Water of Lieth Walkway Closure for one day? Nope – 10 weeks
This sign is located at the bottom of Baberton Loan in Juniper Green. As you can see the sign says that the Water of Lieth Walkway is cosed on the 4/2/08.
As the date wasn’t the 4th of February I continued on along the walkway for about half a mile. This was the view I was met with.
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The footpath is totally impassible at Veitches Bridge. By the looks of it the bridge isn’t actually there anymore – just scafolding. Unfortunatly this meant I had to walk all the way back to Baberton Loan – another half mile.
I found this bit of wood lying on the ground there. It’s the diversion route for when the bridge is closed. Reading the information the bridge is actually closed for 10 weeks – not one day as the sign says. Acording to the sign the bridge is being completely refurbished.
The diversion route involves 2 very steep roads up to Lanark Road, and the footpath along the south side of the road is only about 50cm wide. Hardly safe on such a busy road.
Also interesting on the first sign is the bit that says “(date” – and you can just see the right bracket has been removed. It looks like somebody in Edinburgh Councils sign department thought it would be funny. The “4/2/08″ has been added afterwords. These signs are all over Lanark road so it must have taken some time to go round amending the signs.
My views from around Scotland