http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Today’s rubbish consultation on consultations en Tue, 19 May 2026 02:06:39 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20514#post-367762 Wed, 26 Apr 2023 13:42:52 +0000 chdot 367762@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52848244350_71bb12bb47.jpg"></p> <p>“</p> <p>"When the orders and schedules were prepared last November.....some information relating to timings, the type of yellow lines and descriptions for side road measures was not totally accurate"</p> <p>“</p> <p><a href="https://twitter.com/rsmcksg/status/1651183290135506944" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/rsmcksg/status/1651183290135506944</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20514#post-347721 Fri, 05 Mar 2021 15:02:20 +0000 gembo 347721@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Thanks @medium dave </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20514#post-347707 Fri, 05 Mar 2021 13:39:24 +0000 MediumDave 347707@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Inspired by @Rob I had a quick look at the output areas of the 2011 census that cover George street. They also cover bits of other streets (in the case of S00103349 quite a large area). </p> <p><a href="https://www.scotlandscensus.gov.uk/ods-web/area.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.scotlandscensus.gov.uk/ods-web/area.html</a></p> <p>Area S00103352<br /> 73 people, 38 households, 57.9% of households have no car or van </p> <p>approx 16 households with at least one vehicle</p> <p>Area S00103349<br /> 92 people, 35 households, 57.1% of households have no car or van</p> <p>approx 15 households with at least one vehicle</p> <p>So a total of 31 households with at least one vehicle in the areas which cover George street.</p> <p>Maybe 40 vehicles total (there seem to be a couple of multi-vehicle households) </p> <p>Clearly rather more than 40 vehicles park on George st at the moment... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20514#post-347695 Fri, 05 Mar 2021 09:42:42 +0000 wingpig 347695@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>There's probably some way of finding the level of habitation - perhaps population density by street or postcode versus door count, or asking a resident's association, a member of whom I assume the old guy banging on about symmetry and statues of men at the initial consultation was. I would mostly go along QS in the morning or evening and never particularly noticed people obviously setting off for work of getting home, but then you can sometimes walk on a weekend morning along somewhere like Thirlestane Road where every door leads to at least eight multi-room flats without seeing any sign of life.</p> <p>Thistle/Hill/etc. streets seemed to attract an even mix of vehicles atending premises and those which were thundering along trying to escape after thinking they were taking a shortcut to avoid some traffic lights somewhere when I wandered along them at lunchtime. At least the tyre noise on the setts alerted you in plenty of time. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20514#post-347693 Fri, 05 Mar 2021 09:11:39 +0000 gembo 347693@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Queen St is probably way more residential than George St. one of the objectors to the George St plans was about resident access. I found that really weird as not sure who if anyone lives on George St.</p> <p>I lived on thistle street from 1994 to 2001. Very residential but with interesting shops and bars. Does have traffic but the one way systems stop it being a total rat run. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20514#post-347690 Thu, 04 Mar 2021 23:34:29 +0000 chdot 347690@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Though QSt would be a lot better with less traffic. </p> <p>It’s probably more residential than most people realise. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20514#post-347689 Thu, 04 Mar 2021 23:32:30 +0000 chdot 347689@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Good idea! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20514#post-347688 Thu, 04 Mar 2021 23:23:49 +0000 Frenchy 347688@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>Setting up two George Streets might be problematic. </em></p> <p>Queen St for those who want to be stuck in six lanes of traffic, George Street for everyone else? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20514#post-347687 Thu, 04 Mar 2021 23:07:35 +0000 chdot 347687@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>“Without fail the responses to the surveys would be fairly evenly split between wanting more/less emails, more/less online etc etc etc.“</p> <p><em>Ought</em> to be easy to set up two email lists and then send half the people twice as many emails...</p> <p>Setting up two George Streets might be problematic. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20514#post-347686 Thu, 04 Mar 2021 22:59:51 +0000 Stickman 347686@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>In every workplace I’ve worked at the internal communications teams, at least once a year, would send out a survey asking staff how they would like to be communicated with: more/less emails, more/less online, etc etc etc.</p> <p>Without fail the responses to the surveys would be fairly evenly split between wanting more/less emails, more/less online etc etc etc. </p> <p>The comms teams would then talk about “reflecting on these results and tailoring our output to your needs”, continue seemingly as normal then do another survey at a later date. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20514#post-347685 Thu, 04 Mar 2021 22:39:14 +0000 chdot 347685@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Consultations <em>and</em> conspiracies! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20514#post-347684 Thu, 04 Mar 2021 22:08:06 +0000 gembo 347684@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>The george street consultation had 1,350 or so responses. 66 per. Cent positive.</p> <p>Good news story</p> <p>Unless you are ex Councillor Steve C scribbling in the EEN. Then the n7mbers whic( are good for a consultation are poor and the two thirds majority have given the wrong answer</p> <p>So he calls for consultation on consultations which give the wrong answers as far as he is concerned. The rock and rolll cafe owner who likes to park in pedestrianized areas and bike lanes has presumably opened a tab for the former councillor? </p>