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“Edinburgh is a thriving and vibrant city. A speed limit of 20mph will make our streets a better place for all who live, relax and work here, and improve the vast majority of Edinburgh’s residential and shopping streets.”
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the EEN commentators must have got a new supplier...
You been reading the comments??
Oh, they are good - particularly the ones on the article from the other day.
The EEN commenters are developing their own new kind of physics where mass is irrelevant in a collision. Apparently all it takes is some elementary first year engineering to prove it. The full proof has yet to be published, but I'm sure they are just sorting out the final details.
Is "LesterBongs" someone here? I did quite like his/her take on the Say-no-to-20 protest from the viewpoint of the attending dog:
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In a letter to the Evening News, Rover the Dog has sought to disassociate himself from opposition to the 20mph speed limit plans
Rover, aged 7, said "I tried to explain to my owner that the number of Facebook likes on a page doesn't mean anything. I also pointed out that claims of "endless research" would usually be backed up by production of evidence and documentation of that research. They seemed to think an incoherent rant in capital letters about the "clowncil" would mean they had won the argument. "
Rover believed that his owner had seen sense when they left for their morning walk, however things took a turn for the worse when they arrived at Holyrood Park for the start of the demonstration.
"My owner took my ball, so I thought he'd seen sense. Unfortunately he tricked me into turning up. I hoped that he would maybe see sense when he saw the turnout was so pathetically low, but even the sign with the spelling mistake on the front of the disco bus didn't put him off. It was embarrassing."
Despite later taking revenge on his owner by urinating on the hall carpet, Rover has said that his presence at the demonstration had had an impact on his social life.
"I can barely look other dogs in the eye now. They all ask if it was me in the pictures. Grant MacCusker has a lot to answer for."
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anyone watch the committee meeting today?
The Broken Record have noticed the 20mph rollout. They sent a journalist to drive from Hermiston Gait to Ocean Terminal to test out what driving at 20mph feels like, and compare it with "normal" driving. The result was a largely positive endorsement, mainly because in Edinburgh the driver "rarely managed to get above 20mph anyway due to the high volume of traffic". Apparently driving at 20mph was less stressful than "normal" driving. It takes about the same amount of time too: only a 2 minute difference in journey duration.
Despite this positive tone in the article, the poll at the foot of the article shows 86% *against* the 20mph limits. I'm sure we can do something about that, CCE? (Web link above).
Oh and how ironic that at the end of the journey, the journalist's car is parked on a double yellow line near some pedestrian crossing zigzags! See the photo in the article for evidence...
If she's only done a little bit of route planning she could have cut far more time from her journey and avoided the city centre. All but that last mile or so from Newhaven Road would have been on roads where the limit isn't going to change.
Perhaps 'we' should object because it's not fair to drivers...
I noticed a notice on a lamppost round the corner from the house the other day. Not sure that it would be readable from a car going past, but it's a bit of road where lots of people park if the bit of road outside their house is occupied so a few might get to see it, though probably none of the people using that bit of road as a way of avoiding some traffic lights/shaving a couple of metres off their SatNav-mediated shortest route.
Yes, there are signs on lampposts on the Gorgie Road and on the way to Harrison Park.
There's all over west Edinburgh too. I wonder how many man hours have been spent putting them up so far.
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Rod King MBE (@20splentyforus)
15/11/2016, 8:21 am
in British Social Attitudes Survey 73% say #20splenty for residential roads. Now that's what I call "will of the people"
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