This picture was taken at the junction of Castle Terrace and Johnston terrace. As you can see from the photo, there’s a sign indicating the road is closed to all but bikes, busses and taxi’s. You can also just see abouve the van is a red no entry sign.
So what is this van? Certianly not a bike, nor a taxi, so maybee it’s a bus?
Are JB Foods now running a bus service up Johnston Terrace? Wonder what route number it is?
Edinburgh Evening News - Edinburgh - Gas works set to cook up summer road chaos
Well it looks like the roadwork free Slateford road is about to get a pounding. Due to gas main replacement on Gorgie Road, East bound traffic will be diverted up Robertson Avenue, along Slateford Road, and down Ardmillan Terrace.
In Gorgie Road, 500 metres of new gas main is to be installed between Stewart Terrace and McLeod Street at a cost of £275,000.
Work is due to start on the 2st May and last 3 months. Wonder how long it will actually last?
There’s something wrong with diverting the eastbound traffic though. Traffic will have to turn right on to robertson avenue, crossing the westbound traffic flow. Once on Ardmillan Terrace the traffic will once again have to cross the traffic stream going westbound.
As seen on Lothian Road, for most of the time there’s nobody on site, and when there is, there’s only 2 or 3 guys about. No rush, just get it done without killing somebody.
First they were completed
Then they were uncompleted a week later
By the looks of it absolutly no work has been done on the junction in over a week.
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.
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.
ScotlandTraffic » Blog Archive » Slateford Road - Road Works
Well work started on the 5th March for 6 weeks, and it was finished on Friday 13th April so it looks like the council did actually make their 6 week deadline. They’ve still to finish painting the lines, but all the tartmac appears to have been finished off.
Edinburgh Evening News - Just the ticket
At least 15 new bus lanes and dozens of signal priority schemes for buses would be installed on some of the city’s busiest routes under the plans.
Dedicated bus lanes and signals that give priority to buses on busy routes, including Dundas Street, Ferry Road and Inverleith Row, would cost nearly £60m under the plans.
An ambitious £100m scheme to create bus lanes on the city bypass
Bruce Young, Lothian co-ordinator for the Association of British Drivers, commented: “The obvious intention is to squeeze drivers off the road and it is not fair.”
Edinburgh Evening News - Opinion - Letters
Quality quote from “Make Mine a Half”
Talking of roadworks, there is a rumour going around locally that there will be a week sometime in June when Slateford Road WONT be being dug up
Edinburgh’s way of painting double yellow lines on roads
Put up signs saying that there will be no parking on the 24th March due to line painting. Then come along on the 23rd March (the day before) and attempt to lay as much double yellow lines as possible. Then you only need to put down a few cones in the places you missed.
What an excellent money saving idea! NOT!
What you do is put the cones out the day before you are due to paint the lines. The day of paiting send the parking wardens in and remove any remaining cars - you’ll get £150 for each of them. Then you can lay the lines without interuption, and in one pass.
Following a tip off from the ed.general newsgroup I tracked the “Crane” down to the New Street bus station devlopment opposite the new Edinburgh council buildings on New Street.
Interesting to note that the boom that caused the accident does in fact fold in the middle.
Compare this to the original photo that Alex Hunsly took on the day of the accident