http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Tag: hippo - Recent Posts en Wed, 13 May 2026 01:53:08 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11570&page=14#post-300463 Thu, 31 Jan 2019 17:56:09 +0000 acsimpson 300463@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Based on the tracks, someone (I assume CEC) had driven what appears to have been a mini tractor along the path before 10am today.</p> <p>However other than a very short stretch of around 30m there was no evidence of any grit having been dropped.</p> <p>I'm not personally bothered about the lack of grit as I need spikes for other parts of my route anyway but if they are not gritting it why are they using it as a road? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11570&page=14#post-279900 Tue, 10 Apr 2018 09:57:29 +0000 redmist 279900@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Has anyone cycled the coastal route through Dalmeny Estate recently ? Acccording to the John Muir Way website the "Dalmeny diversion" is no longer there - I was just wondering if that was true. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11570&page=14#post-277601 Fri, 16 Mar 2018 12:59:45 +0000 acsimpson 277601@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Yesterday, the snow was slowly clearing but with the forecast weather I fear there will still be snow and ice on the path towards the end of the month.</p> <p>There was also a large pile of turf and mud at the Brig end of the path. Assuming it's still there today I'm about to tweet about it. Hopefully Councillor Work will do his magic.</p> <p><em>edit: <a href="https://twitter.com/acsedinburgh/status/974617247338651648">Now done</a></em> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11570&page=14#post-276985 Thu, 08 Mar 2018 18:53:10 +0000 minus six 276985@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>A90 path still an abject mess at 16:20</p> <p>can't tell if anyone's been there for token maintenance but there is a small channel you can get through without dismounting</p> <p>if that's their effort, its very poor</p> <p>as DaveC points out, those high mounds of snow are just going to melt and refreeze over the path</p> <p>and this is not a path that gets salted or gritted</p> <p>there's just no thought put into the requirements of the job</p> <p>car bumper still there as well, right across the path, a classic debris</p> <p>what are we to do, just throw it over the wall into the estate?</p> <p>wouldn't be the first time that it ended up being the only option </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11570&page=14#post-276966 Thu, 08 Mar 2018 15:35:12 +0000 DaveC 276966@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Yes I did chat to a guy fixing his puncture on the path. I must have been fortunate.</p> <p>I was eyeing up the field to the north and wondering if it might have been quicker to jump the wall and cycle up the dirt/snow boundary! :) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11570&page=14#post-276961 Thu, 08 Mar 2018 14:52:56 +0000 minus six 276961@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>great news, cheers </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11570&page=14#post-276960 Thu, 08 Mar 2018 14:48:51 +0000 chdot 276960@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Twitter works again -</p> <p>“</p> <p>Have confirmed with road services that the snow will be dealt with today. We will also try to sweep for the thorns but that might have to follow on when the sweeper is available. Hope this helps for the journey home!</p> <p>“</p> <p><a href="https://twitter.com/lmacinnessnp/status/971740665276174338?s=21" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/lmacinnessnp/status/971740665276174338?s=21</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11570&page=14#post-276953 Thu, 08 Mar 2018 13:23:55 +0000 DaveC 276953@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>The Humps of snow appear to be shrinking on the newest section of the A90 path. But the melt water is running across the path and freezing into large sheets of ice!</p> <p>Take care. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11570&page=14#post-272493 Mon, 15 Jan 2018 15:23:15 +0000 minus six 272493@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>A90 cycleway swept... however...</p> <p>There are now LARGE oils spills every couple of feet commencing at the start of the cycleway at Cramond Brig all the way to its end point at the entrance to Dalmeny House at the top of the hill</p> <p>Could someone please inform west team that this requires URGENT remedial action ?</p> <p>Words can't describe this ridiculous fail </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11570&page=14#post-272473 Mon, 15 Jan 2018 13:22:25 +0000 rider73 272473@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>great news. thx @hankchief </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11570&page=14#post-272468 Mon, 15 Jan 2018 12:56:01 +0000 HankChief 272468@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Cllr Work has come up trumps on the A90</p> <p>"<em>N1 cycle route beside A90 swept this morning and assured that route will be monitored &amp; swept when required. @peter_d_jackson @SpokesLothian @hank_chief @edd1e_h @DFrench88</em>"</p> <p><a href="https://twitter.com/CllrNormanWork/status/952871402075455489">tweet</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11570&page=14#post-272051 Wed, 10 Jan 2018 23:20:53 +0000 I were right about that saddle 272051@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Gogar Station Blackthorn. That fell sergeant is strict in his arrest. Through my chunky tyres and then through the whole thickness of my thumb as I felt for the offending object. