I'm sure there will be lots of cycle parking by the front door and convenient routes to get there.
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"Old fruit market reborn as Edinburgh West Retail Park"
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Posted 8 years ago #
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I can't tell if that whole article is just awful or a step beyond awful.
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"...with a 286-space car park offering easy access for motorists."
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Journalists must go to sleep with cold tears of shame in their eyes these days.
My favourite? '...a new Marks & Spencer Foodhall, creating 67 jobs and boasting a 42-seater cafe...'.
Shopping With Beryl meets Jackie Bird on Reporting Scotland.
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Yay! A 286 space car park - just what Chesser needs. Bets on people actually driving between this new place and Asda?
EDIT - dang, beaten to it by Wingpig. Anyway - only 286 spaces? Clearly part of the Council's "war on the motorist".
Posted 8 years ago # -
Has the gate at Bainfield been opened to peds/cyclists? There's actually quite a nice path (but short) from Gorgie Mills through the Hutchisons
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JoChurnalists...Posted 8 years ago # -
"...boasting/bygone/relic/bustling/prime/boasting/ambitious/boast..."
Considering the slightly hyperbolic phraseology the same journalist has exhibited in 'original' articles about cycling (including the one he researched using this forum) some bits of this article are a bit bland. Maybe "...with a ridiculous 286-space car park pandering appallingly to motorists".
Four of the eight retail units are still empty, so perhaps they could knock through one of them to make another one into a drive-through doughnutarium in case people are too lazy to park and walk to the café.
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Edinburgh West Retail Park. East of the Gyle. Which is in the west. Of Edinburgh.
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It's basically just a car park with 8 shoddy looking retail units. Waste of a good site when garbage garden cities are being built on the green belt.
edit: and as pointed out, it's a crap name.
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There is actually a funny comment in the comments gets 29 likes and 6 dislikes. Finbarr Saunders suggests it just needs a tanning salon to give multrees walk a run for its money.
Pound land and Aldi apparently not yet open. The old fruit market was apparently in market street.
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"RBS led the development alongside partner Ediston Real Estate. BP Pension fund, which financed the project, will now take over operation of the site."
So our nationalised bank, aided by property developer cronies and a fossil fuel derived pennon fund, create a retail park designed to burn more fossil fuels.
Great.
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C'mon now crowriver, that comment would get one like and 29 dislikes in the comments section beneath the story
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The eastern half of the old new Fruitmarket site is still not developed, so there's not yet a through route. As I exited the Hutchison railway path this morning I found myself facing an articulated lorry full of constructional steel being reversed out of the building site without a banksman. Avoiding action taken.
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