zebee wrote:Interesting question... how do they tell when it is a dangerous flood and when is it just a puddle riders can be expected to cope with?
If you were asked to give the M7 people guidelines as to what constituted a dangerous situation of water over road, what would they be? Remember this is not the sort of confident cyclist who contributes to BNA, it is say my mother on her electric adult trike who hates to do more than 10kmh and is scared of inclines cos the trike tips, it is a mother who has just started riding (first time since school) with kids in trailer or in child seat. It is a non-confident not very skilled person with minimal or no lights who is expecting a safe ride cos this is an offoad path.
Your guidelines have to be applied by the non-cyclist maintenance staff who have to be confident to give a go/nogo call and be able to back it up if someone does get hurt. So as much as possible needs to be objective and measurable.
Just leave it open, put warning signs up about it and leave it up to the riders. Even not very confident riders should be able to get through there, it is not a incline, and the water every time I've been through there isn't very deep. I just go through at about 6km/h to avoid spraying the water up everywhere.
if you aren't confident, then you'd be even less likely to mix it with heavy trucks and car drivers on Brenera Road.