Sustrans! Of all the organisations, they really should know better.
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Today's Rubbish Parking...
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Posted 6 years ago #
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Hope someone's complained to them.
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Harsh, he was at least two feet away, OK, parallel to the lines but still, miles away.
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Hm. His car was parked in Dryden Street, not because he lives there, but because he was "taking part in Fringe comedy shows". Dryden Street is off Pilrig Street, where bus services had to be cancelled and re-routed to McDonald Road due to the volume of parked cars blocking the street.
Forgive me if I have limited sympathy for Mr Rivers (any relation to Joan?). Maybe he could leave his car in Leicestershire next time he comes to "take part" in the Fringe?
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@frenchy @crowriver Someone retweeted my footage of it on Twitter and Sustrans apologised. Apparently they were contractors rather than actual Sustrans staff, so they'll be having words with them.
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I don't think that's the first time that Sustrans contractors have behaved like that though...
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Black Renault parked across a dropped kerb on the corner of Portland St and Commercial Street, right next to bins so totally blocking progress for pedestrians. A guy in a wheelchair had to go out onto Commercial St, into traffic, to proceed.
I waited to see who the driver was and a bloke came out of a nearby shop so I told him he was blocking the path and about the person in the wheelchair having to go out on the road but he didn't seem too bothered - "I was only a couple of minutes". I'll bet it took longer than that for his bacon rolls and bag of goodies.
I took a couple of pics, one with the guy in the wheelchair as he approaches the car and showing the registration. Anyone know if there is somewhere of use that I can send this pic to? It's possible he parks there on a regular basis.
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maybe sustrans should be having chats with their contractors before, and not after?
morepaths, i think you can report it to 101, but reports vary on to how useful that is. some folks just post it on social media with the offending company tagged, but if it's privately owned, they won't care.
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@the canuk @fimm Yes - I complained before when they were surveying at Fiveways, and were stopping and interviewing cyclists right in the middle of the junction. They hadn't the sense to do it on the grass at the side of the paths, so sightlines at each entrance to the junction were obscured as well as the path being obstructed.
I get the feeling they do it deliberately to bring cyclists to a near-stop, allowing them to easily jump in front of potential interviewees with their clipboards and provide them with little chance to escape ;-)
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What really annoys me about the Sustrans people at 5-ways is that they claim to have built "this fabulous path network" (the NEPN).
When in fact it was made usable by volunteers from Spokes, etc., then improved by the council.
Sustrans may have contributed some funds, but they certainly didn't create the NEPN.
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Well really it was the death of local rail that created it...
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Sustrans may have contributed some funds, but they certainly didn't create the NEPN.
I explained that to the Sustrans lady that stopped me on the Meadows. Quite why Sustrans wouldn't expect a large fraction of Edinburgh commuters to be clued up on infrastructure and history I do not know.
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Someone double parking an HGV next to an empty loading bay on the Royal Mile, apparently so that they could load a cup of coffee.
But they had their hazards on, so it's all right.
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"HGV" "Royal Mile"
There's your problem, right there...
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Some sort of liveried ute whose company name has since escaped me parked half-up on the footway very close to the give way line on the roundabout between Constitution Street and Ocean Drive.
The tram-related mangling of the wee grassy bank on the opposite side of the dock from Victoria Quay (including the ripping-up of the wee trees) is bringing a lot of banksperson-free NWH tipper trucks to the area. The extra risk on the south footway of ocean drive is compounded by the apparently needless blocking of the opposite footway with a bunch of Heras fencing by (presumably) the developers hogging the land behind Ocean Point One.
Posted 6 years ago # -
More like today’s rubbish rubbish -
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“Making the parking fees so expensive will put such valuable, and previously affordable exercise, out of reach for a lot of people, thereby denying them a basic right to fresh air and exercise.”
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Car transporter on East Market Street outside Waverley Court, leaving barely a carswidth between it and the parked cars on the opposite side of the road yesterday evening. Very wide car parked entirely on the footway at the top of New Street.
