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  1. neddie
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    I see they're continuing to make the same mistakes, namely a half-hearted LTN around Harrison park.

    They've left the West Bryson Rd / Dundee Tce East-West rat-run open, as they have the Harrison Rd one.

    Utterly ridiculous putting segregated lanes down on Harrison Rd, when a filter would do.

    All it means is they'll get loads of complaints about "increased traffic" on the rat-runs they've left open, and the usual calls to "rip it all out", a la East Craigs, Corstorphine, etc.

    Honestly, the council have no clue how to negotiate. Start with the absolute best practice, then work back. Don't start with a weak filtering scheme, and expect it to somehow survive...

    FFS, maddening. We'll never reduce driving and associated harm to our children's future at this incremental rate.

    Never mind, I guess Spokes will be along soon to say "it's better than nothing"

    Posted 1 week ago #

  2. Dave
    Member

    I started off at the end by our office (the eastern end) and worked back, surprised at how progressive it is. Then you get to all the mystifying stuff around the canal connection and Harrison Park.

    Guys, just leave Harrison Road closed at the bridges and then spend £20k on a nice modal filter on West Bryson Rd and you'll create a massive high value LTN

    Urgh.

    Posted 1 week ago #

  3. Dave
    Member

    I was thinking about the Fountainbridge plans again on the commute:

    - I ride along the canal from west of Harrison Park to Lochrin basin every day.
    - The scheme starts off the towpath west of Harrison Park and stops outside our office.
    - I can't imagine using it in preference to the towpath

    I see the argument that it's better for personal safety, in terms of being on-street and streetlit, but in exchange you need to deal with the tedious traffic from Harrison Park on, until you get to Fountainbridge with the many pedestrian crossings. Over the years I've had many near misses trying to get past Harrison Park on the road.

    It will be interesting, if it's built, to see what the effect is on cycle counts at Fountainbridge vs the canal.

    Posted 1 week ago #

  4. Murun Buchstansangur
    Member

    Scott Arthur now using these plans (flawed as they may be) to stoke cyclist hate on FB. Edinburgh's worst ever (ex-)transport convener and MP?

    Posted 6 days ago #

  5. wingpig
    Member

    That one, with the leading comment about the cycle bypass? https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1BNNdzy8zd/

    Posted 6 days ago #

  6. Murun Buchstansangur
    Member

    Indeed.

    Posted 6 days ago #

  7. Murun Buchstansangur
    Member

    Lest we forget...

    http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20966&page=23#post-368351

    Posted 6 days ago #

  8. chdot
    Admin

    Seems to have too much time on his hands.

    Shame Keir didn’t make him a Minister..:

    Posted 6 days ago #

  9. bakky
    Member

    On the subject of Fountainbridge / Dundee St consultation, something I failed to spot initially but spoilering here from tomorrow's digest:

    For the first time (that we’ve seen), there are a couple of brilliant ‘overview’ images that paint illustrations of the new infrastructure and interventions directly onto maps of the area. These are large image files that require zooming in to see the implementation, but are a little easier to parse than the technical drawings alone. The first image [13.3mb] lays out the Dundee St / Fountainbridge Route, while the second image [17.8mb] contains a number of the southern ‘canal alternative’ interventions being planned within the project that also ease school routes and the crossing of Ashley Terrace. These are well worth a look over, particularly if you find the usual technical PDFs difficult to visualise.

    While already massive files, these could still stand to be slightly higher res; but zoom in and pan around, and I think they're actually a really important way of depicting changes in ways friendly to the public and easier to reason about, would be great to have them for all projects going forward...

    Posted 5 days ago #

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