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Avoid George Square and Crichton Street

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  1. cc
    Member

    George Square and Crichton Street are more chaotic and dangerous than usual this week:

    • Lots of festival related traffic;
    • Lots and lots of festival related people, far too many for the narrow pavements so they stroll along the road;
    • Crichton Street has been narrowed by the BBC's occupying forces;
    • Crichton Street has been narrowed on the other side by means of a line of cones and blue string;
    • Someone has erected prominent "No Entry" signs at the corner of George Square which make Crichton Street into a one way street westwards (away from the mosque, towards the square);
    • These are being ignored by many locals (bin lorries, taxies, delivery drivers, etc.);
    • A colleague searched and failed to find any traffic order related to this on the council website so suggests that the restriction is illegal;
    • Rumour has it that George Square is also now a one way street, but there are few if any signs saying so and it has two way traffic on it;
    • and happy festival crowds all over the street;
    • and of course the world's bumpiest setts;
    • Oh and a few yards away, performers on Middle Meadow Walk are drawing crowds which block the footpath entirely and threaten to block the cycle path too.

    Posted 10 years ago #

  2. Snowy
    Member

    Ah. The one-way thing might explain why Meadow Lane was full of traffic when I was out running the other night! Seems highly unlikely it's a lawful restriction.

    Posted 10 years ago #

  3. cc
    Member

    Absolutely! Bit odd too that so much traffic is using Meadow Lane when it could instead use Buccleuch Place, which is far bigger.

    I'll just warn folks again that a temporary one way system suddenly appeared this week, and lots of drivers are totally ignoring it. Avoid.

    Oh, also, high walls have gone up along the pavements, preventing people from crossing the roads, except at the busy junctions. Yesterday a lot of folk just walked in the road instead.

    Posted 10 years ago #

  4. wingpig
    Member

    Does the procession of Tattoo artists' buses still bung up Buccleuch St/Causewayside/G4B every afternoon and evening? I've not attempted to try and go home that way for four years.

    Posted 10 years ago #

  5. neddie
    Member

    I know, let take a reasonably pedestrian friendly street like Charles St, wait until it's absolutely thronged with people at festival time, then put up some extra barriers and signs to keep people off the "road"


    http://i.imgur.com/0MegCaN.jpg

    Add on top of that a few vans and Taxis aggressively 'beeping' people out of my "God given right of way"...

    TIE

    Thankfully it was largely being ignored

    Posted 10 years ago #

  6. cc
    Member

    Those barriers also prevent people crossing the road to/from the access ramp to the main entrance of the Informatics Forum!

    Posted 10 years ago #

  7. cc
    Member

    News from a colleague this morning:

    "Obviously the police don't think much of the one way system in Crichton Street. I've just spotted a police car driving from west to east."

    Also big plastic snaky barriers have appeared. Bit more effective than blue string at massively cutting the width of the road - they do at least seem to slow drivers down.

    Posted 10 years ago #

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