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Saw on my way past this morning that signs have gone up along Whitehouse Loan indicating that roadworks will be lasting for 6 weeks. Sorry, but couldn't see when they would be starting as I was pulling the trailer at the time and was keeping up momentum.
Maybe this is finally a repair to the God awful road surface all along this stretch?
Did see something on Twitter that suggested it was just the footway, but hoping that it will be the whole thing.
I had a look earlier. Works are as of today (though the sign seemed to suggest today only) and there are some quite significant footway works going on outside the school.
The signs didn't elaborate on the scope of the works.
Closed completely at the south end. Wouldn't shut it all just for the footway, would they?
I had a look at the sign on the way past and it said it was just the footway. Typical, a nice shiny new pavement to look at as I cycle along a potholed track.
Went back via Morningside Road tonight instead, it's hardly a nice surface these days either. Comiston Road is even worse.
It's closed for six weeks. I am not a civil engineer but I still cannot fathom how it can take so long. I guess there will be a fair number of shovels needing propped up and The Sun isn't going to read itself but, still...
It is one of the streets the council said they'd resurface this year. Would be weird if they closed the street, repaired the pavement, re-opened the street, then closed the street again later this year...
... but it is Edinburgh Council... and wasting money and causing unnecessary disruption is their MO.
According to CEC Traffic disruptions:
"Footway resurfacing (east side).
Road closed. Alternative routes signed via either Strathearn Road - Marchmont Road - Thirlestane Road or Strathearn Place - Greenhill Place - Greenhill Terrace."
Feb 3rd to 7th according to that. I've given up using Whitehouse Loan (north half) and go Bruntsfield Cres/Greenhill Gdns/Strathearn Pl/Whitehouse Loan. More than once, I've had my panniers making a bid for freedom over the awful surface of the Loan.
absolutely ridiculous that they might prioritise the footway over the road, especially when both could be done together.
"Feb 3rd to 7th according to that"
Hmm, I walked through it yesterday (on the west side!) and was sure the parking restriction notices said six weeks, hence my previous post.
I do wonder about how the council decides what to re-surface.
One of my regular routes, Murrayburn Road was closed last week for re-surfacing and now has a lovely smooth surface. A stretch further along on the same road was closed a year ago or so also for resurfacing. Now it's nice to have a nice smooth road but, it wasn't that bad before and this is not that busy a road.
Compared to some of the surfaces around Holy Corner where I was driving last weekend, it was billiard-table like. How do they decide priorities?
Maybe each ward gets an allocation that has to be used in their area?
@AKen - you can have input via your local Neighbourhood Partnership http://www.edinburghnp.org.uk
Look for Environment Forum, or similar.
They've got previous for this.
They shut off Murieston crescent last year and I hoped it was to fill in some of the catastrophic potholes, only to do a few at one end and leave the rest of the street like a minefield.
They've been back again recently to do a few more.
Clearly the "fix it once, fix it right" commandment from Lesley Hinds hasn't filtered through to the folks in charge of programming at the roads deparment.
I know several people who have Clarenced the state of the road surface in Whitehouse Loan. Very odd, therefore, that they've closed the entire road to fix the pavement (which wasn't that bad iirc).
Went along there last night and was disappointed to see the east side pavement completely dug up and nothing done to the road. Signs say 6 weeks for repairs to the footpath.
I've Clarenced and Fixmystreeted (new word alert)this one before too. Hopefully as they've completely closed the road off, they might take the opportunity to do something about it. I live in hope.
Yesterday -
That's a lot of hardware/expense for pavements not used much.
Presumably get reasonably heavy use for getting to/from schools(?)
Its the usual 'close to end of financial year, let's spend it all' frenzy.
There are more temp lights/pointless roadworks set up over this 6 wk period every year without fail.
And while we won't necessarily be sympathetic, its unhelpful - to us - if drivers get impatient.
Well it's now the 10th and they seem to have got as far as digging up the old pavement. Might be done by the end of the month, who knows?
Anyone else noticed the ped xing @ Leamington Walk / Whitehouse has 3 out of its 4 green lights not working?
A confused car pulled to a stop, thinking the lights were out, then saw a yellow light & proceeded thru red (thinking it was going to green)
Downright dangerous.
I agree, Whitehouse Loan and Home Street are two particularly bad places on my route to work. It's almost impossible to avoid potholes, and going through them on a bakfiets makes the most awful sound like it's going to fall apart.
Apparently Whitehouse Loan was assessed in 2012 and passed over for repair for the next three years! See this blog entry by Cameron Rose, Councillor for Southside/Newington. And Whitehouse Loan is still closed to traffic after about a month. Argh!
If this is just a pavement repair on Whitehouse Loan, then someone is playing a very expensive practical joke. There's been a large amount of machinery and manpower there 24x7 for quite a few weeks, with the whole road width completely closed. Oddly all the activity only seems to be dealing with a 30 meter section?
Snowy +1
what on earth are they doing?
They could have resurfaced the whole road by now !
Agreed.
Actually I would love to know what they are doing. Am I missing something fundamental about the mechanics of resurfacing as I just cannot fathom how it can take so long.
Another example is Nile Grove. Admittedly they are doing the whole road but it was closed for weeks and weeks (might still be closed actually).
Roadworks are now complete. Gaze lovingly at the shiny new pavement while still negotiating the pock marked and cratered actual road surface which has been entirely ignored. An opportunity missed, CEC.
There is something wrong, bizarre, dodgy or possibly all three about this.
"possibly all three"
Or maybe just 'stupid' !
It's crazy because I'm pretty sure Whitehouse Loan was - quite understandably - on the list of streets to be fixed this year.
(Someone posted the list around 5-6 months ago.)
Lane closures and temporary traffic lights mentioned on the council roadworks list.
This time its "Cable works for installation of superfast broadband" with the location being "At (and including) St Margaret's Road".
So, still no resurfacing but with any luck this will actually improve the overall surface somewhat.
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Got a notice in from he council that the next section of the Whitehouse Loan resurfacing works are to be done in January, as far as Strathearn Road. They still haven't finished the gas main works though, dug the road up again last week!
Maybe we will soon have a nice surface to cycle on mX,
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