http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: re-opening of paths temporarily closed for tram works en Sun, 17 May 2026 05:47:45 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8580&page=3#post-105336 Thu, 21 Mar 2013 13:31:51 +0000 neddie 105336@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>^ Has been re-opened now </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8580&page=3#post-104574 Fri, 15 Mar 2013 14:10:03 +0000 neddie 104574@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>The path along the East side of the Water of Leith walkway at the end of Baird Drive/Westfield Ave at the railway bridge was closed again this morning.</p> <p>No reason given. No date of re-opening given. No diversion signed.</p> <p>(If walking down the WoL the diversion would actually be very long (approx 800metres), involving going all the way along Pansy Lane, under the railway, then doubling back on yourself all the way along Baird Drive) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8580&page=3#post-103286 Thu, 07 Mar 2013 15:43:02 +0000 Uberuce 103286@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@Arellcat More of those infernal things? I fear your guess is right since there was nothing wrong with that bit of path. </p> <p>Excuse me while I go and chew some tinfoil as a pleasant distraction from thinking about it further... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8580&page=3#post-103285 Thu, 07 Mar 2013 15:39:27 +0000 Rabid Hamster 103285@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Everything we do, we do it for you! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8580&page=3#post-103276 Thu, 07 Mar 2013 15:04:36 +0000 Arellcat 103276@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Yesterday the Broomhouse Path where it runs past the Scottish Government building was being cut into with a circular saw. I wondered if they were installing more tactile paving slabs, since it was at the point where the footpath runs up to the Broomhouse tram stop. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8580&page=3#post-103268 Thu, 07 Mar 2013 14:41:59 +0000 Snowy 103268@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Just when you thought they'd actually finished the tram crossing at Edinburgh Park Station. The pedestrian rail-crossing bit that has been open for a while now and which appeared to be a permanent/final surface, was in the process of being dug up with pneumatic drills this morning... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8580&page=3#post-103212 Thu, 07 Mar 2013 11:13:50 +0000 chdot 103212@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"until it's been properly sorted"</p> <p>There speaks an optimist!</p> <p>The claim (on here via Twitter) that it would be 'open on Wednesday' proved to be so far from the truth that it's probably wise to avoid for the foreseeable future. </p> <p>Still unresolved is the way the final layout around EP Station and Cultins Road will work in practice. </p> <p>The final final version of this route will still be interrupted by roads and lights. </p> <p>The cost of ped/cycle bridges next to the tram ones would have been insignificant in the medium scale of things. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8580&page=3#post-103207 Thu, 07 Mar 2013 10:55:29 +0000 AKen 103207@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I used to occasionally go that way (Broomhouse path) into work for a change but the reports on here have persuaded me to avoid it until it's been properly sorted. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8580&page=3#post-103188 Wed, 06 Mar 2013 22:58:16 +0000 kaputnik 103188@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Broomhouse path STILL not open. Looks like they're constructing a 6-inch wide ornamental flower border between the path and the road. Meanwhile the diversion creeps evern-narrower as they edge the security fence ever closer to the bollards. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8580&page=3#post-103186 Wed, 06 Mar 2013 22:56:13 +0000 gembo 103186@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Wonder if you go down to the new bridge then take the path on the easy side of the river down to murrayfield. The path on the west side looked fairly heavily blocked yesterday </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8580&page=3#post-103183 Wed, 06 Mar 2013 22:43:10 +0000 chdot 103183@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Saw these today -</p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/chdot/8533949149/"><img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8112/8533949149_e7c3c946c5.jpg"></a></p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/chdot/8535058846/"><img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8372/8535058846_98bca463b6.jpg"></a></p> <p>on Balgreen Road. </p> <p>Didn't see any by the bridge/diversion. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8580&page=2#post-100963 Tue, 19 Feb 2013 00:21:49 +0000 Focus 100963@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>It really needs some nutters with cowbells and preferably Didi der Teuffel <img src="http://imgl.krone.at/Bilder/2007/07/16/Rindvieh_geht_auf_den_Tour-Teufel_los-Kuh_dreht_durch-Story-73618_476x295px_1_ZAuPxlAGZ0hB2.jpg"> to complete the effect. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8580&page=2#post-96178 Tue, 08 Jan 2013 21:23:21 +0000 kaputnik 96178@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>A nice suggestion on Twitter earlier comparing the Russell Road chicane to the Alpe d' Huez and that it needs a climb categorisation board at the bottom and some climb route-markers on the way up. It would make a nice replacement for the information board that used to be at the bottom.</p> <p>Who's got some plywood and a jigsaw then? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8580&page=2#post-96173 Tue, 08 Jan 2013 21:04:39 +0000 Arellcat 96173@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>although there was no dropped kerbs anywhere to do so</em></p> <p>The dropped kerb installed later, in the middle of K's photo and seen on the top-left here:</p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/beqi/7977574388/"><img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8040/7977574388_f57cf4792e_n.jpg"></a><br /> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/beqi/7977574388/">Kerb your enthusiasm</a>, on Flickr</p> <p>is now accessible using the original route of NCN1. I was there a few days ago and was so surprised that the metal grid diversion had been removed that I didn't make a proper mental note. