CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » General Edinburgh

Underpass safety plans put on hold

(8 posts)

  1. cb
    Member

    http://news.scotsman.com/edinburgh/Underpass-safety-plans-put-on.6443628.jp

    "PLANS to improve safety at a crime-ridden city underpass have been put on hold after council bosses said a surface crossing would lead to road accidents.

    Campaigning locals had thought the council was ready to approve work on a pelican crossing at the underpass in Calder Road, a move which had the support of the police.

    But despite a string of violent incidents at the underpass in recent years, transport bosses refused to back plans for the road crossing, saying it would put pedestrians at risk."

    Hmmm, could slow Laidback down on his Sunday rides out of town!

    Posted 14 years ago #

  2. chdot
    Admin

    Well it's a question of priorities.

    The occasional mugging doesn't matter as much as the thought of slowing the traffic down.

    Of course a bridge would not show a cost benefit as the sort of people who get mugged in underpasses are probably not economically active.

    Posted 14 years ago #

  3. Arellcat
    Moderator

    A pedestrian crossing enabled roundabout might even make the thing safer for cyclists. I know the underpass in question, and it's a not a little scary at night, but that roundabout is in my experience also one of the most dangerous in Edinburgh. I've had three accidents, each caused by the car driver not looking properly before moving.

    Posted 14 years ago #

  4. steveo
    Member

    Which one is it? There are dozens on Calder Road.

    Posted 14 years ago #

  5. chdot
    Admin

    Not the sort of comment you normally see on Scotsman web site!

    "Personally I think there should be zebra crossings every 50 metres on all roads, including motorways and petrol should be £500 a litre. Oh and the city centre should be one big pedestrian precinct."

    http://news.scotsman.com/edinburgh/Underpass-safety-plans-put-on.6443628.jp?CommentPage=1&CommentPageLength=1000#5433936

    Posted 14 years ago #

  6. spytfyre
    Member

    zebras every 50 metres? we'd need to release the lions then...
    seriously - how on earth could we cycle with that?

    Posted 14 years ago #

  7. chdot
    Admin

    "seriously - how on earth could we cycle with that?"

    That raises a serious 'issue'.

    There are some signs of intentions to discourage car use/improve life for pedestrians in the city centre by adding pedestrian phases and extending crossing times.

    IF this happens it will be interesting to see if 'red (pedestrian) light running' increases...

    Posted 14 years ago #

  8. spytfyre
    Member

    happily I could just stick to the railway path instead if that happens

    Posted 14 years ago #

RSS feed for this topic

Reply

You must log in to post.


Video embedded using Easy Video Embed plugin