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NEPN GLASS warning

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  1. gibbo
    Member

    Clear glass, just east of the Red Bridge.

    Posted 6 years ago #
  2. Ed1
    Member

    In edinburgh the glass seems to get moved quickly in livingston glass can be on the path for months I thought about a brush to carry for livingston

    Posted 6 years ago #
  3. gibbo
    Member

    Lots of glass spread across path on turn off to Corbiehill Avenue.

    So, basically, if you're going west along Blackhall Path, and planning to take turnoff to Corbiehill Ave, you'll encounter it.

    If not, you should be fine.

    PS I've tweeted the west team about it.

    Posted 6 years ago #
  4. Lots of freshly-smashed glass across the whole path at both ends of the small bridge over Crewe Road North, near the Red Bridge this morning (Thurs 18th).

    I was alerted to the fact in advance by a rider who had stopped and was rotating his front wheel checking it as I approached. I realised what he was doing shortly after passing him when I saw the piles of glass ahead. Stopped the bike, git off and carried it over the wee bridge before remounting.

    Will be reporting to the relevant council team.

    EDIT: Crewe Road North is North Team's area, so reported to them via Twitter. Location of glass is: https://goo.gl/maps/zDKxaTQNUzC2

    Posted 6 years ago #
  5. wingpig
    Member

    Significantly less glass there now, but still a few bits in cracks and at the sides.

    Posted 6 years ago #
  6. Thanks for the info, @wingpig. Even bigger thanks due if it was you and your brush that got rid of it!

    No response at all from the North Team yet (13:03).

    Posted 6 years ago #
  7. edinburgh87
    Member

    Fairly significant amount of glass on NEPN between Drylaw and Red Bridge. Have reported via fix my street, so see if that helps.

    Posted 5 years ago #
  8. neddie
    Member

    Yep, got hit by the p' fairies yesterday. Pretty sure it was a delayed reaction from glass picked up on the NEPN.

    Must remember to go and buy a brush.

    Also discovered that my kit had no solvent, only massive patches left, and the patches were so stuck to the foil it just disintegrated, leaving a useless patch

    Posted 5 years ago #
  9. LivM
    Member

    I reported it to @edinhelp on Twitter yesterday evening too. Hope it will have been swept by home time...

    https://twitter.com/livia1521/status/1095731025597161472?s=09

    Posted 5 years ago #
  10. wingpig
    Member

    @neddie A wallpaper paste brush is flat and wide and bag-friendly, with bristles well-suited for flicking glass out if rutty bits of path.
    I'm not commuting this week but shall pop along there with my brush if I get a spares twenty minutes.

    Posted 5 years ago #
  11. NiallA
    Member

    I came across 4 broken bottles all over NCN1 between Craigleith and Ravelston Dykes on my way into town this morning. I've done my best to sweep the glass to the side (in the absence of a brush - may well take up wingpig's suggestion above in future...), but I didn't manage a terribly good clearance of the one at the bottom of the steep/ rough path up to RD (brown glass, and nowhere easy to sweep it to). Take care if you are heading up/ down there.

    I've reported to @edin_help on Twitter.

    Posted 5 years ago #
  12. wingpig
    Member

    Patch just south of the Drylaw flytip bridge and the patch just south of Craigleith now clear. I only joined at West Granton Access so haven't done any patches clockwise from the red bridge yet.

    Posted 5 years ago #
  13. jsh
    Member

    Think that counts as a "spotted" then, because I shouted "cheers!" to you at Craigleith this morning!

    Posted 5 years ago #
  14. le_soigneur
    Member

    2 patches of glass this morning, between Red Bridge & Ainslie Park

    Posted 4 years ago #
  15. neddie
    Member

    I counted about 5 patches between Red Bridge & Ainslie Park.

    Managed to clear up a fair bit of it with ma brush. Mad as a brush.

    Started to get tired after about the 3rd patch, heading West, so would be good if others(?) could brush from the Red Bridge end.

    Who'd a thunk brushing glass was hard work?

    Also, Telfer path still quite bad, as is Leamington Bridge.

    Now away to de-glass mes pneus

    Posted 4 years ago #
  16. gembo
    Member

    Good work@neddie

    Posted 4 years ago #
  17. wingpig
    Member

    Loads on Restalrig path between Lochend and Restalrig Roads by the jakey bench last night, which I swept and reported.

    Posted 4 years ago #
  18. gembo
    Member

    Lot of beer bottles out the woolfords to auchengray road. Budweiser (American one I do not like- Czech / American one I do like Budvar though preferred when came in bigger brown bottles than the wee green ones) That was yesterday. Cows will have trampled them now I fear. THe cows walk up the Road to be milked.

    Further into South Lanarkshire around the Carstairs Esker, the fields are strewn with Buckfast bottles. At least the Buckie Brigade can fling over fences when chucking out the windows of their motors

    Posted 4 years ago #
  19. le_soigneur
    Member

    Blackhall Residents page that lots of tacks and drawing pins were left scattered about on the cycle path near Sainsburys this morning

    Posted 3 years ago #
  20. gembo
    Member

    Where does EEN journalist Helen Martin live?

    Posted 3 years ago #
  21. mcairney
    Member

    I'm sure her column used to be titled "Bitching from Bruntsfield" but she may have moved since!

    Posted 3 years ago #
  22. wingpig
    Member

    Watch out if you're thinking of using the bridge over the NEPN/Hawthornvale Path by North Fort St to get to the toucan crossing. Some sort of pub beer garden has been put there, so watch out for non-distancing unmasked people and smashed glass.

    Posted 3 years ago #
  23. neddie
    Member

    Loads of glass on the Telford path under the wee overbridge at Easter Drylaw park

    Very hard to avoid

    Remind me on Tuesday and I’ll bring me brush

    Posted 7 months ago #
  24. wingpig
    Member

    Already brushed; I passed under there this morning.
    I wonder if the use of glass in conjunction with grass cuttings and eggs is deliberate, or merely an unfortunate coincidence which results in partially-baked-in-place glass shards.
    Just as I was pondering whether a red reflective triangle would be useful when sweeping near blind corners, a pair in racing costumes whooshed around the corner, two abreast.

    Posted 7 months ago #
  25. neddie
    Member

    Thanks wingpig

    Posted 7 months ago #
  26. chdot
    Admin

    Eggs?

    Posted 7 months ago #
  27. wingpig
    Member

    Lots of broken bits of eggshell near the glass and some of the glass was sort of stuck. Occasionally see broken eggs on paths, presumably from oaf-activity rather than shopping mishaps?

    Posted 7 months ago #
  28. chdot
    Admin

    Thought you might mean the dog sort - in grass by accident or design!

    Posted 7 months ago #
  29. gembo
    Member

    Dog eggs?

    Posted 7 months ago #
  30. chdot
    Admin

    Was a phrase a CCEer used to use, ‘politely’.

    Posted 7 months ago #

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