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COUNCILLORS are to be given a presentation on plans to replace the former UK headquarters of a US technology firm with a major business and retail park.
Agilent Technologies wants to redevelop its former South Queensferry office site with a development featuring retail, office and business units, cafes, bars and restaurants.
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http://edinburghnews.scotsman.com/topstories/Plan-for-new-business-and.6686434.jp
Presume there are 'opportunities' for improved paths.
Yes. Puting aside whether Queensferry or Edinburgh needs "another" out of town business and retail park - that site is very handily located for rail and bike - not that I can think of a reason I'd ever want to cycle to an out of town shopping centre, but if they were forced to improve that particular path from Ratho / Bathgate, that would be most welcome.
Approaching from the east as you've got to negotiate the A8 path with all it's known inadequacies, the Ratho foot (steps) bridge, ride along some narrow bits of pavement littered with bus shelters and non-dropped kerbs, all the time within spitting distance of the heavy traffic barelling along the A8. There's also the "missing" section alongside the old goods yard at Dalmeny which is now the caravan storage park, where the path narrows right down with thorn bushes and nettles on either side and ends in a very steep flight of wooden stairs that have seen better days.
That's going the long way round surely. Much quicker to use the marvellous cycle route alongside the A90.
Edit: Or, go through the Dalmeny estate on the NCR (75?) (I still haven't done this...)
That's going the long way round surely.
Well, depends where one is coming from :) I was thinking of that particular route as it runs directly past the site, it's also good access from the likes of Kirknewton / Broxburn / Ratho.
(I still haven't done this...)
Be careful about what sort of bike you take, surface is very variable, quite poor in places. However, it's a lovely ride as you come up past Dalmeny House and through the woods and then along the beach towards the Bridge.
There's nothing like riding 2 feet away from oncoming 70mph traffic with their headlights blasting your retina through the back of your head. A90 cycle path for the win!
Through the Dalmeny estate is actually quite nice, it's hillier and the surface isn't so good, and the only time I tried I met a car coming around a blind bend at 40mph, but apart from that, what's not to like? ;-)
Thats where I wanna hold a cyclocross race...
Thats where I wanna hold a cyclocross race...
On the golf course? ;-)
IIRC Dalmeny House already hosts a triathlon, so they may well be amenable to CX (so long as you keep off the greens).
I once did the coastal route through the park on my road bike - unlikely to do that again. However, I frequently go in at the gate at Cramond Brig. The path's rough for 400m or so, then becomes tarmac and S-bends up a low ridge.
You can then take a left to get a good short, sharp climb (I used this to test leg strength/fitness when I started out cycling - you can really see yourself improving as you get up it in a larger gear than before). Then it's a right to head down a fast drop towards Dalmeny House, where you can turn left, up a longish climb (good tarmac, relatively new) to exit on the B924 to either go straight over to Dalmeny or a right to drop under the bridge to S Queensferry (a nice road, but occasionally frequented by boy racer types).
"(a nice road, but occasionally frequented by boy racer types)."
Years and years ago my mum and I were cycling down that road when she was almost wiped out by a car which crossed the road, missed her by mere inches and smashed into the wall.
It was some fancy big car being driven by a chap who was collecting it to use in his wedding later that day - in fact he was in his wedding finery. He had fallen asleep at the wheel as far as we could gather.
His friend (best man I think) was following on in another fancy car - he owned them both.
His first phone call was to the AA, not an ambulance, or doctor, or anything like that for his friend. And as I recall he was fairly uninterested in the fact that someone had almost been killed.
After making sure the groom was OK we went on our way.
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