If such a thing could exist then skotl would be the expert with his wrong side of the roadworks route.
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Posted 10 years ago #
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@userfriendly - when I cycled past the field of lambs the other week-end, I noticed that all the sheep were grazing facing into the wind.
Does anyone know if sheep do that - or was it just coincidence ?
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Interesting. A quick google indeed reveals that they do that. TBH, I hadn't noticed it, was too busy trying not to scare the ones standing in the road looking at me like I was some kind of alien.
Posted 10 years ago # -
I was on the bus this morning but forgot to turn my phones flash off so pictures aren't worth posting. Interestingly though at 8.15 the workers were active and the lane was shut so perhaps the council have decided to slow traffic down before the Barnton Queue.
Will this mean the project proceeds ahead of schedule?
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acsimpson: If such a thing could exist then skotl would be the expert with his wrong side of the roadworks route
Tee hee. My problem is that I'm trying to keep the lambs with "HI" painted on them to my left to guide me to the exit, but they keep moving :)
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Ha! Those pesky little b*s. Those tasty looking pesky little b*s ...
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Mmmm.... lamb kofta tonight, methinks. That'll get the little beggars back for laughing at me as I puff up entirely the wrong hill!
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I took the diversion via Craigie's Farm rather than the estate on the way home today. It joins back up with the A90 path just after Burnshot and although a bit hilly probably no longer or steeper than the estate diversion and nice for a bit of variety.
One annoyance is that the diversion barriers at the Dalmeny side entrance to the estate cover the whole path so you have to drop down off the rather high curb to get round them. Seems excessive to force pedestrians and cyclists onto the road there when there are still valid reasons to use the part of the path before the closed section.Posted 10 years ago # -
Hmm, I had to look that up. Always wondered where that road went, makes sense. Can you only get to it heading out of town (due to the slip road being one way)?
Also... on the other side of the road from the Cragie entrance, can you ride into Dalmeny estate there and skip the A90 path section? Another bit I've never played with - there are quite a few options really!
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From 'the other side of the Craigie Entrance' just at the bus stop at the foot of the wide path as the bus lane comes into force, yes you can turn left into Dalmeny but its a muddy track carved up by water run off and brings you out at the double farm buildings. If you took the road from burnshot heading out, down the steep hill and past the field of sheep on the right, just where the road passes the double farm buildings before turning right. This, is where you'd come out.
I can't see any sort of short cut there.
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Even if you rode down the old A90 on the wide path from Dalmeny high street, then crossed the bridge over the dual carrageway towards Craigie's, you would have a large climb up to Craigie's and the detour might be as long as the current one through the estate.
Posted 10 years ago # -
Sent off today.
Hello West_Team,
First off thanks for asking the contractors on the Barnton Golf path to sweep the path of stones washed onto the path by the weekends rain.
Could I also ask that the path from the Cramond Brig to Burnshot Junction be swept please? The leaf debris from last Autumn is still there but mostly on the edge of the path. Unfortunately the recent rain has washed a lot of the leaf mulch out of the verge and onto the path, where the water runs south down the path and across in a few places. This was swept last summer when I asked and I’d hope it could be done again please?
Many thanks,
Dave C
Posted 9 years ago # -
Being back on the Kirkliston Road has its side-benefits
Pocketed a 35 min. Strava KOM yesterday, Dean Bridge to North of Forth Road Bridge
On the heavier bike, too
Posted 9 years ago # -
Thanks DaveC I was waiting until I had a decent picture to send them but hopefully they'll act as quickly as for HankChief's subway.
bax. I don't suppose you fit the description of wearing a beard and often a red t-shirt?
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@acs
Nah, wrong spy...
I know beards are greatly in vogue these days, but i never got past the negative vibe attractor stage; the temptation to sort out a clean shave for a fresh mental edge always proves too strong.
Posted 9 years ago # -
bax: "Being back on the Kirkliston Road has its side-benefits"
My first time on the Kirkliston Road last week, and have now done that journey (Dalmeny to West End) about eight times.
*Much* better than doing the Dalmeny estate, for my relative level of fitness. The only downside is when the wind is blowing hard from the West in the evening, but still vastly prefer it to going through the estate. Saves 10-15 minutes for me, too.Posted 9 years ago # -
acsimpson: "I don't suppose you fit the description of wearing a beard and often a red t-shirt"
Perhaps that is me? Normally a T shirt and yellow vis vest, orange tinted plastic shades?
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So after badgering then a few times I finally receive a response from CEC in reply to my 'clean that path' notice for Cramond Brig.
Sorry we can't clean it all as its been dug up at Burnshot Junction.
[bangs head against desk repeatedly]!!!!!
then at the foot of the pdf letter it finaly says they'll try and clean it where they can gain access.... FFS!
Posted 9 years ago # -
I noticed on the way home tonight that they had *cleaned that section of path.
*cleaned, in this context refers to spreading the mud all over the path so that it forms a thin constant layer of mud, rather than thick lumps of mud which can be avoided.
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"so that it forms a thin constant layer of mud"
Not (just) done by the extra rain?
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I think it has been swept, path was wider and all the leaf mulch gone, just a thin layer of mud. Rain tends to make channels.
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Aye, they made it nice and slippery. To be fair, the people doing it may not have had the proper tools for the job so removing the mud 100% wasn't really an option, and the rain did its part. Once it dries up the wind will hopefully do the rest.
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Of the three cooncil workes, 1 sat in the van passenger seat, 1 stood at the foot of the path smoking & 1 up the path using the hard side of the brush to push the mulch to the side. I asked him why they weren't removing the mulch. He said in a day or so a small cleanong maching would go up removing the mulch pushed to the side.
The frustrating thing is three guys could have put the mulch into a barrow and taken it away, as the back of the enclosed transit pickup was empty!
Posted 9 years ago # -
Yes but, you see, they have this neat little cleaning machine and it needs using. :D
And if all three of them had been doing it the job would have been finished in much less time than scheduled, and really, who is going to work harder in order to be rewarded with more work?
(Other than those silly cyclists, that is)
Posted 9 years ago # -
There's still a nice inch or so of mud at the bottom of the path just at the point where you need to turn to go down to the brig.
If they are getting a machine to pick up the leaves why did they need to put them to the side first. Sounds like wasted effort to me.
Posted 9 years ago # -
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Lizzie Rynne (@CityCycling)
23/06/2014 20:14
It would be good if there was a notice about the A90 cycle route closure posted at Cramond Brig. @Edinburgh_CC @CyclingEdin @SpokesLothian"
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Eli (@Eli_Donald)
24/06/2014 09:02
@CityCycling @CyclingEdin @Edinburgh_CC @SpokesLothian drove by Sunday to see a cyclist stuck half way along b4 there were any signs."
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Cycling Edinburgh (@CyclingEdin)
25/06/2014 18:04
@west_team @CityCycling @Edinburgh_CCCEC says "This is being arranged and should be in place in the next couple of days."
@SpokesLothian
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Posted 9 years ago # -
No understand, half way along where? It's pretty obvious where the diversion is from Crammond Brig, there is a big yellow sign with diversion on it, and the fact you can't get onto the path for the 6ft fence is another give away?
Posted 9 years ago # -
Doesn't make much sense. You can't drive directly from Cramond Brig to the start of the diversion either.
Posted 9 years ago # -
Suppose people are scared of going into the countryside, and feel they should be warned about this diversion before they have to cycle up that Pyrenesian hill from Cramond Brg to the carpark exit?
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