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Lothian Rd / Earl Grey St to be resurfaced

(9 posts)

  1. neddie
    Member

    Lothian Rd and Earl Grey St are to be resurfaced.

    The works comprise carriageway resurfacing, footway reconstruction, and traffic signal infrastructure "upgrades"*

    To start on the 6th Sept for 10 weeks

    *Re-phase the lights?

    Presumably they won't bother to include the new SfP widened footways, nor any cycleways and just resurface it back to a 7-lane traffic sewer.

    When it could have been a beautiful tree-lined boulevard, to rival any in Europe. With a bike lane, row of trees, a bus lane, and a general traffic lane in each direction. Le sigh.

    Posted 3 years ago #

  2. pringlis
    Member

    The images in the City Transformation plan looked positive, is that not still happening? The timescales weren't particularly ambitious but I do recall them trumpeting Lothian Road as one of the big changes.

    Posted 3 years ago #

  3. Frenchy
    Member

    I think the council said this resurfacing has come too early for City Centre Transformation changes to be included. That also means they aren't implementing some other changes, since the City Centre Transformation will apparently lead to it all being expensively redone anyway.

    I think, though, that the plan was to extend the pavements and remove a couple of traffic lanes, but I could easily be remembering wrong.

    Posted 3 years ago #

  4. neddie
    Member

    I think the council said this resurfacing has come too early for City Centre Transformation changes to be included

    They keep saying this. Every time. Always "too late to include in X grand project..." And so the status quo is preserved. Ad infinitum.

    Posted 3 years ago #

  5. Yodhrin
    Member

    I don't understand why they'd be prevented from at least doing any planned pavement widening and then use temporary materials for the cycle lanes - they surely already know how much they plan to widen the pavements and where, cracking out some of those cast tarmac faux-kerbs to designate the cycle paths shouldn't cost all that much, and if they're undertaking a total resurfacing then they clearly aren't intending to do the full plans any time soon so an ETRO wouldn't be conflicting with the "proper" TRO like it would on the GIV bridge infra.

    Still, gotta watch those upcoming council elections I suppose...

    Posted 3 years ago #

  6. neddie
    Member

    Does anyone know if resurfacing has started, and is Lothian Rd still traversible by bike?

    (I'm hoping it's closed to through-traffic, but open to bikes, cos that would be nice)

    Posted 3 years ago #

  7. Morningsider
    Member

    Walked down Earl Grey Street a couple of days ago. Works had started - looks like one lane at a time is being worked on, so through traffic remains and probably even hairier than usual on a bike. Might have changed since I passed though, as they were really just setting up.

    Posted 3 years ago #

  8. chdot
    Admin

    “

    New road markings were laid out on Lothian Road in 1957 designed to help traffic flow easier but motorists were not convinced and the police had to issue a statement through the press urging drivers to follow the arrows.

    “

    https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/heritage-and-retro/retro/17-pictures-of-edinburghs-lothian-road-in-the-1950s-and-1960s-show-how-much-the-familiar-capital-street-has-changed-3391378

    (Mostly not pictures of the road. Pic 11 will interest some people.)

    Posted 3 years ago #

  9. PS
    Member

    From number 5:
    "The Beatles were one of a host of famous acts to play Lothian Road's ABC, which is now a pub. Here a fan is pictured meeting the Walker Brothers after a concert in October 1966. Scott Walker is in the sunglasses."

    "which is now a pub". Is our local newspaper of record confusing the ABC with the Caley Picture House?

    Posted 3 years ago #

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