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Two honking great potholes and associated deformed tarmac at the temporary bus stop at Saughton Mains Road alongside Broomhouse Path. The main danger to path users is the quantity of gravel, stone chippings, water and tarmac lumps being thrown up onto the path as the buses thump through it.
Took pictures last night on way home, but didn't come out too great, even with illumination of both bike lights.
Cheers I narrowly avoided one of them this morning and was going to check the lamppost number on the way home this evening... Save me a job.
kaputnik, that ones a belter, I assumed that some poor sod at the bus stop is going to sue the council after losing an eye to one of the golf ball sized globs of road flying up !
p.s. like steveo, ta for that, there are so many these days I forget - may have clarence fatigue
Reported Wednesday 28/11/12
Nasty sharp-edged pothole near the kerb at the traffic lights on Colinton Road northbound, at the junction with Craiglockhart Avenue.
There's a horrible rumble strip of cracked tarmac down the first bit of hill on Craiglockhart Ave but haven't inspected it fully yet to report.
Kaputniks pot holes have been repaired this afternoon. Looks like it's been done "right first time", properly sealed and everything...
Second Steveo's confirmation and add that another similar hole is now forming about 25m further up the road (Gyle direction)
Reported Wednesday 28/11/12: Nasty sharp-edged pothole
has been fixed as of 10/12/12. It's also to a better quality than the long line of bus wheel indentations further up the hill that have had smooth tar slopped in and produced bumps that are worse than the original holes.
At east two years after being Clarenced my road is having some of the bigger craters attended to, slightly properly in the sense of a big rectangle having been cut out first but apparently without the edges of the patches being sealed.
Has anyone else noticed lots of new potholes appearing now that the frozen stuff has thawed?
There's a bus stop on Longstone Road that has some spectacular craters alongside. Can't possibly imagine what's causing them. I reported the same problem at the same place in October last year. I'll get onto Clarence.
I don't think I'll ever complain about roads in Edinburgh again after riding 10 miles in Glasgow this morning to see my grandparents in Cardonald.
My route was like a slalom in most of the bus lanes and I was bunny hopping over massive chunky holes.
I hit one big hole with my back wheel after spotting it last minute and punctured.
2 CX races and warm ups off road in brambly undergrowth this weekend and not a hint of a puncture - 10 minutes riding in Glasgow....
Have reported the big rectangluar pothole on West Tollcross (just as you join the street from Tollcross) which has almost caught me out a couple of times - it's on a very batural line if swinging into the street from the Meadows road).
Also a recurring pothole/sunken manhole on Mountcastle Drive North, which they patch, then it returns, they patch, then it returns. It's just after a road narrowing. Easily avoidable on a bike, but swining left for it might be an inducement for the traffic behind to think you're inviting it to pass - in a car the pothole is an absolute pain in the suspension.
Don't bother reporting potholes to Clarence, Just contact this guy
http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-20726869
There's a bus stop on Longstone Road...
Reported Thursday 20/12/12
Actually it's Inglis Green Road. The three potholes are fairly out of the usual cycling or driving line so unlikely to be encountered except by bus. The first pothole is spectacular.
And as if by magic, the Longstone Park crater has been filled. Already!
Have also re-reported the one at Colinton Road / Craiglockhart Avenue which has become damaged since its repair at the beginning of December.
I don't know if it did any good but when I eventually got sick of waiting for a fix, several months after having Clarenced a broken street light, I set up an automatic daily email to Clarence which made the same report every day. The light did seem to get fixed pretty soon after that.
I don't think this is technically Clarence-able (I've yet to look into who to report it to...possibly Midlothian council) but a warning that there is a mega-pothole along Damhead (I think that's what's the road is called), on the downhill just after the turn off from the A702. It is evilly disguised by a stream of water running down the road.
I know this because last night I hit it in the car and bust a front tyre. Whilst we were changing the wheel a local resident told us that her son had bust his tyre on it that afternoon. And also while we were changing it a police 4x4 went past with what sounded suspiciously like a flat tyre!
Clarence isn't just Edinburgh.
Ah ok. I think I just assumed so because I googled 'Clarence roads' and the first thing that came up was CEC link
Damhead pothole now clarenced! Thanks for the link.
Clarenced today -
"The Bus Lane heading east along Wester Coates is in a shocking state of repair along it's entire length. Most notably there is an iron manhole/drain cover which has sunk into the road with the surrounding road surface having crumbled away leaving a trench of rubble around a foot deep surrounding the ironworks making it incredibly dangerous. The entire Bus Lane appears to require re-surfacing."
Am now carrying ropes and crampons in case I fall into the huge crater with the drain.
Deckard, that sounds so spectacular I'm going to have to alter my commute this evening just to take a look.
A while back I photted (did I say that right? "photted"? "photo'd"?) the huge depression in the road at the bus stop opposite the entrance to the Lauriston Building, eastbound on L. Place. I'd nearly come a cropper two days in a row because it was practically invisible until you hit it. Never did get around to reporting it, but will check it later today.
If you're heading east on Wester Coates in the next few days, do watch where you put your tyres.
Wester Coates pothole on Flickr
Wester Coates pothole on Flickr
Should also mention that the Lauriston Place sunken area has since been repaired. Hurrah!
The crossing on Lindsay Rd / North Fort st has been out since yesterday evening, so I mailed it in to the clarence@edinburgh.gov.uk address.
(How are people doing this usually? FixMyStreet?)
Since the pothole in the middle of the Mayfield Road / Fountainhall Road crossroads must now be practically old enough to get married, vote and join the army, I'd say that Fix My Street is totally ignored by CEC.
There's one just like Arellcat's photos on Ashley Terrace. Is it better to attach a picture to a Clarence email?
"Is it better to attach a picture to a Clarence email?"
Should help.
When you send another in a month's time, they'll be able to see that the hole has got bigger...
I reported a hole on Fill That Hole and it was filled pretty quickly, within a couple of weeks. Of course another started developing straight away but it is still and improvement. Plus I like the photo of the man playing golf.
Such cynicism in one so young, chdot.
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