and apparently i should "lighten up".
because obviously i 'don't get his joke'. hope some of the cycling medics take him to task.
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Today's Nick Cook frothing
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Made me remember this:
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Am closing Twitter and stepping away from the laptop before I say something to him that I might regret...
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Come on Nick - you have been an adviser to a Tory leader. If Dominic Cummings can drive when half blind then a bit of cycling with a sore thumb should be nothing for a chap like you.
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Tory transport spokesman Cllr Susan Webber said the scheme had been “universally derided” and that residents would be glad to see the back of the plans for its return.
Bit rich to have a Pentland Hills Cllr inform me that, as a city centre resident, myself and others actually didn't like Summertime Streets.
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“More importantly, the Council needs to better engage those running shops and other outlets throughout the city centre. They are critical to Edinburgh’s economic recovery and every effort should be made to help and support them.”“
Yeah and obviously city centre customers all arrive by car.
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Should we start a new thread - Today’s Susan Webber Warbling?
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Shelved
Mr Gold who owns a lot of shops and a lot of cars didn’t like it
In fairness not going to be the same crowds
But in unfairness WTAF
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@gembo: Do we need a "do we need a Susan Webber Thread?"?
Mr Signh ...said new ideas were needed to draw local people into the city centre until international tourists returned.
How about closing large sections of the car dominated area to make the pedestrian friendly and allow free movement of people. Or does he really mean old ideas.
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Still banging on about “Lycra louts”
https://twitter.com/cllrnickcook/status/1269683268301000704?s=21
I mean how? Just how? Just how does someone so biased against a particular form of transport ever get on a transport committee?
Twitterers - do your thing...
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Well of course he has a narrow focus but his tweet was in response to this -
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To the adults in all your stupid lycra going really fast on the Union Canal path grow up. Use the road you complete losers. Road bikes, you guessed it! For roads.
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So some people in lycra are (apparently) acting in ways/places ‘we’ might not approve of.
Neither Twitter poster is actually suggesting that ‘all cyclists are like that’.
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While a man lies seriously ill in hospital, Nick Cook thinks today is the day to talk about “virtue signalling” about cycle safety. This has made me almost irrationally upset.
Shows all you need to know about SNP run @Edinburgh_CC that Transport Convenor name checks Spokes - a cycle lobby group - but not the @FSB_Scotland or a local Traders Association.
Shops need broadest customer base possible. Not illiberal virtue signalling banning some customers.
https://twitter.com/cllrnickcook/status/1275348146344923136?s=21
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She literally name checked the FSB and Chamber of Commerce!
(Caveated by the FSB saying they've not actually been contacted).
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What is this 'third way' he's an adherent to? Raving like he's drunk the QAnon Kool-Aid.
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Is there a thread for this guy?
https://twitter.com/lewisritchieIND/status/1275362232457728001
(He agrees with Nick)
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He seems like a rather confused bloke: "co-founder of the Edinburgh Party of Independent Councillors"
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@acsimpson - the other members of that group left the SNP after falling out with the leaders. His reason for leaving the SNP is a bit more troubling.
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Barrie and Bridgman took the hump but Ritchie left following allegations of sexual harassment he denies
The SNP now smaller than Tories and querying Barrie and Bridgman ‘s motivations.
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What is it that Nick wants? There are roughly 50 pay and display parking bays on Morningside Road. Parking is banned between 0800-0915 and 1630-1800. If each bay accommodates 10 vehicles per business day, that is 500 visits (750 people at average car occupancy) - who spend an average of 30 minutes in Morningside - any longer and the total occupancy of the bays would have to be reduced.
There are around 115 businesses on Morningside Road - so the on-street parking can deliver an average of 6.5 customers to each business per day.
As someone who uses that route every day, it is clear that parking use is skewed in favour of certain businesses - principally national chains such as Greggs and Sainsbury's. Some businesses may get almost no trade from drivers.
10,000 people live within easy walking distance of Morningside town centre. The street is served by several high frequency bus routes. While I don't have access to usage data, clearly many hundreds of people use the bus to get to Morningside Road businesses every day. You only need to see how busy the stops are for such an estimate.
I find it hard to believe that favouring the small proportion of customers who drive to Morningside above those who walk, cycle or travel by bus is good for business. Making the pavements wider and cycling easier is surely a greater business benefit. Without wider pavements, there will be no safe way for people to queue outside the many small shops in Morningside and for people to pass on foot - even if social distancing is reduced to 1m.
I don't really believe that Nick wants to damage Morningside businesses or put people's health at risk. So what is going on here?
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Either Nick hasn't actually stopped to think about it or he is convinced that the 750 people a day are exclusively voting for him.
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Nick is simply trying to appeal to yer average car owner who thinks that being able to drive up to any shop is undoubtedly a good thing, without thinking of the bigger picture i.e. what happens when everyone does that.
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Nick rhymes with
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Didn't Cllr Cook herald the return of Costa coffee drive throughs?
Now the champion of local business...
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I stand in solidarity with local Bruntsfield and Morningside traders who've written to me concerned that proposals to remove parking provision in local high street will make trading conditions even tougher.
They want all customers, by all modes.
Proposals disproportionate
https://twitter.com/cllrnickcook/status/1275830864627273745?s=21
Maybe he can explain what measures he and businesses would support to help cyclists get to these businesses safely?
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What!? If people have to queue outside of businesses on Morningside Road, then to keep even a 1m gap between the queue and pedestrians will require people to walk on the carriageway. However, the carriageway adjacent to the pavement will be full of parked cars. I can't see many people being keen to walk amongst moving traffic.
Everyone visiting a Morningside Road business is a pedestrian at some point, even those who drive. How many potential customers would having to mix with traffic discourage? I would be willing to bet it is far more than ever arrive by car.
This hasn't really been an issue (although the street is already too crowded and myself and family generally try and avoid walking this way) as most businesses are closed - imagine 40/50/60 separate little queues along the street. Simply not workable in its current state.
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Nick and ‘his’ traders live in a world where people drive to a shop, park IMMEDIATELY outside, walk straight in and get served at once.
(P.s. that seldom happened in the ‘50s.)
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Starting to wonder if the world would be a better place if Cllr Cook does get promoted to Holyrood.
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Nick seems immune to reality?
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People with similar politics specialise in alternative realities.
(Allied with alternative facts provided by alternative (to) experts.)
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The people who object loudest to not being able to park right outside of shops are not the people who actually shop there. They are people who simply don't like the idea that they won't be able to park outside if they ever did chose to do so. It's hypothetical for them.
The one group of people you can be sure are parking outside of these shops are the owners/employees. If they were really concerned about customer parking, why would they take up a space.
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