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WATER OF LEITH WALKWAY CLOSURE

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  1. Rosie
    Member

    WATER OF LEITH WALKWAY CLOSURE

    Notice from the Council:-

    I write to inform you that we have, unfortunately had to close the Water of Leith Walkway at Kinauld Tan Works Footbridge (Approx. Location: https://w3w.co/minute.guises.looked) as a hole has appeared in the bridge. There is no through route over this bridge in either direction and the suggested diversion is via Lanark Road West.

    Presently, we do not know the scale of the damage or the underlying cause, this will be investigated in due course. Meantime, we need to protect the public and have therefore made the difficult decision to close the bridge to ensure public safety. While the hole is currently relatively small in size, it is still big enough for someone to get their foot caught in it or for a horse to get a hoof caught. Also, we do not know how this hole will develop over the weekend and it may increase in size. We are therefore asking everyone to respect this closure and for their own safety and the safety of others to use an alternative route.

    Posted 5 days ago #

  2. ejstubbs
    Member

    That WTW reference appears to be for Magdalen Bridge in Oxford. I know WTW can be prone to user error, but it can hardly be held responsible for a user picking the wrong bridge entirely.

    I believe the closure affects this bridge on the WoL path: https://w3w.co/employ.onion.worm
    or if you prefer
    https://maps.app.goo.gl/Jg1UZ23rUibXzpSp6

    The diversion westbound would appear to involve leaving the WoL path at Kirkgate to join Lanark Road and then rejoining it via the zig-zag path from Kinauld Dell* (vice-versa if proceeding eastbound), giving a distance of about ¾ of a mile on the main road. A more traffic-free alternative for reaching Balerno itself would probably be to leave the WoL path at Currie Kirk and take the Lymphoy track.

    Any better suggestions e.g. from Balerno locals would of course be very welcome.

    * I don't think I've ever been along that path so I've no idea how usable it might be on a bike.

    Posted 5 days ago #

  3. Rosie
    Member

    @ejstubbs - goodness -I copied that from the email and in the email it does show the WoL. I don't use WTW myself.

    Posted 5 days ago #

  4. Frenchy
    Member

    This should work, and @ejstubbs does indeed have the correct bridge: https://w3w.co/minute.guises.looked

    A bracket from the original email was included within the link when Rosie posted it here. For reasons I don't understand, this caused WTW to redirect to a completely different location.

    Posted 5 days ago #

  5. ejstubbs
    Member

    Just another example of WTW fragility, in this case when used by yer average punter who has no good reason to expect it to try to parse something which doesn't conform to the word.word.word format?

    Posted 5 days ago #

  6. Rosie
    Member

    @Frenchy - thanks. I posted it on Facebook as well and it's okay there.

    Posted 5 days ago #

  7. Frenchy
    Member

    @ejstubbs - seems to be. As far as I can tell, any invalid w3w link which has two full stops after the slash redirects to that one square in Oxford.

    For example:

    https://what3words.com/pretty.needed.chill0
    https://what3words.com/pretty.ned.chill
    https://what3words.com/a.a.a

    It seems to just be the default square, for reasons that presumably make sense to someone.

    Posted 5 days ago #

  8. gembo
    Member

    I was returning from my fantastic Deore Rear Mech Escapade on Friday and almost home when a flatbed truck man said Ye cannae cross as the bridge has a hole. (The same hole it has had for over a year but now big enough for the Kinaiuld Tannery rat to fall through). It has a wee rock in it currently to indicate where it is. And some easy enough to ignore fencing (I shall check later on HERAS which I think is yet to appear). It is a tricky spot for diverting south to the lymphoy. It is at the One Hole Golf Course where the piggery used to be in the olden days. Any flat route on the south bank of the WoL is thwarted almost immediately by a tributary burn pouring into the WoL making the water hazards on this otherwise straightforward Par 3 quite tricky. There is therefore a very steep off road route you would have to push a bike up to get to the Lymphoy. There is no river crossing until Currie Kirk so as @Stubbsy has said, the alternatives are lymphoy to Currie Kirk and vice versa or the road.

    Posted 5 days ago #

  9. bakky
    Member

    Interesting to see from sbarlster on Bluesky:

    I see the Kinauld Tanworks bridge on the water of leith has closed due hole in its surface.

    When the new bridge surface was laid (15-ish years ago?) it was with an entirely unsuitable plywood type material.

    Slightly surprised it lasted this long.

    Posted 2 days ago #

  10. gembo
    Member

    It is a tiny hole and due to citizen action it isn’t closed.

    A very sad sounding dog Walker tonight turned out to be Crazy Suzy Webber

    Posted 2 days ago #

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