http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Trambles benefit (no, really!) en Wed, 13 May 2026 08:58:49 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9919#post-135564 Wed, 04 Dec 2013 12:07:11 +0000 steveo 135564@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Cool, cheers guys. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9919#post-135561 Wed, 04 Dec 2013 12:04:29 +0000 kaputnik 135561@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>Don't know about the strip up to the tracks. Anyone been up there?<br /> </em></p> <p>Yeah it's fine, you can get all the way through. The fencing never went further than across the path and everyone just walked/cycled around it. But it's gone now. There's often workies milling around but they don't seem bothered and I've never had any issues. Just press on through. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9919#post-135556 Wed, 04 Dec 2013 11:56:08 +0000 DaveC 135556@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Someone posted a picture of the new crossing of Balgreen Road, just waiting for lights to cross to Baird Road. Don't know about the strip up to the tracks. Anyone been up there? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9919#post-135548 Wed, 04 Dec 2013 11:45:13 +0000 steveo 135548@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Better question then? If I take the bridge can I get of at the other end? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9919#post-135546 Wed, 04 Dec 2013 11:42:45 +0000 chdot 135546@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Bridge been open for ages. </p> <p>Access at Balgreen end has been variable. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9919#post-135544 Wed, 04 Dec 2013 11:40:51 +0000 steveo 135544@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>So is the bridge open now? I need to get to Haymarket after lunch. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9919#post-117569 Wed, 10 Jul 2013 16:24:06 +0000 wingpig 117569@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I followed a dog-walker through the pushed-aside fencing at the new bridge on Sunday. Very nice, especially as a potential route which will enable the stupid end of the Broomhouse path to be bypassed, though right-angled turns on stippled tactile paving might be fun. The gravelly bit at the end of the Carrick Knowe path is passable with care (and it's not much worse than it was immediately prior to it being blocked-off) but the Balgreen end was rather more effectively blocked with properly-bolted-together Heras fencing, so I went back as far as the golf course path and lifted/squeezed bike/body over/through the fence onto the former railway path. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9919#post-117564 Wed, 10 Jul 2013 16:04:28 +0000 DaveC 117564@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Just watch out for deep puddles on the stretch which runs next to the golfist park though!! See from the train, where the path dips water collects. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9919#post-117563 Wed, 10 Jul 2013 15:58:04 +0000 kaputnik 117563@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I've noticed over the last few weeks that the fencing has sometimes been moved out of place and is sometimes back across the path. I think people are moving it to get past and occasionally contractors are pushing it back. It's a bit pointless really as it was only across the path, you could still walk around it, on the rails. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9919#post-117557 Wed, 10 Jul 2013 14:51:38 +0000 Arellcat 117557@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>The path from the Stenhouse tram bridge to Balgreen is almost open. But not yet.</p> <p>On Sunday I saw people walking their dogs along the path, and presumed it was now open. Yesterday I had a look at the Stenhouse end and the fencing had been moved to one side—but not <strong>re</strong>moved. I wasn't sure whether I was allowed or not but I followed a jogger over the bridge and along the path towards Balgreen. Well, the path isn't technically open, because they haven't built the other end yet. The site of the former Balgreen Station is still a building site, unsurfaced and unplanted. I walked my bike over the that section and left the site as quickly as possible. Despite this, the people in a contractor van whom I asked about the situation said they didn't mind me being there.</p> <p>One thing to be aware of:</p> <p>On the tram bridge at Stenhouse and next to the parapet there is a large (18 inches square, 3 inches high) block of concrete that is part of the bridge itself. If you were to ride close to the edge your front wheel will send you flying. On closer inspection it is probably the base for a lamp post.</p> <p>The path as currently built is absolutely lovely to ride along though. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9919#post-112842 Mon, 03 Jun 2013 16:02:56 +0000 chdot 112842@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"It looks exactly like the other 3 bridges on this stretch should have - with a built in cycle/footpath."