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"Plan for nursery on ‘rat run’ is slammed"

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  1. cb
    Member

    Read it and weep:

    http://www.scotsman.com/news/transport/plan-for-nursery-on-rat-run-is-slammed-1-2921734

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    FURIOUS residents have hit out at plans to open a nursery on a notorious “rat run” as a “fatal accident waiting to 
happen”.
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    “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.”
    "

    Don't think I've ever been down Featherhall Avenue in my life. I must keep taking the long/slow way round.

    Posted 12 years ago #

  2. RJ
    Member

    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.

    I'd nominate the disappearing cycle lane heading west and downhill on to the Dean Bridge as far more dangerous ...

    Posted 12 years ago #

  3. steveo
    Member

    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!

    Posted 12 years ago #

  4. deckard112
    Member

    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.

    Posted 12 years ago #

  5. kaputnik
    Moderator

    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.

    Posted 12 years ago #

  6. deckard112
    Member

    "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?).

    "...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).

    Posted 12 years ago #

  7. cb
    Member

    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.

    Posted 12 years ago #

  8. chdot
    Admin

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    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.

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    http://www.scotsman.com/the-scotsman/transport/edinburgh-trams-to-carry-public-from-april-1-2826357

    Posted 12 years ago #

  9. HankChief
    Member

    Update - wonder what they are trialling

    Intriguing... by HankChief, on Flickr

    Featherhall Ave by HankChief, on Flickr

    Posted 11 years ago #

  10. wishicouldgofaster
    Member

    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.

    What do people get taught these days when learning to drive?!

    Posted 11 years ago #

  11. Kim
    Member

    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...

    Posted 11 years ago #

  12. Stickman
    Member

    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.

    Posted 11 years ago #

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