@neddie - the Leith Links CC survey needs called out each time as very flawed. They do seem to have managed to get the bus gate shifted? But the LTN saved despite their or maybe his efforts. Where does Living Streets Edinburgh guy live? Maybe Leith Links?
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News on LTNs? (Leith/Corstorphine/East Craigs Connections/Oxford)
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Posted 6 months ago #
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@gembo nope
Posted 6 months ago # -
Post lockdown,
micromanagementmismanagement by councillors got the bus-gate moved from Links Gardens to Links Place and one-way only, opening up a whole new rat-run via Duncan Place.The city council officers have now recommended the bus-gate be moved to back to Links Gardens (back to its original and best position during lockdown.)
The individuals on Leith CC don't want the bus-gate moved, they want it removed entirely. It's clear they are a bunch of self-interested drivers
Posted 6 months ago # -
@srd - Leith Linnks CC guy not Living Streets Guy
ta@Neddie - Bus Gate Gate - ta for clarification
Posted 6 months ago # -
opening up a whole new rat-run via Duncan Place
Correction, this should read: opening up a whole new rat-run via Salamander Place
Posted 6 months ago # -
This is firmly into the realms of gossip but I believe Leith Links CC folks include the partner of one Cllr Iain Whyte, famous lover and promoter of spend on active travel and [rule 1]
Posted 6 months ago # -
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Reform UK’s pledge to remove all low-traffic neighbourhoods from the council areas it controls looks to be achieved in record time after the 10 local authorities said they do not actually have any in place.
Zia Yusuf, Reform UK’s chair, said last week there would be a “large-scale reversal” of existing LTNs in the 10 areas across England where the party won control of the councils in local elections on 1 May.
“We view these schemes with the same suspicion as mass immigration and net zero,” Yusuf told the Telegraph, adding: “You can expect, if you live in a Reform council, for there to be a much higher bar for any proposals for LTNs and for the large-scale reversal of these existing LTNs.”
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https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/may/21/reform-uk-ltn-council-areas-none-exist
Posted 3 months ago # -
I'm sure they will be along shortly to bulldoze the end off every cul-de-sac to ensure full access for ambulances.
Posted 3 months ago # -
A local businesswoman has launched a petition calling for traffic lights at a busy junction in Corstorphine, following recent crashes there. Helen Abbott, who runs the Gift Tree Corstorphine shop at the box junction of Station Road and St John’s Road, said she or her customers have to help pedestrians cross Station Road, with frustrated drivers edging out onto St John’s Road nose to toe with limited space for people to cross.
Helen also told the Evening News that she has seen at least four crashes there in the past six months and fears a future fatal crash as the junction is “an accident waiting to happen”. She also raised pollution concerns, with cars left queuing there for so long adding emissions to the air.
The Corstorphine LTN plans included making Station Road one-way, which would have addressed a lot of these issues. It was of course opposed by “concerned locals”, including the owner of The Gift Tree cafe.
Posted 3 days ago # -
Making St John's Road/Station Road a signal controlled crossing, with a pedestrian crossing phase and a phase allowing vehicles to turn out of Station Road would add delay to vehicles travelling along St John's Road. Certainly more than the existing pedestrian crossing on St John's Road, which has no vehicle phase.
Some wag should ask if they have done any traffic or air pollution modelling.
Posted 3 days ago # -
Of great interest
https://council-search.bellingcat.com/
Search the transcripts of all council meetings across the UK.
Posted 2 days ago #
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