Thanks bill, looking at the canal website they closed the aqueduct on Monday 27th Feb but then postponed the maintainance until next winter as it was too wet. Hopefully.next winter will be dry but this winter has been very dry so I am confused. Also if maintenance postponed I take it from the update the aqueduct is open again? Perhaps I will pootle out on Saturday. Oh wait forecast for rain and I will be operating a smoothie bike machine at the Balerno fair trade coffee morning 10-12 under a gazebo
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New Tarmac
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Posted 7 years ago #
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My colleague cycled that way today and said there was no sign of works on the Almond aqueduct. He mentioned that there are small bits of new tarmac between Cliftonhall Rd bridge and the aqueduct. There are guys doing 'something' by that bridge every morning but I haven't seen any progress so far (my colleague suggests I should tell them that).
The smoothie bike machine sounds great. Will you be pedaling for 2 hours?
Posted 7 years ago # -
@bill, no I will be supervising the blender being correctly attached to avoid the motor burning. You can come and pedal. Big GED of the EBC ONLY ALLOWS THE Good People OF BALERNO TO use the fender blender if I agree to supervise this aspect at all times.
Patches of Tarmac will magically combine one day.
Posted 7 years ago # -
They appear to be resurfacing Marchmont Crescent
Posted 6 years ago # -
East Lothian Council have resurfaced the road from the East Lodge of Whittingehame House to the pollution monitor at Biel Mill. But more usefully for Tour of East Lothian riders next month, they have also resurfaced down towards Biel Mill from the Stenton road. Hooray.
Posted 6 years ago # -
Way To Go
Posted 6 years ago # -
The Clerk St / Nicholson St corridor is to be resurfaced with "improvements" for cyclists, limited to those that can be carried out without a TRO. It will be the section between South Bridge and West Newington Place.
Expect more (gutter) red-chip lanes, I guess...
The whole thing is crying out for segregated lanes, of course. Plus ça change...
Posted 6 years ago # -
> They appear to be resurfacing Marchmont Crescent
Yep, and with the exception of a bit that they're presumably going to come back and complete, it's all done and lovely now.
Satisfyingly, the resurfacing came a couple of weeks after I started using it as my route into town and grumbling in my head about the state of the road. If anyone has any requests for me to use my newfound powers on a stretch of bumpy road near them, let me know.
Posted 6 years ago # -
Gilmerton Road?
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The Clerk St / Nicholson St corridor is to be resurfaced with "improvements" for cyclists, limited to those that can be carried out without a TRO.
The E/W Preston Street junction is a moonscape. You could lose a whole bike down some of the holes.
You'd never get near a gutter path though - it's either green lane or parked on nose to tail.
Posted 6 years ago # -
Salisbury Place / Grange Road junction at Causewayside is a horror too. Wheel-trapping cracks, sunken drain and utility covers, holes exposing wires, and some normal potholes as a bonus. Amazed no-one has come off in front of traffic yet.
Posted 6 years ago # -
More than the potholes it's whatever they're currently patching it with that amazes me. Appears to have durability and longevity of shortcrust pastry. I pass by one day and think "oh they've filled the hole" - I pass by the next day and note "oh it's back".
Posted 6 years ago # -
@dougal
It's this. But they don't;
Use with SCJ Seal and Tack spray for a permanent repair
And they do seem to apply it with a knife and fork. So it's impermanent.
Posted 6 years ago # -
Greendykes Road alongside the high flats has been resurfaced! I couldn't believe it, I giggled my way along its smooth loveliness. It still looked like the moon last time I came along there so it must have been done in the last week. Such a difference.
The worst bit of Niddrie Marischal Rd was patched before xmas and the terrible bit of NM Cres has also been patched.
That 'quiet route' to the Innocent is fairly fit for purpose now.
Posted 6 years ago # -
The rough bit in the inside lane near top of first wee hill on Lanark road heading west has been resurfaced. Good as no need to go out into fast lane but bad as seems to have caused a taxi and a car to be parked across from the traffic island so creating a pinch point. They were not there last night so was very pleasant 20 metres. Lot of poor taxi driving from various silver taxis last night.
