Informative piece on BC giving some background to where the money is coming from for St James Centre Mk2.
https://bellacaledonia.org.uk/2020/01/09/the-jobby-brazil-and-nuveen/
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Picardy Place lanes taking shape
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Workie on the Isle of Lost Souls did a great flick-the-shovel-off-the-ground-straight-into-the-hand move.
Probably the best thing that will ever happen there before it's dug up and trees planted in 2030.
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@IWRATS Like the wee lad with the broom the end of The Last Jedi?
Elm Row gummed, roundabout gummed, approach to Picardy Place gummed this morning but Leith St southbound was nice and empty, apart from a wee lonely bus at the top. Northbound gummed.
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I dunno. I have only seen one Star Wars film all the way through.
It was the first one which is now considered counter-factually to be the third or something? With the bar scene.
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@IWRATS, there is a thread where we assist @SRD with that. (Fourth)
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Noticed that the new bus stop is in place and the temporary pavement on the central island has been laid. Can’t be too long until everything is open.
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Will the cycle lanes not remain shut pending approval of the legal Orders?
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That's only the Leith Street cycle lane so technically you could cycle between the central island and the mini one all day...
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Central island getting line marked today.
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Excellent. It'll soon be time to print up the guidance notes and film the explanatory video.
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Will there be an on-line simulator?
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“It'll soon be time to print up the guidance notes and film the explanatory video.”
Looking forward to it.
It’s going to be such a good space for despairing demonstrations...
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The group on the terrorist watch list will have fun reclaiming this area too.
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Like this?
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Spurtle stirring:
http://www.broughtonspurtle.org.uk/news/unclear-and-present-danger
Here, they [pedestrians] face their final hurdle and a significant cause for concern … a two-way bike lane.
Duh duh dah!
The horror!
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The following paragraphs make it clear that the 'concern' is a much on behalf of cyclists as it is pedestrians. The grey-on-grey zebra crossing in particular looks a bit 'damned if you do, damned if you don't.'
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Not sure it's a legal crossing without Belisha beacons. Nice of the council to put in slippy-looking slabs just before a 90-degree turn for cyclists. Idiots.
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Not required for cycle tracks - see 16.2.12 on p126 in new rules https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/851465/dft-traffic-signs-manual-chapter-6.pdf
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Thanks @jonty. From 16.2.12:
"Give Way lines should always be provided, to enforce the requirement for cyclists to give way to pedestrians."
So it's not compliant.
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Good spot - this would certainly help to clarify things.
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@iwrats Paolozzi's big foot is back.
"Gifted by Sir Tom in the early 1990s, the work depicting a hand, foot and ankle symbolises the destruction of war while offering a message of peace, hope and regeneration.
The bronze pigeons, funded by a group of businesses in 1996, were removed from Elm Row in 2006 during the ill-fated first tram works on the road."
Paolozzi 'Manuscript of Monte Cassino' returns to enhance gyratory systemPosted 4 years ago # -
I'm very disappointed they are taking the Paolozzis away from tranquil Hillside Crescent and marooning them on the Traffic Island Of Lost Souls...
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Feeling the love dudes.
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My bad, they are sited on a "piazza" (according to Sir Tom) in front of the cathedral. Not the Traffic Island Of Lost Souls. A "piazza" which, if I am not mistaken, was much larger before the gyratory system was created? With trees and shrubbery too to screen off the motorised maelstrom of the then roundabout...
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I think the council didn't like that fact the scrubby shrubs behind the Paolozzis served as camp and toilet for the street drinkers.
Much better off as a loading bay/Beckettian wilderness.
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Seems quite an appropriate art work for an area ravaged by the war of motorists. A reminder that their henchmen (the engineers of traffic) have stamped their mark here.
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The right turn at the top of Broughton Street to head down Leith Walk was slippery enough in the sleet today. It's going to be pretty tasty when they add the tram tracks.
Amused to notice that the lane markings and warning symbols are already wearing off the new road surface.
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Amused to notice that the lane markings and warning symbols are already wearing off the new road surface.
Given the entire system will depend on drivers respecting all the box junctions on Picardy Place (a heroic assumption in itself), the fact that the yellow paint is already wearing off must be something of a concern for the traffic flow observants at the council.
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@PS
Lights in front of John Lewis went green and the cyclist beside me got a crisp start only to meet a black Audi coming at some speed through what I hope was a red light from the Playhouse. Dude barreled off down Broughton Street.
Some hope for the box junctions, eh?
Chatting to that cyclist on Leith Walk about bad driving and a black cab U-turned right in front of us.
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DPEA case status on the Leith Street RSO has been updated to "Report Issued" - assuming it's in the council's favour, it shouldn't be long before they remove the annoying barriers in the cycle lane.
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