The lip where a cycling reader came to grief. Photo / supplied
That contractors struggled in horrendous weather conditions through the depths of last winter and were able to produce such amazingly tidy professional work for the new footpaths, crossing, kerbs, gutters etc in Ranolf St, Springfield Rd and elsewhere defies belief. The standard of work is absolutely first class.
As a
regular amateur road cyclist for the last 20 years, I am aware that it behoves our fraternity to take extreme care and be ever mindful of the hazards in every shape and form out there.
That I should come to grief recently when manoeuvring from the roadway to the cycleway at the last residential crossing before the Utuhina Stream bridge at the bottom of Springfield Road fair annoyed me. I shouldn't have crashed off and, as a consequence, cracked my ribs and gashed my reconstructed knee, but I did.
A jogger across the street came rushing across and helped me off the concrete. The next day I went back to survey the crossing and found to my amazement that in all the new work over hundreds of metres it appeared that particular 4 metre-wide crossing is the only one where the original gutter has not been replaced.
It would be a good 5 centimetres lower that all other work.
