Harlaw Road from Balerno to Harlaw Reservoir is now lovely smooth tarmac, no more teeth rattling nightmare on the road bike. Time to get out there and set some new Strava PRs ;-)
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Worst road surfaces for cycling
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Posted 5 years ago #
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That is good news, redmist.
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Really wish someone would look at Arboretum Avenue as the road is ridiculously bad mainly due to botched repairs. It's only safe to cycle middle of the road!
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NCR#1 from Bridlington to where I gave up 30k or so later (earlier today). Never been so furious at a surface.
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Having complained about the roads in the Caiystane area a year ago on this thread, I was
thrilledmildly pleased a month or so back to see signs going up announcing that resurfacing was to be carried out.What actually happened was:
- they resurfaced the Caiystane View/Caiystane Avenue and Caiystane Terrace/Caiystane Avenue - which to be fair were both in a very poor state, with the latter being more potholes than road;
- they resurfaced a fair way east along Caiystane Avenue, which did not seem to be badly in need of it;
- they spread chippings on the rest of Caiystane Avenue, and on East and West Caiystane Road (leaving gaps where people had left vehicles parked despite the signs/cones suggesting that this would be selfish and antisocial);
- they put a few patches in on Caiystane Crescent.
What they didn't do:
- reinstate the road markings at junctions affected by the above;
- resurface or even just repair potholes in Caiystane View between the repair to the View/Avenue junction and the junction with Oxgangs Road (this stretch gets bodge-patched on a regular basis and really needs redoing properly);
- anything to address the disgraceful state of East Caiystane Place;
- anything useful to the eroded surface on the south side of Caiystane Crescent, or the distinctly dangerous step that runs along the centre of the road between the poor surface on the south side and the good surface on the north side.
One of the repairs on Caiystane Crescent seems to have involved resurfacing the area around a drain gully that has sunken several inches below the surrounding road surface. The gully itself has not been fixed and I suspect that it will still be prone to backing up on to the road at times of heavy rain. So basically they've repaired the bottom of what is all too often a huge puddle.I feel a robustly-worded letter to my councillor(s) coming on.
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