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There's a guy who parks on the whole pavement in Clermiston as he can't be bothered walking 20-30m. As my 80+ mother stays there and constantly has to walk in the road I make a point of reporting such parking near her to the community police.
This person has been warned several times and I have insisted the police start prosecuting him. May well happen now as his MOT as ran out and as a good citizen I felt duty bound to mention that in my last e-mail to them.
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I'm getting a bit fed up of the new Indian takeaway owner and delivery driver parking their vehicles on the Dalry greenway during operational hours:
It makes the right-turn from Dalry Rd into the Telfer subway path all the more dangerous, as there is nowhere for following traffic to go as you wait to turn right. Also following traffic may confuse your signal to turn right with a signal to overtake the parked vehicle, which may leave them overtaking you anyway.
I've asked the takeaway people to move it politely, but to no avail. I've also asked a nearby traffic warden to ticket it but he stated that, "I don't do greenways, not my patch!"
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Driver of Restaurant Fat collection lorry parked two wheels on pavement and two on DOUBLE YELLOW LINE outside cafe on corneer of Grassmarket, Candlemaker Row and Cowgate.
I suggested this was a feckin stupid place to park. He tooted his horn, I gave him The V
Who does he think he is?, not even a Beer Lorry
THe people up the street asked if I was OK which was nice of them I said I was only calling him out, they agreed - quite pertinent to them as they would have had no way round him and what was a safe pavemetn was turned into a very dangerous crossing or a retracing of steps to safety.
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BMW parked blocking a secure bike store. As I was raking around in my bag for the swipe card, the verbally abusive owner appears in my face to accuse me of scratching his car, pointing at some mark that was clearly already there. As they are getting more and more agitated I ask them to calm down and point out to them that they are being recorded on my rear camera.
He then trys to take the moral high ground and 'phone' the police and take my photo. I suggest that I am happy to give my details to the police but not to him due to his threatening behaviour but, of course, he won't give me his phone. I realise I am wasting my breath and leave him telling me how the police will hunt me down.
I look forward to appearing on Crimewatch UK.
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Fury as entitled drivers believe parking restrictions don't apply to them.
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"they also say that the fines do not give the right message to those wanting to keep healthy and participate in sport"
Well, that's a statement and a half.
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I checked the car park twice and it is simply not big enough for the level of people using the complex.“
If they all come in their own cars.
Plenty buses nearby, nice cyclepath and a railway station.
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"There were numerous cars parked on the yellow line and we believed we were parked legally due to being able to park on single yellow lines in the city centre on a weekend."
I agree, it's way too confusing. The sooner we switch bus lanes and yellow lines to 7 to 7, 7 days a week the better. Much less confusion. (Still dreaming).
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"There were numerous cars parked on the yellow line and we believed we were parked legally due to being able to park on single yellow lines in the city centre on a weekend."
Or in other words "I don't understand what a single yellow line means".
I did the same thing not long after I passed my test, and parked on George Street at the side of the road on a single yellow (behind another car who had done the same), and got a parking ticket. But I didn't go and blame the council for my failure to check what the parking restrictions were...Posted 6 years ago # -
Ferry Road could do with some similar yellow lines. When we passed at 1 on Sunday it was a horror show of entitled drivers. The entire length outside one of the playing fields was full of cars abandoned half on the pavement and half in the cycle lane. The road would be wide enough there for them to have parked legally on the road but instead they all felt the need to drive on the pavement.
It was slightly better than last Saturday evening though when the only vehicle parked there was a coach who decided that the best place to park would be on the pavement next to a traffic island.
Does anyone think it would be worth contacting the "charitable" institution responsible for running the venue?
Posted 6 years ago # -
The head teacher of George Heriot's is to be found periodically berating parents for the parking of their Chelsea tractors up forest road way. I say parking, more abandoning briefly, what do you mean there is an issue? I am only stopping for an instant to drop off my children, how can that be an issue? traffic jam? Well that is acceptable collateral to facilitate my morning isn't it?
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