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List of “Active Travel” items that ‘new council’ needs to fix
(22 posts)- Started 2 years ago by chdot
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Posted 2 years ago #
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Might be worth reviewing this google map of Mostly Stuff That Needs Fixed:
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Dropped kerb on the access to the shared use path over the WAR at Rutland Square. Also be nice to install contraflow cycle lanes on Rutland Street and Canning Street - so you can easily get to/from Rutland Square.
Only occurs to me as I cycled it today.
Posted 2 years ago # -
A8 Cycle Path between Airport and Newbridge has large number of low branches around or below head height for a cyclist, covering the whole path in places.
Is it the west team we are supposed to ask?
Posted 2 years ago # -
Can be reported here: https://webforms.edinburgh.gov.uk/site/portal/request/foliage
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The entrances to the segregated cycle lanes on Portobello Road at Jock's Lodge / Piershill need double yellow lines. Won't stop drivers from blocking them with parked vehicles but might make them think twice...
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Thanks Frenchy- reported
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30 years ago we defined the design of Sustrans paths in Scotland to facilitate high output mechanised vegetation management - basically an annual blitz with a tractor & boom mounted chain flail. Verges = 1 metre cut right down to 'lawn' height, bushes a vertical line from verge edges to 3.0m, creating a clear envelope 4-5m wide & 3m high.
This took place when the wildflower seeds had set and birds/small mammals had 'fledged' (usually around July), with a team of 4-5 and per HSE requirements appropriate for a moving works protocol, covering 0.5-1.0 Km per day, every year. 1 driver/operator - 2 vanguards front/rear in charge of all 'work-site' movements - 1 or 2 sweeper/trimmers to clear larger boughs & debris to sides
After the first day there is a certain starkness where growth has been trimmed, but in a couple of weeks....
The important detail is that there is coordination between the various departments & utilities to keep lamp posts, guard railings, seats, signs, location cabinets, clear from the verge, so that the cutting goes through without fiddling, stop-start to dodge all the above noted crap, and with the benefit of delivering a tactile and colour defined edge for the path pavement, which allows those with sight impairment to track along with one foot on 'grass' & one on pavement
Intelligent & co-ordinated design of infrastructure for high output or self maintaining operation can save ££'s and deliver inviting & serviceable paths
I'd add here the use of self-flushing swales and side gullies, with armoured (stone/bricks &c) inverts (even the most basic concrete channels can work). All sitting slightly lower than path verges and draining down to an outfall
We might start by steadily eliminating or moving those problem poles & barriers?
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“The important detail is that there is coordination between the various departments & utilities“
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“We might start by steadily eliminating or moving those problem poles & barriers?”
Good idea.
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1km per day for a team of 4, 250m/day, roughly 50km / year. A thousand workers could cover 50,000km / year. That's the same length as the UK's A road network. So while it seems like a lot, in the end the number's not that big at all...
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"I'd add here the use of self-flushing swales and side gullies, with armoured (stone/bricks &c) inverts (even the most basic concrete channels can work). All sitting slightly lower than path verges and draining down to an outfall"
this is what is needed all of Edinburgh's paths.
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Pleased to say that there is now a dropped kerb here: https://w3w.co/spit.movie.asserts
which has appeared in the past month or so. I hope it was related to me submitting a request for same through the Council's portal, but I'm sure I'm not the only person to have done so.It's rather good actually, and does make getting onto the canal there much easier, particularly with a bike that I can't lift easily.
Of course, when I came past on Saturday, so Rule2-er had parked on it. Not next to it, not near it, but on it.
Posted 1 year ago # -
I have removed the relevant pin from @Arellcat's map of Mostly Stuff That Needs Fixed above.
Posted 1 year ago # -
That's a useful addition.
For some reason I only ever seem to negotiate that bit going from the canal to the road and bumping down the kerb is less of an issue.
(Weird place for someone to park)
Posted 1 year ago # -
I've snapped and reported the huge piles of dead leaves littering the Comiston Road cycle lane southbound from Greenbank crossroads.
It's a bear of a job trying to get the torpedo up there at this time of year, with my back wheel sliding around, and me expending extra energy ploughing three wheel tracks though the leaves.
We were once able to find the funds for emergency cycle infra but as I predicted at the start of the pandemic, we sure can't maintain it.
Posted 11 months ago # -
I've snapped and reported the huge piles of dead leaves littering the Comiston Road cycle lane southbound from Greenbank crossroads.
I also had the pleasure of cycling up there last night. I reported them last week too, and have done so again just now.
Might be worth noting that edinhelp say that the correct way to report leaves needing cleared is to report them as litter using this webform.
Posted 11 months ago # -
Haha! I went round the houses trying to work out how to report it, and ended up on the gully cleaning page that then told me to e-mail waste@edinburgh.gov.uk to request sweeping. Maybe you or I will reach the right department eventually.
Posted 11 months ago # -
Is there way to make this topic sticky? I don't think I have the admin superpowers to do it.
Posted 11 months ago # -
Done
BUT it usually doesn’t work, no idea why.
Maybe it can only do one thing??
At least it adds a star.
Posted 11 months ago # -
Done, but it usually doesn’t work
Also describes too much of our cycle infra!
Posted 11 months ago # -
A tractor was gritting the Comiston Rd southbound lane earlier this evening
Posted 11 months ago # -
Advent calendar of crap infrastructure, from the Infrasisters
I'm sure they had no difficulty finding examples...
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