65 jellybabies
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Scottish Govmt announces £10m for pop up cycle/walking lanes
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“65 jellybabies“
Side by side?
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head to toe
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Maybury Road is getting a pedestrian crossing at the top of Cammo Walk...
...but only after a consultation
https://twitter.com/lmacinnessnp/status/1271487103382274051?s=19
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At least it's a 5 day consultation rather than two months.
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132 cm = 42.6 jelly babies (I just measured a jelly baby with a Nazi micrometer.)
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But was it an EU standard jelly baby?
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Yeah quite an old packet. Quite possibly manufactured before the Great Mistake.
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Alien Being - What is this? Strange miniature statue of an infant?
Earthling - It’s a Jelly Baby
Alien - What do you do with it?
Earthing - Eat it
Alien - Start up the engines we are leaving this planetPosted 5 years ago # -
Paris backlash.
Not sure there's anything here to lash back against is there?
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Not sure there's anything here to lash back against is there?
The barriers on Stanley Street and Warrington Road keep migrating to the sides of the road?
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The rue de Rivoli is the equivalent of Shandwick Place/Haymarket.
I start to get emotional when I imagine cycling there in anything other than a hyper-vigilant state.
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Wands in on Crewe Road: https://twitter.com/ObarChrombaidh/status/1272124561140715525
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Crewe Road South; can anyone help me with the meaning of the road markings where there are islands in the middle of the road for pedestrians? Is it just to confuse drivers in the hope that they will slow down? And why is only part of the route DYLs?
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Took a trip up and down Crewe Road South - I’m a big fan. It felt much more pleasant and safe compared to the trips I took last week. Only negative point is one of the pedestrian crossings but I think that would need kerb realignment.
Wands seem to be closer together than the photos I’ve seen on ODR and run closer to driveways/junctions. DYLs and patching too. Rough phone measurement of 1.65m from kerb to inside of wand. Onwards and upwards!
@mgj Believe that’s to try and stop people overtaking at the pinch point. Looks a bit weird when it continues to the bus stop lining though. I didn’t notice any section of SYL left?
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Posted because of news on delay on North Bridge
https://www.edinburghlive.co.uk/news/edinburgh-news/waverley-bridge-parts-princes-street-18427092
"Sweeping temporary changes to Edinburgh’s road and transportation networks will come in to place as early as Thursday this week under the City of Edinburgh Council’s ‘Spaces for People’ program.
Waverley Bridge and East Princes Street will be closed to private vehicles to make room for wider footpaths and public transport.
On East Princes Street and South St David Street footways will be widened and bus, cycle and taxi gates will be introduced to reduce traffic volumes to aid cycling and public transport provision.
These will be in operation from 7:30am to 6:30pm daily. Loading access for businesses in West Register Street will be maintained via the east end of Princes Street.
Waverley Bridge will be closed to vehicles at the junction with Princes Street, whilst maintaining cycle access from Princes Street. The bridge will be partially closed at the junction with Market Street, allowing only taxi access and loading to Waverley Station and Princes Mall from the Market Street end. Space has been allocated to allow queuing for users of Waverley Station and for taxis.
Plans were initially in place for North Bridge to be closed to private cars, and for footway widening to take place at the junctions with Princes Street and High Street. However, following feedback from stakeholders as part of the agreed notification process this is being considered further.
For town centres including Stockbridge, Morningside, Bruntsfield and Tollcross, plans are underway for footway widening and the implementation of cycle segregations.
The council will also soon announce additional proposals for South Bridge, George IV Bridge, The Mound and Bank Street and Forest Road.
The extensive changes to the city’s roads and transportation networks are being implemented under emergency delegated decision-making powers.
These powers enable the council to make changes without usual public consultation procedures taking place.
However, an agreed five-day notification period with ward councillors, transport spokespeople, community councils and stakeholders including Living Streets, Spokes, the Edinburgh Access Panel and RNIB take place prior to decisions being finalised.
Councillors from a cross range of parties have been highly supportive of the new measures, however Conservative members have raised concerns about accessibility between the north and south of the city for people travelling by private car.
Transport and Environment Vice Convener Councillor Karen Doran said: “We’re in the process of implementing significant changes in our key shopping streets to encourage people to spend time there on foot, bike or wheelchair as businesses begin to reopen.
“We want to get these interventions on the ground as quickly as possible and there’s a lot of work going on to deliver temporary changes within tight timescales. But we’re also involving stakeholders in that process, including active travel and equality groups, to get designs for local schemes right.”"
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Conservative members have raised concerns about accessibility between the north and south of the city for people travelling by private car.
Ladies and gentlemen I give you the Morningside-Trinity Aerial Expressway. Impact on the old and new towns will be limited by cladding the bases of the support columns in appropriate stone veneer.
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Hopefully it's just being pushed back slightly to be introduced at the same time as the bus gates and other measures on Meadows-GS and South Bridge (which, IMO, makes sense).
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Meanwhile Ireland has commited to €360m per year on active travel for the term of its current government: equivalent to 20% of the total travel budget or around €66 per person.
Now *that* is ambition.
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Lots of folk looking for Irish grannies. My last Irish ancestor was my granny's granny and she was entirely undocumented and (family legend has it) utterly terrifying.
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East Princes St bus gate & Waverley Bridge closure from 18/06.
George IV getting resurfaced 18/06 to 30/06 too.
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@CycleAlex - do you know if this is a straightforward resurfacing, or will the Council take the opportunity to move bus shelters, build bus stop bypasses and install more permanent cycling infrastructure? Hopefully the latter as it would be a missed opportunity if they resurface the road and then bolt some rubber kerbs and wands to it.
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If it’s only 2 weeks duration, the resurfacing is likely to be patches only. Presumably more permanent ones than the winter dollops of tar...
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The Cowgate junction at the bottom of Candlemaker Row is currently getting resurfaced. This meant that the western end of the Cowgate was closed to motor vehicles at the weekend (and still was yesterday afternoon, might still be, although the new surface and paint was down), which made for a really interesting walk in the haar on Saturday.
I noticed loads of things that I wouldn't normally take in down there. There's real potential for a street for people there if access were restricted. Obviously won't happen because it's a vital east-west private motor vehicle route, or some such garbage.
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@PS
Did you see James Connolly's plaque?
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Might even have its flowers at this time of year
There is a JC mustache on back of a road sign at Waverley
There is a funny chapel at start of cow gate proper
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@IWRATS
Did you see James Connolly's plaque?I did. That was one of the things I don't remember noticing before.
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@Morningsider The Cowgate is being resurfaced in a similar time frame so I imagine the same will happen here rather than patching. Alas I seriously doubt there will be any permanent improvements - perhaps just bolt down kerbs and bus stop boarders per https://leithccc.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/tdd-637129-1200-09-george-iv-bridge.pdf
I'm a bit surprised that it's getting resurfaced at all really, the surface isn't awful and Meadows-George St is (hopefully) not too long away.
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@cyclealex does that meant the five wee circular holes heading west towards sneaky Pete’s will be gone. Shame, sometimes upon leaving work of an evening I looked forwards to seeing them.
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Signs and planters going in now at Waverley Bridge and South St Andrew St.
@gembo Most likely - perhaps you could put up a small memorial?
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