Leith Walk to return to normal after works

Published on Thursday 27 October 2011 12:07

LEITH Walk is set to get back to normal following tram works – in six months.

The city council promised the “remediation and reinstatement works” after the decision to end the tram line at York Place instead of continuing to Newhaven.

Work that will take place includes road resurfacing, the reintroduction of on-street parking, the return of the Foot of the Walk and London Road junctions and the return of pedestrian crossings.

A number of monuments and public art pieces – including the Sherlock Holmes statue on Picardy Place and the Leith Walk pigeons – will be reinstated.

But the work will not take place until Scottish Water completes works already being carried out in Leith Walk, expected to take six months.

Councillor Gordon Mackenzie, the city’s transport leader, said: “We made a commitment to press ahead with a programme of improvement works and proposals are now emerging.”

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Niebiosa tam sa naprawde nieskrzydlowe ludzie tam

Friday, October 28, 2011 at 03:59 PM

EEN ask SW what the works they are doing in LW entail.If they are honest they should tell you,or get a FOI.

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Niebiosa tam sa naprawde nieskrzydlowe ludzie tam

Friday, October 28, 2011 at 03:53 PM

And did anyone say what the Scottish Water works entail & why they are being done ? Well, let me tell you, the water utility diversions were totally botched, asnd much needs to be redone or totally replaced. This wouldn't be so bad, BUT TIE did not make a plan or even take notes as tho what the diversions of water entailed. NO PLANS were made, not even guidance notes. So SW has to work it all out for itself. Much of this entails switching off water and waiting to see who contacts Scottish Water to say that their water supply has been disrupted. This is a trial and error method, and SW has to work out where it's water supply is going, because NOBODY @ TIE took any note of ,what went where. That is why SW will be therte for another 6 months. Yet the TIE chancers got bonuses, big salaries and generous severence packages with nice pension entitlements, BUT they were totally inept..:0

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lewdboy

Thursday, October 27, 2011 at 02:14 PM

Oh, and while we're on a roundabout theme, i was speaking to a Canadian recently and they said that the same happened in their town (wish i could remember which one). They systematically removed all the well functioning roundabouts and replaced them with junctions. This created traffic chaos and the department responsible ran out of work to do so they are now in the process of re-instating all the roundabouts again. I guess the 'must spend full budget and justify salary to avoid redundancy' mentality exists outwith Edinburgh too.

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lewdboy

Thursday, October 27, 2011 at 02:08 PM

Just watch them turn Gayfield Roundabout into a complex junction with integrated pedestrian crossings. RIP - Edinburgh's once great roundabouts.

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Jams

Thursday, October 27, 2011 at 01:37 PM

Does this delay mean that the problem will fall to the new couoncil to fix by any chance? On the basis that the existing council said the remedial works would be funded form their non-existent road budget rather than the tram budget. ........... Concidence or just another inconvenient truth??

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grumpyscot

Thursday, October 27, 2011 at 12:43 PM

I bet the 6 months turns out to be 12. We should remember Edinburgh Council's ability to always under-estimate

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Curious Yellow

Thursday, October 27, 2011 at 12:42 PM

Dinnae be sae daft! That would have been sensible.

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Afredo Garcia

Thursday, October 27, 2011 at 12:31 PM

Why did Scottish Water not do their work when Leith walk was messed up years ago?

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