- For documents relating to the original tram project, airport to York Place, see this page
- See also Leith page. This includes the Leith LTN and route FoTW-OT
- See also Leith Walk page. It includes Picardy Place and material from the pre-tram Leith Project. Plans & info during tramworks are however below.
- Trams to Newhaven ‘Cycling’ page NB: also this says “we are working with local cycle interest groups” we are disappointed with the level of consultation, including detailed design of Leith Walk cycleroute
- See also City Centre page.
2402 Outstanding issues – Spokes listing, submitted to Council (NB this does not include the still unstarted promised continuation from Foot of the Walk to Henderson Street then to Ocean Terminal)
2307 Outstanding issues – Spokes listing for discussion with relevant officers
2211 Outstanding issues – Spokes listing of issues for Leith Walk and for continuation north, prepared for discussion with local Community Councils
2201 Landscape designs – latest version ‘final’ [pdf 5.5MB] Also on TTN website
2112 Leith Walk downhill cycleroute very unsatisfactory 25mm & 0mm kerbing on LW route Compare 50mm kerbing on council-designed routes
2107 Landscape designs for entire route (further amended, pre-construction) C01 (Newhaven) C02 C03 C04 C05 C06 C07 C08 C09 C10 C11 C12 C13 C14 C15 (Picardy/ London Rd)
2106 Landscape designs for entire route (nearing final) P03-1 (Newhaven) P03-2 P03-3 P03-4 P03-5 P03-6 P03-7 P03-8 P03-9 P03-10 P03-11 P03-12 P03-13 P03-14 P03-15 (ends at York Place) Note: Spokes has commented on these in detail, but at a meeting rather than in a document.
2106 Signalised junctions detailed designs – Leith Walk only
- overall map of junction locations, using drawing no. as reference [in each row below the first number (e.g. 35) is the drawing no., second (e.g. 17) is sheet no.]
- 35 TTN_signals 17 Leith Walk Gt Jn St
- 36 TTN_signals 18 Manderston St
- 37 TTN_signals 19 Steads Place
- 38 TTN_signals 20 Lorne St
- 39 TTN_signals 21 Balfour St
- 41 TTN_signals 23 Pilrig St
- 42 TTN_signals 24 Albert St
- 43 TTN_signals 25 McDonald Rd
- 45 TTN_signals 27 Annandale St
- 46 TTN_signals 28 London Rd
2105 Leith Walk temporary bidirectional bike route during construction – proposed closure till autumn Spokes paper objecting. People with no real alternative pic1 pic2 [MMcD]
2104 Traffic Regulation Orders for the tramline extension Reasons Plans [8MB] Spokes objection
- TRO/20/24A – movement restrictions (1-ways, no entry etc) Advert Order
- TRO/20/24B – waiting/loading restrictions Advert Order
2010 Tramstop “prior approval” planning applications
- The tramline overall has planning permission through the Act, except that “prior approval” must still be given by the Council for certain detailed aspects such as tramstops (2.5/2.6 of document below)
- Tramstop Planning & Design background – this document includes all the general legal/policy background (there is a similar document for Balfour St, but not the other applications).
- 20/03985/PA Mcdonald Rd Tram Stop Application Spokes objection
- 20/03986/PA Balfour St Tram Stop Application Spokes objection
- 20/04056/PA Shore Tram Stop Application Spokes objection
- 20/04058/PA Newhaven Lindsay Rd Tram Stop Application Spokes objection
- 20/04060/PA Ocean Terminal Tram Stop Application Spokes objection
2007 ‘Indicative Final Landscape Designs‘ Drawings giving a fairly thorough overall understanding of the entire route, though a lot of detail still awaited. Download drawings here.
1809 Tram Extension second consultation – now with segregated bike lanes The initial truly disastrous plans [1803 consultation below] elicited a massive public response and as a result the council had a major rethink [Spokes tweet] with car lanes reduced and segregated unidirectional bike lanes promised on each side, leading to this second consultation. Consultation page Spokes response [pdf] Our response uses the online survey questions, which were very limited, concerning only the abovementioned changes. In particular the questions had little detail between Foot of Walk and Newhaven – our comments on that remain largely as in our 1804 response below and are not repeated in this response.
1809 Leith Walk during tramworks Consultation on support for local businesses [link]. Consultation questions (council web page disappeared? but we saved the questions). Spokes response [pdf].
1803-04 Tram Extension first detailed consultation
NB – these original plans were absolutely disastrous for Leith Walk, car lanes increased from 2 to 4, cyclists to be squeezed between parked vehicles and tramlines. A Spokes public meeting highlighted the concerns. The public response was massive – see below. As a result, the plans were drastically revised – see para 1809 above.
- 1804 Spokes final/main response [pdf 5MB], with main concerns followed by detailed commentary on the entire route. Tweet
- 1804 Spokes initial response [pdf] highlighting 5 main areas of concern Website article Tweet
- 1804 Living Streets Edinburgh response [doc]
- 1804 Cycling UK Scotland response [pdf]
- 1804 Leith Central Community Council response [pdf 2MB] -includes useful drawing of Leith Walk widths
- 1804 Cockburn Association response [link]
- 1804 Permanent Rail Consultancy response [pdf] – very good, especially on traffic reduction, though some other significant differences to our initial response. Tweet (with extract).
- 1803 Sustrans Scotland initial response [excellent!] Response [pdf] Tweet + location map
- 1803 Spokes public meeting 15.3.18 on tramline extension – report tweet
- 1803 Spokes circular to local members [pdf]
- Consultation website with exhibition dates and online survey
- Trams to Newhaven website with draft Traffic Orders [showing proposed road layouts], draft traffic management during the 2-3 year construction period, and much more.
- Combined TROs picture [jpg 5MB] showing complete layout, created by Donald Noble, @donaldrnoble. Note that in order to see the detail you may have to download the jpg then zoom in – or use this combined file to decide which of the individual TRO files above you wish to look at.
- Leith Walk width, drawing and thread of valuable tweets by Andy Arthur, @cocteautriplets
