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“From 8am in the morning to about 9am that road can be completely gridlocked - over 7,000 commuters each day. I can’t understand why the whole road is being closed.”
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“How dare they? Shutting a major road is wrong"
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Posted 8 years ago #
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I like the second comment.
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Right beside Musselburgh train station & NCN1 pretty much passes through it. But
MUST. GET. TO. BYPASS!
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What a fantastic local paper article. Looks like the journalist is trying to get a job on the Daily Moan
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Oh yes, @amir, you have to read a long way through the vitriol to get to the fact that the responsible party east Lothian council could have partially closed the road for say six weeks over the summer and put in the pipes it is responsible for having presumably allowed the sale of the land for housing at the planning stage? But has then tried to manage the story as a we are helping the motorist by only closing road for ten days for Xmas treat. Throw in the rich people building their own home (which has bamboozled the family themselves to hear this description) and the story should get some kind of award?
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If only there were some locals who didn't like the idea of living on a ratrun.
http://www.sustrans.org.uk/blog/how-we-turn-vision-streets-places-reality
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@chdot, nice link, alas the newspaper carried out an extensive consultation and there was only one family they found in the whole of east Lothian who did not object to the road being closed.
Also in the other thread I am not sure a Sustrans consultation would help objectors if the four mile detour is true? Rats got ta run
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"if the four mile detour is true?"
There you have it.
Meanwhile In Euroland some towns are getting divided into 'quarters' where the only way between them is to walk or cycle - or drive the long way round.
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Merseytravel’s head of asset management, Tony Killen said: “This work needs to be done and unfortunately it cannot be completed without a full closure of the tunnel.
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Birkenhead ferry going to be busy?
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@chdot
"If only there were some locals who didn't like the idea of living on a ratrun."
I was thinking along the same lines. Pity they're not moving into Davidsons Mains main street. 10 days of no traffic would help reduce the air pollution here.
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Were it not for the question of the A1 being under motorway restrictions beyond the bypass Musselburgh would be really quite easy to quarter
Bus-cycle-taxi gates on both river crossings and on each line.
A de-facto bus only high street would make the town hugely more attractive to visit. Every portion still even gets their own supermarket to visit by car! (Tesco could be re-arranged to have their car park in two halves like South Gyle station)
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If only...
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The Musselburgh bypass was of course designed to take 'all' traffic away.
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