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Posted 2 years ago #
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Slateford aqueduct!
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Really interesting discussion/ visioning are ongoing, I will update when we can.
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https://twitter.com/MillarRichard/status/1514195635112665091
Posted 2 years ago # -
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Posted 1 year ago # -
I was in the pub for a leaving Doo, Guy not 57 til Monday, lucky bar steward, anyway had I been commuting last night I would have encountered an illuminated Aqueduct.
Tonight is the Ronnie Rusack Festival of Lights , alll going from Harrison Park to Leamongton Lift,
The Canal is 200 years open (and closed in places at certain sections)
Posted 1 year ago # -
I was on a working outing along the canal last week. The boat stopped just short of the aqueduct. I urged a few colleagues to walk there to have a look at the view, and told them how scary that narrow, cobbled towpath is. At that point a bloke came on to the towpath balanced on one wheel.
Posted 1 year ago # -
No mention of Charles Tennant who owned this canal and made his money out of bleaching Process quicker than stale piss. Shame as then we could have had his descendant Colin Tennnat, Mustique, Princess Margaret, The Glen outside Innerleithen The Incredible String Band and Scientology.
All from a short canal called Monklands.
Never mind the dark political intrigues of councillors called Jimmy from Monklands environs. Now Notth Lanarkshire and SNP but the same Jimmies.
Posted 1 year ago # -
I noticed some work upgrades happening at towpath access points near Hermiston Gait. I think they paved one of the pedestrian-made paths that go down to Hermiston Gait shopping centre and doing something with the ramp going up to Gogar Station Rd.
Posted 1 year ago # -
It also looks like the chute on the aqueduct side of the bridge where WoL joins the canal is going to be turned into a surfaced path, they've felled some of the brush and lined it out.
Posted 1 year ago # -
I was going to post what bill spotted. A couple of 'desire line' paths are being surfaced at Wester Hailes, and it looks like some improvements are being made to the access path at Gogar Station Road...
Posted 1 year ago # -
The section of towpath between the lift bridge and Viewforth now has some lighting, although I think it was intended more for the security of the building site than towpath users.
Posted 1 year ago # -
@jdanielp I forgot that those things have a name! I am glad they are paving them.
I noticed the one in Wester Hailes very close to the Bridge 8 Hub last night. I often use the access at the Bridge 8 hub to get off the canal but it is quite muddy and with big potholes and puddles. Now i can take the nice paved one as long as I notice it in time (though yesterday I didn't and turned around).They are also doing one in Ratho by the bridge. It was just gravel until now.
Posted 1 year ago # -
@bill yeah, it seems like a positive step other than increasing the risk of people popping out onto the towpath in new places. I spotted another bit of newly laid joining path at Hailes Quarry Path this morning as I was taking the ride easier than normal after my chain had popped off under the railway bridge a little earlier. The rest of the 'easy' paths mentioned that I passed on the way to Heriot-Watt seem to have been finished now. It will be interesting to see what happens with the one @Dave spotted.
Posted 1 year ago # -
Ramp from the footbridge closed off at the moment, they have tried to run the route along a more gradual line, might work. Also Jdanp.
Posted 1 year ago # -
@gembo well spotted in the gloaming. They were busy working on the more gradual line of the ramp this morning (Big John warned me about the work as I passed while he chatted to someone else) although the towpath is just about navigable around the fencing.
Posted 1 year ago # -
I used the newly surfaced canal towpath access section (the rest of the access path is still extremely bumpy...) at Gogar Station Road Bridge today. I'm worried that the access ramp at Colinton Dell Bridge is set to have a chicane half-way down based on the shape of the excavations, but we will see what actually emerges.
Posted 1 year ago # -
Kingsknowe ramp looks good
But @jdanielp such power. You nearly knocked me off my bike this a.m.
Posted 1 year ago # -
I'm worried that the access ramp at Colinton Dell Bridge is set to have a chicane half-way down based on the shape of the excavations, but we will see what actually emerges.
If so, a chute will open up on one or both sides of the access point, as they surely must know. Urgh
Posted 1 year ago # -
There are roadworks closing the top of Hermiston House Road at the moment with no diversion notices on the canal. I had to backtrack to Gogar Station Road to exit the canal this morning.
Posted 1 year ago # -
@jdanielp I used that exit this morning to get to Gogarmuir Rd. 'Road closed' signs out at the junction Hermiston House Rd/Gogarmuir Rd/Gogar Bank and I was wondering what that was about as no roadworks on the section I was using.
Posted 1 year ago # -
Was clear that way Saturday
Did 75 km round Bathgate alps then up back of Balerno as Tam looking for trees to scavenge
Today though bit nippy in the mist and near frost until the currant bun finally appeared.
Did 75km today too but fewer alps as mud road was not ice road just farm stream road and then through the famous hamlet of Wilsontown (as mentioned in the very famous Scottish song, we’re no awa tae bide awa) over the mouse water then through Forth and then the back road to Braehead and the Browshott road turn off, too early for Artibits which opens Sunday and Monday 10-12. Only. Then down by the alpacas to the Loch road to check out the ever present puddle. And into Carnwath then back home via Whang and Glenbrook, all very jolly, some bad driving
Posted 1 year ago # -
That is a sad story
More prosaically the tarmac is open on the ramp from towpath up to the Ponderosa Footpath Flyover on to the WoL path.
Posted 1 year ago # -
@gemob with or without a chicane?
Posted 1 year ago # -
No chicane in the picture on twitter. Assuming they are the same place.
Posted 1 year ago # -
No chicane but does have a passing place. @srd that do be it.
Posted 1 year ago # -
So I see. More work ongoing, including another desire line to surfaced path at Wester Hailes. Some new markings on the towpath around ruptured surfacing might suggest that they will move on to smoothing out the path in due course which would be helpful?
I see that the too-wide barge has been moored up at Kingsknowe.
Posted 1 year ago # -
Used the canal today to get to work, and it would be great if they could put root barrier in and resurface just three or four short sections... fingers crossed
Posted 1 year ago # -
Work is now also taking place on the rough ramp and steps to the west of the pedestrian bridge near Meggetland. Promisingly, the markings across the towpath at Wester Hailes by one of the bumpy sections of path have now but cut through so it looks like that part of the path will be resurfaced at some point, and hopefully they will then smooth out other bumpy sections in due course...
Posted 1 year ago #
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