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CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » General Edinburgh
"Skateboarding is not a criminal offence"
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Posted 14 years ago #
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It's a deeper problem with the homeless drinkers. You can't just keep moving them on. They were moved from the mound to hunters square to nicholson square then onto bristo square where will they get moved onto next? They aint gonna dusapear and arresting them all the time is'nt gonna solve the problem either.......care in the community eh?
Posted 14 years ago # -
yeah. thought about posting this yesterday. i don't have a problem with skateboarding per se - just the noise it generates - even many floors up. and that they seem oblivious to the idea that people are working all around them. noticed that the article doesn't mention noise at all.
at present I find the drunks etc congregating at the top of MMW more of an annoyance -- there've been some quite big crowds of late taking over the footpath, and rowdy enough to feel threatening. (probably as Recombodna says, moved on from bristo square...)
(of course, if they're going to 'move on' the skateboarders, then I'd like to see them do the same to the parents whose rangerovers fill up george square when heriot's letting out time, which is also noisy, potentially dangerous as usually the square is mostly used by pedestrians, and polluting.)
Posted 14 years ago # -
"A further problem in the area is activity by skateboarders and trick cyclists, who cause damage to the stone edging and leave rubber tyre marks on the walls of the buildings."
Posted 14 years ago # -
And the anti cycling **** starts already....
Posted 14 years ago # -
Skateboarding is not a criminal offence (though I'm sure some people in the 1970s felt otherwise), but I'd agree that it is noisy. I'm surprised George Square could be that popular though, as it's mostly cobbles or grass. Bristo, on the other hand... :-)
Time for CEC to revisit that Caltongate idea, with a load of nice tall trees to help absorb the sound and keep those ruffians in their
bovver bootsVANS and DCs out of sight of decent people.Posted 14 years ago # -
"I'm surprised George Square could be that popular though, as it's mostly cobbles or grass."
This is the problem - they're not in the square but right on the steps of the buildings, immediately under all the offices, where there are fun little walls, ramps etc.
Posted 14 years ago # -
That is why there should have been a skatepark in the Meadows. Folk who skate in Bristo and George Square are hardly going to hike all the way out to Saughton to skate are they? I wouldn't.
Posted 14 years ago # -
That is why there should have been a skatepark in the Meadows. Folk who skate in Bristo and George Square are hardly going to hike all the way out to Saughton to skate are they? I wouldn't.
AMEN TO THAT!!!!
Posted 14 years ago # -
Come now, can you imagine the Meadows having a skate park when they won't even have people riding across? (Not that we need to go there again...)
This *is* Edinburgh...
Posted 14 years ago # -
They're back....now I know it is Friday afternoon....
Posted 14 years ago #
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