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Latest plans for Leith Walk - and how to deal with them
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Posted 5 years ago #
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Having been up and down Leith walk daily for the past couple of weeks, Greggs in he morning and the pizza shops in the evening are both (by a shocking margin) the worst offenders.
Enforcement of illegal parking at either of those shops would go along way to improving the safety of Leith Walk.
Posted 5 years ago # -
I've given up even mentioning the fact that there's a cycle lane there, really. The council has made it clear they're not interested in enforcing parking in it, so I just ignore it and treat it as part of the parking / loading bays.
@IWRATS: Yeah, that's what made me give up and leave - I realised he seemed to be under the impression that he and every other delivery driver has to park on the pavement in order to do his job, and it's that or not make his deliveries.
Posted 5 years ago # -
The idea that the law only applies to those lacking the chutzpah to ignore it could have some quite unfortunate consequences.
Short of sticking the lorry across the gates of 10 Downing Street green lane plus cycle lane plus double reds plus pavement is surely as forbidden as parking places come? Be interesting to know what Greggs make of this and their hilariously litigious employee.
Posted 5 years ago # -
Greggs replied to my DM with "We're very concerned to see this. We've passed your feedback onto our Transport Manager, who'll investigate fully. Thank you for sharing this with us."
Posted 5 years ago # -
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and a landscaped and safe connection to Pilrig Park and beyond
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Posted 5 years ago # -
Rode up and down the Quality Bike Improvement Corridor, city centre and Leith Walk for a meeting yesterday.
Absolutely hopeless. Apart from the 75 segregated metres on Buccleuch Street and the wand-segregation downhill on Leith Walk the rest of the 'bicycle infrastructure' was neutral or actively counter-productive.
In my world the work I do is criticised and tested by people who get paid to find fault with it. Must be wonderful to know you can just sling a handful of filth at the street and declare the job done.
Posted 5 years ago # -
I was on that route about 3.30pm after buying the pastel de natas for the troops from Casa Amiga, it was not bad yesterday, la favorita only double parked, got through the lights on the bike bypasses, was nearly taken out on the roundabout which was clogged and car driveer fancied moving into my lane, peds were all over the crossing at Calton Road but I waited patiently, from there I would have gone through shacks, down moray house, up through the park then round.
I can't stand the bridges or any of that shit
Posted 5 years ago # -
From the Spurtle:
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Leith Street will close to motor traffic again, this time for three weeks, from 7pm on 5 May till 7am on 25 May.
Briefer weekend disruptions are expected in June.
Laing O’Rourke, the contractor building the new Edinburgh St James Quarter, says the closure will stretch from Waterloo Place to Greenside Row. Greenside Row will remain open. Calton Road will close.
Most previous traffic diversions will return, but an Abbeymout gyratory will not be repeated as it takes too long to install and remove. Easter Road traffic-light filters will be adjusted.
Pedestrians will be able to pass via a short-term covered walkway. Cyclists will have to dismount over a 25–30m stretch.
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http://www.broughtonspurtle.org.uk/news/exclusive-leith-street-close-again-soon
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Posted 4 years ago # -
I would like to read that article, but it's taken 5 minutes just to be able to read the first two lines!
does having a subscription help?
Posted 4 years ago # -
And ‘finally’ -
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Tesco has announced plans to open a new store in an iconic red sandstone building on Leith Walk - despite a campaign to preserve local businesses.
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https://www.edinburghlive.co.uk/news/edinburgh-news/tesco-confirm-new-edinburgh-shop-26166387
Posted 1 year ago #
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