Reported a stretch of road in West Lothian, near Westmuir Riding Centre, that was like glass in the smirr conditions - I believe others have fallen here, a week ago but no response as yet. Do we get a response?
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Posted 11 years ago #
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Glass on path between Dalry Road / Telfer Subway at steps to LIDL carpark and also under the overbridge at Pinkhill station has been Clarenced.
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And as of this evening (Mar 6th), the mega-cavern is still coned off.
And as of April 4th (and certainly a few days before) the mega-cavern seems to have been mended. I went looking for it the other day and was most of the way to Haymarket before I realised I'd cycled straight over it.
Reported Thursday 04/04/13
The horrible full-width rumble strip of cracked tarmac down the first bit of hill on Craiglockhart Ave, just before the junction with Craiglockhart Road. It's so bad now that this morning I was afraid I'd just destroyed my tyres (at best). I suspect Marathons and Kojaks are made of sterner stuff than carbon fibre flung down a hill at 30mph.Posted 11 years ago # -
The Craiglockhart rumble strip has been fixed as of 15/04/13. What an improvement!
The road repairs at the roundabout between Stevenson Road and Westfield Road need care, because the 'ramp' between old and new tarmac is two inches high and almost vertical.
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I've just discovered that Glasgow has something called RALF for reporting similar defects. Given they clearly pay no attention to fill that hole, I though I'd give it a go.
Half-way through I have to select 'how dangerous is the defect'. Options were:
- Likely to cause death
- Permanent disability/car written off
- Hospital treatment/car damage
- First aid treatment/ wheel/tyre damage
- No obvious harm/car damageWho on earth built this form?! Honestly...
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Two today.
Exit of Murieston onto Dalry Road. the low-lying bollard (which I assume is to deter vehicles clipping the pavement buildout when making a left turn) has been hit by a vehicle. This has displaced the bollard and shattered the tactile paving, which is in a state of upheaval.
Exit of Tarvit Street. I've previously reported the surface of the whole junction as in a bad state and got a reply saying "yes, we know, we were going to fix it then we didn't because A.N. Utility Company was doing some works and now it's no longer in the budget." Anyway, as you exit Tarvit Street, there's a pothole on the left near the kerb. Noticed on Monday there's a hole about 2" wide in the bottom and appears to be a larger cavern / sinkhole lurking underneath that. The previous "dump some sticky tar on top" repairs are showing their inadequacy as the trouble is deeper down and I'm sure recent heavy rain showers will be helping to excavate further. If I remember rightly, the Loch Rinn still runs somewhere underneath in a culvert and drains into the canal.
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The access path from Ravelston Dykes down to the Roseburn Path has been partially resurfaced today (just the worst rooty bit) - a massive improvement - I ascended the whole way without fear of toppling over. Given that I reported this to Clarence in February, I'm going to claim this as a Win.
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"Given that I reported this to Clarence in February, I'm going to claim this as a Win."
Sounds fair enough to me.
I assume it's been reported a million times in the last 20 years, but yours was the one that reached the 1,000,001 threshold.
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Not Edinburgh, but NCN1 near Bardney in Lincolnshire has just been FixMyStreeted as a quarter-mile section of the (NCN-blue-signed) path turns out to be surfaced with a mixture of coarse gravel (centimetre-to-inch diameter) and crushed glass. Not the odd bit of glass, but lots, evenly distributed amongst the gravel. It's maybe nice for Land Rover tyres in the rain but even unladen I carried my 23mm Gatorskins over that section seeing as it was at the apogee of my intended route.
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If I remember rightly, the Loch Rinn still runs somewhere underneath in a culvert and drains into the canal.
I haven't found any references to a Loch Rinn; but the 'ryn' of the 'loch' was from the Boroughloch westwards under Home Street and the Fountain bridge and, as the Dalry Burn, thence to Coltbridge and the Water of Leith. The area was originally known as Newbigging but changed to Lochrin in the mid-1700s.
But the Dalry Burn was indeed culverted in the early 1800s and it was part of the post-1812 drainage scheme of what became the Meadows. The culvert runs west under NMW, jinks south around Valleyfield Street then turns northwards under Leven Street, Home Street, High Riggs, West Port, and then it joins the easterly sewer section from Lauriston and the old (Drummond St) Infirmary to run northwest under King's Stables Road and down into Princes Street Gardens. The Castlehill reservoir also overflowed into the Gardens. The drain is therefore runoff; the nearby Crawley system of course is fresh water.
So it's not improbable that the culvert is damaged in the vicinity of Leven Street and Gilmour Place—and a bunch of other places too.
