If only there was a station nearby...
Or a tramstop on a line to the RIE.
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“Huge new 10-screen multiplex cinema plans revealed”
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Posted 5 years ago #
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Are cinemas the in thing for shopping centre redevelopments these days? New ones at the Gyle, St James and now Cameron Toll.
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Is the Gyle cinema going into space in the vast car park?
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A cinema at Cameron Toll? Whit?
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"...the shopping centre, which enjoyed more than 4.5 million visitors this year."
I wonder how many of those 4.5 million visitors felt the same way about the shopping centre.
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@acsimpson
I make sure there's always a signed copy of my book in the Cameron Toll Waterstones so the bread is not entirely unleavened.
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I wonder how many of those 4.5 million visitors felt the same way about the shopping centre.
At least one. Even if distance were no object, I would still patronise Cameron Toll than The Gyle. I think the latter is almost as awful a place as Fort Kinnaird. Mind you, my Edinburgh map shows "Shopping centre (under construction)" and I still think of it as Savacentre because we went when it first opened, and still think the red neon (or LED probably, now) pinstripe looks cool.
But south and south-east Edinburgh, bordering Midlothian, really does need a cinema. I like the Dominion, and will alternatively go to Fountain Park, because both are more or less on my way home from work, but of a weekend – Sundays especially – both are not handy to get to by public transport.
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You could get RSI pleasing that many customers.
@Arrelcat, I'm sure there are many who enjoy it but also a reasonable number who tolerate shopping as a task which needs done.
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There are aspects of Cameron Toll that I enjoy, notably;
* spotting the undercover security
* quietly admiring the young lady who went from broom-pushing to (I think) head of security
* getting a static spark from touching the rail outside Aldi
* Training the cashiers one by one to stop asking if I have a Nectar card
* seeing Tommy Sheppard buying bread and tinned tomatoes like a punter
* bumping into Colin 'Foxy' Fox of the SSP
* watching the people watching television (I think) while using running machinesPosted 5 years ago # -
When I popped in to Cameron Toll this morning to buy work food the O2 shop had been slightly on fire!
Outside was a fire engine, with lights still on. Meanwhile inside a strong pong of burning plastic, a group of hacked-off phone salespeople mopping up water and the jannie supervising them while sat on some kind of motorised floor-polisher.
I guess that either Samsung has released a new smartphone for Christmas or the developers are making a start on ground clearance works.
I also noticed a notice about removal of abandoned bikes. Racks pleasingly clear.
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hacked-off phone salespeople mopping up
Guess they'd rather be selling stuff and making commission.
Never a dull moment up there! Last time we were there Mrs TC cleared a shelf of snow globes with her bag which lead to hacked off salespeople mopping up.
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the O2 shop had been slightly on fire!
That's why I have a contract with Phlogiston.
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I try to avoid Cameron Toll if I can: despite its retro-futuristic Tyrell Corporation look, the one thing that it should have, but doesn't, is an enclosed walkway bridge from its west side to the bus stops at the Craigmillar Park junction, so that you can get back to the bus stop with a backpack full of shopping without having to endure a horrible uphill slog in the dark, rain and wind (shurely they are following their future noir theme too closely).
If it wasn't for the fact that all of the other Sainsbury's are either substantially smaller or are equally poorly accessible, I'd avoid it entirely. (All of the larger supermarkets in Edinburgh annoyingly seem to have a private competition to site their entrances as far away from bus or tram stops as possible (and let's not even start on their usually mediocre bike parking provision). I'm sure someone finds it amusingly ironic that the bus stops that are nearest the Cameron Toll entrance on Lady Road are those served by the fewest and least frequent buses «sigh»)
Would it be so hard for the planning department to require supermarkets and shopping centres to face directly on to public transport stops on their front side, for maximum ease of accessibility, and have any car parking behind instead (or on top or underneath)?
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