Posted 6 years ago # -
Appendix 5 (page 18 on) shows the current list of roads to be resurfaced / strengthened / surface-dressed:
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"This report proposes how the capital budget of £13.305m should be allocated across eight different work streams. These are: Carriageways and Footways, Street Lighting and Traffic Signals; Road Structures; Other Asset
Management; Localities; Miscellaneous and Cycling Allocation."That's about £26 for each resident of Edinburgh. Doesn't seem like much money to cover all of that.
Posted 6 years ago # -
I see they're going to do something to the pavement in my street. The completely shattered road surface with weeds growing throughout will remain untouched it seems.
Posted 6 years ago # -
Went down Salisbury Place this evening past the map library, heading in the direction of Morningside.
Smooooooth. At long last. I'd been dodging a badly-filled trench which stretched half-way across the road there for over a decade!
Weirdly they seem to have painstakingly avoided any resurfacing of the bike lane, not that it is a right lot of use at that junction. Maybe they will do it later.
Posted 6 years ago # -
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The new tarmac path will have a fast lane for cyclists and walkers in a hurry, and a slow lane for folk who like to dither and take picture
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Posted 6 years ago # -
Lochend roundabout has been resurfaced. The whole of the cratered mess on the south side is now flat and smooth. Let's hope it's not immediately ripped-up by tipper trucks from the Lochend Butterfly development round the back of Sainsbury's heading down to the coast.
Posted 6 years ago # -
New perfect tarmac from Sherifhall end of Dalkeith Country park to the Restoration Yard.
Used to be a horrific potholed mess which nothing short of a MTB would use.
It might not suit everyone, but a potential quiet route avoiding Dalkeith and (looks like) taking you out on Salters Road just before Whitecraig.
Posted 6 years ago # -
The car park between St Mark's Park and the WoL path is now perfectly smooth, albeit not flat, sloping evenly down to the fence and the rutted horror path beside the low-level allotments.
The wee link along Victoria Park Neuk is closed today.Posted 6 years ago # -
It looks like the stepped entrance opposite the end of Bonnington Grove is being converted to a short slope. And the barrier at the top of Boat Green looks to be permanently gone.
Posted 6 years ago # -
@wingpig, yes it was a pleasure to cycle on last week. They've got rid of the bollards and "speed bump" ridges too.
Let's hope it stays like this!
Posted 6 years ago # -
Presume others have mentioned this already upthread, but the new path from FRB to just past the Forth Bridge (rail) is so much better than the old one. Gone is the old lorry lay-by; nice and wide all the way; smooth surface.
Also very little motor traffic nearby, especially during the afternoon. Eeerily quiet in fact on FRB and approach roads, like a scene from some post-apocalyptic end of civilization disaster flick (e.g. Day Of The Triffids) until a Citylink coach whizzes past...
Unfortunately you are spat out onto the dreadful potholed paint lanes on the road to Inverkeithing shortly afterwards...
Posted 6 years ago # -
Had that eerie FRB feeling on a Sunday morn. Heading to Dunfy via Inverkeithining in June. Last time I did this was a sept. time and still building the new crossing. The haar played havoc with my directions. Ednded up on dual carriage way into Dunfy then on road out to the pther train station then the Conference. Just made it in time. Nice, sunny and downhill on way back
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Posted 6 years ago # -
Eglinton Crescent is being resurfaced again today after the stuff done last month broke up.
Posted 6 years ago # -
A nice splodge of shell-grip has been added to the tight hairpin at the Burnshot underpass which will be invaluable when it starts getting colder. Also some "Slow" paint added to the path, I understand painting this before the corner and on approach to the bus shelter but cannot fathom why there is another "Slow" painted going up the hill just as the path widens into one of the nicest, widest, smoothest pieces of shared infrastructure in the city?
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