Some wand-defended lanes have gone in on London Road on the way to Meadowbank Sports Centre (which is coming on apace). Cycling provision in the area decidedly patchy at the moment but slowly seems to improving. Hope there will be some more of these heading towards Jock's Lodge as the 'public realm' for Meadowbank is completed...
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Scottish Govmt announces £10m for pop up cycle/walking lanes
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Not sure Mr Motor Tory Councillor McClellan happy with the sub editor on that Headline
Already people like me are quoting it Spaces for people not bad..... says John Tory McClellan.
4000 signatures on an online petition, although easier to sign than an actual Consultation where maybe 400 would engage is still bad.
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They've stopped using that photo with the "stupid cyclists" caption, at least.
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The Conservative party has lost all internal discipline. Leader Alexander Johnson has made it clear he wants to see an immediate improvement in conditions for cycling, but this elected member is way off message.
Possibly best not to vote for them. Ever.
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“Leader Alexander Johnson has made it clear he wants to see an immediate improvement in conditions for cycling“
Didn’t work too well in Kensington.
Does he know who McClellan is?
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Meanwhile in actual Nice, home to quite a few fascists and fruitcakes;
LGVs banned, traffic lights removed, cars as guests....and we get Sheriffhall and Picardy Place.
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Yeah but it’s things like that that made us leave Europe innit.
(Don’t forget Boris isn’t really a Brexiteer, just an opportunistic cyclist!)
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Is there a current consultation on for SfP? I was wondering if I'd missed something?
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No the public are ignoring consultations now in favour of petitions asking for consultations
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Did they consult on that?
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Gembo - Can you make an EEN piece with that title please?
There's the city mobility plan:
https://consultationhub.edinburgh.gov.uk/sfc/city-mobility-plan/
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@ algo could do
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@IWRATS - Nice also designed its tram system so it can run through the major square in the old town without overhead power equipment. It's "pop-up" cycle lanes also look amazing.
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@IWRATS: Like the historic schisms in the Church of Scotland, Edinburgh Tories will break from their national party then subdivide into smaller and smaller sects, each insisting they are the one true path to motoring freedom and condemning their heathen former colleagues.
Like churches in the Western Isles there will be six rival Edinburgh Tory HQs within spitting distance of each other and the members will pointedly ignore each other as they park their Audis and listen to sermons about the evils of speed limits.
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Need a rewrite of that Emo Philips bridge joke.
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"I'm a Conservative."
"Me too! Do you also believe reducing taxes?"
"Yes."
"Me too! Do you think it'd be good if councils didn't have to spend so much money fixing potholes?"
"Yes."
"Me too! Do you think it'd be good if the NHS could reduce costs by having a more active population?"
"Yes."
"Me too! Do you believe Government transport funding should be prioritised on projects with higher benefit-to-cost ratios?"
"Yes."
"Me too! Do you think we should build protected cycleways?"
"Yes!"
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Emo, what a person.
I sat behind him once in Spiegeltent at an audience with Steven Berkoff (the great British Berkoff) His hair was highly mobile whilst sitting down
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@Frenchy
One of the greatest jokes ever. I told it in French once to minor acclaim. (I also introduced the 'Why do dogs lick their balls?' joke to France. It translates much better.)
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@Morningsider, @Stickman
Excellent work both.
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James Morrow in Tollcross has anti-space for people posters in every window. Despite no restrictions.
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Mr Hunter is (rightly) praising the locals who have gone out to scrape back the overgrowing plants from the pavements on Maybury Road. I remember HankChief and the miniChiefs doing this a few years ago. He might also get a surprise when he finds out who volunteers to carry out maintenance on the NEPN. Think he’ll acknowledge the actions of the Evil Cycle Lobby?
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@SRD: James Morrow, the retailer of high-end expensive audio systems? Where do they fit on the wealthy cycling lobby vs more deprived/excluded ordinary people spectrum?
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Oh dear, the new version of the printer at hay market? At least the tram was real for the printer
James Morrow has a shop in Glasgow too.
My sister in law’s husband is a big cheese in installing oligarch’s tellies I could ask him to open a branch in Edinburgh. Though we maybe don’t have enough oligarchs?
Radio Rental
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Just askin’
Is Radio Rental PC (or just an ironic retro reference)??
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Cockenzie Rhymin slang innit
And
Reference to how one used to acquire access to the analog media
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“Where do they fit on the wealthy cycling lobby vs ... spectrum?”
Good question!
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I had a rented television (and VCR) as recently as the mid-1990s. Might have been from Radio Rentals or another shop, I don't remember.
Technology was still relatively expensive to buy outright back then...
P.S.:- Richer Sounds good for hi-fi deals. There used to be a Sony Centre in Morningside - still there? (Seems unlikely but hey).
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We used to rent a tele every year as students. The last one was returned this century (depending on what you count as the first year off the century).
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I rented a small portable tv. From Clydesdale on the Byres road for two pound a month 1990-92. Those were the days when you were mostly out at the gigs or the football or watching football on big screen in the pub. The licence was of course more expensive than the telly. Was it?
In the 1970s and very early 1980s my nice granny had a telly you had to put 50p pieces in a meter to make it go. Still available in Workington in Cumbria, the poorest part of England also where such tellies were made.??
Richer Sounds still there the last time I went in (last year before Covid I was thinking of buying a tape deck and returning to mix tapes but they did not have a tape deck fair enough, I was going to make pals mixtapes and send them along with a Walkman but the quality of the Walkmen is rubbish also that is not the correct nomenclature). Jonathan Richer is keen to pay his staff properly. They see him as a very Christian gentleman. He is the antithesis of Mike Ashton. Not sure he can continue to make a profit with his hi-fi? When my analog adventure hit the buffers I went total Spotify and Sonos speaker.
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