Today's cycle was infinitely better than yesterday. I left later so that there was more light and cars and busses had more of a chance to tear up the surface slush.
Going was steady and not even too slow. Generally doing about 14, got up to 20 along the Glasgow Road between PC World and Maybury :)
Surface good, it shows what can be achieved when it's treated properly with ploughing and gritting. Even the terrifying frozen slush lumps appear to have largely disappeared. Bottom of Morrison Street at Haymarket was the only point I felt the back begin to slide about.
Pretty constant driving snow turned into driving hail, stung the bits of my face I hadn't managed to cover when I had to turn around into the wind.
Still lots of eejits driving around in carcakes. Lots of sets of traffic lights have a speedbump of hard, compacted snow where it's obviously been dislodged by harsh braking / accellerating. The polis should pull anyone over they catch driving like that and make them clear it off before they can go on their way again (was a vanload of them hanging around the old Donaldson's school observing traffic)
Firemen at Tollcross station were having to dig out the doors to the engine bays. Hot work, they were in their fireboots and dungarees downstairs but only T-shirts up top.
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