There's a chap comes down our street every Tuesday evening about 18:00-18:30 selling fish from a wee van. He's mostly harmless although I'm not keen on his method of announcing his arrival which consists of repeatedly and insistently honking his horn.
We've only bought from him once. He didn't have a lot of choice and we found what we did buy to be a little underwhelming, given what we'd paid for it. I mean, it was fine, but the price seemed a tad steep.
Back on topic(ish): the southbound bus stop just north of the Shell garage on Comiston Road has now been closed, removing the possibility of conflict between bus passengers and cyclists. Given that there's another stop about 100m further up the road it's not really a major hardship for public transport users.
Also, the plastic barriers at the Braid Road mini roundabout have been put back in to a tidy and sensible configuration, with space for cyclists to pass on each side. I did meet a driver who seemed to be unable to deal with the fact that the junction is still a mini roundabout, and got very confused when I gave way to him. (At the other end of Braidburn Terrace the other day I saw a car waiting to turn left up Comiston Road. It wasn't clear how they got there: whether they'd ignored/failed to notice the prohibition on motor vehicles heading eastbound, or got themselves in a fankle/lost and had been trying to turn round in the throat of the junction. Either way, poor effort.)
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