http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Tag: ice - Recent Topics en Sun, 05 Apr 2026 17:59:56 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8695#post-88117 Fri, 19 Oct 2012 09:46:24 +0000 cc 88117@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I see the council has a <a href="http://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/info/1291/roads_and_pavements-adverse_weather_plans/361/winter_road_and_pavement_maintenance/1">map and searchable list</a> of its priority gritting routes.</p> <p>I've successfully used it to find a safer alternative to my normal route to work, where I came a cropper a year or two back on sheet ice one morning.</p> <p>Whether the priority gritting routes do all get gritted in time is another matter but I'll give our lovely council the benefit of the doubt on that one. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=163#post-1051 Sun, 20 Dec 2009 17:16:55 +0000 kaputnik 1051@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I decided to cut between Gilmore Place and Fountainbridge via. the signed cycle route across the Leamington Lift Bridge and down Gilmore Park this afternoon. On the 700x25 slicks - big mistake! (or should that be, mis-skate?) Once over the bridge I was confronted with frozen slush / snow / tyre tracks. I managed to negotiate that by steering down the snowy bits to avoid sliding. Half-way down I thought the ordeal was over as the ground looked pretty firm. Firm it was, unfortunately it was a solid layer of c.2 inches of ice which I think has formed from run-off of the brewery site. I would heartily recommend you avoid this route unless you have crampons and snow chains on - it was quite terrifying and could easily have slid straight out onto the busy maid road at the bottom.<br /> <a href="http://maps.google.co.uk/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&amp;hl=en&amp;msa=0&amp;ll=55.942474,-3.211377&amp;spn=0.001989,0.006067&amp;z=18&amp;msid=115075245169024419079.00047b2b27580f0dc618f">Google map doodle</a> </p>