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NCN1 to Queen Margaret University

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  • Started 12 years ago by Kirst
  • Latest reply from Cyclops
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  1. Kirst
    Member

    I have to go to QMUC from work tomorrow. I know NCN1 goes right there, but I can't find my Spokes Edinburgh map - although I do have East, Mid and West Lothian. *rolls eyes* I'll be leaving from Duddingston Park South - am I right in thinking if I head south, over the crossroads to the bottom of the Wisp I can get onto NCN1 there somewhere?

    Posted 12 years ago #
  2. chdot
    Admin

  3. wingpig
    Member

    Mind out for glass near the under-A1-underpass.

    Posted 12 years ago #
  4. crowriver
    Member

    Go to http://www.sustrans.org.uk/

    Check the online mapping for ncn1 Edinburgh. Zoom in. Print.

    Posted 12 years ago #
  5. chdot
    Admin

    @Kirst presume you intend to go on road most of way.

    The junctions on Newcraighall Road aren't too much fun.

    CycleStreets is WRONG - red route takes you onto the A1 - DON'T!

    Turn right after going under the railway bridge.

    Let us know how many of the solar lights are working on the path between Newcraighall and QMU.

    Posted 12 years ago #
  6. Kirst
    Member

    I thought Cyclestreets was wrong and sending me onto the A1. I was not happy at that!

    Posted 12 years ago #
  7. chdot
    Admin

    "I thought Cyclestreets was wrong and sending me onto the A1. I was not happy at that!"

    I think it's actually legal (unlike main road to Forth Bridge), but best avoided.

    Posted 12 years ago #
  8. amir
    Member

    Does anyone know why trees have been cut down between the cycle path and the A1 just north of QMU?

    Posted 4 years ago #
  9. wingpig
    Member

    I saw something elsewhere talking about junction improvements (read: speedifying) related to a new development... it gave the distinct impression that it would involve removing the bus gate at the bridge by the station and allowing cars past the uni, so I assumed I had misinterpreted it.

    Posted 4 years ago #
  10. Cyclops
    Member

    They've been clearing the trees on both sides of the A1 here. Unfortunately, all the greenery around there looks to be living on borrowed time following East Lothian Council's decision last week. I'm not sure the development is that imminent though as the farmer has just planted cereal in all the fields to the west of the A1.

    Posted 4 years ago #
  11. chdot
    Admin

    Concerns were raised about the proximity of housing at Monktonhall to the A1 and the impact of noise on them.

    Good idea to remove all the trees then...

    Posted 4 years ago #
  12. Cyclingmollie
    Member

    How does this fit with East Lothian's Air Quality Action Plan for the town (I guess it doesn't)?

    The "City Tree" which was installed in the High Street last year as a desperate measure to tackle the air pollution is now stone dead.

    Before it died:

    Posted 4 years ago #
  13. amir
    Member

    Rolls eyes

    Posted 4 years ago #
  14. I were right about that saddle
    Member

    The "City Tree" which was installed in the High Street last year as a desperate measure to tackle the air pollution is now stone dead.

    I looked at the trees in Cameron Toll car park again tonight. Everyone just walks past them. One is so dead it's just a wooden pole propped in a metal cage. Our eyes are as dead as our trees.

    Posted 4 years ago #
  15. unhurt
    Member

    I want a rule that city trees that are cut down can't just be "replaced" with sad root-stunted saplings that are then left to die in a concrete & fume filled desert having fulfilled the developer's"commitments".

    Posted 4 years ago #
  16. crowriver
    Member

    Some glimmers of hope in the report on the new development in Musselburgh:

    "new ‘cycle superhighways’ created using a railway line which runs under the dual carriageway and a bridge."

    Posted 4 years ago #
  17. neddie
    Member

    What would be great is if they straightened and completed the existing NCN1 route along the old railway bankings as shown in red below:

    newcraighall by Ed, on Flickr

    Posted 4 years ago #
  18. Cyclops
    Member

    I noticed they've also chopped down all the trees a little further along the A1 by Asda.

    Posted 4 years ago #

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