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https://www.broughtonspurtle.org.uk/news/green-light-elm-row-student-housing
Apparently there was a theatre there before.
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Gateway - used by STV, then QMU drama.
https://www.universityliving.com/united-kingdom/edinburgh/gateway-apartments-edinburgh
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In May 2005, the University was forced to close the building after a safety inspection declared it unsafe
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gateway_Theatre_(Edinburgh)
At the time some people thought that was ‘convenient’ from QM’s point of view.
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Today's Leith Walk shenanigans:
Note that the woman with the black top and backpack actually got hit by the red van driver as he reversed and tried to shoofle over a bit to let the bus through
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@chdot: There was an episode of The Goon Show in which a number 33 tram was found hidden in the Kingsway tram tunnel two years after the official last tram had run. The driver, Henry Crun, was refusing to move it unless he got his own "last tram" ceremony. All very silly: http://www.thegoonshow.net/scripts_show.asp?title=s05e09_the_last_tram_from_clapham
The southern part of the Kingsway tram tunnel was used to form the Stand underpass that takes northbound traffic off Waterloo Bridge and dumps it out on, er, Kingsway*, avoiding the Strand/Aldwych gyratory system.
* The original northern portal of the tunnel is on Southampton Row.
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@neddie: Yellow hi-viz and a hard hat gives you the right to park where the <rule 2> you like. Or so some of those who sport such outfits seem to think...
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“The original northern portal of the tunnel is on Southampton Row.“
Ah!
Cycled past it many times.
Assumed it must be some sort of ‘rush hour only’ underpass!
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The guy in the yellow hi-viz wasn't driving and had nothing to with the badly parked van
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The pressure to complete with shortages of key materials was a feature of some concrete structures in the 1970's & 1980's (& also some factory panel buildings from the preceding decade (New St Andrews House))
This is now returning to bite with a vengance - as per the M8 viaducts in Glasgow, which (fingers crossed folks) may be so costly to fix that they get demolished....
Edinburgh' track design, for the Phase 1 scheme remains flawed as the top slabs keep cracking and being patched up and the tarmac moves away and cracks at the edges, the pavements sink, and the ironwork breaks requiring a repair every 6-9 months.
The same orgy of poured concrete slabs seems to continue for the Leith extension, in contrast to the 'light' rail systems delivered in other places. As an engineer on another UK tram system ruefully noted, we're designing and building these systems with staff transferred from building main line railways for 25 ton axle loads and 100+mph who build for this standard ... to run trams with 8 Ton axle loads at 50mph max...
Will they have learned from the mess that was, and still is, Phase 1? - checking CBR load bearing capacity, & vane
test (cohesion) of the soils under the track slabs with a contract variation condition to allow for any remedial work required?Posted 2 years ago # -
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Campaigners have slammed Edinburgh City Council’s ‘hopeless’ designs for pavements along the tram lines on Leith Walk – after it emerged the paths are so narrow they don’t meet the council’s own minimum standards.
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Joanna Mowat, a Conservative councillor for Edinburgh city centre, said the delay was “nothing short of a scandal. “No one can understand why this is taking so long . . . There should be some lessons coming out of that about spending public money and improving the delivery of public infrastructure projects,” she said.
Mowat said the project had “tarnished” the council’s ability to deliver other programmes. “It’s not just about improving performance but questioning whether there is culpability anywhere. These are enormous amounts of public money and people should be able to understand what was going on.”
A spokesman for the inquiry said: Lord Hardie “has made it clear it will take as long as is necessary to get the answers the public wants”. He added: “The Inquiries Act 2005 obliges the chair to consider cost at all times since it is funded from the public purse.
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A long stretch of Leith Walk is to remain closed for an extra five months after the project to extend the tramline hit probems.
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Interesting - with the steady addition of lines to Manchester's network their team (the same one for 10 years) became steadily more skilled at relocating or fitting around other services, and delivering tracks which did not sink & crack (as Manchester's phase 1 did, and Edinburgh' phase 1 seems to be doing likewise)
Curiously the UK's tram systems still seem to emulate the 'welfare facility' constructed in brick by comparison with others...
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Does anyone have insider experience with these kinds of projects who can explain how you can have a design - one that's publicly available no less - that's clear and simple, and yet this sort of nonsense still happens?
https://twitter.com/StreetWurrier/status/1463963591049199618
Like, that doesn't even *resemble* the docs on the TtN site.
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From link -
What is the purpose of the surfacing between the tracks?
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I assume to discourage people crossing the tracks on foot/wheels.
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Presume so, but why there and how widespread is it?
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The photos of the Leith Walk cycle track on the Skyscraper City site are something to behold. How is it possible to get something so wrong when you start with a blank canvas?
At least we know where cyclists stand in the order of things - somewhere below concerns about on-street bin storage.
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