Written by I am sick to death of wondering everytime it rains if I will be able to walk to the gym, walk into town, or in fact walk to anywhere in the Cowdray Avenue direction.
A month or two ago Network Rail did some work to improve drainage in their own works yard – they dug a hole and filled in with stones for filtration. Now by some miraculous event, everytime it rains the path below this drainage point floods to the point that a few weeks ago I couldn’t get through without my trainers and feet getting absolutely soaked.
There is a nightwatchman and the flooding is under the streetlamp so there is no getting away from the fact the workers know the flooding happens and yet about 6 weeks after it first happened nothing has been done.
I have emailed the Council who have passed the buck, but now I have taken photos, I think I will send those to the Council and show them exactly how bad the problem is.
If I can’t use the path, I will add to the already stationary traffic around Colchester, and I don’t want to have to do that.
It is frustrating as at rush hour it is quicker to walk the 15 minutes to the gym rather than drive, but I can’t arrive at the gym with soaking wet trainers and socks.
Network Rail need to sort this out and quickly – it’s not fair on the residents that use the pathway to walk or cycle to town.