Nice work Dave!
That's the kind of thing we need - people invested in the lanes.
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Scottish Govmt announces £10m for pop up cycle/walking lanes
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Just cycled up Broughton Street and the entry to the short section of protected cycle lane was blocked by someone vacuuming the interior of their Range Rover. Sums it up really!
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I thought I could adopt a little bit of lane. Usually I keep on top of the greenery on whatever my commute happens to be, but now my "commute" hardly has anything noteworthy on it.
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This happens with the sections of pave in Flanders. Each village adopts a stretch.
See also the Lang Whang Wombles concept
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If there's been a heavy Friday night of drinking in the Meadows, I occasionally sweep MMW and SMW of glass if it needs it, on the way back from the Farmers Market
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Right neighbourly of you @neddie
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@Stickman - fab thread. (Adopts adenoidal voice) - the cycle lane defenders are made from rubber rather than concrete. Recycled car tyres to be precise, which I think is a nice touch.
See: https://rosehillhighways.com/products/cycle-lane-defenders/
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What’s the new take-away? I’m guessing posh pizza?
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Another branch of Sofia’s, the Lebanese place.
The posh pizza is further west.
Across the road is a new branch of The Refillery, which is superb and appears to be doing well so far.
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I don’t know the Lebanese place - will have to check it out.
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30 weets.
Very fair and balanced.
Conclusion that one car poorly parked or one delivery van at a premises then causes miles of tailback regardless of wands and is basically that traffic is caused by too much traffic and if you want to debate this what is your actual alternative?
ACH must have thought there were votes in trying to be green
Then he thought wait a minute there are votes in going round the other way.
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https://www.sustrans.org.uk/space-to-move
form to feedback on SFP changes.
any idea why some Edinburgh infra is included and other bits not?
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Apparently it is crowd-sourced. so we can add infra bits, and feedback on them.
I've not tried yet.
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I'm probably just looking in the wrong place, but are the survey results public yet? I'd like to know which businesses objected to safety measures around schools, so I can make sure we don't give them any trade. Am I being optimistic to think this will be public domain?
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Doesn’t show names of the businesses who responded.
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that makes grim reading. Struck by "Opposition was also strongest amongst those who lived outside CEC postcode areas".
wish I had specified interventions to keep, rather than just said "all". I did wonder at the time if that would be a more strategic approach.
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Drivers have to drive and park where they like or we will never recover from Covid-19
How tragic that such a global issue does not allow selfish people to see what other global issues such as pollution and global warning will mean for the children of selfish people.
Even the FT is kicking back against SUVs destroying cities.
What is the point of an SUV that never goes off road?
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"Opposition was also strongest amongst those who lived outside CEC postcode areas"
Strengthens the case for road pricing and congestion charging.
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“Drivers have to drive and park where they like or we will never recover from Covid-19”
I feel your irony, but there most be some overlap among those who ‘must drive’ and those who do/could WFH?
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What is the point of an SUV that never goes off road
It's about luxury, innit. About transporting your whole living room around with you. The logical endpoint is coach-sized motorhomes for everyone.
But that's the thing about luxury - it cannot be democratised:
"Unlike the vacuum cleaner, the radio, or the bicycle, which retain their use value when everyone has one, the car, like a villa by the sea, is only desirable and useful insofar as the masses don't have one. That is how in both conception and original purpose the car is a luxury good. And the essence of luxury is that it cannot be democratised. If everyone can have luxury, no one gets any advantages from it. On the contrary, everyone diddles, cheats, and frustrates everyone else, and is diddled, cheated and frustrated in return."
Andre Gorz, L'Idealogie Sociale de la Bagnole, 1973
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Congestion charge based on size of vehicle as well as emissions.
Now of course you see the mobile home pulling the Nissan micro behind.
What is wrong with me? Why do I like travelling light and leaving no trace?
The Shadow even rakes the grass after camping to avoid anyone knowing his tent was there.
Though I don’t do that and I borrowed his tent.
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“What is wrong with me?”
Discuss(?)
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My lengthy thread on why the extended pavements on St John’s Road weren’t causing congestion has had an effect: they have been removed.
I thought the council were pressing ahead with making everything permanent and weren’t going to make any changes?
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ACH the friend to the environment except in Corstorphine has won this parking victory. Alas the fumes remain
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@Stickman: I'm sure that the council will be monitoring traffic & congestion levels since the removal of the extended pavements in order to confirm how much better it has made the situation.
Oh look, a unicorn!
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“Oh look, a unicorn!“
Clearly CEC has rather a lot of stuff it should be doing, but this one ‘before and after’ that it would be worth having some *FACTS* on.
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Plans to turn an old rail route into a green corridor for pedestrians and cyclists have been held up because the council is too busy on the Spaces for People programme.
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