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Please find below the contents of an email sent to OCC this morning regarding the continued problems with Puncture Alley:<\/p>\n
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Hello,<\/em><\/p>\n We have been monitoring whether the upgraded path is still causing punctures since the remedial work in early February.<\/em><\/p>\n The number of punctures has dropped but we are still seeing more punctures than is acceptable on a path intended for cycling.<\/em><\/p>\n We would like to request that the surface is reviewed again with a view to adding a top layer of Tarmac to cover the existing surface and the sharp flints sticking out.<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n With Spring on its way we expect the number of cyclists using this path to increase significantly.<\/em><\/p>\n It is fair to assume that cyclists using the path over Winter have decent bikes with good quality tyres. As the weather improves there will be more less experienced \/ leisure cyclists who may have lower quality tyres, with possibly an increase in the number of punctures.<\/em><\/p>\n HarBUG is running a Cycle to Work day on 20th<\/sup> April when we would like to promote the improvements on the cycle routes to the Campus. We don\u2019t want to have to warn cyclists (and potential cyclists) of problems.<\/em><\/p>\n In addition this section is being used for two large cycle events; Uptonogood? on June 18th<\/sup> (1000+ cyclists) and The Classic Oxfordshire for Against Breast Cancer on 8th<\/sup> May. With the numbers of cyclists at these events there will potentially be a lot of punctures with annoyed organisers and participants.<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n We believe we have been patient whilst different surface interventions have been tried but cyclists using this stretch are wary and fed up.<\/em><\/p>\n We believe this problem needs to be sorted out once and for all, as soon as possible.<\/em><\/p>\n P.S. More details on the Cycle to Work days soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We have emailed OCC about continued problems with Puncture Alley.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1-latest-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.harbug.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.harbug.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.harbug.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.harbug.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.harbug.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.harbug.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2898\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.harbug.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.harbug.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.harbug.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}