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@kaputnik if its anything to do with the tramworks, it will probably be done about the 35th of Jelember. I got an email asking if my clarenced 'no street lights near edinburgh park station' had been fixed.
I said 'no' and they suggested I speak to my councillor.
**sigh**
yeah, inspired by wingpig, i fixmystreeted a big pothole-like thing further along Gilmore place, and got a similar 'has this been fixed' email yesterday. Answer: No.
@Nelly - no, it looks like it's been caused by an HGV knocking the crossing lights off with the wingmirror (can't imagine anything else would be that high and wide to do it!)
Had a little flurry of clarencing this morning;
- temporary steel plate put (and left) across the hole in junction of Ardmillan / Henderson Terrace / Murieston / Dalry / Gorgie
- pothole on Russell Road where it joins Mcleod Street
- pavement parking and parking on inside of blind bend on Riversdale Crecent (signed cycle route from Roseburn to Corstorphine / Gyle direction)
- utility trench dug across MMW and incompletely filled, not surfaced or sealed (I think this is what gave me my pinch flat yesterday)
- general condition of road surface on Argyle Place. They closed it a month or so back to resurface and did about the top 3 feet, completely missing the worst sections.
temporary steel plate put (and left) across the hole in junction of Ardmillan / Henderson Terrace / Murieston / Dalry / Gorgie
That's been gone for a while - but you are right, it was there for ages.
Thank you for the reminder, though, I spotted a beauty yesterday that I want to report.
There's a nasty wee pothole on Regent Road near Scot Gov HQ which I went into on small wheeled bike last night in the rain - ooof! Managed to avoid it (just) on previous occasions recently.
Must check the exact location and report it.
Thanks for reminding me, the right turn filter from Longstone onto Lanark road never seems to detect bikes. It can be a long lonely wait on a Sunday morning for a car to trigger the filter... Or one can just push... or not ;)
That's been gone for a while
It's back. In another place. Unless it was removed last night?
I have taken you're lead and clarenced a crap surface. My notification simply read 'Edinburgh'.
It's back. In another place. Unless it was removed last night?
Ah.
OK. Sorry. I didn't notice this morning. I'll keep an eye out this evening!
@fimm now I'm doubting my own memory! will find out for sure this evening when I pass!
@kaputnik that junction is where I absentmindely went through a red light one morning - they could build a wall in the middle of it and I might not notice in the morning (unless it was actually in my way)...
Edited to add: now reported a pothole in the middle of the lane on Lanark Road West just where you might hit it as you accelerate out of the corner at the top of the hill just as you get into the built up area.
Clarenced the state of Easter Road uphill of London Road - the gullys are crap, plenty of cobbles and bad edges to catch the tyre on. Bad because there are plenty of impatient drivers who dangerously overtake if you pull out to a 'safe' line
Glass on the Innocent notified to Clarence at two locations:
- Just west of the hardcourt football pitch at Bingham (and east of the path linking Hay Avenue and Bingham.
- About 200m east of Duddingston Road West (very approximately)
Aren't they meant to be sweeping regularly?
@Klaxon, well done. It's been like that for ages but I will Clarence it too. Maybe they'll do something!
A few days ago, I Clarenced a large deep triangular pothole on London Road, just at the corner with Montrose Terrace, immediately after the junction. If turning left from Montrose Terrace, this is a potentailly fatal hazard for cyclists.
Also reported the cracked, rutted and lumpy surface at the pedestrian crossing/traffic lights on London Road opposite Abbey Lane. A hazard for pedestrians and cyclists.
"Glass on the Innocent notified to Clarence at two locations"
They have promised to respond to me by 15 May. The glass will have been swept up by all those cycle tyres by then!
Did I write to the wrong place?
Update on Argyle Place - notice cooncil have been round and spraypainted all the badly filled utility trenches across the road that are responsible for the bad surface. Hope it means that some sort of remedial work is imminent.
I'll add my tuppence worth to the Abbeymount / Easter Road section as I've noticed that too.
Argyle Place parking suspended for road works. Assume they will be repairing all the sunken utility trenches across the road that make the surface so interesting to navigate.
Got this e-mail on election day:
"Dear xxxx
LONDON ROAD/ ABBEY LANE - POTHOLE
Thank you for contacting the Clarence switchboard about the above.
The pothole you reported has been checked and arrangements have been made for it to be repaired. This work will be carried out within three working days."
I'll pop along on Wednesday and see how they got on!
Not a word though about the ludicrously short pedestrian phase at those lights (4 seconds!) which I also asked them to fix.
The pothole just past the ASL at the heading-west-along-London-Road exit of Marionville Road is still unfixed after being reported three weeks ago if they want to get that one too whilst they're in the area...
The one they're fixing is, I pointed out, a hazard for cyclists, pedestrians, and wheel chair users as it's right on the pedestrian crossing and huge.
They probably have tick boxes for this sort of thing, hence this pothole is 'priority' and the others can go sing for their suppers...
Clarence appears to be on steroids or using erythropoietin or something.
Yesterday morning I FixMyStreeted the big square pothole in the middle of the lane at the east entrance of Grange Road. This morning it was badly-filled, but nonetheless filled within twenty-four hours of the report. At the same time yesterday morning I called in the giant concrete pothole on the far right of the westbound lanes of the West Approach Road just beyond the junction with Lothian Road, which sometime this morning has had three cones and a pointy-arrow sign placed in front of it to prevent people from driving or riding over it, admittedly whilst squeezing people closer-together than they would otherwise be but it still constitutes an unusually fast response. I doubt the fly-tipping on the Seafield cycle path will be dealt with so quickly.
Recently Clarenced sunken drain covers on Melville Drive cycle lane westbound and the sink hole forming around sunken inspection hatch on Lothian Road southbound outside the Picter Hoose.
Glass on Innocent near lamp post MCV20. I asked them to hurry!
Is there a better way to get a response than reporting to Clarence (via the web)?
The glass that I reported last week has not been cleared and there are now two more patches (one at Big W underpass and other next to grass football pitch at Bingham).
I managed to get through unscathed but, with the wetness factor added, others may be less fortunate.
@east_team? Phone it in?
Added Grays Loan northbound just after it crosses Polwarth terrace. Multiple old repairs disintegrating.
Also seconded someone else's post about Whitehouse Loan - even in the car last weekend it loosened my fillings! Avoid!
I noticed that the gargantuan open-cast mineworking in Dundee Street at the bus stop outside Fountain Park has finally been filled. And properly too, with the whole strip dug out, refilled and sealed.
I have Clarenced both the sunken / flooded drain cover at bottom of Argyle Place just as you turn into the Melville Drive lanes and the bent and defunct infrastructure cabinet at the Stenhouse end of the Broomhouse Path that creates an entirely unnecessary bottleneck in the path.
Just FixMyStreet-ed:
...the deepening (and currently leaf-disguised) bodged-trench-repair pothole on the NEPN just east of the underpass beneath Newhaven Road.
...the deepening bodged-repair channel by the pedestrian crossing across Torphichen Street (eastbound from Palmerston Place).
...the sunken drain outside the Enterprise corral on Salamander Street (eastbound).
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