Well, rode past the Brighton Place pothole on Saturday and it had already been filled in!
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Posted 10 years ago #
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Shared-use cyclepath on Gogar Station Road from canal north is covered in blackthorn hedge clippings after it crosses the bridge over the M8. They are what did for I was right about that saddle last week when he and I had a joint puncture-fixing session after work.
Tweeted to @west_team on 16/1, and acknowledged. No visible action as of yesterday (24/1). Tweeted again today and now Clarenced as well.
In a model cycling city, you wouldn't leave blackthorn clippings on a cycle path for two weeks...
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What annoys me about Clarence is the lack of feedback. Over a year ago I asked them to fix *all* the traffic lights on this unnamed road:
Yet they are all still off, and the surface of that road is terrible, which is a shame as it's a great route to get on to the Hawthornvale cycle path from OT. But trying to cycle along it when it is dark is not easy, especially when there's a bed mattress and a car wheel lying abandoned in the carriageway (I'm not kidding).
Anyone know how to contact an actual person?
Posted 10 years ago # -
Might be Forth Ports rather than CEC.
https://www.twitter.com/north_team usually works.
(And you get feedback.)
Posted 10 years ago # -
Ah - I hadn't thought of that, but you could very well be right. I shall attempt to contact them via Twitter, thanks.
Posted 10 years ago # -
FixMyStreeted yesterday: the pothole in the middle of the WoL path at the entrance from Warriston Road, where it has sunk following a utility-excavation.
FixMyStreeted today: the crater opposite the entrance to the Tai Chi centre/close to the back of Meadowbank on Marionville Road and the badly-cratered surface on the south section of the Marionville/Lochend roundabout.Posted 10 years ago # -
http://www.fixmystreet.com/report/429288
Re-clarenced the Broomhouse path at Saughton House. Verge repairs made 2 months back now completely destroyed by continued driving of Transit vans over it each day. Muck, water and grit all across the path again.
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To be fair to our model cycling city, after two tweets and one Clarence in a week, the pavement/cyclepath was swept today and all the thorny stuff removed.
Looks like they just drove a roadsweeper up it, but it's done a thorough job...
I'm now on to @southwest_team about the hawthorn clippings on the towpath by the Wester Hailes Education Centre...
Posted 10 years ago # -
Pothole at the south end of Dean Bridge, just where it becomes Queensferry St. This one has been fixed before, but has opened up again.
Posted 10 years ago # -
There's a well developed rectangular pothole at the southern corner of Bruntsfield Place and Chamberlain Road.
This pothole was repaired within a week or so. I have re-Clarenced it today because the repair has been excavated by vehicles and the pothole is now enormous, about 10 inches deep, and if you hit it on a bike it will kill you. Or at least kill your forks.
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There's a huge pothole opened up in the inside lane eastbound at the Roseburn Terrace lights. It's in a really dangerous spot for cyclists, as it's just at the spot where cars pull into the inside lane to go straight on. Cyclists could be swerving to avoid the pothole at the same time as cars are pulling in.
I've reported it, but watch out in the meantime!
Some more big potholes have also developed along Wester Coates (yes, it can get even worse!) but I forgot the exact locations so haven't reported them yet.
Posted 10 years ago # -
Just fired these grand canyons off to the friendly lion;
Liberton Road, just North of the junction with Gilmerton Road, Northbound carriageway, there's a hydrant cover that's disintegrated. Distinct risk of any two-wheeled vehicle being brought down if the front wheel drops into the hole.
A702 at the Cluny Gardens/Balcarres Street junction there's a huge gouge out of the tarmac running North-South right in the middle of the junction, again a threat to two-wheeled traffic.
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somewhere (upthread?) i have complained about pothole from poorly done utility works near bus stop on Gilmore place heading out of town justr pas viewforth intersection. wingpig kindly took pics. it was particularly badly positioned because it either forced you right to the right of the lane, or forced you in to kerb, then you had to veer right quickly to avoid bins/parking.
anyway, it's been fixed!!! proper fix too. big section repaved.
Posted 10 years ago # -
Quick question - is there any material difference (speed of fix, political pressure, reportability etc.) in reporting broken bits of road etc. through FixMyStreet or through the Council's own pages (Clarence)?
I have always used the Clarence page, but wonder if FMS is better for some reasons?
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"is there any material difference ...?"
It's a good question.
I've wondered too.
Some years ago there was 'political will' to reorganise/improve Clarence. Don't know if anything was done.
One advantage of FMS is that notifications remain public.
I assume they go straight to Clarence which (I presume) passes them on just the same as with phone calls and emails(?)
Posted 10 years ago # -
...and what about FillthatHole?
I've always used that. I like it because it's bike specfic. Again it makes the defect public and saves reporting stuff more than once if someone else has already reported it (actually maybe reporting something more than once isn't a bad thing).
Posted 10 years ago # -
"I assume they go straight to Clarence which (I presume) passes them on just the same as with phone calls and emails(?) "
It usually seems to be no later than a couple of hours after the start of the next working day that a receipt from Clarence arrives after FixMyStreeting something.
FixMyStreet also sends a follow-up email four weeks after the initial report to remind you to notice that the problem has still not been addressed.
Posted 10 years ago # -
I like the fixmystreet map interface and also that it has a simple logon. It's useful to be able to see previous or nearby reports (often I find they are my own!)
Posted 10 years ago # -
Pedestrian crossing at Fords Road yesterday. Myself and another waited for 2 or 3 minutes with no sign it was going to change to red and allow us to cross. We ended up going across in traffic, with lights still green for traffic and red on crossing.
Either it's broken or the timing is appaling. I think it's the former as I recall it changing fairly quickly in the past.
Posted 10 years ago # -
Usually changes pretty much immediately but they may have fiddled with it while the road works are on further up Gorgie Road.
Posted 10 years ago # -
I used it on Monday morning - it was working promptly at that point.
Posted 10 years ago # -
Oh, that's a point - the traffic lights for turning right from Dundee Street down Henderson Terrace at Diggers didn't appear to recognise me as a cyclist the other evening and only turned green when a car arrived behind me. Has anyone else noticed this?
Posted 10 years ago # -
The hole on the bend where Dean Bridge becomes Queensferry St has opened up again, after being 'fixed' a few weeks ago, so i've re-Clarenced it.
Posted 10 years ago # -
I do hope they get my drift in this one.
Posted 10 years ago # -
Massive dip in the Princes St / North Bridge junction, right in the path of right-turning traffic. Big enough even to damage a car. I clarenced it a couple of weeks ago, still there yesterday (and full of water), so I've emailed them again.
Posted 10 years ago # -
Just been out on a pothole run.
The one where you turn right from Princes St onto North Bridge is incredibly dangerous.
The one at Polwarth Terrace junction is more a massive collection of eroded repairs and there is no smooth route through it, even on a massive armoured enduro motorbike.
I found one quite close to home which will need reported as it's both sharp edged and quite deep.
The stretch of road along Bruntsfield Place at the top of Viewforth is also a massive collection of eroded repairs.
Posted 10 years ago # -
Polwarth terrace had 3 junctions ! Which one are thinking of?
Edit - read upthread. Presume it is gray's loan?
Sorry!
Posted 10 years ago # -
The one where you turn right from Princes St onto North Bridge is incredibly dangerous.
Although it was repaired within a couple of days of writing this, I can confirm today that the repair is now subsiding.
Posted 10 years ago # -
CEC in pothole fix shocker!
The shock in question being that they fixed a pothole within a week of it being reported. End of Bruntsfield Terrace. Crappy unsealed tar repair, but hey, that was almost bordering on professional!
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