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The officials were on duty yesterday (Saturday) but not preventing, or apparently trying to prevent, the mass pedestrian use of the cycle lane.
Woman in the lift at Lewis's complaining about a "grumpy cyclist" ringing his bell at her on his way down the cycle route. Apparently he was going too fast.
I think if pedestrian facilities aren't enough then pedestrians spilling over into the cycle lane/road is fine. they have as much right to be on/in the road as anyone else. (i've been told by the 'helpers' to get out of the road there before, even though there was no traffic. I wasn't impressed...)
@glasgow mega snake, not sure the peds have lost any space they are just behaving badly as the bike lane is there.? But I don't mind a ped so long as they wear hi viz tabards or special luminous walking clothes.
@gembo, yeah likewise I don't mind drivers as long as they wear a hemet and their vehicle is sprayed with reflective hi-viz colours. Can't be too careful you know.
I think if pedestrian facilities aren't enough then pedestrians spilling over into the cycle lane/road is fine.
When I was passing through the pedestrian facilities were nowhere near capacity. It just looked like people had missed the fact that this was a cyclelane.
It looks like a direct walking route to the John Lewis door
So it's being used that way
The answer isn't to force people around, it's to also be providing a walking route beside the cycle route while the east pavement is shut
Tabard Squad's primary purpose during the week appears to be to try and stop pedestrians walking across live traffic streams, occasionally with reference to large vehicles backing out of the work compound beside John Lewis. They don't seem to be interested in replacing cones shifted aside by workpeople leaving the compound at the gate near the top and walking across to the walkway. The workpeople walking across the bike lane from the gate are contractually compelled to remark "it's like the Tour de France here today" every day whenever they encounter more than one cyclist at a time, presumably in reference to the bits in the Tour de France where the cyclists are winding up a hill in the narrow channel left between flocks of encroaching spectators.
In mildly positive news, the section with all the big metal plates has been replaced with tarmac over the weekend.
Just walked down Easter Rd
The queue to cross the junction at London Rd is only back to Edina Place.
This is where it usually reached before the Leith St closure.
The northbound light had just turned red as I entered the final straight but leading to the exit chicane,so I thought I would time it:
And? I can't read it from your video.
5 way control with no push demand on any leg
It’s gonna be slow
I haven't watched it closely yet to find out. I think it's about three minutes.
I have another one from this morning which I haven't watched yet to count exactly how many huge NWH tipper trucks were driving south on their way into the demolition zone. I think it was about eight.
Almost exactly two minutes.
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A lack of investment at the west end store and the opening of the new St James retail development in 2020 has triggered speculation about a major development of the site.
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The “St James effect” is what everyone is talking about in property and retail circles in Edinburgh.
It might be three years before the near £1 billion redevelopment of the east end opens - complete with its 30 restaurants and cafes, 85 shops and 1600 space car park - but already any significant deal in the city centre can only be understood by considering its impact. And the sale of the Frasers store in the west end is no different.
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This evening's fun addition to the Leith Street experience is three generators right next to the fence puffing out foul exhaust into cyclists' faces.
Further to Min's question on another thread: "where exactly is all this tremendous wealth going?"
"TH Real Estate is one of Nuveen’s specialist investment affiliates. The company sits on the Nuveen platform, allowing clients to leverage the access that the broader platform offers. "
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Nuveen, LLC, is the investment management business of TIAA. Formerly known as TIAA Global Asset Management, it began delivering the expertise of TIAA Investments and its other independent investment affiliates, under the Nuveen umbrella, in January 2017.
Nuveen currently manages more than $900bn in assets for a range of investors including corporate and public pensions, insurance companies, sovereign wealth funds, endowments and foundations, financial advisors, families and individuals. The global investment management company offers a broad array of traditional equity and fixed income assets, and access to a wide range of liquid and illiquid alternative strategies in asset classes such as real estate, real assets (farmland, timber, infrastructure) private equity and debt. It is also a pioneer in responsible investment, using ESG criteria in investment decisions since 1970. The platform combines broad investment capabilities with specialist investment affiliates to provide access to a full spectrum of investment capabilities across public and private markets.
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https://threalestate.com/about-us/about-nuveen
All very reassuring, I'm sure.
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TIAA and Nuveen
Following the purchase of Nuveen Investments by TIAA, Nuveen, TIAA’s asset management unit and our multiple investment affiliates began delivering all of the capabilities of a dozen investment affiliates under the name Nuveen.
TIAA got its start in 1918 when Andrew Carnegie endowed the Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America to ensure that teachers had the ability to retire with dignity with adequate retirement provisions. Over time, TIAA evolved into a diversified Fortune 100 financial services organization. In the 1970s, the firm (then TIAA-CREF) was one of the first to use an extensive portfolio of international stocks as part of its investment strategy. Today, TIAA is the leading provider of financial services in the academic, research, medical, cultural and government fields, and offers a wide range of financial solutions, including investing, banking, advice and education, and retirement services.
John Nuveen’s first deal was recorded in 1898. Capitalizing on a unique niche in municipal bonds, the company grew quickly. By mid-century, the Chicago-based investment bank was the largest municipal bond specialist in America. By 2014 when Nuveen Investments, was acquired by TIAA, the firm managed approximately $231 billion in client assets and was a market leader in closed-end funds and the retail managed account arena, and had also recently expanded its suite of mutual funds — more than doubling its offering of non-municipal bond funds.
Our heritage ensures that TIAA and Nuveen’s concurrent 100-year histories of innovation and successful outcomes are put to work for the investors who depend on us.
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https://www.nuveen.com/Home/Corporate/About/Values.aspx
I'm sure we all get a warm feeling inside this festive season in the knowledge that City of Edinburgh Council is borrowing £60 million from the Scottish government in order to help unlock maximum return for Nuveen's investors. Oh and lest we forget "allowing clients to leverage the access that the broader platform offers. "
Judging by their hesitation, a number of drivers heading south along Leith Street hadn't read or didn't believe the bit about there being no access to Calton Road.
Now we just need them to go bust. The council can have their £60m back and use it to make a people-friendly Picardy Pl.
Will Scarlett's rosy future of money making opportunities sounds more like a nightmare for residents of eastern Edinburgh.
Hopefully now that St James demolition is complete the number of tipper lorries traversing London Road/Regent Road/Waterloo Place ferrying rubble will decrease. Only to be replaced by concrete mixer lorries for the next few years...
Is that an article about Scarlett Land and Development written by Will Scarlett?
Is that an article about Scarlett Land and Development written by Will Scarlett?
What are you implying?
Just wondering if Mysteron Real Estate gets a right of reply.
How about a reply from ‘disrupted resident of East Ed.’?
A different one -
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Will Scarlett With 17 years experience in the Scottish property market, Will is well known for transacting site sales and acquisitions for residential, student housing, and mixed use – for a client base that includes private land owners, developers, Institutional clients, funds, banks and administrators.
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Traits: proactive, personal, informed, discreet.
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He also revealed concerns over the impact of the current St James Centre redevelopment, adding: “When you look at what is happening around us with the St James centre project, how many licences have been granted for there, it is one of those things where it looks like the problem will only get worse.”
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