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Avoiding Livingston...

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  1. Dave
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    On Saturday we did a bimble to the Apple Pie Bakery and back to test out our loaded touring rigs for Cuba later this month.

    On the return, we rode Woolfords, Murieston, Mid to East Calder then Kirknewton.

    The A70 outbound was nice, the back roads returning as far as Murieston were dead, but there must be a better way to get to Kirknewton than my seat of the pants navigation. Terrible, terrible driving on roads that are just the wrong combination of width and congestion.

    See the map here (ignore my little navigational detour round Murieston). Any suggestions?

    I actually think I'd prefer just to get on the main road, which is stupendously wide and only a 50 limit, and just ride straight from Lizzie Brice along to Kirknewton that way...

    Posted 11 years ago #

  2. Dave
    Member

    Hmm. Amusingly, I can see the whole ride perfectly when logged in, but the first ten miles or so is cut off on the public view. Not that it matters for the purposes of this discussion, but I wonder why. Some quirk of the privacy exclusion radius thingy maybe...

    Posted 11 years ago #

  3. gembo
    Member

    You can't avoid Livingston but you can do it with a short bit of main road. I assume you came out at the harburn junction then straight on to the belsquarry village, industrial estate? From there you can cut back up to murieston then down to the main road. At the t junction after murieston you turn left which is the opposite direction you want to go but the road loops back and takes you to lizzie Brice. From lizzie Brice you go over the round about and then there is a right turn, cuts off the corner and takes you out at mid Calder - you pass an old church. From midcalder you follow the road to east Calder. At the lights you can turn right and back up to Kirknewton or if you go straight ahead past Jupiter art land then it and over the a71 to Humbie. This is steeper.

    sorry if this makes no sense?

    Posted 11 years ago #

  4. Dave
    Member

    This is what we did:

    I figured it would be fairly quiet, but it was very unpleasant, mainly because nobody seemed able to give more than six inches of space (including people who tried to pass me in the right lane of the roundabout when turning left... WTF?)

    Looks like there is a road that we didn't take, to tweak the above. I was sort of hoping that there was an undiscovered back road that connected Murieston to Kirkliston.

    Guess one could turn right at the cross roads (Harburn?) up to the A70 then drop back down a little later (Leyden Rd?)

    Posted 11 years ago #

  5. fimm
    Member

    Dave, that's my long commute route, LOL. (Well the B7015/B7031 bit is). I think I'd have just come back along the A70. If we're going out that way, we stick to the A70 until the B7008 West Calder turnoff. Leyden Road is a nice quiet road, I go that way home sometimes if I want a slightly longer commute (with a bit more climbing...)

    Posted 11 years ago #

  6. gembo
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    You can cut off the corner after lizzie Brice , turn right and takes you more quickly to mid Calder.

    At the Woolfords road junction with the B70008 you can turn right then left and take the road through harburn itself, very quiet but it only gets you to murieston.

    Leyden Road I like to descend but do not like climbing it.

    i go out A70 then cut down B7008 to Woolfords (there is an alternative little loop that is also possible after the golf course). Then back roads to auchengray, then Wilsontown then Carnwath then back the A70. At the little steading after the airfield I take right turn and go back to Balerno via glenbrook as don't like the it of Lang Whang that is like hitting the doldrums.

    Auchengray has three routes to Carnwath,mine one Indescribe is longest and involves taking right turn at very start of village. Middle one go through auchengray then veer right and over the railway. Short one through auchengray and veer left. This one takes you on to A70 just before Carnwath, the other two go beyond Carnwath.

    Posted 11 years ago #

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