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Latest plans for Leith Walk - and how to deal with them
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Armadillooooooooooooooo!
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INDEPENDENT councillor Lewis Ritchie has launched a campaign against the proposed tram extension, claiming it will devastate local businesses.
His move came as members of a community Facebook group suggested a rush-hour blockade of Leith Walk in protest at the planned extension.
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He has started a Facebook group Leithers Against The Tram, which describes itself as a “grassroots community campaign standing up for local businesses and residents who oppose spending millions of taxpayer money on extending the tram”.
---A humungous 22 likes for that page so far, and 25 follows. Right enough if they all sat in their single occupant motor vehicles they could "blockade" Leith Walk, but it appears there is already dissent in the ranks, and at least 3 of the 22 support the trams. According to EEN "most" members of the "group" think the protest is a bad idea.
Shades of the "massive" 20mph protest?
SNP must be relieved he's gone...
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The community council said it needs “all hands on deck” to scrutinise proposals to take Edinburgh trams down Leith Walk to Newhaven.
But the chairman of the authority, Charlotte Encombe, has questioned Cllr Ritchie’s commitment to representing his Leith Walk ward.
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Remedial works kicking off at the McDonald Rd junction this morning, down to one lane each way but no turn restrictions yet.
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Did you know (no.1) ?? You will be BANNED from cycling north down #LeithWalk (part of) for one and a half years in 2019/2020 unless a temporary 2-way cycle lane is added to the #TramsToNewhaven construction plan. Have you responded & told your councillor?
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https://mobile.twitter.com/spokeslothian/status/988356969571471361
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The cycle lane separators are nearly finished, they just require a light top surface on the separators themselves, and the fitment of a drop in bollard.
Given these being a success, they could be installed very rapidly in any location where there is an existing 'advisory' cycle lane along a kerbline and satisfactory surfacing, as they require no TRO or change in loading restrictions.
The lane will remain shut at Magnet once the work is done as there is a new gas drop pipe being laid across the pavement just now.
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The Cockburn Association said it supported the extension in principle but not the current plans. Their response to the consultation on the tram extension said: “What is presented to us is not a civic vision or a new, exciting expansion to our world-famous places. It is an engineering project that attempts to subjugate Leith Walk to meet engineering needs.”
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From FIVE years ago -
“Sustrans have wisely insisted the Council commit to linking Leith Walk to city centre cycle routes as a condition of seeking funding.”
http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9687#post-104755
I wonder if Sustrans will demand money back if anything they have part funded is ripped out?
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It is an engineering project that attempts to subjugate Leith Walk to meet engineering needs.
One thousand upvotes for the Cockburn Association.
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Cllr Adam McVey Retweeted
The Bed Shop Leith Walk EH6 @TheBedShopLeith
We will close for the last time on Friday 31st August after 40 years on Leith Walk. We’re re-locating to Bonnington Trade Estate at Bonnington Toll.
Meanwhile our huge Re-location Sale continues.
If you’re looking for a bargain, now’s the time.https://twitter.com/TheBedShopLeith/status/1026352255749054464
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IIRC the owner of this shop was the ringleader of "local traders" who vehemently resisted segregated cycle lanes and removal of parking/loading from the northern half of Leith Walk. Obviously his relocation is caused by the imminent redevelopment of the block where the shop is, but a side benefit will be fewer opponents to segregated cycle lanes and removal of parking/loading from the northern half of Leith Walk if/when the tram extension comes down that way.
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Linda Somerville, of Save Leith Walk, said: “Drum Property Group have singularly failed to address the issues raised through their own consultation. Local residents and businesses have clearly stated that they do not want a section of Leith Walk bulldozered to make way for this development, destroying much loved successful local businesses.
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Took a bus down Leith Walk for the first time since Leith Street opened.
If that's giving priority to public transport I dread to think what a free for all would look like.
Wild West parking, green lanes just not functioning, cycle lanes dug up, parked on, full of pedestrians. Took an hour to get from Liberton to the Shore. Not much above walking pace.
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@IWRATS That's the 'rigidly enforced' parking restrictions we were promised when we predicted that the new cycle lanes & bus lanes would be free car-parking lanes when the revamped LW re-opened.
Rigidly unenforced, more like. Active bus lanes & cycle lanes full of parked cars (even the on-pavement lanes often have cars parked in them) & no-one giving a damn. It's a disgrace.
There was a nice vid of Edinburgh Cycle Cam on Twitter last night removing a 'Lane closed' road-sign from the segregated LW cyle lane last night and putting it on the road where it belonged ;-)
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And here is our man dobbing in a Greggs driver;
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Sadly the sign that Edinburgh Cycle Cam moved last night is now back in its original place (why??) this morning.
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I'll move it again if it's there when I pass this evening. Each time I have to move it, it's getting moved further and further into the traffic lane ;)
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Camera enforcement of bus lanes is the only way forward. ANPR system issuing penalty notices to transgressors ought to put a stop to it pretty quickly. Either that or the Council will rake in a lot of money from penalty charges.
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I think camera enforcement would work too. But last time they tried it I think they got into a lot of trouble with over zealous software fining people for going into driveways.
I think you need a human element to it, like a traffic warden reviewing footage for an hour to double check instances.
Alternatively you could make an app for it and use public enforcement. It would be easy for an app to capture location and time.
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Has anyone harangued our local councillors or edinhelp on social media yet about the repeated placing of that road sign in the cycleway?
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Police enforcement, with the crushing of repeat offenders vehicles, is the only method that will work. But it isnt a priority. can anyone work out why more journeys are being made in single occupancy vehicles?
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Police enforcement, with the crushing of repeat offenders vehicles
Is there a comma or an apostrophe missing from that sentence? Works both ways for me.
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"I think camera enforcement would work too. But last time they tried it I think they got into a lot of trouble with over zealous software fining people for going into driveways."
I think this was just a teething problem, it's been running fine for years now in the few locations where there are cameras. Wouldn't be a problem on Leith Walk (although the parking spaces can be legally accessed the whole time so actually that would probably be harder to deal with than driveways!) As far as I know each ticket is human-reviewed before being sent.
Unfortunately, camera enforcement of parking offences is currently illegal in Scotland. An amendment for the pavement parking bill?
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I reckon camera enforcement of bus lanes should be fairly straightforward to get right (with multiple cameras).
1 read of a plate == no action
>2 reads of a plate within a certain time period == fineThat avoids the problem of people briefly driving through the bus lane to access a driveway or make a turn. It would possibly even allow deliveries (if loading is allowed in the bus lane) if one required each plate read to be from a different camera within a short time frame.
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Greggs HGV on the pavement on Leith Walk again last night, the driver of which threatened to "sue my a**e" if he was in the photo I took of the HGV.
At least the "Road Closed" sign was on the road rather than on the cycle lane this time.
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