But does it free up money that TS was planning to spend??
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"Edinburgh and South-East Scotland City Region Deal"
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Posted 7 years ago #
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£120m extra for a bypass elsewhere?
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"£120m extra for a bypass elsewhere?"
Or A9 dualling...
Should pay for some lucrative design work at least.
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One in five households in Edinburgh live below the poverty threshold and are largely hidden away in the suburbs, already marginalised from its great festivals and New Year party.
Brown confirmed the Scottish Government is investing nearly half of its contribution – £120m – on roads.
But the city’s mediaeval town centre is already congested with traffic, despite attempts previous council administrations to tackle the issue.
Air pollution, which the Institute for Public Policy Research this week called “the tobacco of the 21st century” is a serious health problem in a historic town centre which if located in any other northern European country would have been pedestrianised decades ago.
Early plans for the road system by the new St James Centre Growth Accelerator project show five or six lanes of traffic passing by the currently pedestrian-heavy Omni centre, where a cinema and the Playhouse offer what could be a cultural hub.
Investing in more roads, an already booming digital sector and a great big concert hall all boost the status quo, but the status quo currently offers little to many of Edinburgh’s communities, let alone those outside the city.
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https://www.holyrood.com/articles/comment/edinburgh-city-region-deal-just-reinforces-status-quo
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That critique is spot on.
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IT is my contention that a fair bit of Edinburgh traffic is from non-residents driving to work I say this as when the Forth Road Bridge was closed for an extended period a while back, my commute back to south west Edinburgh was very much quieter. I would say the corstorphine smog corridor is largely generated by vehicles from Fife/West Lothian
The money is in my opinion not therefore best spent on linking the region to the capital as that is happening already. What the money should be spent on is linking the region to the capital without cars being used. E.g more borders trains
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City/Region deal - Spokes view and tweet (RTs appreciated)
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PLEASE read Spokes article above.
As ever, lots of well argued points based on understanding of evidence/facts and what c/should be done.
IF ONLY SG, TS etc. had half the grasp/understanding.
Lots of suggestions for what YOU can do.
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Spokes article is very constructive
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CITY Deals are “too opaque” and ministers should in future give public justification for their decisions over which projects to fund, a report by MSPs said today.
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Posted 6 years ago #
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“CURRENT STATUS (MAY 2022)
• 18 out of 20 Business Cases approved by Joint Committee
• £226m Government funding spent (38% of total)
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Posted 2 years ago # -
Note that that "Research, Development and Innovation" category is paying for the "A701 Relief Road" in Midlothian.
Posted 2 years ago #
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