should discuss with the antis what exactly they want
The business owners want the parking restored, but that's never going to happen. The best they can expect is that the council continue to turn a blind eye to the parking restrictions being abused. The councillors appear happy to go along with this, and in fact Balfour's contribution at the Transport Committee suggests he is either ignorant of the rules or is as comfortable distorting the facts as PG. The more I think about it then the more I'm angry about how poorly the councillors have dealt with the whole situation.
Murrayfield Community Council are as fed up with the street as everyone else. Their plans aim to make it nicer for pedestrians, and their past minutes show that they want the businesses to stop putting A-boards out, clogging up the streets and to generally smarten the place up. Their big idea is to widen the pavements, but how can that be done without losing a lane of traffic, supposedly the worst thing that can possibly happen?
And everyone wants to cut down the amount of traffic going through the area. But that's not going to magically happen if they oppose any change.
HankChief tried to make these points before at MCC but was shouted down. We can only hope that the working group is more open to discussion.
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