</p> <p>Well yes. </p> <p>This one avoids a mild detour. </p> <p>The others would have avoided nasty road crossings with interminably waiting for the lights. </p> <p>Someone is havin a laff... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9919#post-112840 Mon, 03 Jun 2013 15:52:51 +0000 kaputnik 112840@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>However it looks pretty good so far.<br /> </em></p> <p>It looks <strong>exactly</strong> like the other 3 bridges on this stretch <em>should</em> have - with a built in cycle/footpath.</p> <p>Again this morning I admired how the supporting embankments for the South Gyle Access / Meadow Place road / Saughton Road North bridges are wide enough to support a wider bridge, but space has only been provided for the tram (for want of a metre or so of a widening).</p> <p>Le sigh. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9919#post-112811 Mon, 03 Jun 2013 14:21:45 +0000 crowriver 112811@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Let's wait and see. However it looks pretty good so far. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9919#post-112807 Mon, 03 Jun 2013 14:12:27 +0000 DaveC 112807@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Don't worry given TIE's history, there will be 'kissing gates' every 10m installed soon enough, where ou have to lift the bike over. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9919#post-112804 Mon, 03 Jun 2013 14:04:34 +0000 cb 112804@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Looks like a new crossing is going in at the other end of the new path, across Balgreen Road. Can't tell if it will be shared use yet or what (if anything) it will link up with. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9919#post-112796 Mon, 03 Jun 2013 13:56:20 +0000 steveo 112796@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>What makes it more surprising is that the existing bridge and the path behind the block of flats isn't too much of a detour....</em></p> <p>That shocked me frankly! Given TIE I'd always expected to be routed round the flats. </p> <p>The path looks pretty good after the bridge too. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9919#post-112793 Mon, 03 Jun 2013 13:52:27 +0000 chdot 112793@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"Hey, that's really very very good!"</p> <p>Yep, and I can't think of anything else. </p> <p>What makes it more surprising is that the existing bridge and the path behind the block of flats <em>isn't too much of a detour</em>....</p> <p>By contrast, the total mess around EP Station and Cultins Road is just embarrassing - not that anyone involved in 'the tram' knows about shame. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9919#post-112789 Mon, 03 Jun 2013 13:42:42 +0000 Wilmington's Cow 112789@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Hey, that's really very very good! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9919#post-112788 Mon, 03 Jun 2013 13:39:19 +0000 cb 112788@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I must have missed this thread at the time. On another thread (which I can't find) I contradicted kaputnik (I think) and probably generally caused confusion by implying that this new bit of cycle infrastructure didn't exist!</p> <p>Anyway, very glad to have got that wrong.</p> <p>Good overhead shot of the new bridge here:</p> <p><a href="http://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/galleries/gallery/75/item/8595/carrick_knowe_tram_route">http://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/galleries/gallery/75/item/8595/carrick_knowe_tram_route</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9919#post-107464 Thu, 11 Apr 2013 16:23:02 +0000 PS 107464@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Hope it's got a bit more of a camber on it than the photo suggests. Would hate it to be a really nice surface but one that water (and therefore ice) sits on (like the Chancelot Path). </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9919#post-107463 Thu, 11 Apr 2013 16:19:29 +0000 steveo 107463@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Thats pretty good. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9919#post-107462 Thu, 11 Apr 2013 16:18:17 +0000 PS 107462@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Is it on Strava yet? ;-) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9919#post-107460 Thu, 11 Apr 2013 16:14:00 +0000 chdot 107460@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"new path to Balgreen"</p> <p>I except this will become a 'race the tram from the tram stop' route... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9919#post-107451 Thu, 11 Apr 2013 15:40:03 +0000 chdot 107451@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/chdot/8640470040/"><img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8120/8640470040_8a473b0206.jpg"></a><br /> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/chdot/8640470040/">New route</a> </p> <p>Wasn't expecting this - walk/cycleway ON a tram bridge. </p> <p>Will bypass the ramp and step bridge from Stenhouse to Carrick Knowe and join the new path to Balgreen (not yet open). </p>