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The Roseburn to Canal link will now be known as the "Dalry Bypass". Not only has the pedestrian crossing not been built on Dalry Road, but the planned link to Duff Street hasn't been completed either. It just "ends".
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Roseburn - Canal link (new Dalry route)
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Posted 2 weeks ago #
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Ok new page
Please remind me when/where opening party is.
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Mon 9th Dc start at russell rd end 1130 am [SRD over seeing Tintin]
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Sadly, have work visitors so I need to be in the office on Monday :(
My official invite email says:
We are pleased to invite you to the opening of the new walking, wheeling and cycling route which runs from Russell Road to the West Approach Road.We hope you can join us for a walk, wheel, cycle along the route.
Where: Sauchiebank/Russell Road entrance
When: meet at 11. 30am (depart at 11.45am, arrive at Dalry Park at around 12noon).
We’ll also have bike marking by Police Scotland, free bike repairs and other active travel stalls. Local schoolchildren will be joining us in the afternoon to try out the new play equipment in Dalry Community Park.
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Desire line incoming at Duff street I reckon! Looks like the council have facilitated it by building some nice steps to the back of the bin store!
The toucan crossing is now part of the Dalry High Street placemaking thing - quite visible on the drawing pack.
Whether that ever comes to pass is another matter.
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Just a reminder -
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We have already committed over £145 million this year to projects that make it easier to walk, wheel and cycle – including £35 million through Tier 1 of the Active Travel Infrastructure Fund.
“I know there is huge local appetite and demand to take forward transformative walking, wheeling and cycling projects and this funding will help Local Authorities and Regional Transport Partnerships to deliver these.”
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Words written for(?) FH who is doing the official opening and cycling to Dalry(?)
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FH on a bike will be astounding. She is from Ayr
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We scrambled up from Duff St during lockdown to check the area out. (also from the Sauchiebank. Will be interesting to see what it looks like now.
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@SRD it will be the LIDL Cycle Expressway
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I didn't realise it was supposed to connect to Duff Street.
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not sure if it's stepped there or a ramp? quite steep.
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Words written for(?) FH who is doing the official opening and cycling to Dalry(?)
I'm sure that Patrick Harvie would have cycled to engagements if he could, but FH in her role is maybe more likely to use trains and buses. The thing is, Ministers might have two or three events to attend in a single day and time will be of the essence, so I imagine they use official cars too. We all know that public transport is generally reliable, but as soon as connections or multiple journeys are needed it can also be desperately slow.
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All true, but I was thinking of the actual new bit.
Walking it perfectly reasonable too.
We’ll see what happens.
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There is a ramp to Duff St as well as steps. It isn't connected to Duff St because the compulsory purchase order isn't completed yet
(you see, they can do CPOs!)
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Somewhere in the backstory, a council officer says they gave up on route A because the one landowner categorically refused to sell, then went to compulsory purchase with land owned by a ton of different people. Like.. what?
Presumably a better explanation exists and the madness of that was just lost in translation somehow
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Does this link stop at the base of the slightly ramped steps just through the Telfer subway?
I often ride from the Roseburn path to the Meadows and currently use Russell Rd/Murieston Cres/Dalry Rd/Henderson Tce/Dundee St to get to Gilmore Pk and then cross the canal. I'm not able to use the climb up from the Telfer subway as my recumbent handcycle grounds on the 'ramped' steps.
I was hoping this link would help me avoid some of these roads but it sounds like it won't be of any use at all.
I intend to ride along to the opening tomorrow and then on towards the canal so I can check it out myself.Posted 1 week ago # -
“I intend to ride along to the opening tomorrow and then on towards the canal so I can check it out myself.”
I suspect a few CCEers will say hello!
I *believe* the crossing of the WAR (so need to use Telfer Subway) is/will be in operation.
If yes/no someone will comment below -
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Dont think anything has changed with tbe ramped steps, which will still need to be used to get up from the WAR crossing to Dundee St...
Will find out tomorrow, but will be much more inconvinient for you...
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That's my understanding as well, @HankChief.
At one point there were plans to extend the path along the WAR, to connect to Morrison Crescent and the zig zags at McEwan Square. Presumably those zig zags aren't much use to you either, but you would have been able to get to Drysdale Road.
I can ask, via Spokes, whether there's any hope of those plans being resurrected.
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I hear now that unlikely Fiona Hyslop will be on a bike. I have been miss sold my tix
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Hope she enjoys the walk
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Walk from the limo to LIDL/
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The new Roseburn to Union Canal link’s Opening Event is this morning (Monday 9th), featuring stalls from 11am - 2:30pm near the new Gorgie/Dalry Community Playpark from Dr Bike (repairs by Soul Cycles), Police Scotland (bike registration and marking), Spokes and others; there’s also a led ride along the route (a ministerial photo opportunity, naturally) with local schoolkids at 11:30am:
Join us for a led bike ride along the path or come along and walk the route and discover how the area has been brought into community use.
Where: Sauchiebank/Russell Road entrance
When: meet at 11.30am (depart at 11.45am, arrive at Dalry Park at around 12noon).If you spot me there, do say hi!
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https://buttondown.com/edi.bike/archive/edibike-issue-70-9th-dec-24/
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And that’s a wrap - route open!
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Solid CCE presence. Lovely infra. Shame doesn’t quite get to the canal.
I was speaking to a local chap who was very happy to discover the new park open next to his hooouose for his children
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“Solid CCE presence.”
True.
More pix later.
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Cycled this on the way home (in the dark). One other cyclist and several pedestrians and joggers at various points.
Nice and wide for the most part. Blue bridge is nice, no vandalism yet of course. I expect it will get painted before too long.
WAR crossing is great (not on OSM yet?)
But that step at the bottom of the ramp (mentioned up thread) is nasty. I nearly hit it as I was busy watching which way pedestrians were heading. Might be more obvious on the daylightPosted 1 week ago # -
@cb Yes the detail at the ramp is not good. @handcyclist As you discovered (again) the undulating steps means lower bikes can ground. In fact the big Nihola trike used by the Green Team will ground on that I reckon.
Needs fixed or alternative route via Drysdale.
Santa was on a Black Iron Horse. Only one in Scotland I think. Ali from Soul on a Bullit and @bakky on UA.
Strava will name the section Mt Ventoux probably?Posted 1 week ago # -
@Cb in the daylight you can ring your bell at the peds at the ramp.
@ChDOT Who is the Wally inthe Elf Socks?
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“Who is the Wally inthe Elf Socks?
Pass…
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