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Pretty good I'd say, has soaked up fair bit of rain, the steam road roller was out this morning,
Bit at the housing association getting there.
The exit heading east from the tunnel, still a bit soggy. This was clay all last summer so better already but more whin dust?
The drainage looks like it could fill up quickly
On the whole a good effort.
"but more whin dust?"
Probably not - certainly not the fine stuff.
"The drainage looks like it could fill up quickly"
See -
http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9955#post-108205
By the way, the BIG test will be when Sciennes School goes to Spylaw Park on June 21st.
Polwarth family cycle on the 23rd, with storytelling and stoneskipping!
Another short stretch of improvement rolled out yesterday. Think the bumpy bit will be completed this week so if stays dry it will be back to the way it was when I used it every day to go to leith and back. Smooth and dry.
Sounds promising. The wife hasn't been looking forward to the impatience and squeezing past that is to be 'enjoyed' on Gillespie Rd at the hands of Edinburgh's finest motorists, but the alternative (Woodhall Rd on the far side of the WoL) is not without its own short stretch of surface failure.
If the WoL has been lastingly improved, I think she might be amenable to trying it again.
Yes dave they heard you were moving to currie and have suddenly started fixing the surface in a big way after several years of small repairs. Not sure how it will bear up to persistent rain but good just now.
Diverted up the WoL path on the way home yesterday evening. Impressed with how the surface has been improved. I agree with some of the comments above that the drainage ditches could have been deeper but I suppose the real test will be how the surface copes with a couple of wet winters (or summers!)
Stonking ride this morning all the way down WoL path, smooth and dry. Could have done with two further dry days but not to be. Home tonight error going up it as slog. New repair bits bearing up except one random crater up towards currie. Other bits thataren't bad were a bit water logged. Anyway tuff gonged it home
Thanks for the feedback, I'll pass it on to the Ranger Service.
Whereabouts was the
random crater? I can pass that on too.
Random crater I should say was filled in with Gray stones up near currie but this had not stood up to the day of rain on Friday and had become a puddle.
I've been using this a bit (not too much, as without a rear mudguard it's extremely unpleasant) but have to admit it's a great improvement in parts. Thumbs up!
I don't suppose someone could arrange for the middle of the three boulders (the one which is sitting on a palette) by Juniper Green to be configured such that a child trailer can fit through?
At the moment it's too narrow on both sides and there's no way around on the verges. I can probably access a palette lifter but getting it out to WoL and back would be an epic faff.
I went down this way on the mtb last week, I don't know what they've done to the surface but its not smooth, its like a micro mogul course and I found it quite tiring after a while.
The resurfaced sections are much better than they were, but as steveo notes, there's a problem developing. There's a basically continuous sine-wave pattern of peaks and troughs appearing. Probably 4-5cm deep tops, and you don't notice them that much at lower speed. At higher speed though (ie coming down from Balerno) it becomes really noticeable. To me it looks like the braking bumps you can find on any mtb track - somebody brakes hard and creates a dip, then the next person has to brake just before that dip, and on it goes. There's a cracking example of this near the Balerno exit, at the point where a road comes down from the right to a house (looking towards Balerno) and there's a sharp edge onto the driveway. There's several meters of near perfect sinusoidal bumps leading up to the edge. I'm not convinced that this is what's happening on the new sections though.
I don't think it will last very long, it reminds me of the brake humps you get at Glentress before corners on new bits of trail.
However... it's better than nothing (although still not good enough to persuade my better half to use the WoL instead of the roads).
[edited to add] cross-post and great minds think alike :)
Dave
Last time the boulder in the middle was put back by the digger, it slipped a little from the palette causing the narrower gap.
On related matter ravelrig road now closed either for repairs or for rail track renewal
@gembo, I assumed the Ravelrig Road closure was for repairs?
Fimm, still closed. Cannot say yet if for repairs or relaying of railway as both are going on just now.
Went down and up WoL path today, the new bits dry. Bit bumpy at juni green. The old bits some mud but on the whole a joy compared to the towpath
RAVELRIG ROAD Junction with Long Dalmahoy Road & Railway Bridge Scottish Power - planned works 13th - 19th
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Hey The Buddster, as the road is closed for power cables, why not fix the surface at the same time? Radical I know but Iheard once that in Germany all the utilities talk to each other and work coincides, but I could be making this up.
"...but I could be making this up."
I wouldn't put it past continental utilities maintainers to correspond and co-ordinate. Over here the very idea was once parodied for some sort of telly advert.
The ultitrec work from Currie to Balerno is finished. Similar to canal towpath it looked better last week before the chippings were put on top. It is springy, a little cambered, quite bumpy. There is a sign up for equestrians to ignore or read.
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