Thanks to Emily Johnson from BBC News Online for this headline.
I’m obsessed by sausages today as it’s Christmas Day here and they need to be cossetted, wrapped in bacon and cooked. So this article caught my eye. A Classic Tale of a cyclists nightmare on a badly repaired path which with recent wet weather and maybe the momentary earth movement has caused a sausage like protuberance to appear on a cycling path in Yorkshire.
The Council have a name for it. It’s been caused by “clay heave”. Well I’d like to point that cycle paths are best made out of tarmac not clay and if the repair had been done properly in the summer when the cracks were filled in then the water would not have impregnated the clay and caused it to swell.
The locals have nicknamed the giant sausages on their path, but in truth they haven’t come up with any interesting names, so I’ll pass on them.
I have every sympathy with the cyclists, lets face it they aren’t expecting a cycle path to be an obstacle course. I hope they get some fancy machine in from America and tarmac the whole thing, while maintaining a camber for water drainage. Maybe a ditch either side would help too.
Merry Christmas to Everyone who Celebrates it.
Namaste and Thank You for Reading 🙏
Not quite the image I was thinking of but this made me laugh and maybe the cyclists in Yorkshire have scary dreams like this picture.
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