Sure someone mentioned that the new cycle path that runs along beside the tram line is now open. Is that the case? How do you get onto it?
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(26 posts)- Started 11 years ago by Baldcyclist
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ooh. good idea. we need to get there too.
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The Broomhouse path runs to the bottom of Hermiston Gait, you can ride up from there.
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Where would you join it from the West? At the old Binns warehouse?
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So from Jenners
BookDepository (watch out for the 3rd floor window gun man) you can cycle all the way to Hermiston Gait? Where does the path end? is it here? http://goo.gl/maps/t2NRqPosted 11 years ago # -
I was wondering if I could just jump on a path at Haymarket which would bring me out at the existing Stenhouse path which Dave links to above?
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I don't think the bit at the Old Jenners is fully open yet, you may have to divert up the, fairly, parrallel residential streets then hang a right onto the path. How you actually join the path is up to you....
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Oh well, probably go Dalry > Stenhouse then.
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Yeah thats the way I'd go.
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Joining the Broomhouse Path at Stenhouse (to go West)is not a straightforward task. Technically it starts at the point DaveC links to above. However, despite going that way every evening I have only ever managed to safely enter the Path from the road on one occasion.
Usually I just ride through the junction and either just stay on-road through to Edinburgh Park or bale off the road at the first pedestrian crossing on Stenhouse Drive after the junction, and use that to cross over to the Path.
Not ideal.
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i'm confused.
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Showing my age, remembering it as Binns, before Jenners!
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i'm confused.
Me too
Posted 11 years ago # -
i'm confused.
Me too
Edit: Doubly so (apparently)
Posted 11 years ago # -
I'll just access the Stenhouse path from the pavement. And I'll access the pavement (responsibly) from the junction at Stenhouse Avenue West. I don't foresee any danger, just 25m of illegality.
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confused? You will be ... in the next episode of Soap!! :o)
Posted 11 years ago # -
From your place of work, I'd suggest Meadows North path, Access the Canal Path (via the very safest route) and then come off where you pass the Peoples Ford van, and down Cultin's Road. Simples.
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Don't like the Canal, did cross my mind tho. :) Bit of a long way for a short cut.
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Baldcyclist - sounds like your work = almost my commute start point, choose your own jump on point!
Strathearn Road
Colinton Road
Spylaw Road
Ashley Terrace
Slateford Road
Hutchison Crossway
Eltrincham terrace
Fords Road
Stenhouse Cross
Stenhouse Ave West
Path to Hermiston GaitPosted 11 years ago # -
Its hardly much longer, and as there are less stop starts for lights, junctions etc.. it'll be quicker. Took me around 40 mins from St Andrew Sq.
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There's an exit from the canal that takes you to the back of Hermiston Gait here. The descent down Cutlins road is rather interesting as the pavement becomes shared use only at the bottom as far as I can tell. Thankfully there's a dropped kerb to ease you up there. Of course depending on how easy it is to get to the canal you might be best sticking to the Broomhouse route. Plus there's a bazillion and one bridges along the Wester Hailes bit of the canal to compensate for the lack of road crossings.
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I'm not sure why you wouldn't go on the canal (except perhaps for novelty). It's pretty deserted, I usually pass only two or three pedestrians the whole way from Harrison Park to the bypass.
Fast and fun. You can shave a bit of time off by tanking it on the road, but ICNBA.
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The descent down Cutlins road is rather interesting as the pavement becomes shared use only at the bottom as far as I can tell.
I believe the pavement on Cultins Rd from the canal to the underpass is a Core Path and thus cyclable. When going up the hill, the 'shared' designation simply peters out, without a "END" sign or anything.
I have to say that when I go to Hermiston Gate, I use the road because I'm fed up of waiting endlessly at the crossings. Stenhouse Cross to Broomhouse Drive to Bankhead Drive. Most of the westbound traffic peels left towards Bankhead Avenue and Makro. I do sometimes rejoin the bicycle expressway about halfway along Bankhead Drive though for a smoother ride.
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Take it back, the canal was ok, not as busy as I thought it would have been.
On the way over to Fife I tried out the path from Newbridge to Dalmeny, not too bad a surface either, although not clear which way you are supposed to go at the refinery? I ended up houfing my bike over a gate rather than going back.
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You probably all know this, and I've also probably missed it above in this thread, but just in case...
You know there's a way to get into Hermiston Gait when travelling down Cultins Road that prevents you needing to go all the way to the bottom and needing to traverse the roundabout of doom? There's a cut-through which I think is between Tesco and Decathlon. It's really not obvious, and the only reason I know it's there is because I saw it when in the Gait itself, and then made a point of trying to spot the other side of it from Cultins Road. So I thought I'd mention it here.
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Aye, but I cycled about 10 yards past the opening tonight and had to turn back. :)
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I wish they'd sort out the signage on the Cultins Road pavement, though. I 'think' it's meant to be shared.
On dark evenings with bad weather and consequently scary traffic (that t-junction half-way up, anyone?) I tend to use the pavement to go uphill, but I've had a few narky comments for doing so, a few times in the last couple of years.
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