Hi,
What is the panel's best suggestions for getting from the west end of the Gyle/tram path down to the canal?
I would guess south down Cultins Road?
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From Gyle path to the canal
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Posted 10 years ago #
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Its not the best but is the least rubbish I'd say. Its one way at the bottom so you need to use the
pavementshared use path and then cross over at an undefined "further up".Posted 10 years ago # -
What Wingpig said.
Posted 10 years ago # -
Getting onto the canal heading south from Cultins Road is unpleasant: it's a non-trivial (for me, at least) uphill and there are lines of parked cars by the entrance to the canal so you toil up a hill with traffic and try to make a right turn into a gap between parked cars (well, that's what I do, anyway). Streetview
Underpass route is a bit more roundabout, but pleasanter.
Posted 10 years ago # -
@greenroofer, the parked cars will also generally be across the dropped kerb.
I have never tried the underpass beneath the bypass? Is that wht you mean?
Would work if heading west from Edinburgh park, or coming off canal to go down to Edinburgh park (but this does not entail a right turn at Cutlins). Would be round about if trying to get onto canal from Edinburgh park to go into Edinburgh.
Posted 10 years ago # -
About Cutlins Road ...
All the Edinburgh Core Path information I find has Cutlins Road travelling south as far as the turnoff to the canal as part of CEC 13 so why cross over to continue up the road. Sensible riding is all that's required and there's the grass verge for most of the top if you want to get off the path.Posted 10 years ago # -
Does being a core path override application of police to deter cyclists?
Posted 10 years ago # -
@gembo - there are actually two underpasses under the bypass. The northernmost one takes you across a field just north of the chicken farm. I've never used it, but I'm told it's rough and muddy. The southerly one goes on a bumpy track and joins Gogar Station Road just after the crossing of the Gogar Burn by where the Hewdens depot used to be. It's a good shortcut between GSR and Edinburgh Park.
@dave2wheels whenever I've been here it's because I'm making unnecessary purchases at Screwfix in Sighthill, so I'm on the road when I approach it. Sighthill is not a pleasant cycling environment.
Posted 10 years ago # -
The southernmost underpass is fine (if a tiny bit bumpy) and connects with a section of shared-use pavement up to the canal that is great for a stress-free slow climb up the hill away from the traffic. I have never seen a pedestrian on it. The worst bit about this route is the smell from the chicken farm if the wind is in the wrong direction. Like gembo says, it's a roundabout route if you are going from Edinburgh Park into town via the canal.
I tried the northern underpass once - crossed a muddy field (after some dry weather) but gave up as I couldn't find a way through to Gogar Station Road.
Posted 10 years ago # -
The southernmost underpass is fine (if a tiny bit bumpy) and connects with a section of shared-use pavement up to the canal that is great for a stress-free slow climb up the hill away from the traffic. I have never seen a pedestrian on it. The worst bit about this route is the smell from the chicken farm if the wind is in the wrong direction. Like gembo says, it's a roundabout route if you are going from Edinburgh Park into town via the canal.
I tried the northern underpass once - crossed a muddy field (after some dry weather) but gave up as I couldn't find a way through to Gogar Station Road.
It's a right of way rather than an established path. If you go through the Underpass (often used by Edinburgh Park as storage for their landscaping / grounds peoples), across the field then along the field edge by the side of the chicken sheds eventually you come out at a Right of Way Society fingerpost on G.S.R. near the entrance to Milburn Tower.
It was a long time ago the last time I went that way for an explore, and the farmer had dumped many bales of hay across the established path.
Posted 10 years ago # -
The northern route has been rubbish for years - I suspect the farmer is dying to get rid of it. Often vanishes under crops until intrepid souls re-make the right-of-way path. Shame really, because it's a good direct link from EP towards Gogar / airport. Chunky tyres only, though.
Concur that compared with Cultins Road, the southern underpass route only adds 2 or 3 minutes and in daylight is a much nicer route.
Posted 10 years ago # -
I didn't know about that subway further north. Just realised, it would be a much better route from the Broomhouse path to the sorry excuse for a cycle path out to newbridge than going up South Gyle Broadway and crossing the end of the bypass.
I'll need to give it a recce on the bouncy bike.
Posted 10 years ago # -
The weak link is Gogar Station Road north of the chicken farm, with narrow lanes, blind corners and a dreadful surface conspiring to make it one of the most dangerous roads in Edinburgh.
Posted 10 years ago # -
I've cycled it before and found it fine, but that was only ever at weekends.
It can't be worse than cycling South Gyle Broadway, surely?
Posted 10 years ago # -
Both bad at peak due to high volume impatient traffic, reasonably ok the rest of the time. The roundabouts at both ends of the Broadway are the killer bits.
Posted 10 years ago # -
Coming late to this, but I understand that Gogar Station Road is due to be re-surfaced later in the year thanks largely to the hard work of HankChief of this parish. That will remove one of the three reasons Snowy cites for it being an unpleasant place to cycle.
Posted 10 years ago # -
/blushes/
Well it's not just me - and we're not there yet.
Latest comms from CEC is that they hope to consult with stakeholders in August (about putting in cycle infrastructure) and resurface in October.
The bubbly isn't on ice yet, but all being well we just have one last bumpy summer to get through.
Posted 10 years ago # -
What I found maddening about G.S.R. when I worked out there was that the majority of A******* drivers I had issues with were my own colleagues. If I had been more active / switched-on to things back then and not so likely to suck it up, I would have been taking registrations then wandering the car park at lunch time flyering offenders with camera stills and some driving advice.
Posted 10 years ago # -
Can someone help settle a Twitter discussion please.
https://twitter.com/hank_chief/status/1022109356068929537?s=19
Can you legally cycle up the pavement og Cutlins Road? I believe it is Core Path....
Posted 6 years ago # -
You are correct, so cycling on the pavement is legal (as long as it is done "responsibly").
Map of core paths in the council atlas. Click the layers button in the top right, then choose Atlas>Transport>Core Paths.
Posted 6 years ago # -
Thanks- does that apply to pavements on both side of the road?
Posted 6 years ago # -
Yes, it applies to the whole street.
PS: It's Cultins, rather than Cutlins.
Posted 6 years ago # -
Useful atlas. I can now cycle guilt-free on the pavement in front of Hermiston House and across Slateford Aqueduct.
Posted 6 years ago # -
It's Cultins, rather than Cutlins.
So it is. I've been calling it the wrong name for over 15 years... oops
Posted 6 years ago # -
“I've been calling it the wrong name for over 15 years... oops”
Well.....
It was misspelled on a map years ago, allegedly, maybe, deliberately to identify people copying map info.
Posted 6 years ago # -
Isn't that the place that someone on here was stopped by the police for cycling on the pavement, years ago? I always take the long way round on the road for this reason.
Posted 6 years ago # -
@Frenchy: That's a very interesting map. Although I am a little perplexed as to why there's a core path that runs past the top of the ski centre and round the hill fort to end up at a disused quarry. I'm sure there's a very good reason for it. I might take my new eMTB* up there (responsibly) for an explore this weekend.
* Note not "shiny" new eMTB. The other thing I should do this weekend is to get the hose out...
Posted 6 years ago # -
Possibly @gembo?: http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=6083
The police's issue there seems to have been the going through no entry signs and the wrong way down one way streets. I don't know whether this is technically legal on core paths, but suspect it doesn't fall under "responsible" use.
Posted 6 years ago # -
New Mid Cultins Road also a belter of a name
Posted 6 years ago #
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