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Lower Gilmore Place open yesterday,if a bit bumpy due to resurfacing.
Muddy verge wierd, we stood at it to feed swans/ducks yesterday and, what with us on one side and our bikes on the other, space was at a premium.
Son asked me why we need to use/cross such busy roads to get from meadows to canal. The wisdom of an 11yo.
Apologies - hadn't realised there was a sizable mud strip between the tarmac and the wall.
170222165232IMG_8410 by Paul fae Fountainbridge, on Flickr
That's the towpath closed again without any obvious warning.
Good to know
Closed for another five weeks Scottish Canals have announced today: https://www.scottishcanals.co.uk/news/works-on-the-union-canal-at-fountainbridge-edinburgh/
detour is OK heading east
When boats are moored at the new "hard-edge moorings", it means there will be even more opportunities for conflict on this narrow & congested section.
Joy.
The path will presumably end up a bit wider, assuming that they don't install street furniture on the new plaza area?
I wonder which Boroughmuir kid will having the honour of being the first in the canal? Having an open quayside right next to a school entrance - what could go wrong?
they will need to keep generating a current or Weil's disease will be a threat
The detour is a whole lot less stressful now with the 20 mph limit.
wonder which Boroughmuir kid will having the honour of being the first in the canal
There's a tall metal fence separating the playground from the path.
Path also being widened according to plans, but assumes canals and developers can work together (which I doubt)
Canal-at-viewforth by Paul fae Fountainbridge, on Flickr
Junction at Viewforth, St Peter's Place now open.
Return of red ASLs in Edinburgh? by LaidBackBikes, on Flickr
Very heavy police presence on Gibson Terrace this morning with at least five officers along the length of the road.
To stop rogue cyclists?
Or -
UPDATE
Same again tonight with the paving at the top where you come off the canal all taped off
That would explain the big police van ("Police Command Centre" or something) parked on the pavement by the Dundee Street Sainsburys.
(I'm still tempted to put it in the rubbish parking thread...)
Edited to add photo of said van on the BBC:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-39254894
Yep, still one car there today
Curious -
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“After full and careful consideration of the facts and circumstances of the case, they were liberated from custody pending further inquiries and did not appear in court.”
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Police still going door to door on that street tonight, well looked that way to me.
Apparently, the towpath at Viewforth is likely to be closed until mid-June.
Which is quite a bit longer than the 5 weeks 'planned*' at the beginning of March
*'Planned' as in stated on a sign the evening before closure - hardly good PR.
@edd1e_h where did you hear that? It certainly looks like they aren't progressing very quickly so I'm not surprised it's going to take longer than five weeks, but mid-June?!
The school is about a year behind now i think
Diversion at fountainbridge closed tonight when I passed. Blocked by a big crane and other lorries. No other signed diversion for pedestrians. Lots of cars doing u-turns and cyclists and peds looking very lost.
We can get through both ways, have t divert via leamington lift bridge but go along towpath towards akva etc
The towpath appears to be open today (Sunday)... unless it was Fata Morgana
Yep. Cycled the length from Slateford to the lift bridge at lunchtime. Viewforth section not properly surfaced yet, but definitely open.
School not opening until 2018 - didn't gembo say that here a few weeks ago?
Ten weeks' work commencing on towpath from 4 April: https://www.scottishcanals.co.uk/news/works-at-boroughmuir-union-canal/
Puts a bit of a dent in our CorstorBurn feeder ride to PoP...
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