http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: New road en Tue, 19 May 2026 02:06:38 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20947#post-367360 Fri, 31 Mar 2023 13:43:16 +0000 Murun Buchstansangur 367360@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Winchburgh</p> <p><a href="https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/transport/edinburgh-faces-thousands-more-cars-every-day-unless-railway-station-built-in-west-lothian-town-4087609" rel="nofollow">https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/transport/edinburgh-faces-thousands-more-cars-every-day-unless-railway-station-built-in-west-lothian-town-4087609</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20947#post-360613 Tue, 17 May 2022 14:58:03 +0000 steveo 360613@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>If one didn't laugh. This sort of stuff really is depressing. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20947#post-360599 Mon, 16 May 2022 22:42:57 +0000 chdot 360599@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>“yet”</p> <p>You mean it’s still possible?? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20947#post-360598 Mon, 16 May 2022 22:32:39 +0000 acsimpson 360598@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Remind me again why Winchburgh doesn't yet have a train station? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20947#post-360596 Mon, 16 May 2022 19:15:26 +0000 Colonies_Chris 360596@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>And the new road was reported on BBC Radio Scotland at lunchtime in entirely positive terms - great news for drivers! - no thought given to environmental considerations at all, and the demolition of the flats was just mentioned in passing, not questioned at all. Terrible, lazy journalism. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20947#post-360594 Mon, 16 May 2022 17:28:21 +0000 chdot 360594@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>‘New’ transport minister <em>should</em> have been too embarrassed to attend…</p> <p><em>Could</em> have opened it without ceremony.</p> <p>“</p> <p>£50m on 500 metres of inner-city dual-carriageway. </p> <p>It's not going to help with<br /> @scotgov<br /> #TrafficReduction target.</p> <p>I wonder how much has been spent on walking, cycling &amp; bus infrastructure in #Aberdeen while this road has been being built? It certainly won't be as much as this.</p> <p>“</p> <p><a href="https://twitter.com/ts_director/status/1526133954461450241" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/ts_director/status/1526133954461450241</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20947#post-360593 Mon, 16 May 2022 17:01:49 +0000 Morningsider 360593@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I see the Transport Minister has <a href="https://www.transport.gov.scot/news/haudagain-improvement-scheme-opens/">just cut the ribbon</a> on a new 500m long dual carriageway in Aberdeen. </p> <p><strong>Total cost £49.5m!</strong></p> <p>That is £9,900,000 per hundred metres! £99 per millimetre!</p> <p>There is also the small matter, conveniently ignored in the Transport Scotland press release but <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-61464595">reported by the BBC</a>, that:</p> <p><blockquote>Hundreds of council flats in the Logie area were demolished to make way for the new road.</blockquote></p> <p>Think of all that effort expended by cycle campaigners on road space reallocation, asking for a few parking spaces to be moved. Yet the Scottish Government is happy to literally demolish hundreds of homes to shave a few minutes from peak time commuter trips by car. </p> <p>By their actions shall you know them. </p>