http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: "Plan for nursery on ‘rat run’ is slammed" en Fri, 22 May 2026 09:50:07 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10122#post-154520 Sat, 24 May 2014 10:31:17 +0000 Stickman 154520@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>HankChief - thanks for posting the picture of that sign. That may explain the two sets of traffic counters installed on Manse Road in the last few days. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10122#post-154519 Sat, 24 May 2014 10:20:36 +0000 Kim 154519@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Apparently reckless behaviour is now socially acceptable, as long as you are at the controls of a motor vehicle, and if anyone else tries to use the roads, it is their fault if they get hit. Or at least that is the message being sent by some motoring organisations... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10122#post-154517 Sat, 24 May 2014 09:57:58 +0000 wishicouldgofaster 154517@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>This is probably a bit too clever for some of these people but why don't they just slow down. I often drive and cycle up that road and as long as you don't go too fast you can easily react safely and legally to any situation. </p> <p>What do people get taught these days when learning to drive?! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10122#post-154510 Sat, 24 May 2014 07:55:44 +0000 HankChief 154510@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Update - wonder what they are trialling</p> <p><a href="https://flic.kr/p/nri1yv"><img src="https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5154/14069723317_e8d542a608.jpg"></a><a href="https://flic.kr/p/nri1yv">Intriguing...</a> by <a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/91842878@N03/">HankChief</a>, on Flickr</p> <p><a href="https://flic.kr/p/nri25v"><img src="https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3696/14069725057_183a9bf9f0.jpg"></a><a href="https://flic.kr/p/nri25v">Featherhall Ave</a> by <a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/91842878@N03/">HankChief</a>, on Flickr </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10122#post-109797 Tue, 07 May 2013 14:08:45 +0000 chdot 109797@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"<br /> Among those who have requested a trip is Corstorphine Community Council. Its secretary is Ken Swinney, 81, the father of finance secretary John Swinney, who made an unsuccessful attempt to scrap the scheme when the SNP came to power at Holyrood in 2007.</p> <p> "</p> <p><a href="http://www.scotsman.com/the-scotsman/transport/edinburgh-trams-to-carry-public-from-april-1-2826357" rel="nofollow">http://www.scotsman.com/the-scotsman/transport/edinburgh-trams-to-carry-public-from-april-1-2826357</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10122#post-109792 Tue, 07 May 2013 13:40:52 +0000 cb 109792@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I liked Ken Swinney's (secretary of Corstorphine Community Council) admission that he "had to" drive his car onto the community garden to let a truck past. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10122#post-109787 Tue, 07 May 2013 13:33:12 +0000 deckard112 109787@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"Can you imagine up to 40 cars trooping up in a morning or afternoon, dropping off the wee ones..." - Assuming the registration is for 40 kids, nurseries rarely reach full occupancy (over 70% and you're doing ok) and most kids attend a morning/afternoon session a few days a week, not full weeks all day. In addition, they don't all arrive at the same time and many will walk (maybe even cycle?). </p> <p>"...where drivers take their lives in their hands every time you go down it or up it" - the residents of Featherhall Ave are to be commended for their continuing bravery, risking their lives daily whenever they return home (one assumes in their cars). </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10122#post-109781 Tue, 07 May 2013 13:13:27 +0000 kaputnik 109781@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>The rat run nature of Featherhall is enhanced by parking on both sides of a narrow road. I'm sure nothing to do with local residents. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10122#post-109779 Tue, 07 May 2013 13:07:34 +0000 deckard112 109779@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Surely if the main concern was the rat running vehicles, the local residents would have complained about that sooner rather than wait for a nursery development? Or perhaps they're worried about something else, house prices affected by certain new businesses? Who knows. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10122#post-109777 Tue, 07 May 2013 13:03:18 +0000 steveo 109777@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>If its that dangerous then surely blocking it off half way is the only way to stop some one from dying, WONT SOME ONE THINK OF THE CHILDREN! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10122#post-109776 Tue, 07 May 2013 12:59:57 +0000 RJ 109776@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I've been up Featherhall Avenue a couple of times (en route to the closest Post Office to Edinburgh Park ...), without realising that it contained "the most dangerous bend in Edinburgh". Didn't think it was that bad.</p> <p>I'd nominate the disappearing cycle lane heading west and downhill on to the Dean Bridge as far more dangerous ... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10122#post-109773 Tue, 07 May 2013 12:51:55 +0000 cb 109773@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Read it and weep:</p> <p><a href="http://www.scotsman.com/news/transport/plan-for-nursery-on-rat-run-is-slammed-1-2921734">http://www.scotsman.com/news/transport/plan-for-nursery-on-rat-run-is-slammed-1-2921734</a></p> <p>"<br /> FURIOUS residents have hit out at plans to open a nursery on a notorious “rat run” as a “fatal accident waiting to 
happen”.<br /> "</p> <p>"<br /> “Can you imagine up to 40 cars trooping up in a morning or afternoon, dropping off the wee ones and all the people making their way to the health centre next door? Then there is the most dangerous bend in Edinburgh – Featherhall Avenue – where drivers take their lives in their hands every time you go down it or up it.”<br /> "</p> <p>Don't think I've ever been down Featherhall Avenue in my life. I must keep taking the long/slow way round. </p>