Useful summary of main paths by Mike Lewis -
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"Edinburgh Bike Paths: A Cyclist's Guide"
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Posted 11 years ago #
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Excellent - I thought I knew all the paths in the city, but an extra couple of wee paths I didn't know about in that article.
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Good website. There is an excellent quiz on the site which tests your knowledge of the path network. I managed a very respectable 9/10, only failing on total length of the path network. I thought on the naming of the innocent railway, no one died making it but that is not an open, must google.
On paths that don't make it in. James Joyce said a pier was merely a disappointed bridge.
There is a little path at slateford that links the old fruit market site to Aldi in Gorgie with a branch half way along the 500 yards that goes off towards the high flats.i used this path for. Several years to get from the A71 to the A70 with minimal traffic. Very useful.
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"Very useful"
Likewise the little path from new meggetland flats to meggetgate/slateford and the one from behind Craiglockhart shops to canal and then meggetgate/slateford via Allen park road.
also hutchison crossway to slateford green, with options to Gorgie Aldi or Slateford road (is that the same one gembo means? EDIT: yes, i think so. just didn't know where the 'old fruitmarket' was)
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Ooooh, just been on the wiki site for the innocent railway, well worth the read if you haven't done so already.
I based my alias smith and jones no one was ever killed definition of innocent on the information given on the plaque beside the railway. Turns out a driver and two children were killed. Not to give further clues, the real answer also not given is the air of innocence one felt on this railway compared with other lines.
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The less useful path from ardmillan to Shandon could also be mentioned. Quite muddy at the Dundee st entrance, comes out at Harrison park. I followed it beyond there as the path became very nice Tarmac but it ended at a big fence next to the railway, so had to go back. So not as useful as SRD's crosstown traffic paths which are also downhill if travelling from craiglockhart via canal to slateford. Both SRD routes are ways of accessing WoL path at visitors centre with only bit of traffic on the bit at the centre.
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"The less useful path from ardmillan to Shandon could also be mentioned".
You know, I've never actually used this. Do you think it might be what the council has in mind for the 'family network' connector between Canal and Russell road? I've been accusing them of running through west Bryson (which is what the map looks like).
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i think we need a follow up post entitled 'little known minor paths'.
and then a discussion about why so few of them are sensibly signposted.
Posted 11 years ago # -
Fishwives' Causeway? St Mark's Place to Stanley St bridge?
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"to Stanley St"
More commonly known as Hope Lane as this is the bit most people will use.
This route to Porty is signed through Magdalene from the Innocent, but it all could be a lot better (not just the signage).
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Signage would suggest they go somewhere..?
Come off canal at Harrison park use that path, come out at Dundee Tce getting slightly
Y trickier with family. Go down side of fountainbridge cinema takes you under WAR, end up in Dalry at garage, is there then a back street to the little square then along pavement to Russell road, murieston crescent? Or through the distillery? ,might work, the first path is parallel to west Bryson but in an international shocker, is not on the spokes map, Dnnn, dnn, dnnPosted 11 years ago # -
gembo - the path from Ardmillan to Harrison Park was part of the Caledonian Railway between Princes Street Station (now Standard Life HQ)and Slateford Station, much of which is now the Western Approach Road. It runs into Slateford railway yard if you go beyond Harrison Park. This used to be a main line, with the line linking Haymarket and Slateford a little used connection until Beeching decreed the closure of Princes Street Station and this section of line. All Princes Street trains were then diverted to the Waverley. This is pretty much the cause of the chronic capacity problems at the western end of the Waverley.
Horrible surface on this path, great place for bramble picking though, especially nearer Slateford yard.
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Well it's marked on CycleStreets -
http://www.cyclestreets.net/journey/22406626
But there must be something wrong with underlying OSM data as CS is not routing along it!
Always seems a bit disappointing - variable surface and the steps to Angle Park Terrace.
Now if it could continue the other way through the rail yard and come out near Slateford Station...
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Fishwives causeway great cut through for cyclists.
The new bit in saughton park also quite tasty
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"The new bit in saughton park also quite tasty"
http://www.everytrail.com/view_picture.php?trip_id=2092122&picture_id=5879037
Posted 11 years ago # -
@chdot, good to see Claire actually on her bike. Is that a new bridge on the route, can't quite work it out
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Chdot: To open Slateford yard to the public would be a large feat, once beyond the electric gate the railway is unfenced on all sides. It would require significant internal security fencing to protect the railway lines, railway vehicles, materials and property from vandalism trespass and fly tipping. Doesn't stop the occasional dog walker when the gate breaks down.
The sector is bounded on 3 sides by open lines, so to cross to Slateford station would require using the existing private footbridge (narrow, cyclists dismount), a new pedestrian level crossing in it's situ (expensive, cyclists dismount) or a new footbridge altogether (big ramps required to cross a railway)
Unfortunate really as it could take some stress from the towpath.
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All true, especially - "it could take some stress from the towpath"
I have done it in the past.
In theory there could be a new bridge constructed over the cutting to Meggetland, but...
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"But there must be something wrong with underlying OSM data as CS is not routing along it!"
It's currently marked as just "highway=footway". If you want CS to route along it, someone would have to add the "bicycle=yes" tag to the path.Posted 11 years ago # -
"bicycle=yes"
Done
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Is it possible to get from Dundee Tce all the way through to Shandon Pl on this route?
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I've not yet discovered the Dundee terrace entrance, but I think you'd have to exit onto Harrison Place/Harrison Gardens.
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@SRD just keep going along Dundee Tce into what looks like the bushes
@eddieh, SRD is correct you have to come off early at Harrison pk. The path continues under Shandon brig but no way up and then ends at fence/gate onto railway line. The Tarmac on this stretch is very lovely compared with the mud path back at Dundee Tce.
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