If you ride that way you will probably have noticed that Polwarth Terrace / Grove has been completely shut for about 2 weeks now outside the church / junction with Harrison Road.
It caught me out the first time at night in the dark and drizzle when I went through the green light only to be confronted with the apparition of a 6 foot metal security fence (no reflectives or the like) across both lanes of the carriageway. Managed to steer a course for the pavement and bump up onto it as I rang the engine room for full astern. Perhaps it's signed further back and I missed them, but I had only turned on at the top of Ashley Terrace.
Only the pavement outside the church is open and there's no space to squeeze along the gutter. Again I forgot about it and went this way this morning and had to get off bike, push along pavement then try and work out a way to get back onto the road through the traffic using the remaining three arms of the junction.
Does anyone know why it's closed and/or for how long? All I can make out is that it's being used to store a lot of wooden frames for the building redevelopment in the former hotel opposite the Church.
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