Apologies in advance to anyone's house that has to be demolished to make way
Hey! That's me under there. and you might get your feet wet in the canal (not on map).
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Newly desired paths
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Posted 13 years ago #
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and you might get your feet wet in the canal
I was kind of planning on putting the canal in a pipe, like it used to be
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Could you extend it to the airport and leith, then you've got my vote Kouncillor Kaputnik.
There are already a lot of bridges and tunnels being built to facilitate this, and no one else is going to be using them, eh? Just need to pull those pesky outdated rails up.
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"I've been told - 'Chancelot Path - just lighting, surfacing delayed until June due to badgers in the area'."
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"due to badgers in the area"
roflmaoysstPosted 13 years ago # -
Chancelot Path - is that the one of the five paths that isn't surfaced?
Posted 13 years ago # -
Yes.
'til June.
Posted 13 years ago # -
Can someone tell me where Chancelot path goes to and from please?
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Posted 13 years ago #
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ah yes one of the 5 ways juntion routes I never used
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[EDITED]I have nothing to add.[/EDITED][ORIGINALLY(ROUGHLY)]It's the gravelly path leading from Five Ways Junction (whence paths also lead south to Canonmills Tesco, west to Crewe Toll, north through the tunnel to Granton and east along to Newhaven) which goes diagonally south-east to join up with the WoL path and which isn't anywhere near Chancelot Mills.[/ORIGINALLY(ROUGHLY)]Posted 13 years ago # -
"isn't anywhere near Chancelot Mills"
Ah well....
http://www.edinphoto.org.uk/0_B/0_buildings_-_chancelot_mill_bonnington_jd_bm_1971_+_tree.htm
This was truly 'iconic'.
Though I would have said it was 1972.
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I was editing to say it was near some roads with Chancelot in their names until I saw someone had got their first with a maplink. I reserve the right to more readily refer to the current locations of things called Chancelot Mills rather than versions thereof which were demolished four or five years before my birth.
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Cheers, I have rode it years ago, but now tend to cut down to Tesco on my way to work. The only path I haven't taken it the one north to... err suppose I'll have to take it now to see where it goes.
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"I reserve the right to more readily refer to the current locations of things called Chancelot Mills"
Quite right.
Edinburgh is full of 'misplaced places'.
I was once in Bruntsfield and asked where Bruntsfield Golf Club was - he didn't mean The Links!
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Don't people who talk about the Bruntsfield Club house mean the Golf tav?
Don't people who talk about the Bruntsfield Club house mean the Golf tav?
[repeated for chdot for continuity] ;)
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"Don't people who talk about the Bruntsfield Club house mean the Golf tav?
Dunno.
Dunno.
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Some progress -
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The Chancelot path always had the professional dog walkers with half a dozen mutts. Wonder where they will use a s dog loos when it is paved (also very prone to flooding). Assuming I have the right 5-ways
Big diff between Bruntsfield Links pitch n putt and Royal Edinburgh Golf Club (or whatever it is called), Bruntsfield (over by Barnton I believe) the difference is much more than geographical that is for sure, tho the guy with the big bag of Big Berthas could still have chipped around Marchmont whereas turning up at Bruntsfield/Barnton with just a pitching wedge and a putter would be frowned upon
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'Finished' - wonder how long it will take Scottish Power to connect the crossing.
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"I've been told - 'Chancelot Path - just lighting, surfacing delayed until June due to badgers in the area'."
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News of the current work upgrading Chancelot path here: http://innertubemap.com/blog/post/271
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I'd say the Chancelot path upgrade is very welcome: very bumpy and puncture risk at the moment. Also a more direct way to connect to Ferry Road, Newhaven from MacDonald Road. Otherwise one has to divert via the admittedly pleasant alternatives, with junctions to be negotiated, etc.
Well done CEC. Nice to be able to say that sometimes!
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@Suemccheeks interesting numbers in there that it costs £105,000 to tarmac and put lights on 750m of path (£133 a metre)
Could use to help calculate what it might cost to tarmac other bits of surface around town.
(bearing in mind the Tram currently costing something like £57k - 69k a metre. Depending on which set of figures you use and which destination you choose. It must be borne in mind that the destination and the total cost is different depending on if name of the day ends in a "y")
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I'm sure the cost per metre of the M74 extension was astronomical as well wasn't it?
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£86,500 per metre
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So then you can get 6,000 km of shared use path (cyclists, pedestrians, dogs) for the same price as 8 km of urban motorway or 12 km of tram (with associated rolling stock).
6,000.
On value for money grounds alone, we need a Scottish Government strategic project to build say 6,000 km of new paths. For reference, that's Land's End to John O'Groats six times over, with 180 km to spare.
Posted 13 years ago # -
I know there’s another desire lines thread somewhere, but this one has some class nostalgia.
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A desire path (often referred to as a desire line in transportation planning), also known as a game trail, social trail, fishermen trail, herd path, cow path, elephant path, buffalo trace, goat track, pig trail, use trail and bootleg trail
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My reason for looking was to post this -
https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=18/55.96485/-3.24099&layers=C
The paths were already on OSM I just named them as (desire line) and was pleased to see this is now on the top layer!
These well used paths SHOULD now be tarmaced as part of the new housing development.
‘But money ran out’.
Still haven’t found out it if was a planning condition…
Posted 10 months ago # -
Hmmm, you don't think someone might infer from this that those paths don't actually exist and are just a proposal for the future?
Posted 10 months ago #
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