http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Edinburgh tourist dies after being knocked down en Fri, 22 May 2026 02:15:47 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9764#post-105535 Sat, 23 Mar 2013 01:02:31 +0000 kaputnik 105535@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>What I noted from this article was that a temporary crossing wasn't (apparently) initially provided here, and only was after complaints were made. This would seem to fit with the pattern at Argyle Place recently, and also my own experiences at Broomhouse Road with tram works and this week on Gorgie Road at Fords Road - where crossings are taken out of commission for road works and no alternative is made, on roads were traffic routinely piles constantly through at 30mph (+).</p> <p>Any half-decent newspaper definitely should have been probed this sort of question in their article, if it wasn't for the fact you can't expect even basic investigative journalism from anything in the JP stable, their "journalists" are much to quick reaching for the gutter-jingo thesaurus to try and sensationalise their reporting. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9764#post-105531 Fri, 22 Mar 2013 23:30:39 +0000 Calum 105531@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>A lady in her 70s, visting the city with her friend. Very sad.</p> <p><a href="http://www.scotsman.com/news/transport/edinburgh-tourist-dies-after-being-knocked-down-1-2852048" rel="nofollow">http://www.scotsman.com/news/transport/edinburgh-tourist-dies-after-being-knocked-down-1-2852048</a></p> <p>The chipwrapper reporting is the usual garbage. It was an "accident", we are told, and "waiting to happen", and it's all the council's fault really, because the street is "used as a tram diversion route". Ah, the trams - so useful for blaming things on.</p> <p>We are told that "there was a 20mph limit, but it was routinely ignored by motorists". Well of course it was routinely ignored, and you can bet your bottom dollar that it will go on being routinely ignored exactly as before, because the streets of this country are lawless places. How many more people are going to have to die? Why is life so cheap? </p>