After a bit of a hunt I've discovered some plans for the work that's being done at the corner of the King's Buildings campus, where Mayfield Road and West Mains Road meet at the traffic lights.
The project is called The King's Buildings Gateway. Apparently somebody has finally noticed that this corner is the main pedestrian entrance/exit to the campus, and has decided that it should look like a main entrance, instead of like a hedge.
There's a link from that page to a diagram of what the redesigned corner is going to look like. There's also a link to a wider site all about the King's Buildings Public Realm and Landscape Strategy, which touches on cycling in several places. I was pleased to see that it proposes to have pedestrian and cycle routes criss-crossing the campus. This seems like progress - when I worked there lots of paths were marked NO CYCLING. The site also has a rather architecty picture of the new entrance corner.
There's also a mention somewhere there of the toucan crossing which the council is going to install soon at that corner, apparently to provide a diagonal route across the crossroads to link the (dare I say it, glamorous) new KB entrance with the QBC. I tried to find more about this in the council's site but got lost in a maze of twisty little pages, all alike. Can anyone point us to more detail?
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