Yikes - pretty much the entire segregated cycle lane has been dug up. Nice that they left a bit of it intact though, pity it was only so the contractors had somewhere to park their van.
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Meadows-Innocent consultation (and subsequent building & use)
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Posted 8 years ago #
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The fact that they've trurned off the shiny new crossing lights is extra bad- you're just left to play chicken to get across the road at the end of The meadows.
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Yesterday
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Good grief. Is that Scottish Gas? Scottish Water? Scottish Power?
I sincerely hope they will be re-surfacing the path after this fiasco.
(I've not even ridden the blighter yet).
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SPN
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On twitter I'm being told it's Scottish Power.
My question is why now? Assume it is emergency works but did it get damaged during the construction work?
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Good question.
Or perhaps it was 'routine maintenance' SP didn't talk to CEC about...
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"The fact that they've trurned off the shiny new crossing lights is extra bad"
They had temp lights yesterday - but presumably only while work was actually going on!
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@SPEnergyNetwork: @CyclingEdin Hi, I can confirm this was emergency works to repair our underground network. We will reinstate the road within 5 working days.
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@CyclingEdin: @SPEnergyNetwork
Thanks!
Surface was VERY new, but not entirely smooth
I'm sure your contractors will do a better job
@LAHinds
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Repaired'ish
151101155015IMG_3725 by Paul Fountain, on FlickrSo just because the cycle route is shut justifies cycling on the pavement?
151101154953IMG_3724 by Paul Fountain, on Flickr
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Looks OK.
Test will be if/when it subsides.
"So just because the cycle route is shut justifies cycling on the pavement?"
I think the answer is yes, though I suspect you don't.
The pavement is quite wide, I've never seen very many pedestrians.
I would hope people on bikes have been suitably considerate.
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Ok, I'll bite. Why shouldn't you safely cycle on the pavement here?
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Is the patch the right colour? This path has already been grubbed up and relaid for that reason.
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What colour should it be? It's now black.
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Maybe the new lines are too white!
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At least with this 'mend' LOTS of people know which utility was involved/responsible.
I suspect it will last well because no buses etc. will be 'squeezing' it.
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It's meant to have red chips, isn't it? But at some point there won't be any of the original surface left, like most of the streets in Edinburgh.
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"It's meant to have red chips, isn't it?"
Probably, but this is one place where there's not much doubt that it's 'just' for bikes.
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Didn't they already dig up the nice smooth black surface to make it into a more bumpy red chip surface?
So now it's back to black and even more bumpy?
What a mess.
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Black is the new, er, black..
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I tried it out at lunchtime. At the moment it seems no more or less bumpy than the rest of that stretch.
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Council or private?
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Private.
Unmarked.
Probably related to shop next to it.
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Noted that one of the stone bollards has conveniently 'fallen over'. Thought it might have been caused by a desire line taken by someone using something bigger than a bike.
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Seems that happened a couple of months ago. Probably a bicycle with six wheels and a big diesel engine and lots of steel bodywork.
http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11898&page=12#post-198333
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I note that someone has moved the traffic cone that was covering up the hole where the bollard was. I was going to move the cone myself, but when I picked it up I realised it was marking the hazard so I put it back.
I'd put it back myself, but I've stopped going that way because I'm not going through the Meadows path while the leaf-slip is on. The road is at least less slippery.
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Previously!
http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/remember-when-playtime-in-edinburgh-s-streets-1-4028954
Posted 8 years ago # -
@chdot, interesting, I wonder when the street was narrowed and the gardens put in to replace the original pavements?
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