@Cyclealex Thanks yes, I see that now. Lists the downhill as 1.75m painted, and uphill as 2m w/ bolt-down kerbs. I suspect the kerb lanes may all be 2m, just to accommodate 25cm of rubbery kerb, maybe?
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Scottish Govmt announces £10m for pop up cycle/walking lanes
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the plate shop corner
that shop is a total front.. no one has ever been seen entering and buying anything.. easily on a par with those old leith walk bric a brac fronts
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Plate shop just up from museum? Before Lachana (of old)
Has very very specific opening times
The brush shop on Victoria st, Robert Cresser? Total front and open all the time. Until it closed that is. Swept away boom boom by cheap imports. Superb brushes if you did not mind being part of money washing.
If they had lasted to the Harry Potter Broom Explosion would have been Quids In or Quidditch In
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China shop co pays £9k of rates to turnover £10k pa
Gets 25k pa of rent from somewhere, to end in breaking even/small loss
All from Co House accounts
Definitely a funny one
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I have purchased plates from the plate shop at least once.
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you don't seem too sure, though.. twas a vivid dream, perhaps ?
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If I ever have a lucid dream I'll fly there and haggle for the whole contents.
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Images of what has been placed versus what people actually want. Same applies on Valleyfield and Tarvit Street with new cyclists just ignoring one way - safer and faster?
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This Forrest Rd bit wld be so much easier if they cld even just remove the stored cars - 4 cars in pic 4 (half up on the pavement!) clogging things up, and pic two car blocking exit of the cycle lane, forcing everyone to swerve out into traffic. If they don't enforce a no parking rule there, there's trouble ahead.
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New plans for Portobello High Street:
http://www.portobellocc.org/pccpn/2020/07/06/covid-19-emergency-road-measures-portobello/
I’m assuming the new plans for other areas have also been circulated, although I’ve not seen any yet.
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Seems a bit more substantial than the Portobello plans.
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Gorgie/Dalry: https://gorgiedalrycc.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/cec-sfp-gorgie-overview-dwg-008a.pdf
Also noticed that CEC is proposing to ban parking at King's Place to connect Portobello/Seafield promenades.
Initial: http://www.portobellocc.org/pccpn/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/KINGS-PLACE-PHASE-1-TM.pdf
More permanent with resurfacing: http://www.portobellocc.org/pccpn/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/KINGS-PLACE-PHASE-2.pdfPosted 3 years ago # -
The Gorgie/Dalry one is 'just' pavement widening. However it is taking road space from motor vehicles which is good.
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A cycleway is needed along Dalry Rd to connect Telfer Subway to Muireston Crescent (and on to the NEPN)
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'Finally, a user named L E Soigneur added: “Is there any actual commuting or experienced cyclist on the CEC roads safety team?”'
Even I've picked up that it's not L.E. and I don't watch bicycle races.
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Of course, some of the reactions are not from cyclists and some of the cyclist reacting are also drivers, pedestrians, scooter users and so on but that doesn't fit the EEN template.
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Leaving aside the fact that none of the "local town centre" plans include any provision for cycling (which may come later?) the question remains "Why has this taken so long?" The Council made noises about this all being very difficult. However, the plans are for some coned off parking spaces. This could have been done months ago.
There are some clear absurdities - single parking spaces coned off- as though most people will step off the pavement to walk 2m and then step back on again. However, the crowning glory is that no extra space for social distancing is provided at bus stops - where large groups of people congregate!
The road adjacent to bus stops could be coned-off, to make for a continuously extended pavement, and access for wheelchairs, buggies etc. to buses maintained through the use of temporary ramps across the coned-off area. The assumption must be that this has not been done to "maintain traffic flow" - requiring buses to pull in, with the result that they will be boxed into stops as cars stream past.
Surely an administration with ambitions to "transform" the city centre could at least have tried closing a chunk of Raeburn Place to motorised vehicles and allowed the cafes/bars to spill out onto the street? (Yes, I know -this is Edinburgh).
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OT but an elderly family friend once got us a VOUCHER to spend at the plate shop. Apparently the only place in Edinburgh to sell Highland Stoneware . It took us weeks to figure out when it opened and we got a rather nice lamp for the babies room. However I did not pay £35000 for it so I assume there must be a few other customers. I think they do a lot of online sales as the back rooms were full of packing materials and stock.
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@ARobComp plate mail armour is lots and lots of bubble wrap?
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Proposals for East Craigs/Drumbrae. Difficult to see exactly what is going on, but there will be some street closures/filtered permeability.
And *advisory* cycle lanes.
Sigh.
https://twitter.com/mr_mark_brown/status/1280513180276490243?s=21
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Advisory cycles lanes allow cars and bicycles to use the same road space. Efficiency and solidarity in action.
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The assumption must be that this has not been done to "maintain traffic flow" - requiring buses to pull in, with the result that they will be boxed into stops as cars stream past.
Or as is often the case, the buses will pull in in such a way that their door is at the kerb but their rear end is sticking out into the road, preventing other vehicles passing if there's any oncoming traffic. This way no one wins. Is that the compromise that the traffic engineers keep talking about?
It's well past time that they designed these things on the assumption that no-one, not even "professional" drivers, drives well.
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Since they put the eXtra-Long Buses on new routes they've had their rears protruding into the roads at stops all over the place.
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Advisory cycles lanes allow cars and bicycles to use the same road space. Efficiency and solidarity in action.
isn't there something about a horse as well, though? you have to remember to feed you horse. they like carrots, but not celery. then everyone's golden.
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@bax San
You must never, ever give a horse a sugar lump Clarice Bean. Sugar is the crack cociaine of the equine quadruped world. Polo mints the whizz.
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Following justifiable criticism I spoke to the Tram team on unsuitability of cycle lane as implemented & nature of tweets in response from official acct. Lots of discussion today to sort this, paint line now removed & repositioned line going in shortly. Heras fencing moved too
https://twitter.com/lmacinnessnp/status/1280537987214966785?s=21
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they like carrots, but not celery
That's it exactly. Socialist Unrealism.
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Big advert for a BMW right in the middle of that piece?
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