http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: canal bridges en Sun, 17 May 2026 04:37:05 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9232&page=2#post-102260 Wed, 27 Feb 2013 22:29:39 +0000 chdot 102260@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Not sure about this -</p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/chdot/8513911294/"><img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8105/8513911294_f92a7111c9.jpg"></a><br /> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/chdot/8513911294/">Finished?</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9232&page=2#post-102029 Tue, 26 Feb 2013 13:57:05 +0000 Nelly 102029@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"There's been one of those around somewhere for a while, I thought?"</p> <p>Fords Road foot/cycle bridge has one in the last week or so. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9232&page=2#post-102012 Tue, 26 Feb 2013 11:50:14 +0000 fimm 102012@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>There's been one of those around somewhere for a while, I thought?<br /> Good to hear the path under the bridge is fixed. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9232&page=2#post-102010 Tue, 26 Feb 2013 11:39:37 +0000 Snowy 102010@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Heh - yes, I spotted the disconcerting grafitti yesterday when I was on my way home disguised as a runner. Must admit it helped up my pace. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9232&page=2#post-101969 Mon, 25 Feb 2013 21:23:03 +0000 Greenroofer 101969@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>P.S. There's also been the addition of some (state-sponsored, I assume) graffiti on the towpath under one of the bridges nearer Wester Hailes.</p> <p>It's quite artfully applied to the path itself, and says 'Choose life, not a knife'. A little disconcerting to pass this as I make my solitary progress home in the dusk... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9232&page=2#post-101966 Mon, 25 Feb 2013 21:15:41 +0000 Greenroofer 101966@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Remaining section fixed today.</p> <p>I inspected it in the half light and without stopping, but it's definitely been repaired. Someone's been unable to resist writing their name in the wet cement. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9232&page=2#post-101375 Thu, 21 Feb 2013 12:05:50 +0000 chdot 101375@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"<br /> Waterways Trust (@ScotlandsCanals)<br /> 21/02/2013 11:02<br /> @CyclingEdin<br /> The worst section has been fixed. The remaining section being repaired next week by Scottish Canals.</p> <p>" </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9232&page=2#post-101048 Tue, 19 Feb 2013 14:38:06 +0000 fimm 101048@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>And now I can compare the two, with the one I took a decent size and not just little on the phone, it does not look like things have changed much. You can see snow on the first photo, which is some evidence that they were not taken yesterday. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9232&page=2#post-101047 Tue, 19 Feb 2013 14:36:10 +0000 fimm 101047@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Well, that wasn't too painful...<br /> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/f_m_m/8489326462/"><img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8374/8489326462_f5f3196f42.jpg"></a><br /> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/f_m_m/8489326462/">Repair 1</a><br /> shows the new repair and<br /> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/f_m_m/8488232437/"><img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8242/8488232437_102ac373e4.jpg"></a><br /> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/f_m_m/8488232437/">Repair 2</a><br /> shows the bit that wasn't repaired </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9232&page=2#post-101040 Tue, 19 Feb 2013 14:15:26 +0000 chdot 101040@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"hooching with pedestrians and cyclists as it was a lovely day"</p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/chdot/8486597184/"><img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8104/8486597184_c2cda1fa0f.jpg"></a><br /> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/chdot/8486597184/">Sunday cycling</a></p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/chdot/8485502719/"><img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8096/8485502719_e02ef1b503.jpg"></a><br /> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/chdot/8485502719/">Aqueduct Sunday</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9232&page=2#post-100991 Tue, 19 Feb 2013 10:52:03 +0000 fimm 100991@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@chdot "<em>Yes but - has more fallen away since they started/finished repair work? </em>"</p> <p>Yes, compared with my photos, more has fallen away. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9232&page=2#post-100990 Tue, 19 Feb 2013 10:43:44 +0000 AKen 100990@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Looking at the photo above, it would seem obvious that this was a job half done and they'd need to come back and fix the nearer section as well.</p> <p>I had a bit of an anxious moment at this spot on Sunday. I'd cycled into town with my sun and we were heading back home again. The tow-path was hooching with pedestrians and cyclists as it was a lovely day but had become less busy by the time we reached this bridge. My son was cycling ahead of me and, as he went under the bridge strayed closer to the edge and was cycling on the newly-repaired bit. From behind, all I could see was him heading closer and closer to the point where the repair suddenly finishes and a sudden drop into the water. Thankfully, he turned back towards the path in time but I can see someone ending up in the canal here unless the job is properly done. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9232&page=2#post-100987 Tue, 19 Feb 2013 10:22:52 +0000 chdot 100987@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"it is not the bit that was fixed that has crumbled, but the bit next to it"</p> <p>Yes but - has more fallen away since they started/finished repair work? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9232&page=2#post-100984 Tue, 19 Feb 2013 10:16:09 +0000 fimm 100984@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I've had a quick look at the photo on my phone, and, as far as I can tell, it is not the bit that was fixed that has crumbled, but the bit next to it. