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Leith Walk patching update – Week 6
(Adapted from an email sent to cllr Nick Gardner at 01:37 on 2016_11_25.)
This is the sixth and final update on the patching works for Leith Walk.
Resurfacing works will finish tonight and have completed sections 2,3,4,5,6 and 7.
Due to a combination of Scottish Gas Networks (SGN) continuing presence on Section 1 (Brunswick Street and Montgomery Street) and proposed excavation works at the junction of Annandale Street due to take place in February/March 2017, surfacing was not possible in Section 1 and at the junction of Annandale Street. These works will require to be carried out after SGN have vacated the site and once the excavation works are completed.
As such the works are now concluded and the area has now been passed back to the City Centre Roads team based at 329 High Street.
Through the course of the works (Sunday 23rd October to Friday the 25th November) we have been able to deliver approximately 3000 m2 of carriageway patching in a five week period averaging over 120 m2 per night through areas requiring intensive and challenging traffic management set-ups.
I have attached a couple of photographs of the site before and after to give some indication of the end result of the works.
(Please note that these images were supplied at very low resolution.)
| Gayfield Place at the junction with Gayfield Square | |
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| Elm Row looking south from Montgomery Street junction | |
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| Haddington Place bus stop | |
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Leith Walk patching: earlier updates
The following information is emailed updates, preceding week 4 patching update, sent from a CEC official to Cllr Nick Gardner (t. 0131 529 3282; email Nick.Gardner@edinburgh.gov.uk), who then kindly forwarded them to LCCC. The text of these emails is unchanged apart from making links to TTROs etc attached to the emails, and redacting the CEC official’s name and contact details. Any comments should be sent to Alan Dean of CEC – but please email LCCC a copy!
Alan Dean BA (Hons) MSc | Project Officer (Leith Programme/Tram Enabling) | Place Directorate | City Centre Leith Neighbourhood Team | 249 High Street | Edinburgh | EH1 1PN
Tel: 0131 529 7519 Mobile: 07739 188 438 alan.dean@edinburgh.gov.uk
Leith Walk patching update – Week 4
The following information has been provided via Cllr Nick Gardner (t. 0131 529 3282; e. Nick.Gardner@edinburgh.gov.uk) by CEC’s Transport Design and Delivery section within Traffic & Engineering Services. At this point it is not clear whether the contract will complete for both north- and south-bound carriageways between Brunswick and Picardy by 7 December, as stated in CEC’s stakeholder communication 90 of 21 October 2016
This is the fourth update on the patching works for Leith Walk which started on Sunday 23rd October 2016.
Works have progressed well again this week with the contractor safely negotiating the difficult works at the London Road Roundabout which has inevitably slowed progress down due to the requirement to reset various pieces of ironwork and carry out trial holes and plane the carriageway in two layers to ensure they avoided coming into contact with the London Road Air Raid shelter located on the west side of Antigua Street and under the roundabout itself.
The programme is still ahead of schedule and has now completed sections 6, 7, 5 and 4 (London Road to Annandale Street) and will commence section 3 tomorrow night (Thursday 10/11).
As part of the ongoing management process of patching contracts such as this we are currently assessing the remainder of the works to ensure best value is achieved and whether alternative methods would be better suited to complete the works. I will be in a better position to provide an update on this by next week’s update.
Next week, and in line with previous week’s timings, operations will start at 7.00pm on the evening of Sunday 13th November on the south bound carriageway from Montgomery Street to London Road and continue through to Thursday 17th November including a newly identified section on Leopold Place.
Again, all noisy operations (jackhammers, planers etc.) will be completed by 10.00 o’clock and all operations concluding by 2.00am at the latest.
As ever, please be assured that every effort is continuing to be made complete these works as soon as practicable.
Stakeholder Update 91: Drop-in Surgery Invitation and Pilrig Street Junction Upgrade Latest
Adapted from an email sent by Alan Dean, Partnership Development Officer, sent on 2016_10_26 at 16:48.
Leith Central CC wishes to highlight the major delay to Pilrig St junction improvements – work will now not start until JANUARY 2017. Continue reading
Leith Central Community Council 