Got through today in the bit of road that is left to us - The kings taking up space on both sides at same time not optimal. No sewers. On the cycle path round the meadows after this the bike lane was chocka with joggers, students taking selfies holding cups of coffee, babies in prams. Almost at Tills I had pointed from a distance to a couple of women and a baby in a big pram blocking the whole bike lane whilst the walking side was entirely empty. As I passed one of the woman looked at me as if i had crawled out from under a stone [though perhaps that is how she always looks?] I meant to think inside thoughts but came out - Looks disgusted but at least on the correct side now. She did not like this. Can’t win em all
CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Infrastructure
Canal-Meadows (STILL NOT finally!)
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Posted 5 months ago #
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Parenting may have changed since my kids were that tiny but I quite liked paying enough attention to my surroundings to keep them out of traffic...
Posted 5 months ago # -
The joggers are soooo bad if you're trying to walk there anytime around 6pm. Mostly just a problem that they like to run next to each other, so take up a lot of room, but some very aggressive.
Posted 5 months ago # -
I am unduly obsessed with joggers occupying the white line between peds and cyclists.
Posted 5 months ago # -
oh, me too.
but many, many years ago someone here gave a reason for it ? something to do with camber?
I just don't think people training seriously enough to worry about it should be on those paths, except maybe at dawn.
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@srd - camber maaaaaaybe? But also it is a space the peds and cyclists aren’t on because it isn’t a space. It is a border between spaces the joggers have adopted as their own.
100 years ago, well 39 years ago when i ran round the meadows i followed the Sri Chinmoy Mile [3 times if feeling spritely]. This is still there cut into the grass. But no one uses it, too muddy and doggy.
Poor Alan Spence put much time and energy into this mile track.
Same as the now dead disabled land owner who built separate infrastructure for walkers just to the side of the road through a wee gate which very few people ever use.
Up at Beech Avenue at Thriepmuir, the one @Fimm [RIP} called The Exponential.People are just weird. Other people I mean.
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I recall someone mentioning something about joggers around the Meadows/BL, running on the white line, elbows waving around in the cycle side's airspace...
http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15476&page=2#post-199810
Posted 5 months ago # -
@wingpig some great. Old Campaigners on that thread for sure
Posted 5 months ago # -
I didn't cycle last week due to being ill, but this morning the signs said no access to NCN 75 so I cycled around Leven Terrace and Glengyle Terrace, then on seeing the congestion down to the King's Theatre Junction I decided to go up Gillespie Place and Bruntsfield Place before turning right down Leamington Terrace and Leamington Road to reach the canal towpath. I will maybe do all of MMW then go up over Bruntsfield Links in the mornings for now which will also avoid the increasingly muddy NMW cycle path.
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Confirming what @jdanielp said - I passed here on Saturday afternoon (Also spotted @neddie there), and the signs said NCN 75 was closed and to divert around Glengyle Terrace, and the fence appeared to be covering the full road width.
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yes fence up to pavements today (unlike last week, when it said closed, but there was actually a decent path through next to pavement.
Posted 5 months ago # -
Not my photo
Posted 3 months ago # -
Nice though I wouldnt want to be positioned where those cones are if the No 10 swings right from Tollcross.
Posted 3 months ago # -
I noticed one of the council's plastic lamppost information boards up, next the Cameo. It read, "Bringing cycle lanes and walking improvements to you"
Aye, what bl**dy cycle lanes?
Posted 3 months ago # -
I see the Council has published a June 2026 active travel projects update. Lo and behold, construction of the Canal-Meadows project part 1b (all the stuff not related to the Kings Theatre) has been pushed back another year - with construction now slated to end in November 2027.
Even that may be a bit optimistic, the consultation on the TRO and RSO has yet to begin. A single objection to the RSO would trigger a public inquiry, which could take a year to conclude itself.
Mini Morningsider will have completed his entire time at school (P1 to S6) between the launch of this project and its completion!
Posted 1 week ago # -
Also just noticed that the paper claims the Kings Theatre related bits of the project were finished in April! This is obviously not true, as they were still working on it today.
Posted 1 week ago # -
Jeez, that's depressing.
The key link Meadows to George St construction start delayed another 3 months to Jun 2027 and is going to run into the Festival embargo (and does anyone really believe it could be built in 2 months? - surely this is a typo and it should say August 2028?)
And Lothian Rd, which is such an awful experience, is pushed out to 2034.
2034!!! We'll be under water by then, if the tarmac hasn't melted into oblivion from the latest heat dome...
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@Morningsider I’m fairly certain the January update had that slated for starting in April 2027 so not as much of a drift?
Posted 1 week ago # -
@bakky - I suppose recieving regular Council updates on further delays to the project is an improvement. We used to be left guessing for years what was going on.
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