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Greenbank Drive

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  1. cb
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    According to the council's disruptions page the work that has started on Greenbank Drive (three months of "Lane closures, parking restrictions and temporary traffic lights as required") is for "Carriageway reconstruction".

    Sounds fairly major - more than just resurfacing?

    Was it in a bad way? I've been that way a few times recently (on foot, on the pavement) and don't recall anything too awful.

    I wonder if they will make the junction with Greenbank Lane a little more pedestrian friendly - drivers often fairly whizz into that road from the mini roundabout.

    I'm guessing that Craiglockhart Road and the Greenbank rat run is taking more traffic than usual due to the Comiston Road works so I was surprised to see these two works run with such a long overlap.

    Posted 9 years ago #
  2. Chug
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    I've always thought that Greenbank Drive east of Morningside Grove is some of the nicest tarmac in south Edinburgh - very smooth. I think this is because it is protected from frost as it's 90% under trees and also it's not a bus route.

    However, west of Morningside Grove and up to Greenbank Hospital, the surface is awful. This is where the work seems to be concentrated at the moment.

    Posted 9 years ago #
  3. gembo
    Member

    Sure is, I get head down and TT along there. At end I get off and wheel across pedestrian crossing then round to the cut through, takes me to cluny. Then on to sports day at the wonderful st crispin's special school where I won a bottle of Italian wine in the tombla. A mixture of primitivo and negroamaro grapes. Called, and I am loving this Il Brutto

    The top Tarmac is being fixed for sure.

    Posted 9 years ago #

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