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Started 10 years ago by chdot
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questionnaire about the perception of street trees in Edinburgh - for my dissertation

Dear Sir/ Madam,

I am a postgraduate student at Heriot-Watt University studying towards an MSc in Sustainable Urban Management. As part of my dissertation I am researching the potential impact of street trees on road users in Edinburgh.

I would very much appreciate it if you could disseminate the following link to my questionnaire in your newsletter/ website, among your colleagues and friends. The questionnaire is designed to help me understand preferences in relation to the use of urban streets in Edinburgh.

https://de.surveymonkey.com/s/perception_of_steet_trees

Any information provided will be treated confidentially and the data collected will be used for the purposes of my MSc dissertation only.

To further entice participants, they/ you can win a gift voucher from Filmhouse on Lothian Road!

I greatly appreciate your support, and thank you for your time.

Kind regards,

Johanna H. Hoffert

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Posted 10 years ago #
gembo
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Street trees in Edinburgh are very perceptive

Oh I will have to do the survey now I feel bad. How long does it take?

Posted 10 years ago #
chdot
Admin

"How long does it take?"

You tell us...

Posted 10 years ago #
gembo
Member

I clicked on the link and it said

Oh bananas

We can't find the link

Posted 10 years ago #
chdot
Admin

Fixed

Posted 10 years ago #
gembo
Member

Quite long 20 mins?it is about leith walk and Lothian road. Sometimes gets a bit conflated between the two. There do be some German words but if you have done a survey monkey before but don't know any German you can still work it out. I am hoping I win the film house voucher

The reimagined Lothian road looked good the leith walk reimagining looked about the same but with some trees.

I do like trees, they start with the same letters as my favourite things.

Posted 10 years ago #
chdot
Admin

"they start with the same letters as my favourite things"

Tricycles?

Posted 10 years ago #
wingpig
Member

"...as my favourite: things."

Posted 10 years ago #
gembo
Member

Oh now I do have a great wee 1950s tricycle with the back spars/axle worn where the wee brother or sister stood. Takes a Brompton tyre. Brakes apply vertically using connecting rods so stopping not clever.

Treemendous are the trrrrrams

Posted 10 years ago #
Snowy
Member

Did the survey; about 20 mins.

Many streets could be improved with the judicious addtion of greenery. Lothian Road and Leith Walk however probably need to be torn up and started again.

Gembo, you may have the voucher if I win it.

Posted 10 years ago #
crowriver
Member

I did this survey too. I thought the way Lothian Road looked with trees was much nicer. Oddly though it didn't improve Leith Walk much, mainly because nothing else changed! No point having trees in the middle of an urban dual carriageway racetrack. Anyway, the trees were where the trams are supposed to go (eventually). Leith Walk would be better with trees on both sides shielding pedestrians from traffic.

Posted 10 years ago #
Morningsider
Member

That was a bit of a slog - I wouldn't fancy trying to draw any conclusions from the results of that. Gembo - you can have the Filmhouse voucher if I get it. I don't remember being asked for contact details - so not sure how I would know if I had.

Posted 10 years ago #
cb
Member

"I don't remember being asked for contact details"

Optional email address was the very last thing it asked for.

Posted 10 years ago #
gembo
Member

Thanks for offer of voucher. I just felt I wanted a reward for finishing it. Did not point out you would have to add e-mail address if you wanted in the draw. I find this is necessary. I used to get a small bit of gip from people who did not get circulated stuff on a group e-mail as previously they had ticked they did not wish to receive emails. This is pretty much an over riding default so when in fact you have to give it to win a prize, you need reminded.

If none of us win, I am still rewarded as crowriver has agreed that Lothian road nicer with trees, leith walk still leith walk

Posted 10 years ago #
chdot
Admin

"leith walk still leith walk"

But it'll soon be Leith Boulevard.

Posted 10 years ago #
crowriver
Member

But it'll soon be Leith Boulevard

Only if it has trees on both sides, shading the wide pavements from the blazing sun.....er, actually that's Barcelona. Or any other Mediterranean/southern European settlement, basically.

Okay, sheltering the pedestrians from incessant traffic, rain and howling winds.

Alas, way back when I visited McDonald Road Library for the Leith Walk consultation, I overheard the planners/street designers lamenting the fact that, apparently, trees set in pavements "just die". Not "how do we give the trees a bit more space to live" but more "no point bothering with that, they'll just die".

Oh well. So much for "Edinburgh Inspiring Capital" - well Leith's not really Edinburgh anyway, is it? So forget the trees then, eh? Sigh.

Posted 10 years ago #
gembo
Member

The one in the big planter in the survey looked like it did not have much growing room

Posted 10 years ago #
chdot
Admin

"apparently, trees set in pavements "just die". Not "how do we give the trees a bit more space to live" "

Indeed.

I remember a 'back green improvement project' some years ago.

The saplings died.

Turned out they were still in the plastic bags they had been delivered in.

Posted 10 years ago #
PS
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Perception-wise, I shouldn't be surprised if one of the key reason we perceive tree-lined streets as more pleasant than those without vegetation is that the very existence of the trees mean there's less of the streetspace being taken up with noisy, polluting and threatening moving or ugly and space-hungry idle cars.

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