Good News
The start of the Track near Sainsbury's in Scarborough has been resurfaced and is now much more welcoming.
A family group getting ready to set off up to Whitby
(once the children have been persuaded off the play equipment)
The drain down the hill past the Rugy Club has been cleared and most of the surface damage has been repaired. Thank you.
Drain cleared and surface repaired
Not far south of Ravenscar a very minor road bridge crosses the Track. Work is taking place to repoint the brickwork.
Scaffolding in place for bridge maintenance
But
There are still a few gullies left and drifts of loose material that can easily catch out inexperienced riders.
A sand trap for the unwary between Scalby and Burniston
It's been dry for a few weeks so there isn't any standing water but further up the Track, between the footpath that goes to Staintondale and the Manor Farm crossing (the double gates across the Track that shouldn't really be there), water running down the Track has formed a gully and reduced the effective width of a 200m section to about half a metre. (One side of the Track is now a bumpy brick channel and effectively unusable)
Andy Sharp 30/5/18
They should resurface the whole track and make it much more user friendly.
ReplyDeleteYes Ian. Some cinder stretches drain well, are quite smooth and horse friendly (even if the surface does cut up a bit it tends to self heal). It's proposed that these remain, albeit graded so that water flows off into the drains. In town, it should be good quality tarmac. Elsewhere a hard wearing porous tarmac (a compromise that looks like the cinders but can take the odd vehicle and, crucially, doesn't erode as badly if water flows along the surface)
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