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Scottish Govmt announces £10m for pop up cycle/walking lanes
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@IWRATS: Understood. That's the field with the WWII hut bases alongside the track that cuts across it. I do like that walled garden, although I think it could be nicer still if they could find a way to make a bit more of it.
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By my reckoning the highest bit of Galachlaw is just few metres into the wood off the end of Galachlawside:
https://goo.gl/maps/HgR8fRkcEgZV17at5
I was there in 2008 according to the photo I found which I have renamed "Galachlaw Cairn", probably due to the location against the OS map; although there is (was) a solitary stone fairly obviously marking the highest point of ground.
Good to have some info on that switchback which has puzzled me previously.
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Local councils advised to push ahead with traffic reduction schemes
UK government says plans helping people to walk and cycle should not be derailed by minority of noisy dissidents
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The money will be allocated to councils partly for new bike lanes and better pedestrian facilities, but also for so-called low-traffic neighbourhoods (LTNs), which seek to dissuade short car trips by stopping motor traffic using some residential streets as rat runs.
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In London, where the anti-LTN campaigns have been most prevalent, an independent poll showed that while 19% of people oppose the schemes, 52% support them and 25% are neutral, Shapps said.
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Of course that’s of direct relevance to England not Scotland.
BUT it’s a Conservative Government.
Think the local Tories need to be pushed harder on the extent to which Edinburgh/Scotland is ‘different’ and why the local brand of conservatism is so ‘status quo’/backward looking.
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The Telegraph has a different emphasis which will no doubt hearten local Tories, but they have to realise that their strategy of saying ‘CEC is misusing Covid money’ and ‘not consulting properly’ won’t work to derail the(ir) UK Gov desires/policies for more walking/cycling and less short-distance driving.
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Funding 'clawbacks' for councils that fail to consult on walking and cycling measures
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The end of our street is being remodelled. To be fair to the various objectors I had no idea this was proposed and have no idea what the works are intended to achieve. They don't look like they'll shift modal share at all. Motor traffic is still firmly at the top of the transport hierarchy.
All they've done, I suspect, is irritate motorists by tightening the junction. It already took a bit of courage to take up a strong position to turn right due to folk cutting the corner. Could well be worse now.
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I think tighter corners are designed to reduce entry speeds into the residential areas.
Whether that works or not...
Robert
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After losing a vote to make changes to the proposed new schemes, Conservative group leader and Inverleith councillor Iain Whyte used his right to send the report to be ratified by full council, effectively delaying the proposals.
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Controversial delay to ...
FTFT
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Not a week delay as stated at top of article. As Lesley can’t get the reports to full council, so 5 week delay. Poor form by the Tory cat.
Usually the delay is shorter though so this is doubly rubbish
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Looks like it has been included for next week. Agenda item 8.10/8.11. https://democracy.edinburgh.gov.uk/ieListDocuments.aspx?CId=150&MId=5593
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Looks like it has been included for next week
Presumably due to some heroic effort on somebody's part, getting things in order.
The other part of this is that at full council, there isn't any opportunity to get input from the officers involved. I've never understood that, but the effect is full council will be deciding based on even less information than TEC had.
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East Craigs has made it into The Guardian.
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Only well off white men cycle? Joe Biden out. Cycing the other day
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Article now being complained about due to one unfortunate misspelling of David Hunter (I note he didn't seem to complain when represented as a councillor erroneously by the EEN - or maybe he did?).
The "poor journalism" claims here are seriously out of proportion. Carlton Reid being quite measured in his responses here I feel
https://twitter.com/carltonreid/status/1328281803149488129?s=20
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.@MerchistonCC public meeting tonight at 7pm. Email merchistonmedia@gmail.com for the link. Agenda includes a resident's objection to the Greenbank to Meadows "quiet route" - promises to be lively! @SpokesLothian @LivingStreetsEd @POPScotland
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https://twitter.com/declanrmurray/status/1328620327220498434
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One point missed in last week’s Transport Committee shenanigans was that Lothian Buses confirmed that there were no AM peak time delays between Buckstone and Morningside Station, PM peak journeys were around 2 minutes *quicker* and outside of peak times they were around 2 minutes slower.
Hardly the disastrous impact on public transport that certain councillors were claiming.
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Another £2m from Sustrans:
https://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/news/article/13037/2m-funding-boost-for-walking-and-cycling-measures
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When did SG/Sustrans plant the magic money forest?
Don’t suppose the money is coming from the trunk roads budget?
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Another Tory press release handed to the intern at EEN
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I have been to Galachlaw and found the cairn but not the rampart.
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Merchiston residents have voiced mixed opinions about plans for road closures, cycle lanes and bus gates in their neighbourhood
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My MSP Daniel Johnstone published his own-brand consultation on the road changes in the nice bits of town. I replied to him;
Thanks for this Daniel.
I'd just make a couple of points that you doubtless already have in mind but are worth underlining;
First, as the elected representative of a socialist party you will doubtless see yourself first and foremost as an activist. The job of an activist isn't of course to poll people but to actively change their minds. Polls like this aren't votes, they're the opinions of opinionated people like us. Most people will follow a reasoned and principled lead.
So, second point, it would be good if you could articulate a vision for south Edinburgh, How are we to live and travel? What is the function of the 'arterial' roads like Morningsde Road and Mayfield Road? Are they community spaces or car sewers for the inhabitants of Midlothian? (I've gone too far there, but I like that sentence so it stays.)
My view is that equality, equity and fairness mean putting human beings' interests before the interests of motor cars. Cars take up huge amounts of space for little gain. South Edinburgh is rotten with the things - including mine - and we need to shift that balance radically.
Do you have a radical vision for us? (Actually the present state of south Edinburgh is utterly radical - giving our streets over to heavy commuter traffic was always a radical if unspoken project.)
Hope you're well and we meet soon,
Cheers,
IWARTS
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He has a shop on that street and would like to park outside. Actually he then has his office further down and would like to park outside it too
I imagine he stopped reading at Socialist
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@gembo
Don't be silly - he lives around the corner from his shop. He kept reading because we know each other and he knows that other than his political beliefs (hard-core conservative) I quite like him.
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Thank you for cheering up my morning IWRATS. The vision of Daniel Johnson as an activist will entertain me all day.
I really wonder why *one* resident who has presented no reason to oppose the quite route plans other than there isn't enough consultation is given so many column inches here. Ironically if you look back at the BSR tweets - this person has known about this for as long as anyone else so has had plenty of time for gathering support for her ideas (not sure what they are) and sending them in to inform ward councillors.
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@algo
Such was the hope in my heart as I posted.
Daniel is of course an activist. He is a radical proponent of the status quo that has led him to lead a comfortable life in Morningside.
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