The NEPN is a mud bath at the moment, especially from the Red Bridge down to Leith and I'm looking to see if the council will run a road cleaner/machine down it - does anyone have a contact/email address at the council I can use to try an organise this?
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NEPN - Mud Track
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Posted 9 years ago #
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Try the local council team on twitter - @north_team
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I got south team to finally deal with NMW yesterday. not perfect, but better.
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+1 for twitter. @citycentreleith responded to my request to clear route 75 where it joins Water of Leith Walkway a few months ago.
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It turns out that the mud on the Pinkhill Railway is caused by CEC vans going to empty the bins.
They don't bother to unlock the chicane gates at Balgreen/Jenners Depository and instead take the convoluted route round the back of the Golf club, which involves a tight corner which they can't make staying on the tarmac so rip up the verge.
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Posted 9 years ago #
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Also (NEPN) places where it's hard for large vehicles to stay on tarmac -
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I had noticed the tyre tracks on the verges of Pinkhill path, and had noticed it was a vehicle with double tyres on the rear axle therefore fairly heavy.
I really don't think the cooncil Transit van is the most sensible way to navigate and maintain cycle paths. If they refuse to use foot or pedal power to get around, or the FLEET OF MINI TRACTORS, they should invest in a small number of suitably small maintenance vehicles - I think they are made by an Itallian company called Piaggio and look a bit like overgrown Reliants. Available in 3 or 4 wheeled models. It would certainly save on running costs as apparently driving road vehicles at speeds under 20mph is the most inefficient way to get around (according to the Chipwrapper at least). Would also save them the costs of cleaning up after the Transit van demolishes the verges of the path and covers everything in muck.
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Maybe cycle forum members on here could take this up?
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I have tweeted @citycentreleith and will await a response.
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Cool - the council tweeted back to say it'll get done.
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It turns out that the mud on the Pinkhill Railway is caused by CEC vans going to empty the bins
Not only do these vans deposit mud at the Glendevon/golf club entrance, they also cut across the grass when turning sharply from the path next to the tram tracks to the Pinkhill path itself, here: https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@55.9380876,-3.2532015,21z
I've noticed the blue directions sign is often twisted round near there too. Could it be the vehicles are knocking into it?
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Ahhh. I passed someone the other day at the junction who seemed to be messing with the blue signs. Was wondering what they were up to.
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@srd Maybe cycle forum members on here could take this up?
Next cycle form not till June...
I've written to Adam McVey in the meantime.
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@The Boy - I noticed those signs have been out of alignment a couple of times. No idea whether it was caused by vehicle or wind though.
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More examples on the Pinkhill Railway
Pinkhill verge damage by HankChief, on FlickrMore here https://twitter.com/trapprain/status/568401118260277248?s=09
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Although they aren't shared use, the paths around East Craigs are exactly the same. It looks in places like the drivers of these vehicles make no effort whatsoever to stay on the tarmac round bends.
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Had a quick response from Adam. They will look to include appropriate off road driving into driver training (which will also include driving near cyclists).
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"which will also include driving near cyclists"
Thought CEC was already supposed to be doing that?
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I may have paraphrased that bit badly.
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"I may have paraphrased that bit badly."
Perhaps, but I don!t know if any training is happening.
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Problem is the vehicles, not the drivers.
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SRD, indeed. If the vehicles were narrow enough to stay on the roads then the verges wouldn't be trashed.
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Two cooncil workies were at the bit of the Pinkhill Path today. Of course they had arrived by a Transit van (which was therefore blocking the path).
One had a long-handled lopper and was removing side branches from the overhanging canopy. The other had a big strimmer and was merrily strimming twigs, thorns, briars and branch debris all over the path. I hope they had a stiff broom in the van otherwise all they've achieved is adding more hazards to the path.
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The Pinkhill 'verge damage' posted by HankChief actually shows tyre tracks that are on the tarmac of the path.
It's just that the path maintenance is so bad that layer upon layer of leaf litter has created mud on top of the tarmac.
They never bother to clear the leaves off this path after autumn - always leaving them to get frozen / mulched / mud-i-fied, in the hope that a few pedestrians and bicycles will somehow magically waft them away as they pass...
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