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A DEDICATED squad has been created to carry out a £180,000 “blitz” on the Capital’s worst potholes.
Creation of the “pothole patrol”, which will focus on the city centre and south Edinburgh, comes amid warnings that an exceptionally wet and stormy winter has left roads in a worse state than ever.
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Transport bosses have pledged repairs will be “right first time”.
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Well, I hope it's not them who splodged a few patches onto Leith Walk around Elm Row and on Lothian Road, as they're not right first time by any stretch and it's probably not worth un-adapting my road position to account for them as they'll be excavated again soon.
The token filling of the craters at the junction of East Preston Street and Dalkeith Road is already starting to fragment. I think they lasted less than a month...
Someone must have some end of year money to spend on contracting the big tarmac rippy-up machine, because Oxgangs Road North southbound has been done in record time, and it looks like Comiston Road between Greenbank and the Morningside clock might be next!
Anything is welcomed but councils have really let the roads go to pot.
I was cycling last night and really felt I was taking my life in my hands on some of them - one of which is a cycle route which no doubt will not be touched as cars are priority.
Yes,
they really have their work cut out.Amongst the multitudes of road craters I would like to nominate the north side of Great Junction Street between le cerise cafe and bottom of Leith Walk.the road surface is utterly apalling (guess what - a couple of years after the new flats built on that side and all the utilites/services work)I will never understand how the Council give planning permission etc for all such projects but never follow up with roads remediation afterwards!The road is such a shocker after a relatively(apart from the recent fibre cable works)smooth journey from Roseburn to Leith
I just went for a walk to report a bike eating pothole I'd almost fallen victim to on Brandon Street last night, only to find it full of fresh tarmac. Which was nice.
Repairs noted for many Edinburgh locations are crap. I was however very impressed by the contractor working for Virgin media actually doing the job properly on Shandwick Place - but only for their 2 access chambers.
Most dumped tar repairs will pop out again in less than 6 months, as the damaged road is not cut back to sound material, and the defect below has not been repaired
Lots of tar has been applied, badly, to many of the craters and crevasses around the Marchmont. Including to many of the 'minor' imperfections. Better than nothing, although in many places you are now faced with a 3cm lip 'up' instead of the previous pothole, thus you can vary your method of unplanned dismount.
Needless to say, Whitehouse Loan is utterly untouched. Is this a cause for celebration? Does it mean it's going to be properly repaired soon? The less optimistic view is that there are no isolated potholes to fill in..they just merge into one long disaster zone which now looks like it's been hit by those cluster bombs they use to destroy runways.
3cm? that's 10 times the flatness limit for a new road surface (3mm)
Do get some profiles.
Kirkbrae in currie is supposed to be closed for resurfacing the road at the top which is half way through. Had pleasant evening walk with 2/3 kids last night. People had just pushed the barriers away. (No work happening at the weekend)
Meanwhile in India ... BBC report a retired Engineer fixes potholes independently. Will the repairs there last longer, without frost damage? (After my previous link led to google adverts for bollards, don't be too surprised if Google start ads for ready-mix Tarmac!)
3cm? that's 10 times the flatness limit for a new road surface (3mm)
It's perhaps a case of slamming a profile gauge down on the edge of the defect to measure it for certain. They're hard to come by though in anything longer than about 8 inches.
"Needless to say, Whitehouse Loan is utterly untouched."
As I discovered the other day. Particularly poor on the way north. It certainly makes sure you are concentrating on the road ahead, and tests your manoeuvring skills!
This has reminded me to go back to report *again* the manhole cover on West Coates which continues to get worse. Exposed brickwork all around it now and it's spreading. It's extremely hazardous - watch out for it. East bound bus lane, just before Donaldson's.
Westfield Road used to be a horror. It was especially bad as the traffic moves fast and dodging potholes was dangerous. It was seriously and properly resurfaced a year or two back and is now in excellent condition.
Oh for the same treatment to my own particular nightmares - Fountainbridge - a special training route for the SAS - and Henderson Terrace - a rippling high relief contour map.
I wish they'd do Leamington Tce, as this is a popular bike route Meadows - Canal.
Rattles your bones on descent. On the way up you have to hold primary to stay out of the ruts.
The east end of Relugas Road has also been visited by the splodge patrol - where for years there was no road surface left, there's now a big splodge of black tarmac. I've yet to try it because the habit of avoiding it entirely is so ingrained.
"...the habit of avoiding it entirely is so ingrained."
There are a couple of bits in my route-memory ruts/holes/bumps/bits of ironwork list where repairs have held up for over a year but I still have to force myself to not avoid them; it's best to keep them on the list ready for when they return.
@stickman, rode past that manhole on West Coates this morning- it is shocking. Then rode westbound on my return to the West was almost as bad, and this was after repairs had been made since I last rode it...
Just rode on Arran at the weekend and the roads there were probably in a better state, and that is saying something...
West Coates manhole now surrounded by cones when I rode past en route to PoP, so hopefully next time I ride past it should be fixed and no longer a hazard.
Looks like they are making a proper repair to that West Coates manhole cover. When I passed this evening it had been totally dig up and there was a workman inside the hole. It shouldn't be a patch job.
Discovered last night that the eastern-most section of George Street heading towards St Andrews Square has new smooth surface where once was a trench.
They've smoothed-off one of the lane-wide depressions on the easternmost westbound bit, too.
Just spotted this on http://www.roadworksscotland.org. I wonder if this means they are finally going to resurface Whitehouse Loan? Hooray!
Road Closure
Reference: CE001-S000000045012 (1972071)
Location: Between Bruntsfield Place And Strathearn Place.
Address: Whitehouse Loan, Newbattle, Edinburgh
Promoter: City of Edinburgh Council
Telephone: Clarence on 0800 23 23 23
Email: RoadServices@edinburgh.gov.uk
Dates: 01/08/2016 - 03/03/2017
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Dates: 01/08/2016 - 03/03/2017
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That's SEVEN months!(?)
Suppose it could take a while if they're maintaining access for important vehicles to/from all the side roads and so can only work on half the road at any one time...
Good. That should reduce motor traffic over the duration, as they "away and find other routes"
As documented in another thread it took six weeks to resurface a bit of pavement on that street, so seven months for the entire thing seems broadly in line with that.
I stand by my post in that other thread that "There is something wrong, bizarre, dodgy or possibly all three about this."
That's 100m per month - slower than building the new M8 between Baillieston and Newhouse. Perhaps a new "artisan" approach to road re-surfacing - hand rolled, using only wooden tools.
This would explain the state of the surface on some newly fixed roads - parts of Morningside Road are already coming apart.
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