Managed to make it for the beginning. Didn't take the bike this time but the point is it's about people.
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Shandwick Place 1 minute's silence - Wednesday 7th June 8.30am
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It was very poignant and fitting. Very good attendance. I hope it will have the desired impact as well.
Several buses went by with the passengers taking photos.
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Hope it changes the right people's minds
Green MSPs and councillors were there, as was Frank Ross. I don't know if any other councillors or MSPs attended.
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Well done everyone that organised and helped out - great job, very fitting.
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Nice photos, @chdot.
Thanks to @SRD for navigating from canal basin (I got there just in time to follow, but not in enough time to say hello).
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"Nice photos, @chdot"
I'll put a batch on Flickr later.
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It was very sad to be at the accident location this morning. I hope everyone in a car, bus or tram questioned why they were being held up this morning at 8:30.
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@frenchy - we should have stuck to my original route and we wouldn't have had to cross Shandwick place twice! But I wasn't sure which pavement people were going to be on.
Really ncie to have company to cycle in with though.
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Very poignant and sad. Many thanks to those who organised and attended.
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Hugely moving.
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I arrived just in time to see gembo leading the group away from outside West Register House and joined the middle. As I crossed the tram tracks approaching the already sizable group of people and bicycles on the pavement at Shandwick Place, ARobComp greeted me and directed us to start taking up space on the westbound lane of the road itself, which I was pleased to do so; it soon became impassable, to the extent that a police officer asked some of us to move away from the eastbound lane, which was to remain open. I couldn't really hear what was said, but the sheer number of people along with the beautiful piping and silence were really poignant. I briefly caught up with my Green Councillor Claire Miller and then tagged on to the end of family SRD to navigate the surprisingly awkward off-road route to Fountainbridge, which I have walked many times but found challenging to cycle. Brilliant work by everyone who helped organise the event.
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Thanks to everyone for turning up - that felt very worthwhile, if a terribly sad event to be attending.
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Huge respect for the organisers of this event. It was very moving.
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Well done, all. A very fitting and moving tribute and protest. Let's hope we never have to do this again and that the people that need to take notice did so.
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I'd reiterate a chapeau to those who helped make this happen. To me it was appropriate, poignant and very moving.
I can only hope if any family, friends or colleagues of Zhi Min Soh were present that they were in even a minute way, comforted by it.
Fingers crossed, none of us ever have to attend another event like this morning's.
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@ect - there were close friends of hers there who also know her family - we were in touch with them before the event and they were very supportive of it. There were also several of her classmates there.
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The City of Edinburgh Council stated that they have made ‘every effort’ to improve the awareness of tram tracks and safety to cyclists.
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The City of Edinburgh Council stated that they have made ‘every effort’ to improve the awareness of tram tracks and safety to cyclists.
I'm going to assume that that line has been taken out of context by the EEN and is not the CEC's response to the commemoration event today...
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Thank you to all who organised and advised. I think the event was absolutely spot on in terms of tone and the piper was a great idea. The whole thing was very poignant and moving. I was next to a lovely lady who had lost her former fiancée in a cycling accident several years ago (not his fault). We shed a tear and shared a hug together. I told her about this forum, I hope she finds it.
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"Awareness" is an almost meaningless phrase, in my opinion. I can be as aware of the tram tracks all I like but unclear as to how that will stop me falling on them if I'm shoved off my line by a taxi...
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Nice bit of video (last link).
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"I'm going to assume that that line has been taken out of context by the EEN and is not the CEC's response to the commemoration event today... "
I guess that's so but they really should make a more positive response.Posted 7 years ago #
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