It's slightly outside the city, but I thought I should share a minor success following my email to West Lothian Council. I sometimes cycle to work along National Route 75 and the path past a wooded area was mushy with autumn leaves and fallen beech nuts making it slightly slippery too.
On Thursday last week I emailed customer.service@westlothian.gov.uk and today I found that the path had been swept clean!
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West Lothian Council sweeps leaves from cycle path!
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Posted 9 years ago #
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would they sweep my front yard it is full of leaves all the time regardless of how often I brush. ?
Posted 9 years ago # -
"would they sweep my front yard"
No.
(Different council.)
Is your yard a useful access to the WoL path?
Posted 9 years ago # -
I rode in on the Blackhall path this morning and was astounded that someone had swept (nearly) the whole length of the BH path.
Posted 9 years ago # -
Hmm, it may be catching.
I could have sworn that the leaves on the Fife coastal path between Aberdour and Burntisland had been cleared last week.
Thing is, you couldn't get a machine down that track so someone would have had to walk it with a blower. Second thoughts, maybe there had just been a favourable wind?
Posted 9 years ago # -
"It's slightly outside the city, but I thought I should share a minor success"
Somewhere it says CCE is (mainly) for people cycling in and around Edinburgh.
Good that councils react quickly.
Posted 9 years ago # -
@chdot I would not recommend accessing WoL path that way. YOu could go up the side passage, down the garden, down the waste ground then over the fence (I did uncover a gate in the fence when cleared the wasteground but no key). Garden and wasteground steep. Just a bit further along the actual access is quite gradual.
My plans to build up the slope using cages full of rock (gullions?) have come to nothing.
Posted 9 years ago # -
Good to hear of progress. Can we subcontract them for the descent from Barnshot to Cramond Brig? Beech nuts and leaves a plenty there...
Posted 9 years ago # -
"gullions"
No.
Posted 9 years ago # -
Gabion, after a few seconds of Googling.
Posted 9 years ago # -
Thanks young darkersider
I have been on that there basket calculator website and it is just over 200 quid for the cage including hand laying divider which allows wee cheap stones to go in at the back and fancier rock at the front. I have a lot of stone that might have come from collapsed walls in days of yore. Just not very uniform. It is holding the banking up as I type. Just need to get digging.
Posted 9 years ago # -
paddyirish, was the burnshot descent not swept last week? they certainly did the tiny narrow stretch down from barnbougle which was down to single file.
Posted 9 years ago # -
I have not seen any leaf sweeping around Barnshot. I cycled there yesterday and the new stretch by the A90 south bound exit is wide and has very little leaf mulch but the Burnshot to Cramond Brig is very dense and could do with a sweep. I was waiting until the majority of the leaves had been blown off before asking the Council to sweep. Perhaps the time is now?
Posted 9 years ago # -
@acsimpson
I'm with DaveC on this one. If it was cleared, which I don't recall, as of yesterday morning it was covered again. Will check again tonight.
Hard to know if now is the time to ask for a sweep, but I guess that there will be a gap between asking and action, during which most of the remaining leaves should fall.
Posted 9 years ago # -
I guess it wasn't then. I descend that section on the road so only see it in the mornings before I get to the part which was definitely swept.
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