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Mad ideas for Roseburn Tce

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  • Started 8 years ago by neddie
  • Latest reply from I were right about that saddle

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  1. neddie
    Member

    To avoid polluting* chdot's serious "Option A+" thread with bonkers ideas, I thought I'd better start a new one.

    So far we've had:

    - a floating loading bay in the middle lane of 3 lanes, with narrow and 20mph moving lanes either side (to satisfy loading for shops on both sides).

    - removal of the advertising hoarding and bulldozing of a banking and a stone wall to make way for off-street parking.

    - an elevated cycle way cutting through above the noxious mess below, with the road enclosed to prevent fumes escaping.

    - an elevated motorway with spaghetti on/off ramps leading directly to the shops.

    Any more...?

    *No pun intended

    Posted 8 years ago #

  2. jdanielp
    Member

    I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.

    Posted 8 years ago #

  3. Stickman
    Member

    Flowers and hanging baskets could improve the place.

    Posted 8 years ago #

  4. chdot
    Admin

    "To avoid polluting* chdot's serious "Option A+" thread"

    Ta

    "- removal of the advertising hoarding and bulldozing of a banking and a stone wall to make way for off-street parking."

    This one is a mystery to me.

    Large amount of dead space/land, which (I think) came from the cutting towards Craigleith Station.

    It would cost money to remove, but they are currently doing similar at the Haymarket goods yard.

    Could build a few houses or an office block or just a bit of car parking!

    Posted 8 years ago #

  5. Rosie
    Member

    Remove flood defences. Let Water of Leith flood. Restore to marshland. Raised foot and cycle bridges on wooden piles.

    Posted 8 years ago #

  6. Cyclingmollie
    Member

    "I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure. "

    I said that to a customer once about their old, hacked website. They didn't laugh.

    Knock down the shops to make space for parking?

    Posted 8 years ago #

  7. wingpig
    Member

    One-way loop system for thundering motor thingbies, like around West Maitland/Torphichen/Morrison.
    Pulley systems for transporting goods from whichever side the loading bays are on across to their target premises.
    Free active travel awareness counselling for people whose business types are unsuitable to a narrow road without rear access and help with relocating somewhere more suitable for large-vehicle-mediated trade and replenishment.

    Posted 8 years ago #

  8. i
    Member

    A bypass tunnel so only local access and a more direct tram is allowed.
    https://goo.gl/maps/MGbjdjqXA9S2

    Posted 8 years ago #

  9. Frenchy
    Member

    Pedestrianise.

    Posted 8 years ago #

  10. neddie
    Member

    What would Elon Musk do?

    Posted 8 years ago #

  11. I were right about that saddle
    Member

    Make Roseburn Terrace entirely tax free. Apart from a land value tax.

    Posted 8 years ago #

  12. robyvecchio
    Member

    Divert the Water of Leith and arrange deliveries by barge

    Posted 8 years ago #

  13. chdot
    Admin

    @edd1e_h

    Good thread!

    Posted 8 years ago #

  14. daisydaisy
    Member

    Build a cycle path along it!

    Posted 8 years ago #

  15. chdot
    Admin

    Think that's the thread closed...

    Posted 8 years ago #

  16. I were right about that saddle
    Member

    Make the SNP deliver the jetpacks they promised.

    Posted 8 years ago #

  17. Stickman
    Member

    Make the SNP deliver the jetpacks they promised.

    ... by Deliveroo.

    Posted 8 years ago #

  18. I were right about that saddle
    Member

    Divert the Water of Leith and...

    No land value tax will be payable if there's no land?

    Posted 8 years ago #

  19. steveo
    Member

    Pulley systems for transporting goods

    Rubber chickens for all residents.

    Posted 8 years ago #

  20. wingpig
    Member

    "Divert the Water of Leith and..."

    It could be called Rosebasin and market itself as a Venitian escape from the perils of land-based transport. It'd probably be easier to excavate and flood it than carve it out to let the road dip down underneath a roofed street-wide shopping arcade at ground level.

    Posted 8 years ago #

  21. chdot
    Admin

    "roofed street-wide shopping arcade at ground level"

    Should do that without the water.

    Tram in tunnel beneath.

    I think there should be nice glass roofs in the places CEC/LB calls Interchanges - Haymarket, Lothian Road, Waverley etc.

    Posted 8 years ago #

  22. Stickman
    Member

    Well, sir, there's nothing on earth
    Like a genuine,
    Bona fide,
    Electrified,
    Six-car
    Monorail! ...
    What'd I say?
    Monorail!
    What's it called?
    Monorail!
    That's right! Monorail!
    I hear those things are awfully loud...
    It glides as softly as a cloud.
    Is there a chance the track could bend?
    Not on your life, my Art Shop friend.
    What about us brain-dead slobs?
    You'll all be given cushy jobs.
    Were you sent here by the devil?
    No, good sir, I'm on the level.
    The ring came off my pudding can.
    Take my pen knife, my good man.
    I swear it's Roseburn's only choice...
    Throw up your hands and raise your voice!
    Monorail!
    What's it called?
    Monorail!
    Once again...
    Monorail!
    But Roseburn Street's still all cracked and broken...
    Sorry, HankChief, the mob has spoken!
    Monorail!
    Monorail!
    Monorail!
    Monorail!
    Mono... D'oh!

    Posted 8 years ago #

  23. chdot
    Admin

    By contrast -

    https://twitter.com/exetercycling/status/773235040344018944

    Posted 8 years ago #

  24. Min
    Member

    An 100 story high car shuffler outside every shop. Then every motorist could park outside the front door. They would press a button to have their car shuffled back to the front door when they leave. The cost would be astronomical but you can't put a price on satisfaction for the hard-pressed otherwise law abiding motorist.

    Posted 8 years ago #

  25. dougal
    Member

    Build a cycle path along it!

    Built a pedalo path along the new Rosebasin Terrace.

    Posted 8 years ago #

  26. jdanielp
    Member

    Walls seem to be popular again - wall off entrances/exits to make sure that the street is just for local people.

    Posted 8 years ago #

  27. I were right about that saddle
    Member

    @jdanielp

    For shame.

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    Posted 8 years ago #

  28. chdot
    Admin

    http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/ban-on-cold-callers-in-100-residential-areas-throughout-capital-1-4223397

    Posted 8 years ago #

  29. minus six
    Member

    Rosebaisin.. its the Venice of the North

    Posted 8 years ago #

  30. kaputnik
    Moderator

    I'd like some Escher ramps, one eastbound and one westbound, so that my journey to/from work is always a downhill freewheel. I'm reliably informed by small businesspersons of Roseburn that Edinburgh is hilly, so the Escher cycleways should be an ideal solution to promoting mass bicycle use

    Posted 8 years ago #

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