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11570&page=14#post-272048 Wed, 10 Jan 2018 23:00:35 +0000 Greenroofer 272048@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>That reminds me: Gogar Station Road has hedge clippings (including blackthorn) all over the shared-use footway. I shall report them this minute. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11570&page=14#post-272041 Wed, 10 Jan 2018 21:57:02 +0000 HankChief 272041@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Cllr Work is on the <a href="https://twitter.com/CllrNormanWork/status/951195629618855937">case</a></p> <p><em>"I’ll ask about getting the cycle path swept."</em> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11570&page=14#post-272034 Wed, 10 Jan 2018 21:00:28 +0000 HankChief 272034@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="https://twitter.com/peter_d_jackson/status/951170541574086656"><em>So back to the compensation debate, tyres have good tread, appropriate pressure, yet again foiled by thorns from bushes that line the A90, 3rd this week. @Edinburgh_CC @edinhelp can we please get some clearing a sweeping done to encourage serious take up of cycling.</em></a></p> <p>Previously:</p> <p><a href="https://twitter.com/peter_d_jackson/status/943195667039649792"><em>So if your car is damaged by way of inadequate roads you get comp, if you hit a pothole you get comp, why not for under maintained paths with 3cm thorn bushes along side #reasonsnotforcyclepaths 3rd puncture in a month @Edinburgh_CC alongside A90.</em></a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11570&page=13#post-242120 Fri, 03 Feb 2017 17:12:46 +0000 acsimpson 242120@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>The officer I spoke to suggested that the trunk designation starts half way down the slip roads to the north of the bridge rather than 50m below the bridge.</p> <p>I don't know if there has been a further update but my understanding of the history is that that prior to Amey taking it over from FETA there was no trunk road on the A90 before it became the M90 at Ferrytoll junction, although both the M90 spur and M90 in Fife were of course trunk roads as are all motorways. When Amey took it over the trunk road seems to have been extended part way down the "Dalmeny Spur" as per this document:<br /> <a href="http://www.transport.gov.scot/system/files/documents/tsc-basic-pages/Road/ListofTrunkRoads.pdf">http://www.transport.gov.scot/system/files/documents/tsc-basic-pages/Road/ListofTrunkRoads.pdf</a></p> <p>Although looking at the references given it's only about 1Km past the M90 spur. Roughly as far as the bridge works extend which would make sense.</p> <p>I wonder if the A90 was trunk all the way into Edinburgh if we would still be fighting for the path to be upgraded. TS aren't know for there facilitation of transport which does involve tax revenue per mile. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11570&page=13#post-242117 Fri, 03 Feb 2017 16:46:24 +0000 jonty 242117@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I think the A90 is largely not a trunk road, which was part of why getting funding for the improvement of the cycle path was so difficult, I think. I too am surprised however that it somehow is a trunk road for a while and then suddenly stops being so. </p> <p>What would happen if it just wasn't rebuilt? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11570&page=13#post-242116 Fri, 03 Feb 2017 16:42:06 +0000 Murun Buchstansangur 242116@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"it misses being a trunk road by about 50m (I thought it was much more) and so Transport Scotland are forcing the Council to foot the entire repair bill."</p> <p>A bit disingenuous surely - are TS not responsible for maintenance of bridges <em>over</em> trunk roads? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11570&page=13#post-242113 Fri, 03 Feb 2017 16:09:09 +0000 acsimpson 242113@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Oh, and I've tweeted the council to ask about getting the rest of the path swept:</p> <p><a href="https://twitter.com/acsedinburgh/status/827518685497741312">https://twitter.com/acsedinburgh/status/827518685497741312</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11570&page=13#post-242112 Fri, 03 Feb 2017 16:08:16 +0000 acsimpson 242112@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I stopped to chat to a couple of perplexed looking bobbies on the Burnshot slip road today. They had dispatched themselves to follow up complaints about bus lane abuse, without having realised that the flyover was shut and no-one was abusing any bus lanes.</p> <p>The A90 was also unusually quiet so the usual queue jumpers were even present. Other than one busy 5 minute spell they said they had seen no cars in over half an hour. I assured them that I hadn't seen any queues longer than 10 cars in teh time the bridge had been shut and they pretty much decided to move onto their next job. Ah well at least they were trying.