The City says it’s really sorry but Pottery Road has to remain closed until engineers figure out how to stabilize the wall of the ravine near the top of the road at Broadview Ave. The stability isn’t perilous but it has to be addressed before the road can re-open. The City’s manager of technical services says: “The slope is not in imminent danger of failing; rather, the City wants to ensure that there is a sufficient factor of safety from a future potential slope failure at the location of the retaining wall,” he said. “The City is sympathetic to the public for the inconvenience.” This began when for whatever reason engineers were not able to accurately gauge the nature of the ravine wall (right) before they began to cut it away to build a nice bike path on the other side of the road (left). A retaining wall was built but it wasn’t high enough, apparently. A sad experience for citizens and for engineering credibility, it would seem.