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East Preston Street (and other serious incidents involving bicycle riders)
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my thanks to algo, and everyone else at the scene tomorrow
will be sitting shikantaza 8:30-9:30 in silent reflection
there is power in a union
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Won't make it this morning. Wife out, builder in (outside). Will be silent here.
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Photo of vigil
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CllrLesleyMacinnes
@lmacinnessnp
·Attended very respectful, powerful silence at Mt Vernon Rd junction this morning to mark the tragic passing of cyclist #JamesHarrisonVigil. Thanks to all who organised this. #EnoughIsEnough
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Thanks to @algo, @HankChief and everyone else who organised.
A powerful experience.
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Solidarity, love, compassion, heartbreak - a very moving occasion.
Thank you to all the organisers.
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Was the biggest I have seen. Great work by @algo @hankchief & others.
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Yes, thank you to all who organised.
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hope Im wrong. At the Wisp outside the garage there is an ambulance with lights on. Flatbed transit in front of it and a Fiesta parked on the pavement(ambulance opposing traffic) and as I came down someone wheeled a bike off the road to the garage.
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That was deeply moving and very dignified.
The squeal from the tyres of the white van making a U-turn on Gilmerton Road during the silence chilled my actual bone marrow.
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This is the image I'll take away from this morning - for our present and her future
James Harrison Vigil_2 by Anthony Robson, on Flickr(got permission from her dad to use the photo online)
The silence was moving, but after the flowers were laid and the bike bells started up in amidst the applause I was struggling to hold back the tears.
One van driver was so incensed at the wait that he did a quick three point turn and sped off with a squeal of his tyres; after the crowds had dispersed back to the pavements the traffic was instantly back to normal.
One van driver (it all seemed to be van drivers) was clearly on his phone so missed the queue ahead of him move off, so missed the lights, and rolled into the ASL to a stop, at the precise moment one of the police who was looking after us walked to cross - nothing said of course. Another van driver drove through shouting so much (at people on the pavement!) that he almost went into the back of a car that had slowed to turn off the road.
The world has gone mad. I'm cooking up going mad back at it.
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Very moving. Standing in the middle of the road with hundreds of others, feeling we didn't belong in that space because of the needs of motorised traffic.
The emotion was palpable. The applause heartfelt.
The sign "No one next" summed it up for me. I didn't know James but in the small world of Edinburgh I know enough people that did know him to affect me. I really hope there is "no one next"
To get there I did a tour of broken dreams from the last decade:
Featherhall Avenue - consulted/trial/another consultation
Roseburn - still nothing on the ground
Roseburn to Canal - consulted - no action
Canal to Meadows - consulted - no action
QBIC - just crapComing back I stayed on the A8 where I passed my wife & kids going the 1.5miles to the zoo. They were in the car because there isn't a safe route for them to take on a nice summer's day.
Just depressing. Enough is Enough
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Incredibly moving and sad. I spoke to some folk to explain the plan to move onto the junction before and it was really very difficult as there was so much pain and sadness clearly. I was very grateful his friends and colleagues turned up in such numbers and also grateful to the police for dealing with the event with typical sensitivity.
Thank you to all for appreciating the organisation - as always though this was a community effort facilitated through this forum - many folk did stuff. I hope the next time we come together to organise it is not in tragic circumstances.
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STV wanted to speak to me but fortunately Cllr Arthur (councillor for Colinton arrived at that moment and i passed it to him).
Another grim day on the roads of Edinburgh
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Incredibly moving, thanks to all who had a hand in organising and shepherding people about.
Andy Catlin has shared some photos which really capture the mood, I think.
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Following on from that post by Cllr Arthur saying that James Harrison had responded to his road safety survey, I’ve just seen that he had a twitter account and also chivvied councillors about cycle improvements from time to time. Many of us here had exchanged comments with him.
One of his most recent posts was pointing out a poor section of the new pop-up lane on Old Dalkeith Road, saying why he would continue to use the road there as it was safer. That really knocked me for six.
I couldn’t make it today but thank you for all who organised it. Please, please let this be the last one.
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The wee boy killed on Morningside Road has been named as Xander Irvine.
The police statement also says that the driver of the car, a 91 year old woman, was unhurt.
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Unhurt physically perhaps. I'm quite sure they are wrecked mentally.
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yet how many are sufficently wrecked that they voluntarily surrender the driving license after being party to such a fatality ?
sadly, we will never know
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Shouldn't be driving at that age. What a staggering waste. First and foremost of a young life but also (I presume) a terrible blot on a long life no doubt lived honestly.
(Full disclosure - I'm 33. But I'd be begging any elderly relatives to surrender their licences if they still had them!)
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Don't be distracted by the age of this one driver. The built environment is the primary issue.
Imagine if we could create an environment where those who introduce danger are the ones most at risk to it.
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@Rob - fair one, agreed
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Good piece on STV news.
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While riding today it felt like people were driving much too fast and too close - maybe they feel they need to make up for all that lockdown.
I wonder if anyone will remember the latest cyclist death except cce readers. The story seems already to have disappeared from the Scotsman/EEN website front page, replaced by the one about the toddler in morningside, maybe even more tragic if that is possible.
The ghost bikes did a lot to make the horror consequences of modern cycling visible for a longer time, but I don't think they are still being put out. I for one miss them.
Maybe CCE could maintain a list of the names of recent dead cyclists and an annual numerical count of dead and injured cyclists somewhere on its pages. One could even have short obits. I know this probably sounds gruesome but isn't it even more gruesome that people are forgotten so quickly?
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