http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: ‘CEC to ban HGVs turning left at city's 'most dangerous' junction’ en Thu, 21 May 2026 07:56:12 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20761#post-358145 Tue, 25 Jan 2022 13:46:15 +0000 toomanybikes 358145@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Trivially easy improvement to Fishwive's Causeway would be to remove the apparent minimum waiting period for the light to go green over Harry Lauder Road, which I find takes infuriatingly long without fail. Wonder what they're actually doing though. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20761#post-358075 Sat, 22 Jan 2022 00:49:05 +0000 CycleAlex 358075@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>The business bulletin from next weeks <a href="https://democracy.edinburgh.gov.uk/ieListDocuments.aspx?CId=136&amp;MId=6157">Transport &amp; Environment Committee</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20761#post-358074 Sat, 22 Jan 2022 00:12:45 +0000 urchaidh 358074@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Really bad news, this has been dragging on too along. Where did that update come from, @cyclealex? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20761#post-358068 Fri, 21 Jan 2022 19:27:32 +0000 chdot 358068@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Thought the ‘dangerous layout’ there had been ‘fixed’. </p> <p>How about a large planter?? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20761#post-358067 Fri, 21 Jan 2022 19:09:10 +0000 CycleAlex 358067@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>This is now delayed as no contractors bid for the work:<br /> <blockquote>Short Term Improvements at Portobello High<br /> Street/Inchview Terrace/Sir Harry Lauder Road<br /> Junction - Update</p> <p>On 14 October 2021, the Committee approved the<br /> implementation of short short term improvements to safety<br /> for vulnerable road users at the junction of Portobello High<br /> Street, Inchview Terrace and Sir Harry Lauder Road.<br /> Following this, the detailed design for these improvements<br /> was finalised and tenders were issued under the Council’s<br /> Transport Infrastructure Framework, with a view to works<br /> commencing on site in early February 2022.</p> <p>The tender period closed on 21 December 2021, with no<br /> tender responses received. This is symptomatic of a widerissue that is currently being experienced across various Council work programmes, where contractors are being extremely selective when tendering for small to medium sized construction contracts, due to various nationwide issues and uncertainties, including shortages of labour and some construction materials, high construction inflation<br /> and the potential for further impacts from the Covid-19<br /> pandemic.</p> <p>The Council’s Roads Operations service is not currently<br /> able to deliver these improvements.</p> <p>It is therefore now intended to seek to procure a contractor<br /> using an alternative Council framework contract, under<br /> which access is available to new contractors, and work is<br /> underway to produce the necessary contract<br /> documentation for this.</p> <p>The need to re-tender means that the work is now unlikely<br /> to be able to commence before mid-March 2022.<br /> In addition to the improvements that will be put in place at<br /> the junction itself, the contract also includes measures to<br /> encourage lower traffic speeds on Northfield Broadway,<br /> which will form part of a signed diversion route being put in<br /> place as part of the works, and minor improvements along<br /> the Fishwives Causeway QuietRoute, to increase the<br /> attractiveness of this as an alternative route for walking,<br /> wheeling and cycling.</blockquote> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20761#post-355755 Fri, 15 Oct 2021 21:07:59 +0000 Frenchy 355755@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Headline from an alternative universe: "Council to continue allowing almost all drivers to perform manoeuvre which has killed multiple people." </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20761#post-355748 Fri, 15 Oct 2021 16:56:52 +0000 chdot 355748@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>“</p> <p>City of Edinburgh Council to ban HGVs turning left at city's 'most dangerous' junction of Portobello High Street and Sir Harry Lauder Road</p> <p>…</p> <p>Cycle campaign group Spokes Porty backed the plan as “the least worst option of a group of horrible options” but said they were “frustrated and saddened” it had taken almost a year since the last accident to get to this point.</p> <p>“</p> <p><a href="https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/transport/city-of-edinburgh-council-to-ban-hgvs-turning-left-at-citys-most-dangerous-junction-of-portobello-high-street-and-sir-harry-lauder-road-3419798" rel="nofollow">https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/transport/city-of-edinburgh-council-to-ban-hgvs-turning-left-at-citys-most-dangerous-junction-of-portobello-high-street-and-sir-harry-lauder-road-3419798</a> </p>