Bristol to Bath cycle path closure

[thornstar]

I haven't seen any further reporting of this? You'd have hoped the papers and media would have been all over it due to the shockingly bad estimate they originally provided?

Nah. They'd only be over it like flies to a turd if it was a road closure, no matter how minor the road. The closure merely affects lowly bikes and pedestrians so they simply don't care.

 

[captain nemo1701]

Current signs read 22 weeks. Estimated completion around March

 

[summerdays]

The mutterings on Facebook this morning are pointing out that the south glos road closure website now says 31st July!

Just when it was starting to feel that March was almost close! Just how can an inept council turn a 9 week closure into 11 months? And why aren't they telling cyclists this rather than leaving them to find it out themselves!

 

[runner]

The mutterings on Facebook this morning are pointing out that the south glos road closure website now says 31st July!

Just when it was starting to feel that March was almost close! Just how can an inept council turn a 9 week closure into 11 months? And why aren't they telling cyclists this rather than leaving them to find it out themselves!

i've almost got used to it now.....although I see a new set of temp traffic lights has been introduced as you come off at staple hill

 

[thornstar]

Is that woman in the house on the private alleyway still unsubtly hiding tacks in sand?

 

[summerdays]

Last time I went down that way the barriers were removed and there looked to be no sign of any tacks, I still walked that section anyway.

 

[BigAl68]

Is that new date for the path or the road bridge?

 

[summerdays]

On the Elgin site it's on a pin ON the cycle path

 

[BigAl68]

It is mind boggling how this can overrun by so many months.

 

[runner]

i must keep a look out for tacks tomorrow....don't want a puncture on a cold winters morning...not wanting to moan about the councils attempt to keep the track safe and ice free but I do not remember so much grit/salt being thrown around and i've been cycling it for the last 10 years...h & s gone mad!!

 

[captain nemo1701]

Is that woman in the house on the private alleyway still unsubtly hiding tacks in sand?

What's this?. Some Bristol post reader not liking cyclists?.
runner - it's not uncommon for things like this to overrun if issues with the local geology and earthworks are discovered. For example, the spanking new segregated cycle path in Bristol running along Clarence Road by the river has been partly completed but will be delayed due to issues with the river retaining wall. Needless to say, the local anti-cycling press has moaned about it as the traffic lights hold up motorists.

 

[captain nemo1701]

Worth adding that some repointing work is also being undertaken in the Staple Hill tunnel, so probably worth the wait.

 

[runner]

I go past the location twice per day up to 6 days a week.....and I have yet to seen a workman....I'm sure they are there somewhere...perhaps they were just on a t break

 

[BigAl68]

I agree with you @runner.

The last real activity was a few weeks ago when they were putting some wooden fencing up the signal hill end. I can't understand what is taking so long and it is ruining my commute.

 

[runner]

As you approach the tunnel from the Bristol side there is a metal fence...now broken and lots of branches behind what's all that about?.....its beginning to resemble a dumping ground still the same when I rode past some 50mins ago.....