CityCyclingEdinburgh was launched on the 27th of October 2009 as "an experiment".
IT’S TRUE!
CCE is 15years old!
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Aye everything's on hold because CEC got a big grant for a route up the Mound.
More than a bit disappointing that improvements which have been on hold for 18 months already are to be postponed/mothballed for an as yet unspecified period.
Meanwhile full steam ahead for Picardy Place, where of course the design work is being carried out by the developers...
I understand the staff shortages issue but this is about priorities: it seems that big projects and big money talks at CEC.
Maybe they'd save money if they had fewer fake consultations?
“I understand the staff shortages issue”
To some extent that’s self-inflicted and lack of planning. Very clear more staff are NEEDED.
AND there’s a Cycle Budget AND cycling meant be a CEC priority.
“but this is about priorities: it seems that big projects and big money talks at CEC”
Yep.
"Maybe they'd save money if they had fewer fake consultations?"
This x1000
I include the cycling ones in this as well as Picardy
Carrington Rd doesn’t need expensive crazy segregated lanes, it just needs filtered. End of.
Fake consultations maybe? Or stages of consultations to thwart the objections when they are lodged upon announcement that the changes are being made.? One reason Skelf went ahead was the extensive consultations over a number of yeas
"stages of consultations to thwart the objections when they are lodged upon announcement that the changes are being made"
This.
If it works for Picardy Place...
Could this be a new perpetual consultation-feedback loop? Council wins funding for new scheme, launches consultation, analyses feedback, wins funding for new scheme, abandons first scheme due to lack of staff, launches consultation, analyses feedback...
Weren't the schemes being developed by external consultants anyway?
Correctly consulting is important, as it will shape a scheme and reduce objections.
I didn't like many/any of the small interventions, they were the sort of crap that might have been built in the 90s like the Roseburn corner cut-off. However one must be pragmatic, sometimes there's budget for tinkering, and stuff like Easter Rd could have been built in no time at all after go-ahead. None of these schemes were major enough to warrant anything more than a consult - revise - statutory process - build cycle.
Running consultations to waste time / budget, as these seem to have been in hindsight, could lead to increased consultation fatigue and mistrust in the system.
Hopefully the refocus on major projects is real and it will be a much better way of spending money.
Weren't the schemes being developed by external consultants anyway?
Exactly - they were all AECOM. This isn't a council headcount matter. They were just bunged enough cash to launch the projects then abandoned.
I've updated a copy of the Active Travel Capital Projects Status report October 2017 to show in red the delayed projects that I'm aware of. Are there any others?
Carrington Road was closed at the junction with Crewe Rd South last week (not sure if it still is???). And I have to say it was lovely cycling along it without all the rat-running traffic. And the world did not end.
Why not close it permanently at one end with bollards? Much quicker and cheaper than any fancy-pants segregation.
So 7(!) years on from this consultation, we now have this:
"Edinburgh police plan to abandon force headquarters as crumbling concrete found
Police Scotland chiefs are now looking to start a consultation on "exiting" the Fettes base - which was the headquarters of the former Lothian and Borders force.
Collapse-prone concrete has been found in 14 fire stations and three police stations including Police Scotland's Fettes building in Edinburgh, MSPs have been told.
Fettes has been found to have reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (Raac) in 10 areas in its roof, extending to more than 4,000 square metres.
With the estimated cost of repair said to be just over £4 million, Police Scotland's chief financial officer James Gray told a Holyrood committee it is "not economically viable" to carry out the work."
Time for CEC to create some facts on the ground road before flats?
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