The City of Edinburgh Council - Clarence weekly road report and events diary
Acording to the weekly Clarence weekly road report for the week ending 29th April, the roadworks on the Queensferry Road / Orchard Brae junction were finished on the 27th April as planned.

We’ll I hate to see what the council class as it being finished! The temporary lights are still there and operational, Orchard Brae is still single file, Dean Path Road is still closed, the central reservation islands are still unfinished, and the old pedestrian crossing is still there.

It’s amazing that it’s taken 9 weeks to get this far, but it’s still got away to go. Anytime I have driven past there has been very few workers onsite and very few vehicles.

Apart from the vast time it’s taken to do a relatively straight forward resurface and movement of two traffic Islands, it will be interesting to see how it affects the traffic movements.

Gone is the right filter lane from Queensferry Road down Orchard Brae going out of town, and so is the filter lane from Queensferry Road turning left down Orchard Brae going in to town. Queensferry Road city bound is now down to one lane just after the traffic lights also.

Having tried to cross this road as a pedestrian I agree the pedestrian crossing was needed, but they didn’t need to reduce the junctions capacity by as much as they have.

I await to see how the traffic light timing works out when they are eventually turned on.

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