@Frenchy & chdot: "Road markings and protected cycle lanes to be reinstated within the week according to the road crew."
That tweet was dated 16th July. As of yesterday, 7th August, all that's been reinstated so far are some white lines. So two weeks overdue and counting...
While riding up and down the cycle lanes yesterday - those parts that weren't blocked by parked cars & vans - I noticed that the surface is quite lumpy for much of its length. Maybe not as bad as the disintegrating surface outside the army reserve centre used to be* but still not as comfortable as, say, the tarmac that's been laid on the WoL walkway.
(At the risk of starting a conspiracy theory: could the resurfacing of the WoL walkway to such a high standard be a sneaky prelude to the removal/non-replacement of the Lanark Road infrastructure, on the grounds that there will be no reason for cyclists not to use the walkway?)
* Though it's difficult to know what that bit is like now because, predictably, in the absence of DYLs and marked parking spaces it's covered in parked cars.
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