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9232&page=2#post-100983 Tue, 19 Feb 2013 10:12:05 +0000 chdot 100983@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>" I suppose it is now 'safe' "</p> <p>Except that there is now a hole/gap less visible than the previous crumble. </p> <p>Anyone been in the dark? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9232&page=2#post-100982 Tue, 19 Feb 2013 10:09:51 +0000 SRD 100982@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Thanks chdot. was waiting for Mr SRd to upload our photos, which didn't happen. I too was unimpressed with the 'fix'. I suppose it is now 'safe' but it certainly doesn't look good. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9232&page=2#post-100977 Tue, 19 Feb 2013 09:46:40 +0000 fimm 100977@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Ooopsie...<br /> I will try and remember to get the photos I took of the new repair out of my phone and put them up.</p> <p>(Completely OT, I also have a load of photos of bikes in Landshut, Bavaria, that I thought would interest some on the forum and I have not yet got round to doing anything with them either...) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9232&page=2#post-100976 Tue, 19 Feb 2013 09:44:17 +0000 chdot 100976@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="http://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/heritage/canal-buildings-repairs-ends-history-of-neglect-1-2796114" rel="nofollow">http://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/heritage/canal-buildings-repairs-ends-history-of-neglect-1-2796114</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9232&page=2#post-100975 Tue, 19 Feb 2013 09:38:37 +0000 chdot 100975@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/chdot/8486602626/"><img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8241/8486602626_dddec23381.jpg"></a><br /> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/chdot/8486602626/">Is this really fixed?</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9232&page=2#post-97395 Sat, 19 Jan 2013 15:43:18 +0000 fimm 97395@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I decided to run along the canal today and very nice it was too. I took a couple of photos of the repair but will have to work out how to get them off my phone. Anyway the digital manipulation above gives a pretty good idea. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9232&page=2#post-97387 Sat, 19 Jan 2013 11:32:21 +0000 Greenroofer 97387@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@SRD I can do photoshopping (Gimping, actually) in the warm with a glass of something appropriate to hand...</p> <p>(Oh yes, and the only camera I have on the bike is the video, and that battery on that had gone flat on the wya home).</p> <p>But other than that, yes, it would have been quicker to take a picture. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9232#post-97380 Sat, 19 Jan 2013 02:30:16 +0000 Tulyar 97380@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Ons way that it could have been done would be to place a retaining board and then lay in sandbags filled with 'dry mix' (concrete which has yet to get water added) Drop in to water in sandbags and it sets as sandbag shaped lumps, which you can then work behind to build a sound dry structure. </p> <p>The causeway through Loch Venachar was built that way, with sandbag filling races between members of the teams. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9232#post-97379 Sat, 19 Jan 2013 00:08:57 +0000 SRD 97379@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@greenroofer – most impressive, but mighten't have been easier/faster to have stopped in the first place? thank you - will show to stoker for inspection in morning. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9232#post-97377 Fri, 18 Jan 2013 23:19:36 +0000 chdot 97377@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Well photoshopped. </p> <p>Hope the reality is as good! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9232#post-97376 Fri, 18 Jan 2013 23:14:10 +0000 Greenroofer 97376@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@SRD Wouldn't want to disappoint your stoker (although I assume she'll have better things to do tomorrow given the amount of snow that's falling...), and now I've had permission, I thought I really ought to do something.</p> <p><a href="https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/WOyC4A7ZXhfWd6WPuJTmGfXwJil4IRX3_624suy4z10?feat=directlink"><img src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-nPsFo-5UG5c/UPnHofcDA8I/AAAAAAAAAgA/QnvhaGO-2w4/s720/8373992264_bc17e7560e_b.jpg"></a></p> <p>This may not be the kind of picture you had in mind, but I reckon it's a fair illustration of what's been done. I was quite pleased with the way I've repaired the setts. I think the concrete could perhaps do with a bit of work... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9232#post-97370 Fri, 18 Jan 2013 21:55:21 +0000 SRD 97370@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>My stoker very disappointed at lack of pictures :(. We might have to ride out ourselves to check it out. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9232#post-97368 Fri, 18 Jan 2013 21:44:48 +0000 Greenroofer 97368@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@chdot I was worried you'd say that... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9232#post-97365 Fri, 18 Jan 2013 21:08:02 +0000 chdot 97365@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"but then saw that his licence doesn't allow modification without permission"</p> <p>I give you permission. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9232#post-97364 Fri, 18 Jan 2013 21:05:11 +0000 Greenroofer 97364@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Sorry - no pictures. It was snowing lightly as I went past this evening, and keen though I am to keep you up to date with developments, I'm still not keen enough to stop for a picture. I was then going to edit one of chdot's pictures above to give an impression of what's been done, but then saw that his licence doesn't allow modification without permission, and it was all getting too complicated.</p> <p><em>Anyway...</em></p> <p>Looks like they've just about finished. The setts are all back in place. The path is now substantially wider: the concrete build-out featured at the very bottom of chdot's first picture above now extends pretty much the full length of the bridge. It looked like it had a fresh layer of mortar on top of it and I was very tempted to leave a memorial footprint (but it <em>was</em> snowing).</p> <p>Unless Snowy wants to add anything, I think that's the end of the rivetting updates. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9232#post-97265 Thu, 17 Jan 2013 18:17:07 +0000 SRD 97265@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>The riveted masses need pictures too please! </p>