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Croft-an-Righ is dreadful.
Another cobbled street sports both some of the worst, and I think the best cobbles in Edinburgh: Cambridge Street. The section from the Lyceum theatre to Grindlay Street is bone-shakingly, filling-looseningly, wrist-fracturingly poor. However the new flat cobbles that go around the Usher Hall and past the Traverse down to Castle Street are wonderfully smooth.
So it can be done right, given the correct materials and the will to do so.
My personal 'favourite' is Buccleuch Place - a route I use when I get newbies to break free of the Meadows and connect to St Leonards. Part of the invisible core network!
Mind you St Leonards Hill is also bad. Visitors think I'm trying to show how good the suspension is on the bikes and trikes - but some of the surfaces are too severe for anything (apart from Hamsters ICE with three 2.25" Big Apple tyres or maybe the Surly Pugsy)
Back to the complete lack of decent connectivity as shown on the Inner Tube map.
I'd nominate George Square for worst cobbles in Edinburgh. They're like Shane McGowan's teeth, all over the place. And that's on a road which links the Middle Meadow Walk cycle path with my work's cycle store, too.
Talking of cobbles, has everyone seen this video? Apparently health and safety laws in the Netherlands have prompted the invention of an awesome cobble-laying machine, and here it is in action:
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(Spotted in David Hembrow's superb blog)
Drat, sorry folks, how do you embed a video? That worked OK in the preview!
Here's the URL anyway:
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Great vid.
Of course you have to make sure that the sub surface is in good nick and then don't drive buses over it (e.g. Chambers Street)!
"(Spotted in David Hembrow's superb blog)"
Or very depressing blog depending on your point of view (i.e. a UK point of view!)
Hmm, I can't see the difference between the supposedly "rough" cobbles and the new smooth ones. :-/
"Hmm, I can't see the difference between the supposedly "rough" cobbles and the new smooth ones. :-/ "
Amateur!
(Actually, I had the same thought!)
Perhaps they could send all of the old "sub-standard" cobbles here? I, for one would be very grateful for them!
There's plenty cobbles in Edinburgh that you could stand a bike with a 23 or 25 tyre up in. Must take a photo of that...
cc I'd nominate George Square for worst cobbles in Edinburgh.
You're right there. I forgot about them.
A warning flag for anyone cycling west along Eyre Place, just before the junction with Dundas Street - the cobbles on what would be my normal cycling line (approx the line of a car's left tyre track) are in a shocking state. They've always been pretty bad (presumably from bus use) but at some point in the last few months they have become very disturbed and there are gaps of a couple of inches between some of them.
I reported it to Clarence last week, flagged as a danger to cyclists, so it will be interesting to see how long it takes to be sorted...
It looks as if Eyre place is about to be resurfaced by the way. I noticed signs up 2/2/13.
So in answer to, "it will be interesting to see how long it takes to be sorted..." - roughly a year...
To be fair (and I should really have reported back on this) within a month of the above the Cooncil had dumped a line of tarmac over the offending cobbles. It wasn't pretty, but it did remove the tyre-trap danger.
I wonder if they're just going to tarmac over all the cobbles? I kind of hope not, really, as long as they re-lay the cobbles right.
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