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This house thinks that blocking Buccleuch Street to through traffic (excepting buses and bikes) would make the "University Precinct" a pleasant and more attractive place for people on bikes and walking, and increase footfall for almost all businesses on this corridor, where parking is mostly banned anyway.
At, say, Gifford Park or Chapel Street.
As long as it's the same for Causewayside etc. too!
AND Melville Drive between Argyle Pl and Marchmont Rd.
how would cars access the parking on Buccleuch Place, might turn George Sq into a rat run?
I was describing Dean Jonathan Swift's Modest Proposal to some folk the other night. It still has the power to shock
Do you really need buses on it? Clerk Street runs parallel and seems near enough, especially with the cut through to St Patrick Square.
@gembo, as far as I can tell, the whole university system of streets around George Square, Buccleuch Place, etc are a close system, they don't lead through to anywhere else.
I'm not advising pedestrianising the area, but closing the main road to through traffic. Cars could still get in to Buccleuch place, they just wouldn't be able to drive through from, Say, Bristo Place to Hope Park Terrace and beyond. There seems to me to be plenty of alternative routes for through traffic.
I walk up this street every day from Waverley to Causewayside, and if we cut out the through traffic it would be a quite pleasant walk.
It might make it easier to improve the proposed Meadows/Innocent bike corridor too.
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