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Still no path (Now Open!)

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Started 13 years ago by chdot
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chdot
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Today I went somewhere I haven't been for months, half expecting to see a new path.

This is supposed to be an important link between The Innocent at Duddingston Road West and Peffermill Road. (And then on through Craigmillar Castle Park to Old Dalkeith Road.)

For years it was just derelict land waiting for a new industrial estate to be built - this was finished a year or so ago. The recent landscaping is partly to do with the flood prevention measures for the Braid Burn.

But still no tarmac.

The path is supposed to start/finish here -

The broken fence suggests it's already well used.

Route and more photos here -

http://www.everytrail.com/view_trip.php?trip_id=696647

Posted 13 years ago #
Cyclingmollie
Member

That's a very serious bike hiding behind the fence there. I'd no idea there was a linking path or even plans for one. It's a good way of getting through from Peffermill to the paths around Craigmillar and on down to the park behind Cameron Toll if they've finished messing with it. I got seriously lost in the building site on my MTB there last year thinking it was a short-cut to the shops.

Posted 13 years ago #
SRD
Moderator

Does this come up as a route on 'cycle streets' when we were trying to get from strawberry picking via the Wisp to Willowbrae a couple of weeks ago, the route went through some of that, but was so confusing, we just stuck to the street.

Posted 13 years ago #
chdot
Admin

"Does this come up as a route on 'cycle streets"

It shouldn't do for actual routing.

I put the path on OSM a while ago, but not as a through route.

Posted 13 years ago #
chdot
Admin

http://edinburgh.cyclestreets.net/journey/178977

http://edinburgh.cyclestreets.net/journey/178976

Posted 13 years ago #
Kirst
Member

[irrelevent]Oh, that warehousey looking building is the back of the CEC/NHS Lothian Community Equipment Store, where all the toilet frames and hospital beds and grabrails and stuff live before they're distributed around the community.[/irrelevent]

A cut through there would be really useful, because I quite often have to go into that building and if the side gate from Duddingston Road West is locked, I either have to phone them and get them to come out and unlock it, or go up Duddingston Road West and turn right into Peffermill and go round by King's Haugh which takes ages. I can do home - Stores or work - Stores in 8 minutes if the side gate is open but it's nearer 15 if it's locked.

Posted 13 years ago #
chdot
Admin

Official line -

"The Peffermill Road link is now due to be constructed in the 2nd half of August."

Innocent commuters please tell 'us' when work starts/finishes.

Then 'we' can have a party!

Posted 13 years ago #
chdot
Admin

UPDATE

"There's been a further delay and it will now be another 2 weeks before they start. It should take about 3-4 weeks."

Posted 13 years ago #
chdot
Admin

Looks like it's nearly finished.

Posted 13 years ago #
chdot
Admin

NOW OPEN!!

Looks like it's been open for a while

http://www.everytrail.com/view_trip.php?trip_id=888323

Nice wide path - presume the verges/Braid Burn bank will grow nicely.

Think the rest of the route towards Peffermill Road and onwards to Craigmillar Country Park need some 'consideration'.

What are you supposed to do here (heading east)?

Posted 13 years ago #
Wilmington's Cow
Member

Completely forgot, I noticed this at the start of the week and meant to let you know!

Posted 13 years ago #
Wilmington's Cow
Member

The barriers on the route are brilliant, given there's nothing on either side to stop the dreaded motorbike invasion onto the paths, they're just going to end up with little desire lines around them - in a world class cycling city etc etc etc.

Posted 13 years ago #
Wilmington's Cow
Member

However, the surfacing looks good, and this could be a genuinely useful route for some people. Must take a ride along it sometime. Where does the path it meets with across the road from the western end head off to?

Posted 13 years ago #
chdot
Admin

"Where does the path it meets with across the road from the western end head off to?"

Craigmillar Castle, ERI steps(!), and(/or) Old Dalkeith Road at Bridgend.

Just in from Peffermill Road -

Posted 13 years ago #
chdot
Admin

"Where does the path it meets with across the road from the western end head off to?"

Craigmillar Castle, ERI steps(!) etc.

http://www.everytrail.com/view_trip.php?trip_id=893370

Posted 13 years ago #
Min
Member

I have just tried this and apart from the new tarmaced sectin it is completely hopeless.

It starts off well, the new path is wide and smooth but you quickly reach a road with no indication of where to go next. I was pretty sure it must be straight on so off I went. I noticed a couple of bike symbols on the car park at the side of the road though. When you get to the junction with Peffermill Road you are funneled on to the pavement and across the road at the crossing. So I pedalled dutifully across and along the pavement which has a couple of bike symbols painted on then....nothing. The pavement suddenly gets much narrower with obstacles such as bus stops in the way. A string of locked gates on the right hand side do not suggest that there is any offroad pathway through to CC Park. I gave up and just crossed back to the road.

So basically you find yourself riding on a narrow pavement with no indication of where to go next and nothing to legitamise your presence there.

FAIL.

Posted 13 years ago #
cb
Member

I think as far as the link goes with Peffermill Road it's a pretty useful cut through. I would certainly use it if heading out east (i.e. coming from Cameron Toll and utimately wanting to get onto NCR1 heading east).

But I agree about the link to Craigmillar Park being hopeless. A shame because, it is quite a small section; the road should be wide enough to put in something half decent.

Posted 13 years ago #
Min
Member

I don't even mind if they don't put something in. It is the fizzling out halfway leaving you stranded on the pavement on the wrong side of the road that bugs me. What is the point? Can you imagine if they did this with roads?

Posted 13 years ago #
cb
Member

Roadworks on Peffermill Road, roughly on the section discussed above. I thought this could be related to some kind of cycling infrastucture upgrade but according to the council website, Network Rail are replacing the bridge (over the course of several months).

Posted 9 years ago #