One thing I find fascinating if you read the Keep Morningside Moving group is how sure they are that the view to remove the scheme in its entirety is the majority one. Both amongst residents and the city at large. Yet it's the same 6-8 people posting and commenting on every post...
I try not to engage but I almost got pulled in the other day when someone suggested polling every household on the Braid Estate. I wanted to ask whether they'd include responses from the children - can you imagine a single child living on the Braid Estate who'd vote to reintroduce through traffic? Even those living on Midmar Gardens would surely prefer a modal filter to be added there...
Any driver who finds it frustrating to drive along such streets might want to hand their licence back.
I have witnessed that frustration, and on Hermitage Drive, and it's purely from those who think that all streets should 1) have parking on both sides, 2) have free flowing traffic in two lanes at all times. i.e. who want to treat the roads as trunk roads/arterial routes and not residential streets.
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