Of course, all of CCE's resident railway history enthusiasts will be familiar with the site of the former Caledonian Railway's Morrison St Goods and Mineral Yard, latterly the unkempt NCP for drivists.
Today I have a cold and with my energy far below torpedo-propelling levels I took the long, winding and traffic-avoiding route home, taking in the Stenhouse-Balgreen path, Roseburn Park, Haymarket Yards, and Morrison Circus zigzag. It occurred to me that, now the NCP is gone and new development commencing, all that lovely car parking has disappeared.
Was there an outcry from motorists about it? Is CEC duty-bound to provide for them elsewhere, or can it use this as a precedent for doing likewise elsewhere in the city and returning the land to the people (or at least, the rich hotel-developing people)?
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