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canal towpath upgrade
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Posted 14 years ago #
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But I'm guessing the problem of back-to-back* blind bridges that are barely wider than your bike still exists?
* At least it seems that way
Posted 14 years ago # -
This is photo I started the Flick group with
http://www.flickr.com/photos/chdot/2248803409/in/pool-unioncanal
Posted 14 years ago # -
Apologies Soliton. Scott Russell observed it as a six foot high wave pulsing along the Canal and then 150 years later it became a big deal in solid state technology or sumfink (Big Wave of energy - I do not know what I am talking about) Solitan is sun cream from Boots. Wait Chris that is Soltan. The bridges are still there but as previous posters have pointed out some of the gates have been taken out.
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Posted 14 years ago #
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I did not know about theSoliton fibre optic cable linking Glasgow and Edinburgh beneath the towpath, I will tread with care. Thanks Chris, also I love the dogs/peds/bikes pic near Harrison Gdns? on Canal.
The Spurtle - free newspaper of the Broughton area heralded the wee tunnel at Tescos in Cannonmills (A lovely wee tunnel) as the completion of route 75 and an event which at long last linked Glaswegians with sunshine and civilisation. Coming from the West I thought this was very funny.
Posted 14 years ago # -
"near Harrison Gdns?"
quite near, Bridge is Yeaman Place.
- see busy? - Feb (2008)
March (2007)
Posted 14 years ago # -
tried the tarmac at Lochrin basin today it is spectacular
Posted 14 years ago # -
There were nice pics of the Soliton Wave recreation at Heriot-Watt
I look forward to trying the new tarmac at Lochrin on foot and on two wheels
@chdot that pic is nothing new - I reckon dog walkers need to keep their dogs on a lead at all time unless in a large open space like... Harrison Park. Given that is where I live I used the canal daily to go to the Gyle (I think I already mentioned) and before that into town as I worked on Viewforth prior to that.
Speeding along is a bad idea especially at the blind bridges, it was at the one near the mini Tesco on Colinton Rd (Meggetland) where I had my head on collision with idiot boy on a bike who didn't ring his bell when he was approaching from the other side.Posted 14 years ago # -
very small speed bumps have been inserted at Cutlins Road - sort of before a bridge ? if heading west. The torrential rain caused a few puddles but nothing like before, a man footering with Greenroofer's sign at Gogar Station Road told me the contractor is in Ratho (will check today) and presumably heading in towards Hermiston. Looks like the May Day jaunt to Falkirk will be paved to Ratho.
Spotted the cormorant emerging from beneath the murky waters of the canal - a very oily bird.
Graculus
Posted 14 years ago # -
The Soliton wave episode of Star Trek, TNG, was on last week.
Posted 14 years ago # -
Went along the canal for the first time in a long time today between slateford and fountain bridge, bloody hell its busy i'd hate to see that at rush hour I think i'll stick dodging the Airport bus.
Though the tarmac was a nice change from what i was expecting from memory.
Posted 14 years ago # -
"also I love the dogs/peds/bikes pic near Harrison Gdns? on Canal"..."quite near, Bridge is Yeaman Place."
Almost the view out my kitchen window...can be _very_ busy. No one out there now but some pigeons though...
Posted 14 years ago # -
Hippi and I were out yesterday on the tandem, there was a construction team preparing the section near to ratho climbing centre for laying tarmac. According to the chap I spoke to, they're tarmacing all the way to Falkirk! Ace!
Posted 13 years ago # -
Tarmac climbing centre to falkirk ? scalled the M9 !
Next someone will tell us that there are going to be lights as well ! Burke and Hare wouldnt like it ! Not entirely sure if I like that idea, sometimes its nice to just be the only person on the canal, in the mud and casually strewn trees !Then again, slick tyres and a tail wind, smooth !Posted 13 years ago # -
There is also work at Harrison park to put in a path from West Bryson Road to the tow path, where at the minute it is just a muddy football field.
Posted 13 years ago # -
tarmac to flakirk would be wonderful.
Posted 13 years ago # -
Path through Harrison park should be good as especially just now its not nice walking the bike through. I just hope it doesn't become a poo magnet like some parts of the canal. Any idea on how long it takes jobs like that to be completed in Edinburgh?
Posted 13 years ago # -
I was down the WoL yesterday and there is some sort of energy-sucking new surfcae in place from Splash in Juniper Green all the way to the bridge in Colinton. Very soft, gray and smooth but already full of tyre tracks being cut into the loose wet surface.
Posted 13 years ago # -
@druidh sounds very similar to the surface between Auchendinny viaduct and Rosewell on the Penicuik to Dalkeith path. Like cycling volcanic ash
Posted 13 years ago # -
smooth tarmac all the way to Falkirk would indeed be lovely, they could then widen it to a three laner, two lanes for bikes going east and west and another for pedestrians, oh and add movement sensing traffic lights at the bridges/narrow sections.. and then you'd have a real "cycling superhighway".
And then I woke up :-/Posted 13 years ago # -
pour a lot of cement in the canal itself. Job done!
Posted 13 years ago # -
I swear K-nick has an evil alter ego.
Posted 13 years ago # -
"According to the chap I spoke to, they're tarmacing all the way to Falkirk!"
Perhaps, but -
CEC says -
"The surfacing at Ratho is a localised project to tackle the very bad drainage issue in the cutting. We're contributing some funding along with Sustrans - I think the length is about 500m."
Posted 13 years ago # -
@mabs - they seem to have done most of the work quite quickly. Just the tarmac to go down and then put in some kind of ramp on the path it looks like.
Posted 13 years ago # -
The wide section of canal towpath between the bridges at Harrison Park has been abruptly 'upgraded' today, which means that it is now covered in a layer of tiny bits of gravel that are not at all conducive to cycling over... Hopefully the loose bits will be swiftly cleared away.
Posted 9 years ago # -
The upgrade work is kind of curious - I'm not sure what was wrong with the existing surface. I wondered if they were going to tarmac the recently double-yellow-lined muddy and bumpy connection to Ogilvie Terrace.
Posted 9 years ago # -
No obvious signs of this being done
Coincidentally you can't experience all the new surface as the edging is being altered.
Posted 9 years ago # -
Not sure why they didn't complete the work at the time, especially given that traffic on the towpath was quite light during the Easter holidays, but they closed off the Gray's Loan bridge for towpath users on Tuesday and it remains shut. Due to a diversion to Morningside on Tuesday/Wednesday I only experienced this properly this morning and was unimpressed by the complete lack of provision for pedestrians and cyclists now having to cross Gray's Loan, which was very busy with traffic.
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