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@chdot - indeed. :)
Considering that the person I reported it to sounded completely ditsy ("Ravelston Dykes - what is the name of the road?"), I guess that in reality it is someone else's Win...Posted 11 years ago # -
I haven't found any references to a Loch Rinn; but the 'ryn' of the 'loch' was from the Boroughloch westwards under Home Street
I think it was an Anglicisation in a book or something about drainage of Meadows.
This is from an Ordnance map of Edinburgh and Leith, date unknown but 18th Century. Meadows already laid out ornamentally (or planned to be) and no signs of the Dalry Burn.
Problem with most of the old maps is they stop at city walls and never show the Boroughloch area as a loch.
Update: Armstrong's 1173 Imprint of "The Three Lothians" shows clearly the Loch Ryn / Dalry Burn (blue) draining into the Roseburn (green), draining into the Water of Leith
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OT - standpipe on Gilmore Park to supply water to the circus which has set up in the brewery site is leaking badly, quite a river running down the road these last few days.
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Clarenced today:
Leith Street, north bound, by the bus stop outside the Thistle Hotel. Deep "wave" in the tarmac caused by the right-side wheels of buses. The forward lip of this wave is getting increasingly steep and represents a danger to cyclists.I hit this burm last night whilst accelerating away from an overkeen driver who had been occupying the ASL by the Balmoral. Luckily I knew it was there, but in the 6 weeks or so since I've ridden over it, the rear lip is getting progressively more vertical and could really throw the unsuspecting cyclist up in the air. God help you if you hit it without a good grip on your handlebars...
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This reminded me to report the Bernard Terrace potholes.
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Reported a nasty dip in the surface around a utility cover on Lothian Rd just outside the Picture House. The choice is either the narrow flat strip right next to the kerb or swerve out into the traffic.
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Chris, I'm pretty sure I've reported that exact location before for providing you with the gutter / gaping pothole option.
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Yes, it's been there a while but I kept forgetting to report it.
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Late last night the Christian Path was dark along its entire length - every light was out. I've just reported it to the council and the streetlighting team is treating it as an emergency. The reference number is 638104 in case that helps anyone.
On the plus side I was pleased to learn that my bike's lights are quite bright enough to light up a dark path, even if they look a bit weedy under normal street lights.
Posted 11 years ago # -
FixMyStreeted on 2013-09-19 - on the south exit road from Blackhall/Craigleith Sainsbury there's a huge steep-sided two-inch-deep square hole directly after the smooth cycle-channel in the lumpy-brick rumblestrip.
Some of the streetlights on the WoL on the section beside Warriston Crem are out of action. WPN25-28 or thereabouts.Posted 11 years ago # -
Clarenced and FixMyStreeted - pothole at the junction of Dalry Road and Murieston Crescent.
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Reported a hole on South Bridge, southbound side, just past the ped crossing, right on the white line marking the bus lane. Cables showing through.
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"My" Murieston Crescent pothole reported above had a load of tarmac dumped into it quite soon after I reported it (possibly because it was a rather deep hole). It isn't perfect but the whole of that section is pretty poor (well at least compared with the rest of my ride to Haymarket now they're resurfaced the really bad sections).
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I have reported the broken and severely wobbly wooden handrail on the path connecting Ravelston Dykes and the Roseburn path. It is broken right at the steepest part (missing top rail) and there are several places where the uprights have rotted away at ground level so the rail risks breaking if any weight is put on it (e.g. from a wobbly cyclist climbing the hill and needing to steady themselves). Won't hold my breath though...
Posted 10 years ago # -
Reported Friday 20/12/13
There's a well developed rectangular pothole at the southern corner of Bruntsfield Place and Chamberlain Road where substantial portions of the footway and kerb have also been attended to recently. I watched it for a while and it's mainly being eroded by vehicles turning left from Chamberlain Road.Be careful going south from Bruntsfield because it's right in the weak primary position.
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New huge Pothole on Cluny Gardens at junction of Midmar Av, just where you need to swerve out when cars encroach over stop line on Midmar. Hole about 6 inches deep...
Reported to Clarence today.Posted 10 years ago # -
Sent a report to Fix My Street for a massive pothole westbound on Brighton Place just after it has passed under Sir Harry Lauder. Perfectly positioned for both bikes and the left side tyres of cars. Nicely square as well, so clearly caused by poorly carried out works.
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Pothole on the eastern edge of the circle in the middle of the mini-roundabout between Candlemaker Row/Cowgate/Grassmarket, FixMyStreeted at 2014-01-07_11:40.
Posted 10 years ago # -
My perception is that the council only care about fixing the roads when it is likely to affect cars. I got a polite GTF when I raised lots of road splits and botched repairs with them citing that it was dangerous to cyclists.
Posted 10 years ago # -
Sadly I think you're right. I always make sure I mention the possible damage to cars when reporting these things.
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