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WoL Path Resurfacing
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Posted 10 months ago #
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I did a rainy day ride home along the WoL on Tuesday evening. Pleasingly, despite the very heavy rain, there was not a single puddle on the new surface between Lanark Road and Currie.
The odd bits that are still unsurfaced, mainly before the tunnel, were still rubbish.
Posted 9 months ago # -
Goes all the way from canal to Waulkmill Loan the wee kicker just before Balerno.
Used to be a Piggery, also a one hole golf course.
Really great.
Posted 9 months ago # -
The one-hole golf course is still there, isn't it? I'm pretty sure I caught a glimpse of it by peering over the hedge last time I went past, and it's still showing on Google Maps satellite view. Still a bit bizarre, though...
Posted 9 months ago # -
Yes still there but they use astroturf now on the tee and green. Also massive rebuild extension as the owner who turned the paddock into the course sold it I think.
Posted 9 months ago # -
Currently all open, though think some locals have moved the fence as there is a stretch west of Waulkmill Loan still to have the tar.
The ramp access near Kingfisher Estate is still closed. At the bottom an iron chicane is in place quite nice and wide enough.
So much HERAS though it was like finishing a stage of the Tour de France.
Posted 9 months ago # -
There's a section closed just east of Spylaw Park currently. I'm not sure what the diversion is.
Posted 8 months ago # -
There's a section closed just east of Spylaw Park currently.
As I discovered today when I tried to ride from the canal to Colinton and beyond: the walkway is closed southbound from GR NT214693 as far as Colinton Station - about ¼ mile in total. The trouble is, there doesn't seem to be any straightforward way past it.
I tried going over the Kate's Mill bridge, then back over the river again to the path that takes you to the steps up to Dell Road but that was comprehensively Heras'ed off as well at GR NT215693. Going the other way at Kate's Mill means a long detour via Katesmill Road, Patie's Road and Colinton Road, then through Colinton village before you can drop back down to the walkway at Colinton Station via the somewhat perilous right turn at the bottom of Gillespie Road, and continue southbound from there. Total detour, including backtracking from the closure on the walkway, would be about 2 miles (and no signage provided to assist with route finding, as far as I could see).
I ended up backtracking on the walkway as far as Knockillbraehead, which took me out on to Lanark Road (still devoid of DYLs and wands, grrrr) from which point you can dodge in and out of the bike lane avoiding parked cars until you reach Spylaw Avenue, from where you can snick through to Gillespie Road eastbound and a much less dodgy left turn to regain the walkway at Colinton Station. Total detour, including backtracking from the closure on the walkway, about 1½ miles (and again no signage as far as I could see).
There was another almost-but-not-quite-blockage under the bypass, where a party of workies surrounded by Heras was laying some final bits of tarmac. The fellow I spoke to was happy for folks to slip past outside the fencing, and reckoned they'd be done in the day. So a pretty minor disruption, in the overall scheme of things.
Posted 8 months ago # -
Yes, just encountered that. Lanark Rd “cycle lane” is now a car park again most of the way up. I have criminally cycled up the footpath obviously giving way to any pedestrians but ready with my answers if the police stop me.
Posted 8 months ago # -
We cycled in to the festival the other day with the kids and encountered the Lanark road lack of cycle lanes. Agreed with my better half that we won't take the kids down there any more after the number of close shaves.
Posted 8 months ago # -
The thread from the sh1t show on Lanark Road has drifted into the WoL Path resurfacing thread?
Barriers around knockillbraehead were half hearted tonight so I chance it up
Looks finished
But HERAS closing tunnel at west end. I told the dog Walker he might be able to squeeze through as I trundled back down to knockillbraehead with my mighty Brae Panniers and back up to the sh1tshow that is Lanark Road.
Posted 8 months ago # -
Open and paved from canal to waulmillloan
Cycled it tonite FeckinA
Get up there and use it before some more Sh1t happens
Posted 8 months ago # -
On hold to polis Scotland now as the motorbikes have started
Posted 8 months ago # -
Cycled up WOL path from the canal on Friday evening to find the path blocked off at Waulkmill Loan. Cycled up from Colinton today and the path is no longer blocked - don't know if it's officially open, or if someone had just moved the fencing. So in theory - now complete and rideable for the full length.
Posted 8 months ago # -
Fully open there was 20 metres not quite finished at Waulkmill on Friday but I cycled down the whole length Saturday
Posted 8 months ago #
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