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CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Infrastructure
Potholes (and roadworks)
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Posted 3 weeks ago #
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There are some very unpleasant holes on the eastbound side of Seafield Road, around the end of Seafield Street, which are large enough to damage important and expensive motor cars. They've been directly reported to the council and FixMyStreeted but don't seem to have been investigated yet, unlike the Facebook-famous banging manhole cover on Duke St.
Posted 2 weeks ago # -
There's an absolute (rim) cracker of a pothole on Slateford Rd opposite St Michael's church at the bus stop.
A good 6" deep, nice sharp edges, and a foot or so wide. It's fun watching the buses even trying to avoid it
Posted 2 weeks ago # -
Currently, the resurfacing of Home St / Gilmore Place / Kings Theatre, Dalry area, and QR9 / Balgreen, is being carried out with only minor active travel improvements e.g. ramped tables.
I can't help feeling that Jenkinson only cares about resurfacing the roads and is only throwing in some "easy" active travel token gestures, instead of implementing the full schemes proposed for these areas.
I wonder how much of the active travel budget is now being spent on resurfacing?
Posted 2 weeks ago # -
Not to be contrary, but I'd imagine in the case of the adhesive curbs to be used on Home St that road resurfacing is a prerequisite - solving for current potholes and surface issues in the cycle lane before it's installed there. The current works, to my understanding, are very much about making sure that as the King's refurb ties up that the major works are done around there before it reopening and are all being done with the Meadows to Union Canal route in mind.
Posted 2 weeks ago # -
The cost, and officer time, of adding the bus-gate on Dalry Rd at Haymarket would be insignificant compared to the resurfacing costs. Same for installing the one-way sections on QR9 and associated cycle bypasses. And the Dalry bus-gate *is fundamental* to reducing traffic in the area and allowing the continuous-footways to work (Continuous-footway doesn't work if there is too much car traffic crossing it)
So why haven't they done that?
Will they just conveniently forget about it later, like they do everything else?
I mean it's not like we've been waiting 5 years for a permanent scheme outside Gillespie's primary school or anything...
Posted 2 weeks ago # -
They've just done two more streets in the estate around Nether Currie primary, the school still doesn't have even the rudimentary safety infrastructure that has been in at Bonaly or Firhill for 10+ years... and they shut Riccarton Mains Rd for eight weeks for a full resurface, again leaving the ~2 foot wide footway that could be the basis of a busy active travel route to Heriot Watt with zero improvement.
There's no real interest in active travel - just the occasional big investment somewhere that motorists won't notice or complain about, and then endless replanning exercises to distract the activists.
Posted 2 weeks ago #
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