p> <p> - The one day I 'had' to take the car took the longest. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8171#post-166515 Mon, 29 Sep 2014 13:25:53 +0000 kaputnik 166515@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>about half of Redheughs Avenue, between the roundabout and the entrance to 3 Redheughs Avenue (the 2nd RBS building) has been resurfaced. </p> <p>Very welcome for cyclists and I'm sure bus passengers too. The previous amateur attempts at filling the big holes by pouring concrete into them (!) had the expected result of covering the road in piles of crushed concrete.</p> <p>The part beyond, down to AEGON roundabout is still rubbish. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8171#post-81313 Tue, 14 Aug 2012 18:03:12 +0000 Nelly 81313@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>Yes at an interesting angle too.</em></p> <p>Drove over them sunday and then today return journey - dont think its the finished article - the road camber changes dramatically and any driver hitting it at anything above 25 will get a real jolt - although that may be intentional. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8171#post-81303 Tue, 14 Aug 2012 16:41:22 +0000 cb 81303@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>That's the only place west of Haymarket where there is actually any tram/car interaction unless you count the various lanes/driveways coming off the A8. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8171#post-81297 Tue, 14 Aug 2012 16:31:54 +0000 kaputnik 81297@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>Also 1st time I noticed the tram tracks that go right accross the road at the gyle centre<br /> </em></p> <p>Yes at an interesting angle too. I assume there will be sets of lights to stop people driving onto the tracks in queueing traffic and blocking the toy train. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8171#post-81270 Tue, 14 Aug 2012 13:25:40 +0000 custard 81270@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>yeah I was along there today. nice and smooth at least.<br /> Also 1st time I noticed the tram tracks that go right accross the road at the gyle centre </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8171#post-81240 Tue, 14 Aug 2012 11:35:05 +0000 kaputnik 81240@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@custard yes we recieved the same email at work. The bit at the S. Gyle Crescent / Redheughs Ave. roundabout has already been done.</p> <p>The trench that was dug along S. Gyle Crescent and S. Gyle Access was the power cables from the Cutlin Roads transformers to the sub-station for the trams on Bankhead Drive. So naturally, there was no thought at all put into synchronising these sets of work. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8171#post-81214 Tue, 14 Aug 2012 09:40:41 +0000 custard 81214@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>even more worrying<br /> S Gyle Crec has <u>just</u> had major works for pipes/cables meaning it was closed off for weeks as they worked along.<br /> So now the work done to fill in that trench is to be dug and redone. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8171#post-81213 Tue, 14 Aug 2012 09:35:19 +0000 cb 81213@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I worried that they say that the works will "last approximately 7weeks". Is that how long the repair will last? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8171#post-81211 Tue, 14 Aug 2012 09:32:15 +0000 chdot 81211@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"works will improve both travelling experience and visual appearance of the surface"</p> <p>Too much to hope they'll do anything about the parking or add cycle lanes. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8171#post-81206 Tue, 14 Aug 2012 09:17:07 +0000 Snowy 81206@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Finally... maybe those 'fixmystreet' submissions weren't in vain after all! </p> <p>Info from CEC:<br /> ---</p> <p>General Details</p> <p>As part of an investment in Edinburgh's roads and footpaths for 2012/13, the carriageway along South Gyle Crescent from Redheughs Avenue to South Gyle Crescent Lane is to be resurfaced. This section of the carriageway has been prioritised due to its current condition and the works will improve both travelling experience and visual appearance of the surface. The works is scheduled to commence on the 12th August 2012 and last approximately 7weeks depending on weather and other circumstances.</p> <p>Road Use During the Works</p> <p>To allow for the safe execution of the works a temporary traffic regulation order is in place to close the road during construction periods. The contractors operating times will be nightshift working from 6:00pm to 5:00am, Sunday to Thursday. Street notice signs will display changes to parking restrictions or access. Please make sure you do not park on-street and that all vehicles are removed from the location of the works during the times outlined above. </p>