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It may be me (and I've only just restarted commuting after a holiday) but aren't there a lot of potholes opening up now?
I've mainly been going along Gilmerton Road and the potholes are appearing exactly where you'd expect them - where there were poor repairs, bus compression dips etc. But some are massive. And the weather/light isn't conducive for stopping and doing a Fill that Hole report.
Yes. The newly resurfaced St John's Road has a lot of potholes developing and manhole covers starting to subside.
Theres a beast of a hole near Ocean Terminal at the lights heading east, could have been classed as an Edinburgh Leisure pool this morning!
Between the pedestrian crossings across London Road eastbound by Abbey Lane there are a few patched sections (possibly those repaired last year) which are sinking rapidly. FixMyStreeted.
@Wingpig at least some of those aren't last years repairs, they were from a recent fibre-optic cable installation that we watched. Holes were dug along London Road every 100m or so and the fibre pushed through an existing conduit. Unfortunately they seemed to just backfill the holes with gravelly stuff and then forget about it.
I kept meaning to report it, and also the huge potholes at the Abbeyhill Westbound bus stop. Oh and also the Blenheim Place westbound bus stop...
Not a pothole, but the deep cleft in the seam between two strips of surfacing along Holyrood Park Road heading parkwards past Pollock almost got me a couple of weeks ago, when there was a particularly arrogant nerk in a car ignoring the right-lane-move-into-left-lane markings (which are not supported by the shape of the road). Also FixMyStreeted.
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The Capital also made the biggest payout among Scottish councils, with the total soaring by more than two-thirds to nearly £30,000 last year.
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It's amazing how quickly they develop. The roads round Riversdale became a rutted and crumbling mess within a few weeks of the lorries turning up for the flood works.
Don't get too excited, 'wrong' sort of potholes -
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Fifty of the worst potholed stretches of Scotland’s major routes are to be resurfaced in a £15 million project announced by transport minister Humza Yousaf today.
It comes two months after The Scotsman highlighted the country’s motorways were in a worse condition and deteriorating faster than other roads.
The work, between now and March, will cover 25 roads including the M8, M9, M90 and M74.
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Meet 'the pothole guy' - an artist who's improving roads one mosaic at a time
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcthree/item/0366e18c-09e6-4847-8afe-1e3977a9a81a
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Official figures show 9342 potholes were reported to the city council in 2014 - but by last year the figure had reached 35,329.
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"A pothole in Edinburgh's Morningside Road" (offers ove £50k)
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@Frenchy
Do you live in Mentone Gardens?
I did actually report an incident of dangerous driving which happened very close to there recently. Perhaps the police are finally taking them seriously ;)
I passed that incident on my ride in this more. Lots of police cars and an ambulance. I was going to indicate to one because it was parked facing the traffic with lights full-on blinding me. But I thought better of it :)
The potholed corner at the west end of Inveresk has been mended and is open again.
There seems to an excessive amount of pot holes in Edinburgh currently but out of town much less. If lived in Edinburgh centre would possibly switch to a mountain bike with so many potholes
In my experience it's always like that. More potholes form over the winter compared to other times of year as freeze-thaw attacks defects in the road surface. Despite the puff about some of the kit that CCE has acquired over the years for fixing potholes, there's always a greater risk of the fix not 'taking' in cold and wet weather, so there's some justification for leaving non-critical defects to be mended come the spring.
Then of course there's Edinburgh's unofficial roadworks 'festival' which runs for a month or so in Jan/Feb every year. As is ever the case with road works the "making good" at the end is all too often a pretty ropey job - and for the reasons outlined above winter is exactly the worst time of year to leave a road surface in a flakey state.
"...drivers pay nothing extra – however many trips they make, whatever the distance and whatever the time of day."
Burn the heretic!!!!
I'm pleased to see that the potholes at the far end of the Pencaitland path car park have now been filled in.
So it's not all the fault of "clowncillors"?
Only 9 years ago
In fairness, the council are often pretty quick to do spot repairs if a fault is reported.
There were two serious faults/trip hazards on a local footway - both caused by utilities and subsequent subsidence of the surface. I reported them and they were fixed within a few weeks.
Probably helps that the footway was resurfaced a couple of years ago, and that it forms a main walking route to the shops for elderly residents of a nearby sheltered housing complex. I made sure to mention this fact, and that young children use the footway to get to primary school...
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