[brooksby]

I commute into Bristol, and it’s the time of year when I tend to forget that it’s a tarmacced cycle path. There are so many fallen leaves that you can’t tell where the path edge is and the grass verge begins, and in a couple of places you can’t see where the kerb is.

Ive complained to the council and been told that they only leaf-pick on the cycle path once.

and yet the roads are swept clear by the volume of traffic as well as by actual street cleaning vehicles, and the footpaths in the city centre have been being cleared ever since the leaves started dropping.

Last night I realised at the last moment that I was about to go off the tarmac and into the grass – luckily I realised but might have come off if I had… Doesn’t the council have some sort of “elf’n’safety” liability for making sure cycle paths aren’t an inch deep in slimy wet fallen leaves?

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[brooksby]

Shades wrote:

If it’s the B&B Cycle Path you’re on, then, as a regular until earlier this year, I didn’t think it was too bad.  I occasionally encountered the sweeper truck so I thought they cleared it more than once.  Bristol council were better at it than Bath (who, I think, didn’t do anything).  I now head out on the 2 Tunnels and onto back lanes which are just ‘hellish’ at this time of year compared to the B&B Path; which I dream of as my bike, and myself, get covered in ‘cr@p’, even with mudguards!  At least on the B&B Path you don’t get the odd farmer who’s been doing some ploughing in the wet and then gone in and out onto the road with his tractor.

Nope, it was the one alongside the A369 from Abbots Leigh/Pill toward Clifton.

In the interests of full disclosure, after my original post above I complained to my local councillor and to the guy who organises North Somerset’s cycle forum, and it all got cleared within about three days.

[Shades]

If it’s the B&B Cycle Path

If it’s the B&B Cycle Path you’re on, then, as a regular until earlier this year, I didn’t think it was too bad.  I occasionally encountered the sweeper truck so I thought they cleared it more than once.  Bristol council were better at it than Bath (who, I think, didn’t do anything).  I now head out on the 2 Tunnels and onto back lanes which are just ‘hellish’ at this time of year compared to the B&B Path; which I dream of as my bike, and myself, get covered in ‘cr@p’, even with mudguards!  At least on the B&B Path you don’t get the odd farmer who’s been doing some ploughing in the wet and then gone in and out onto the road with his tractor.

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