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While out this morning, I came across a couple more incidents of broken glass:
#1: east end of Valleyfield St.
#2: Duddingston Low Road - around 100m east of the roundabout. (Towards left gutter as you're headed towards Duddingston.)
Hope this helps.
there was also glass yesterday where george square lane meets MMW - right around the bollards bases (that lack bollards). quite localised though.
There was a lot of (old) glass on the road up around Queens drive and Arthurs Seat. On that middle section of the hill that gets quite steep. It was all ground down now but clearly some serious amount at some point. Lots of it in the gutter etc.
There have been various patches of glass on the towpath between Wester Hailes and the Cultins Road Bridge for a while now, although in the most part they are currently quite minimal. I did get onto @scottishcanals on Twitter about this for while; they claimed to have sent a 'team' out several times, yet I can still see the odd bits and pieces here and there which have been present for weeks. I suspect that cyclists develop a particularly keen eye for small, sharp debris which others simply cannot see.
There's more glass on the path this morning heading to Linsey Road in Leith!
A couple of incidences of glass on the Blackhall path.
If you're headed east after the bridge that's at the top of Silverknowes Road, around 200-300m after the bridge. Glass is in the middle of the road. (Reasonably flattened in one of the shallow "holes")
Then maybe another 100m east, some green glass on the left side.
Relatively small groupings. If you expect them, you should avoid them easily.
Loads of glass on the Crawford Bridge this morning. FixMyStreeted.
Bottles smashed for 200m stretch on NEPN south of Crewe Toll red bridge as per. Just dismount, it is impossible to avoid on road tyres.
FixMyStreeted it. Last Thursday, for the first time, I encountered someone else clearing some glass away from the second bend after the bridge. They seemed surprised that I travelled with a dustpan-brush on me, so presumably do not often go along that way.
"Bottles smashed for 200m stretch on NEPN south of Crewe Toll red bridge as per. Just dismount, it is impossible to avoid on road tyres."
I just want to say how much I appreciate people posting this sort of info.
I use the NEPN a lot - and really hate punctures - so it's really useful to know when and where to avoid it.
So, big thanks, le_soigneur.
(And, of course, equally big thanks to people like wingpig who do for free what the council are paid to do, but don't.)
A lot on the B800 footpath at the low point of the road - looks like a smashed windscreen- the glass has shattered into thousands of tiny pieces.
No prob, @gembo. I DO also tweet it to @north_team or fixmystreet it, but best to let people here know cos the council response is not immediate.
I also tried @NEstreework to see if they can call in there of a night an move on the teenage drinking parties that tend to be the culprits. Now that Selex put up their high fence to stop them bottling trheir windows, the scrotes have to find an alternative use for glass shards. I'm usually on an MTB with my son on way to Ainslie Park on Sunday so doesn't affect my for my Fri roadie commute.
Cycling south from Ainslie Pk at noon, I kicked recently-smashed bottle shards off the path just across from Spartan's pitch. It hadn't been there 5 minutes earlier on my way north.
Just north of the redbridge is some pulverised green glass, too small for me to kick away.
FixMyStreeted and @north_teamed. Brush back in bag in case I get to go that way tomorrow morning.
Smashed glass all over the Close outside my front door, necessitating carrying the bike to the roadside rather than rolling it there.
Quite a common occurrence when a certain Michelin-starred restaurant wheels its glass bin to their side door and the waiters come out and start tipping empties in. Every now and again a bottle misses and smashes on the ground, and it can sometimes take quite a while for them to bother clearing it up.
(My downstairs neighbour has been known to sweep it up and go in during their opening hours to hand it over whilst loudly chastising them in front of the wealthy diners!)
A large splat of brown bottle glass on the Restalrig Path, opposite the bench on the section between Restalrig Road and Lochend Road. I couldn't distinguish the brown glass from the brown leafmulch in the dark last night and went over the top of it, but so far none has worked through the Armadilloes. Didn't have my brush with me, so as much kicked off as could be seen. FixMyStreeted...
@wingpig I went straight over the same bottle yesterday morning! One of those moments where you see it just too late to do anything about it. I'll try and be a better citizen next time so noone else does the same thing.
There is more brown glass on the windy section leaving the path to Easter Road area.
Loads of glass on Restalrig path from the Hawkhill slope to Restalrig Road.
Big smash of glass at the bottom of the Restalrig Road slope. Mostly gone now but might be some bits I couldn't see or escaped the bristles.
Bin men on George IV bridge dropped several glass bottles on the northbound bus-lane just after the Elephant House.
They made a halfhearted attempt to clean up using their feet. I imagine there is still glass everywhere.
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