</p> <p>The update they had on the bridge was that it misses being a trunk road by about 50m (I thought it was much more) and so Transport Scotland are forcing the Council to foot the entire repair bill. If it needs replaced it will run to millions which along with North Bridge could take a significant chunk of the transport budget. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11570&page=13#post-241775 Sat, 28 Jan 2017 20:00:32 +0000 chdot 241775@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"</p> <p>Boston Public Works (@BostonPWD)<br /> 28/01/2017, 4:12 pm<br /> Harold Park in Roxbury gets blown out and swept as the #CitywideCleanup continues on #bostonstreets this morning </p> <p><a href="http://pic.twitter.com/YO74ZczKwY" rel="nofollow">http://pic.twitter.com/YO74ZczKwY</a></p> <p>" </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11570&page=13#post-241398 Mon, 23 Jan 2017 12:24:19 +0000 Frenchy 241398@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>Well Done Eddie! </em><br /> And micro Eddie, too! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11570&page=13#post-241397 Mon, 23 Jan 2017 12:19:21 +0000 DaveC 241397@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Well Done Eddie! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11570&page=13#post-241393 Mon, 23 Jan 2017 12:06:44 +0000 neddie 241393@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Inspired by Hankchief and helpers, I went to clear some of the leaves off the footway outside Gillespie's Primary. The route is used by 100s if not 1000s of school kids everyday. I'd already raised a 'ticket' last year with the council to get it cleared, but they had done nothing. </p> <p>Micro edd1e_h helped out, all for an oatcake &amp; a glass of water. We got a few complements and one lady said she normally wrote to her councillors about it each year, but this year she hadn't got round to it - she said she would do it now though...</p> <p>It's much worse than it looks in the first picture - you can see by the number of leaves now in the road.</p> <p><a href="https://flic.kr/p/RsWtt6"><img src="https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/736/32466338975_ff8b687907.jpg"></a><a href="https://flic.kr/p/RsWtt6">IMAG0972</a> BEFORE</p> <p><a href="https://flic.kr/p/Rpospf"><img src="https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/342/32426142316_07e850bd8c.jpg"></a><a href="https://flic.kr/p/Rpospf">IMAG0973</a> DURING</p> <p><a href="https://flic.kr/p/QTwqM5"><img src="https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/738/32088202870_71cdd69f2f.jpg"></a><a href="https://flic.kr/p/QTwqM5">IMAG0974</a> AFTER</p> <p><a href="https://flic.kr/p/QTwAYN"><img src="https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/486/32088237190_fae83be01d.jpg"></a><a href="https://flic.kr/p/QTwAYN">IMAG0975</a> Leaf pile</p> <p><a href="https://flic.kr/p/QTwFcs"><img src="https://c1.staticflickr.com/6/5606/32088251380_3dc3cc9959.jpg"></a><a href="https://flic.kr/p/QTwFcs">IMAG0976</a> Leaf pile </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11570&page=13#post-241389 Mon, 23 Jan 2017 11:49:18 +0000 fimm 241389@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Any update on the section between the golf courses at Barnton? That was covered with leaves when I went through the weekend before last.<br /> I also tweeted that a bit of the NEPN near Silverknowes needs clearing. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11570&page=13#post-241386 Mon, 23 Jan 2017 11:37:22 +0000 DaveC 241386@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Failing in my cak handed attempt to find the Weather Thread, ...</p> <p>Cold this morning on the ride along the A90 etal. The Surface looked like it was trying to freeze but not quite succeeding.</p> <p>Still looks like the resident street sweepers have moved to the section from A90 dual carragway up to the old Main Street of Dalmeny, thanks! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11570&page=13#post-241233 Thu, 19 Jan 2017 14:04:08 +0000 HankChief 241233@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>:-) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11570&page=13#post-241229 Thu, 19 Jan 2017 13:53:52 +0000 chdot 241229@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>CCE/Twitter strikes again(?) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11570&page=13#post-241226 Thu, 19 Jan 2017 13:41:18 +0000 TractorFactory 241226@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@acsimpson. Yeah, a roadsweeper lorry was being set up on the path around 0800 on Monday or Tuesday I think. We had to navigate around it. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11570&page=13#post-241191 Thu, 19 Jan 2017 10:37:49 +0000 acsimpson 241191@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>It looks like someone has been along the path with a mechanical sweeper in the last couple of days. I only noticed as I approached Dalmeny but that climb is certainly clear of it's piles of leaves. The northern slip off the A90 was so full of people enjoying sitting by themselves in their cars that I didn't notice if that stretch was clear but assume it is too. </p>