"2. City of Edinburgh Council: Edinburgh Active Travel Network
Creating a connected network of routes across the capital, enabling cycling to be a realistic journey choice from many parts of the city to the city centre, Edinburgh Park/Gyle, Leith and the Waterfront and the Bioquarter, and also bringing significant benefits to pedestrians and to the wider public realm."
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Community Links PLUS design competition
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Posted 6 years ago #
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I had this week written down as the announcement of which projects are being taken forwards.
I can't see any information online, but remember the last announcement being delayed beyond the scheduled time..
Posted 5 years ago # -
Edinburgh Council has put in bids and presented to the panel fairly recently so hopefully some good news soon.
Posted 5 years ago # -
Do you know if that's for a new round of funding with multiple bids, or the last round, for which Edinburgh's bid was about connecting existing infrastructure?
I thought they'd made it a two-year bid process now, not sure if it's been two years yet.
Posted 5 years ago # -
George St transformation receiving £22 million.
Posted 5 years ago # -
@frenchy: beat me to it. Not just George St transformation - also link from Meadows?
https://twitter.com/adamrmcvey/status/1156513291004461056?s=21
Posted 5 years ago # -
Meadows to George Street won last year, didn't it?
Posted 5 years ago # -
That’s what I thought - maybe Adam is lumping them all together.
Posted 5 years ago # -
There's a press release up on the sustrans website, but it doesn't give much information about the projects.
Five major transformative projects in Perth, Edinburgh, Arbroath and Glasgow (x2), will benefit from Sustrans funding, expertise and support to make walking, cycling and wheeling more accessible to all. They will receive almost £60m over the course of their development.
During the next year (2019/20), a further 200 projects across Scotland will benefit from the Places for Everyone expertise, support and funding.
Posted 5 years ago # -
Spokes:-
NOT ENOUGH INFORMATIONhttps://twitter.com/SpokesLothian/status/1156533931023511552
Posted 5 years ago # -
22 million for George St, and they aren’t even pedestrianising it!
Is there no end to the work-arounds they’ll do to accommodate motorised traffic?
Posted 5 years ago # -
The extra funding is great. But they still need to do something about the stupid planning system which means a handful of NIMBYs can stop the money being used for years at a time.
Posted 5 years ago # -
Is this new money?
https://twitter.com/lmacinnessnp/status/1184121920087887877?s=19
"Announcement from @NicolaSturgeon of further £27m fund to advance community active travel projects across Scotland. Effective tools to help meet climate challenge. Excellent.#SNP19"
The tweet from sustrans seems to indicate that the £27m is for more the 200 schemes. So by my calculations that a couple of signs and a dropped kerb each...
https://twitter.com/SustransScot/status/1184121579267088384?s=19
Posted 5 years ago # -
Doesn't look like new money - simply an announcement of which projects have been awarded "Places for everyone" (formerly Community Links) funding by Sustrans. See:
Posted 5 years ago # -
Interesting snippet here (my bold):
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Design of Musselburgh Active Travel Links, East Lothian (East Lothian Council)
About: Places for Everyone is funding the design of key walking and cycling routes which identified in the East Lothian Active Travel Improvement Plan and other reports, more specifically those routes in and around the Musselburgh area that link to works happening in Edinburgh City and Midlothian.The project will initially focus on three routes that will help everybody to actively travel through and around Musselburgh, making shopping, getting to work or school and other everyday journeys easier, safer and quicker.
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Also, I happen to know that CEC has obtained funding for a feasibility study into turning the Powderhall railway line into an "active travel corridor".
Posted 5 years ago #
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