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Posted 3 months ago #
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Found the planning - https://citydev-portal.edinburgh.gov.uk/idoxpa-web/applicationDetails.do?activeTab=documents&keyVal=SD3YWIEW0GY00
Looks like they will leave 1.5m to widen towpath in the future.
Posted 3 months ago # -
Is the mini still in the canal?
Posted 3 months ago # -
It was yesterday... A couple of cones had been put in the back seats on Tuesday, presumably to help boats navigate behind it.
Posted 3 months ago # -
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And the city council faced having to pay Scottish Canals to lease the air above the canal, costing at least £821,000 over a 50-year term. It was also unclear who would have legal responsibility for maintenance of the new bridge
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Posted 3 months ago # -
I thought that I posted about the Mini having been removed from the canal a few weeks ago, but maybe it ended up in another thread (the post, not the Mini) or maybe I meant to but didn't for some reason. It has been removed now anyway.
I spotted a Scottish Canals vehicle parked by the canal at Wester Hailes and a couple of canals people looking at the most broken part of the towpath last week so I asked if they were planning to fix it as I was passing and they confirmed that they were. In retrospect, I should have stopped to find out more about the timescale and whether they plan to fix any of the other broken areas. The sink hole near the footbridge to Colinton Dell has been refilled with stones and is a bit less of a danger again just now, but the paint at Kingsknowe has mostly now faded away without any work having been done.
Work is ongoing on theconstruction of a new school by WHEC, including a large crane that appeared within the last week.
Posted 3 weeks ago # -
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The charity has participated in many projects to try and connect people living in the city of all ages digitally, ensuring their social inclusion. One of the programmes they were very much involved with was All Aboard – “a canal boat run by People Know How in collaboration with Polwarth Parish Church. The boat hosts unique trips on Edinburgh’s Union Canal for community groups and organisations to improve wellbeing, socialise and discover new experiences while surrounded by nature in the heart of the city”.
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https://theedinburghreporter.co.uk/2024/10/edinburgh-charity-to-make-all-staff-redundant/
Posted 3 weeks ago # -
Huge man with bulging hazel eyes eating a packet iof Walkers Cheese and Onion Crisps and not blinking but threatening to chuck a poor wee lassie into the canal.
The lassie’s mum caught up and asked him if he was the canal pusher.
THis enraged him. Scary, nasty bully with mental health and processing issues
Previous pusher on bike and more aqueduct way
This pusher Who thinks the path is just for walkers, ignorant that it is the NCNR75 more Meggetland - Harrison Gardens.and Meggetland.
Posted 1 week ago # -
I also noted the linked articles about teenage canal pushers at Wester Hailes. Not sure which is worse: neds chucking bricks at buses and fireworks at police, or feral youths pushing folk in the canal.
Posted 1 week ago # -
@gembo- that's a very upsetting story.
Posted 1 week ago # -
A work colleague got pushed into the canal a couple of weeks ago, but in this case it was 'just kids' rather than adults with issues.
The colleague came across a group of youngsters on the towpath around Wester Hailes, and moved to pass them on the canal-side of the towpath. As they want past, one of the kids (possibly on the spur of the moment) pushed them into the water, whereupon the kids scarpered.
The police were apparently surprisingly interested in the case, presumably because it's behaviour they want to nip in the bud.
Moral of the story - keep your electronics in a waterproof bag and don't pass suspicious characters on the canal side of the towpath...
Posted 1 week ago #
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