Upgrades planned for canal:-
£330,000 to be spent and Sustrans approved.
https://www.scottishcanals.co.uk/news/capitals-union-canal-set-for-a-330000-towpath-transformation/
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Canal towpath closure at Viewforth
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Posted 7 years ago #
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That link appears to be about the work that is ongoing? I see that they haven't bothered to update the page with details about the most recent towpath closue.
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if you read to the end you will see they have provided a link:
"As work progresses further updates will be provided, including details of diversions, via bit.ly/Fbridgeworks and @scottishcanals"
https://www.scottishcanals.co.uk/news/works-on-the-union-canal-at-fountainbridge-edinburgh/
Posted 7 years ago # -
Slateford aqueduct due to be closed to navigation for four weeks from January the 9th. I'm not quite clear if that includes the path or just the water but I'd assume both.
Posted 7 years ago # -
@acsimpson so it does. I did read to the end and follow the link but for some reason it seemed to load the same page when I tried it earlier, either that or I somehow accidentally managed to instantly scroll down to the September closure and the map as it loaded.
@DrAfternoon hmm, that is going to be interesting...
Posted 7 years ago # -
"Repairs will be made to the troughs and structures of the historic Avon and Slateford Aqueducts." https://www.scottishcanals.co.uk/news/winter-works-across-the-scottish-canals/
Posted 7 years ago # -
Reopening next week?
U can easily avoid the aqueduct, heading west come off at slateford and spin down to Lanark road. From there either go round towards sainsburys then up through longstone park, at the actual swings, go under railway then back up to towpath. Or at the Lanark road junction head up the hill and back onto path at footbridge near where the yacht sat for thirty years in the driveway
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@jdanielp, I thought that too when I first clicked it. The page loads with the same images and looks like the same page so very easy to think it is.
Posted 7 years ago # -
@gembo the towpath should be open again in town now. The aqueduct closure is early next year. I just had a look at a map and the Longstone Park route doesn't look too bad, but there are unavoidably busy junctions to negotiate which I imagine could put off some of the cyclists. I wonder if there will be any kind of official diversion?
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@jdanielp, the junctions all have traffic lights. The only one that is tricky is when headin east to get back in the towpath at domino pizza. Tricky right turn up the station access road but easy to dismount and use the pedestrian crossing a bit further back
Posted 7 years ago # -
The canal path along Fountainbridge was open today, but the steps up to Viewforth closed off.
Posted 7 years ago # -
Apparently to be closed again for a maximum of a week from 13th:
https://www.scottishcanals.co.uk/news/works-on-the-union-canal-at-fountainbridge-edinburgh/
Posted 7 years ago # -
Yep. Closed this morning.
Posted 7 years ago # -
I forgot to update that this was open again last night. It was still open this morning, but the roadworks on Lower Gilmore Place are now restricting access to the lifting bridge instead. I ended up getting off my bike to push it along the pavement on Leamington Road and through the end of the work area, which was seemingly still 'open', but was blocked up with various contractor's vehicles etc.
Posted 7 years ago # -
Lower Gilmore place was a bit chaotic the other morning. Massive trucks EVERYWHERE and a strange number of private cars driving around the one way as well. Very strange.
Posted 7 years ago # -
All the vegetation has been removed from the edge of the canal between Viewforth and Gibson Terrace. Path feels much more narrow and dangerous with out it
170214151106IMG_8314 by Paul fae Fountainbridge, on Flickr
170214151056IMG_8313 by Paul fae Fountainbridge, on FlickrThis is the before shot
160913135954IMG_6708 by Paul fae Fountainbridge, on Flickr
Posted 7 years ago # -
Yup, looks like there will be a few in the drink?
Posted 7 years ago # -
?!?
Posted 7 years ago # -
LOL. The vegetation only makes it feel safer.
6 inches into the vegetation, the vegetation no longer supports the weight of a grown adult, never mind one on narrow wheels, and then you are in the drink.
Posted 7 years ago # -
Still looks scary to me :-)
Posted 7 years ago # -
maybe the veg was a lair of rattus norvegicus
IV
Posted 7 years ago # -
truth is, rats will always be with us
destroying their habitat
drives them closer
not away, from us
we never learn
Posted 7 years ago # -
Man in drink swerving to avoid towpath rat?
They do like to stick to their routines and do really only appear as bax says when we disturb their routines. The cats on either side kill them down in the waste ground at the bottom of my garden and occasionally bring them up for me which is lovely.
The stranglers though. I saw them at the Apollo in Glasgow in what was a proper gig. The support act was a poet in a top hat. Really? Yes, he was met with a tsunami of gob (more even than the tidal wave of spit that I saw destroy Morrissey's quiff at the barrowlands 1984 and they liked morrisey) the top hat poet he was washed off stage in sea of sputum. The stranglers though. Rock and roll
Posted 7 years ago # -
LOL. The vegetation only makes it feel safer.
Exhibit B:
http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16972#post-232961
Nice one, bax.
Posted 7 years ago # -
The vegetation is surprisingly sturdy. At least it was when I fell into the reed bed by the Calder Road Bridge one time and had a soft and completely dry landing. No rats involved.
Posted 7 years ago # -
I've looked through older photos and it seems there was a hard grass verge between the path and the reed beds.
150125135520IMG_0126 by Paul fae Fountainbridge, on Flickr
131115103236SAM_0036 by Paul fae Fountainbridge, on Flickr
Posted 7 years ago # -
A few tyre tracks on the grasslands mud bank but no apparent dunkings. Also nearby: Lower Gilmore Place is shut without warning by tarmac trucks.
Posted 7 years ago # -
wider muddy verge than it looks in the photos
lower gilmore place to be avoided as wingpig points out - guy on a brompton overtook me and smashed through some peds to get over lift bridge only to then try to go down the closed road. Maybe he works down that way but the whole street is shut at both ends and in the middle
Posted 7 years ago # -
gembo-san, perhaps too late in this thread for the pertinent continuation of stranglers live anecdotes but those riotous assemblies were incomparable and peerless, still casting heavyweight echoes through space and time
then as now, we venture to actualise the fundamental point
Posted 7 years ago # -
Nothing compares to a JJ Burnell bass line
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