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"Selfish Cowgate parkers ‘putting lives at risk’ "
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Posted 9 years ago #
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The area around that new "SoCo" development is particularly bad. What architects put on the plans as "public realm" should be interpreted as parking / loading bays.
Posted 9 years ago # -
SOCO is an interesting place. Seems CEC insisted on a loading area - which is shared with the pavement. If you look down from South Bridge you can see the stones laid in to the pavement.
https://www.flickr.com/gp/130059894@N04/M01Hk5
140204145402IMG_0241 by Paul Fountain, on Flickr
Posted 9 years ago # -
so when they're loading, the pavement is about 1 foot wide?
The vehicles also back up 2-deep inside the little pend on the left, just out of shot here.
Posted 9 years ago # -
Bollards have been fitted in the past few days to "stop" vehicles parking inside the pend.
Capture by Paul Fountain, on Flickr
Posted 9 years ago # -
"Campaigners also want to have the pavements improved to cope with the increase in revellers."
This makes it seem like the pavements are broken because of all the extra pedestrians. Or that the broken pavements would be fine if it wasn't festival season?
Posted 9 years ago # -
Coo'gaaten is a shambles! But it is only the Festival! Normal business will resume in a few weeks where only drunks, revellers, and homeless will lose their legs in this dark glory hole!
Posted 9 years ago # -
The cycle lane on MMW is completely covered with pedestrians kids etc Possibly because the pedestrian side is full of people handing out leaflets...
Posted 9 years ago # -
Coogate totally mental at the moment. The latest thing is the cowshed venue expanding down to the roundabout and calling itself St James Gate Brewery. Certainly the beer lorries abide. Also The Irn Bru must get Through
Posted 9 years ago # -
Its not a cycle lane; on one half of the shared space cyclists are not allowed. Makes no sense at all, especially with the speed at which one can freewheel down it. Raises the question about whether the 'give way' line applies to those on foot as they don't apply other than on roads as far as I can tell from the HWC.
Posted 9 years ago # -
"Raises the question about whether the 'give way' line applies to those on foot as they don't apply other than on roads"
Technically (legally) MMW is a road, so maybe they are OK.
Don't know how that affects the 'half peds only' aspect.
Posted 9 years ago # -
The cycle lane on MMW is completely covered with pedestrians kids etc
It's been rare this week for me to encounter less than half a dozen young children scampering about on the MMW cycle lane.
May this hellish festival soon be over!
Posted 9 years ago # -
As any small child knows, the white line down the middle is a massive draw. It's something to walk along, something to follow...
Hmmm, a white line. I wonder where it leads...
Maybe it leads to the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow...
Posted 9 years ago # -
Brilliantly put :-) Yes, you see that every week! Easy to avoid them when they're following the white line.
But festival kids seem immune to this - they're drawn to the cycle lane. As are their parents.Posted 9 years ago # -
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The city’s music street, Cowgate, is to go car-free from 3pm onwards this summer in an expansion of the Capital’s Summertime Streets programme
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https://www.edinburghinquirer.co.uk/p/from-traffic-sewer-to-capitals-car?
Posted 1 day ago # -
The Cowgate is Edinburgh's music street? A bold rebrand! I mean, it still looks like the old centre of late night beer chugging and chundering, with Niagras of wee flowing from closes and the sounds of surreptitious rutting coming from its darker corners.
Posted 22 hours ago # -
"Ze children of ze night....vot beautiful music zey make..."
Posted 19 hours ago # -
I remember it being pretty hopeless when the Cowgate was ‘closed’ to traffic in the 2019 version of Summertime Streets. Continuous non-compliance with no enforcement. Hopefully lessons have been learnt, or perhaps I’m just optimistic.
Posted 10 hours ago #
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