Residents and amenity groups have expressed frustration at the Council’s closure and subsequent handling of the Powderhall Footbridge.
The structure was closed in June after cracks were discovered which officers believed could cause the structure to collapse without warning.
Powderhall Footbridge, opened in 2009, was designed in accordance with the standards and engineering knowledge applicable at the time. However, its 120-year design life was not a guarantee that the bridge would last for 120 years.
These startling assertions appear in a Briefing Note (14.10.26) just issued by the Council’s City & Neighbourhood Services and Transport & Mobility Directorate. We attach it in full below.
Culture & Communities Cmte convener Cllr Margaret Graham* has confirmed that re-establishing an operational footbridge at Powderhall remains the Council’s high priority. However, this could take until 2028.
Council officials yesterday closed Powderhall Bridge – crossing the Water of Leith between St Mark’s Path and St Mark's Park – indefinitely and without prior notice.
The Council action came in response to the structure failing a recent inspection.
Eighteen months of capital trials look set to begin this summer for e-Bebé – an initiative promising to cut city-centre congestion and shave hours off parents’ and carers’ journey times each year.
At July’s Transport & Environment Cmte, Lyons-based urban solutions consultants SeraParfait (SARL) will seek consent to pilot a 300-strong fleet of rentable battery-assisted prams and push-chairs, available for pick-up or deposit at over 20 Edinburgh ‘communication nodes’, starting in August.
The start of a new year is often a moment for reflection rather than reaction.
While there’s nothing hugely substantial to report, I once again iterated the importance of either minimising closure of the path itself, or opening a better diversion due to concerns about the length of diversion and suitability of the currently posted route for wheelchair users, prams, and cyclists as
The latest version of the Princes St & Waverley Valley Strategy has been put on hold after the Liberal Democrat group's amendment was supported by most members of the Planning Cmte.
Councillors yesterday thanked officials for their hard work on the document. But they acknowledged consultees’ concerns that it lacked the ambition, imagination and vision needed to ensure Princes St and surrounding areas ‘are vibrant and welcoming places’.
Independent acoustic consultant Sharps Redmore has added a supplement to its report on nighttime disruption caused by traffic along East London Street (Issue 347, p.1).
Since yesterday, Dublin Street has been closed to road traffic between Dublin Street Lane North and Albany Street. Dublin Meuse is also closed at the Dublin Street end.
Both are likely to remain closed for the next 8 weeks while Scottish Water repair the sewer.
Failure of the sewer is thought to have been responsible for repeated subsidence in the carriageway. Contrary to local myth, a hole has not appeared in the former railway tunnel below.