http://www.penicuikcuckoo.co.uk/2016/05/infrastructure-expand-housing/
I thought it was a joke, but they're seriously agitating for the Bypass to be expanded to 3 lanes each way...
Apparently, it's the fault of the 1980s;, which "lacked vision, creating a city bypass that had very little scope for expansion".
Number 4 and 5 on their list of priorities are;
"Complete the feasibility studies for the Edinburgh Orbital Bus Route and implement, if viable, once a third lane runs alongside the entire length of the City Bypass. Residents should be urged to commute by rapid bus rather than car, perhaps introducing a London style £1.50 hourly travel ticket that would allow a free connection at any of the park and rides.
Investigate other transport options by commissioning feasibility studies into the reopening of the Penicuik (or Peebles) and Edinburgh suburban railway lines."
I'd suggest those should be #1 and #2, as it seems to be rather strange to spend a huge amount of money to add 50% to the capacity of a road only to follow it up with demand reduction methods!
The writer also seems to be rather blind to the effects of sticking a whole lot of extra traffic down a bypass road to the effects at the junctions and roads leading to/from them. Heck, why not just build a dual carriageway directly through Penicuik and be done with it?
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