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cracking climb when there are no cars
The Tweet no longer seems to be on her timeline from what I can see.
I'll check it out, would like to ride it no cars (but will keep ears and eyes open for sports bikes!).
I’ll check it out, would like to ride it no cars (but will keep ears and eyes open for sports bikes!).
Most of the closures, it takes the bikers a few days to realise that they can still blast to the summit then back down again at which point it turns into a racetrack. At the moment it seems to work OK because the various sets of temporary traffic lights mean it's still technically "open" but it's just a pain to drive it cos you have to keep stopping. So it's relatively quiet but with enough daily traffic to stop it being used as a speedway circuit!
I suspect on this occasion, having seen the gradually worsening damage to the main landslide section, they'll have to put a full closure in at that point. The road is getting noticeably worse there, there's some quite dramatic subsidence on the remaining half of the road now. Made worse by some drivers ignoring the vehicle weight limits...
Yeah it’s definitely getting worse. Drove Sheff to manc and back on Monday and the big main collapse looks much more noticeable than I recall
I was literally planning on riding over it from Glossop side to Ladybower tomorrow am...is is still open/rideable all the way over?
Didn't realise there'd been another landslip.
Tomorrow's plan was plan B after our plan to ride in Bowland was scuppered by the train strike.
Still open. Three sets of lights.
not a new land slip just the inevitable crumbling of the existing ones whilst DCC twiddle their thumbs and pave over trails instead🙁
The Tweet no longer seems to be on her timeline from what I can see.
It's in their replies
not a new land slip just the inevitable crumbling of the existing ones whilst DCC twiddle their thumbs and pave over trails instead
Yes, apparently just patching work at the moment with major works likely to come next year.
https://twitter.com/SnakePassRoad/status/1652295373250068481
Its closed 22nd-26th, to all users including cyclists and walkers, according to the DCC announcement.
I get the temptation to ride it while its closed, but the local anti-cycling lobby is already being dickheads in anticipation of cyclists ignoring the closure.
according to the DCC announcement.
We all know how DCC work, just because they say it is doesn't mean it is.
When it first closed hundreds of bikes went to the summit (was it last year ? or the year before) a couple of Saturdays later there were security type guys sat at the side of the road near the turn for Derwent Dam and Fairholmes Cafe stopping people going through and they had a sign saying they were filming anyone who went through. I think they will be on the ball and stopping people cycling through.
Well what was happening was that cyclists were riding it as it was still (technically) open to pedestrians, cyclists and horseriders.
Word got round and the number of cyclists went up exponentially so DCC said no bikes at all "for safety". Rather ignoring the fact that for the first time in years kids and families were able to ride it entirely safely because there was no traffic!
Various cycling organisations challenged the "no cycling" order and eventually DCC acknowledged that they'd simply asked, it wasn't a lawful ban but in the meantime there were a couple of "mass trespass" rides up it.
There were staff at each end for a while but they never said or did anything that I saw to stop people riding it. They were mostly there to stop drivers moving the barriers and getting through, at one point they had to put ANPR cameras around the landslide part because so many drivers were flouting the closure.
I must have ridden that road about a dozen times during the "closure", it was great! At one point they did have a full closure on the actual landslide bit as they moved heavy equipment into place and, because that was a logical reason, everyone obeyed it. Lots of people carried on riding the Glossop side.
Eventually the motorcyclists worked it all out as well and just started ragging up and down the Glossop side which rather ruined it but then it got reopened anyway.
I last rode it about 10 days ago - that landslip bit is properly sketchy now.
Notice from DCC on Twitter says closed to all from Snake summit to Derwent turnoff. So presumably open from Glossop to summit.
https://twitter.com/Derbyshirecc/status/1656978848368541696
It's still open to locals, deliveries and farmers... Think I'll be delivering something to the opposite side on my bike.
Went over this morning and it’s open but there’s just 3 sets of temporary lights on the ladybower side quite far down. So anyone going from the glossop side can climb unimpeded and enjoy the descent to ladybower until towards the very end where you hit the lights. But yeah, it’ll be shut 22/5 onwards.
Also did Winnats Pass for first time in ages, can’t believe I used to go full gas up there, I thought I wasn’t even gonna make it up at one point this morning.
Also, predictably, that part of the peaks today is insanely busy.
Ignore me, basic reading fail
In the 2019 Covid summer I was riding Snake twice a week, halcyon days...