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This route (and the improvements to the path beside the tennis courts) has permanently changed the way I go from Marchmont to the bridges.
I'll now follow the link route as far as Clerk St because it avoids the Forrest Row blender, right turning into Chambers St and filtering past the queue of 8 cars at the bottom of Chambers St.
I'm sure it's slower but is a lot less stressful to make a single left turn onto Clerk St than all of the above.
It may sound a bit soft, but have you emailed the council to tell them so? I imagine they receive very little positive feedback and a little thanks may cheer the team behind it immensely
"changed the way I go from Marchmont to the bridges"
I still mostly go via Chambers St, but definitely used the new path/crossing more - probably due to the much better surface.
Disappointing that it wasn't done with a proper camber (and may be settling).
I think camber and drainage is a forgotten art in the rush to the bottom
I complained about the (lack of) camber installed on Easter Rd south of London Rd after it was resurfaced in the new year. Rain from Regent Road, instead of collecting in the gully on the west side, flows in a wide slippery path across the full surface width before crossing the mouth of West Norton Place.
In particularly heavy flow it then crosses London Rd and then mounts the dropped kerb, running down the Easter Rd east pavement for a while.
My reply was in more polite terms 'shut up you don't know what you're talking about'
I use this route a lot now - there are some shortcomings, but in general I am a supporter of it. It is a bit disappointing though that for a family route, where you'd expect trailers and tagalongs etc, that this is what you have to negotiate at the moment:
but I'm perhaps being unfair, I do realise such works are necessary, I just found it quite difficult to get around this sensibly in either direction
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