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"Help inform our active travel strategy". (Midlothian)
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Posted 5 years ago #
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Spokes' response on the Midlothian AT strategy
http://www.spokes.org.uk/documents/members-campaigning/midlothian/
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https://twitter.com/SpokesLothian/status/1042119041782038528Posted 5 years ago # -
The path alongside the Cuiken burn in Penicuik is being widened and extended. Work started a couple of weeks ago, will take ~3 months.
https://www.midlothian.gov.uk/news/article/2575/surfacing_works_on_cuiken_multi-user_footpath
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Apologies if OT (feel free to move) but Midlothian related:
https://www.midlothianadvertiser.co.uk/news/call-for-end-to-hillend-junction-issue-1-4808564
Lights? Roundabout? Making Old Pentland road one way? Hmm...
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"SNP transport spokesperson, Mr Michael Matheson"
Surely you mean "Cabinet Secretary for Transport, Infrastructure and Connectivity, Mr Michael Matheson", Miles?
Posted 5 years ago # -
@Frenchy
I think those are the words of Councillor Winchester rather than Mr Briggs. I also think they're not a mistake. I look forward to hearing from the SNP spokesperson for the destruction of Britain.
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I think those are the words of Councillor Winchester rather than Mr Briggs. I also think they're not a mistake
Oops, you're correct. It seems incredibly petty.
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This Midlothian active travel strategy map seems quite nice:
https://www.midlothian.gov.uk/download/downloads/id/2998/midlothian_active_travel_strategy_map.pdf
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Midlothian recently announced the paving of the remaining parts of the Eskbank to Penicuik railway path (from Rosewell to Auchendinny). Following an upcry by a miscellaneous collection (those thinking the money should be spent on potholes and roads, those concerned with a change in nature of the path), the council has put the project on hold.
Posted 10 months ago # -
Also saw a tweet along the lines of ‘what about ice in winter’.
Posted 10 months ago # -
I remember difficult rides on the untarmacked bits in winters. Drainage is poor.
Posted 10 months ago # -
It's depressing to think the same arguments weren't applied to the Bush and A702 link roads.
Posted 10 months ago # -
The drainage along there is still the old railway drains. Some of which are ok but a lot have collapsed or filled with tree roots. I've helped to clear some on occasion. Major major job to sort that out before surfacing will make any difference.
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Midlothian carried out quite a bit of work in the last two or three years to recut and expand the drains, at the Rosewell end of the path and further along, between the path leading down to the gunpowder mill and the viaduct at Auchendinny.
The path from Roslin to Shawfair is tarmacked throughout, and, like the tarmac section of the Rosewell to Penicuik path between Glencorse and the water treatment facility near Harpers Brae, is very bad in wintertime for ice, because snowfall is never cleared and becomes compressed into footprint-sized divots. The untarmacked sections tend to be somewhat better.
Following an upcry by a miscellaneous collection
That collection included some regular cyclists, too.
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That collection included some regular cyclists, too.
I was more miffed by the usual bizarre arguments that the money should be spent on roads instead. There is a valid discussion about what surface is best given its desired usage, and that flings us into forced conflicts simply because the authorities are happier with converting paths into cycle facilities rather than creating dedicated facilities a la Europe.
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@amir - I found the reaction of the Midlothian facebook comentariat on the subject so depressing and lacking in ambition. As if a mile or so of tarmac is going to blow the roads budget to pieces!
If I was in charge of Midlothian for a day I'd do something with Roslin Glen Road (B7003). Especially Northbound it's a very unpleasant experience without a tonne of metal wrapped around you.
Posted 10 months ago # -
I'd do something with Roslin Glen Road (B7003)
I agree. The road carries much more traffic than its design and situation can accommodate. I don't cycle northbound if I can at all avoid it; I'll go up The Brae in Auchendinny.
It was great though when the road on the south side of the glen was collapsing and they had to mend it for months. It was great when there was the wee landslide on the north side of the glen, and the road was closed. It was great during lockdown when offices were closed.
The thing is, here we are in 2023 and there is still no paved footway from Roslin to the bottom of Roslin Glen. I think that is absolutely shocking*.
* said in the manner of that Welsh guy on YouTube who does new build snagging inspections.
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