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8580&page=2#post-96151 Tue, 08 Jan 2013 18:18:42 +0000 cc 96151@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Ah, mind you, you do need to cycle along a bit of road which has tr*m rails on it, or cycle up/down a bit of pavement to avoid them. I forgot to mention that before because (I've discovered that) my bike's tyres are big enough that they don't get stuck in the tr*m tracks. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8580&page=2#post-96088 Tue, 08 Jan 2013 15:35:54 +0000 gembo 96088@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Still quite a quiet cut through. I was worried it would not come back into play at all as it did look to be a complete photfit of ther tram line route </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8580&page=2#post-96078 Tue, 08 Jan 2013 15:17:26 +0000 kaputnik 96078@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@CC haven't gone that way recently, last time I did, a lot of the former NCN1 shared use pavement etc. had been dug up or appropriated by the tram works, obliging you to use the road (although there was no dropped kerbs anywhere to do so)</p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kaputniq/7516806590/"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7113/7516806590_e010ac8bb2.jpg"></a><br /> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kaputniq/7516806590/">What a bloody trambles!</a> by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/kaputniq/">the Magnificent Octopus</a>, on Flickr </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8580&page=2#post-96075 Tue, 08 Jan 2013 15:14:07 +0000 Coxy 96075@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Cool - worth a try to avoid the terrible road surface just before Donaldson's College going West -&gt; East. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8580&page=2#post-96066 Tue, 08 Jan 2013 14:48:44 +0000 cc 96066@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Yes, there's a link from the end of the Roseburn path going to about a hundred yards from Haymarket station, then back up onto the road (which is then blocked at the junction...)</p> <p><a href="http://www.cyclestreets.net/journey/10664223/">Like this</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8580&page=2#post-96055 Tue, 08 Jan 2013 13:57:31 +0000 Coxy 96055@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>So, is it now possible to cycle from Roseburn to Haymarket off-road? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8580&page=2#post-96053 Tue, 08 Jan 2013 13:49:42 +0000 fimm 96053@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"The piece of shared use pavement under the bridge is completely pointless" no it is not if you are coming the other way, as it means you don't have to do a right turn onto the zigzags from the corner. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8580&page=2#post-96044 Tue, 08 Jan 2013 13:22:43 +0000 kaputnik 96044@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="http://road.cc/content/news/73157-motorist-takes-wrong-turn-cambridge-railway-cycle-bridge">This bridge?</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8580&page=2#post-95967 Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:17:54 +0000 chdot 95967@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>More oh than OT... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8580&page=2#post-95966 Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:15:02 +0000 Nelly 95966@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Ha ! We were definitely into the same stuff. My teen bands of choice were the Bunnymen, Cure (night before my english higher - still got an A), Smiths (sadly only once, Caley Palais as was), Billy Bragg, supported by The Housemartins at Queens Hall! Also saw Big Country in Livingston once, reckon that was under the influence of a girl.</p> <p>Was oddly into Prince and saw him at Wembley Arena and Parkhead. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8580&page=2#post-95965 Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:01:15 +0000 gembo 95965@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Ah Nelly, I thought you looked familiar. I saw Pogues in Barrowlands just after they changed from Pogue Mahone. Shane still hitting his head with a quite solid tray [surely a tambourine would suffice?]. all very jolly. Now next time I went the place was bedecked in Celtic Scarves - 1984. The football fans had discovered them big style.</p> <p>Other gigs we might also have been at together but apart - Echo and The Bunymen 1984, Smiths 1984 and 1985. Fall 1987 or is that pushing it [only good Fall gig I was ever at]</p> <p>To think Elvis Costello could be married to Caitlin O'Riordan and then Diana Krall </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8580&page=2#post-95960 Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:05:28 +0000 Nelly 95960@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@gembo, reminds me of many Pogues gigs, usually in the Barrowlands Ballroom. Must have been mid 80s, as Cait O'Riordan had not been stolen by Declan Mcmanus yet. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8580&page=2#post-95958 Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:08:19 +0000 gembo 95958@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>The canals and the bridges, the embankments and cuts,<br /> They blasted and dug with their sweat and their guts<br /> They never drank water but whiskey by pints<br /> And the shanty towns rang with their songs and their fights. </p> <p>Navigator, navigator rise up and be strong<br /> The morning is here and there's work to be done.<br /> Take your pick and your shovel and the bold dynamite<br /> For to shift a few tons of this earthly delight<br /> Yes to shift a few tons of this earthly delight. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8580&page=2#post-95957 Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:01:32 +0000 Smudge 95957@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Ahem, Navigational Engineers thankyouverymuch ;-) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8580&page=2#post-95956 Mon, 07 Jan 2013 19:37:28 +0000 DaveC 95956@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Yeh I'm with Dave, we could have had the local Skivers.... er sorry [anti Conservative filter] ... gainfully unemployed, digging like navies... [er.... ] Irish Labourers </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8580&page=2#post-95954 Mon, 07 Jan 2013 19:02:29 +0000 Dave 95954@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Even worse, the type of small scale projects that SPOKES and the cycling lobby keep campaigning for would generally be delivered by relatively local business employing local people. </p> <p>No opportunity to assign them to a mainly european state-owned / foreign corporation as we would with a REAL infrastructure project! </p>