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I posted this photo some months ago and wondered if it might be suitable for a mini cyclocross course.
Some thought yes others that there wasn't really enough space.
Probably room for a BMX race track (with the help of a bulldozer) - certainly for a range of slopes and jumps for BMX or MTB.
And now - "The site is now expected to lie derelict for the foreseeable future."
http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/edinburgh/City-council-admits-defeat-on.6454911.jp
they missed a great cycling opportunity when they laid tram tracks down Edinburgh's finest cycle path;
Oh the rush I got when the BSO and I hit our first wind-assisted 22mph on one of the downhill sections!
actually on second thoughts it was a bloody awful cycling surface that was covered in glass and bits of metal and you got trapped on either the left or right running surface for the bus wheels with very little chance to easily switch betwixt the two
They could so easily put in a cycle track along side, a real missed opportunity.
The overhead pic of the cooncil HQ reminds me of the days I worked for them - I think they were not allowed to walk on the roof top grass...
@kaputnik - I thought it was off limits of anything 'cept buses? taking life into own hands much? knowing how fast the buses liked to go on there, and read books since they "didn't have to pay any attention eh guv, we're oan a guided track 'n'at"
then cycle past one day see bus crashed into back of other bus caving in the full front section, oh how I laughed
Guerilla action?
"I thought it was off limits of anything 'cept buses? taking life into own hands much? knowing how fast the buses liked to go on there..."
There was a period of a few weeks, between the buses reverting to the road and the tram works beginning, when the busway was ostensibly closed to motor vehicles while bikes could access it. It very quickly became a desire line for cycle commuters. It amazes me even now that they didn't construct a parallel cycle track that would have obviated the succession of road crossings between South Gyle Access and Saughton Road North.
The Calton area reminds me very much of the wasteland on Earl Grey Street opposite Central Hall, before the new BoS construction. At one stage there was even an improvised halfpipe for the skaters. We know that the new skate/BMX park at Saughton is an absolute hit, and something more central could be a fantastic opportunity for kids to exercise, and to exercise their bike skills.
"It amazes me even now"
Really??
This is Edinburgh
a) that would joined-up-thinking
b) would cost money
"Saughton is an absolute hit, and something more central could be a fantastic opportunity for kids to exercise, and to exercise their bike skills."
EXACTLY!
I saw some lads on their BMXs on the demolished site next to the Gyle post office depot, they probably safer from getting moved on by the police out there
I think if they know about it they will be in it....
It looks like a cycle route (or a least a pedestrian route) is being built alongside the section that runs by Carrcik Knowe golf course.
Can anyone confirm this is the case? If it is a cycle path then where will it terminate/link up to at its western end?
It's made the Grauniad...
@Spytfyre / Arrelcat
Indeed there was a glorious period of about 4 weeks when it was closed to busses but the trambuilders hadn't got round to doing anything about it. Then they came along and dug randomly placed holes in it that they surrounded with 6 foot tall steel fences which all but blocked it to cyclists. Then they left it for pretty much a year before doing anything with it. All of which time it could have been being used by buses - or even better, bikes!
In fact, it was the very reason that they closed this that got me off the 22 bus and on to the dreaded (and late) halfords BSO.
"After Mountgrange went into administration, control of the marketing for the site was handed to the administrators Deloitte. But the real power still lies with the Bank of Scotland, which is owed more than £70m by Mountgrange, and it wants to sit tight until the property and construction industry recovers sufficiently to make it profitable again."
http://edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/Caltongate-dream-has-become-a.6461410.jp
Anyone at BofS like cycling/young people?
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