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News on LTNs? (Leith/Corstorphine/East Craigs Connections/Oxford)
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Posted 11 months ago #
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These lefty eco loons know people aren't going to give up their cars so they're slowly implementing LTN's and other anti motorist schemes so it's impossible to use your car. It's not like years ago when people had employment on their doorstep. Car ownership drives the economy.
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https://twitter.com/nitromanuk/status/1656214184730738688
Probably true
Which is several parts of the problem!
Posted 11 months ago # -
Every inch of LTNs are accessible by cars. So those claims are utter nonsense
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Except claims of mass long-distance commuting are rubbish. the average car commute in Britain is 22 minutes long (Labour Force Survey). Scottish Census 2011 (still waiting on the 2022 census results) figures show that 47.1% of working people had a commute of under 5km, 66.3% had a commute of under 10km.
Most people really do live quite near to their work. Not surprising really, it's sort of the whole point of cities.
The median Scottish car trip was 6.6km in 2021 (Scottish Transport Statistics).
Posted 11 months ago # -
The Amish have bypassed cars. They have moved from horses and buggies and walking to Electric Bikes.
What’s good enough for the Pennsylvania Dutch could work for us.?
Posted 11 months ago # -
That’s great news. I often have envy of the Amish life, but no bikes would be a killer
E-bikes definitely needed in drawn out Ameri ca ca
Posted 11 months ago # -
You can even keep your beard but the moustache will have to go as seen as ostentatious.
Posted 11 months ago # -
The horrific 'I Love Leith' group celebrating pictures of tipped over planters on Sandport Place bridge this morning. It's amazing that we ever get any progress in the face of such moronic behaviour.
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OUTRAGE and FURY over the new bus gate on Manse Road, Corstorphine.
Question is whether the council will stick to their guns long enough for the initial CHAOS to calm down or whether they will give in to the demands of the new Facebook group which wants it removed.
The people objecting are claiming concern for the safety of Corstorphine Primary kids. Many of the same people also objected to the creation of two school streets there, the introduction of traffic calming measures and pavement widening on the High Street, and to the 20mph limit.
I suspect, as usual, that the council have watered down the scheme and it won’t be as effective as it could have been.
Posted 11 months ago # -
Oh, they always claim "the safety of children" - like loads of cars driving everywhere is "safe"! - no it isn't, it's just been normalised
Posted 11 months ago # -
@ neddie
Yes to all that
Think everyone resents having ‘privileges’ challenged/taken away.
Too many people don’t accept/understand the privileges they have and how they relate to what other people have (or don’t).
We clearly live in age where too many people expect car ownership/driving to be a right rather than a privilege.
Perhaps worse are people who realise and feel even more threatened(?)
The whole children things is mostly perverse/disingenuous.
They mostly care about their children - it’s safer to drive them - without enough concern for those who don’t get driven OR any awareness of how - to some degree - they disadvantage their own.
Posted 11 months ago # -
People driving over the pavement to get round the closures in the Leith LTN:
https://twitter.com/johnmhunt/status/1662427032725143556
A new Facebook group to oppose the Corstorphine LTN: “Accessible Corstorphine for Everyone”
Posted 11 months ago # -
“Of course we’re concerned about pollution and congestion and something must be done, but we are absolutely opposed to this particular measure. No, we don’t have any other suggestions. “
https://www.edinburghlive.co.uk/news/edinburgh-news/edinburgh-parents-warn-new-safety-27021615
Posted 11 months ago # -
Won't somebody think of the children
Posted 10 months ago # -
"Keen cyclist" "undemocratic" "this isn't cyclists versus motorists" HOUSE!!!
PS is anyone aware of the verb 'bamby' existing in either Scots or English?
Posted 10 months ago # -
Who knew so many people chose to live in Corstorphine due its well-deserved reputation as a traffic free oasis in this crazy city? Now that oasis is no more!
SHAmE On yoU CitY of EDinbURGh CLOWNCIL!!!
I hear they plan to install a one-way system in the penguin enclosure at the zoo next!
Posted 10 months ago # -
Something must be done,
Under the Gembo Junta
People cannot make objections without improved counter proposals
Posted 10 months ago # -
aye, you can already hear the "improvements"...
re-phase the lights
one more lane
get rid of bus/cycle lanes / "artificial" congestion / bollards / plant pots
flyover to bypass Corstorphine
fill the potholes
move the school somewhere else
Posted 10 months ago # -
Although the council have again made a tactical mistake.
It was pretty obvious that, as is now happening, some drivers would instead start using Corstorphine Park Gardens->Station Road. The council even planned for that in the TTRO by having the option to make Station Road one-way. But instead they’ve held that back and will introduce it “if needed”.
So when the inevitable happens in the next week or so and they have to do this, then they’ll get the “CLOWNCIL don’t know what they are doing” and another round of headlines, relighting the fire.
Should have done the whole thing at once and get all the pain out of the way.
Posted 10 months ago # -
Yep. Typical council - make massive compromises before they've even started the negotiation
Question: Is half an LTN worse than no LTN at all?
Posted 10 months ago # -
LibDems seeking residents’ views on the Corstorphine LTN, no doubt to back up their inevitable opposition to something that they voted for. Or is that unjustified cynicism?
Posted 10 months ago # -
@neddie, If the aim of the LTN is to reduce traffic cutting up past the primary school during school hours then I would say the half LTN is better than none. Although given that the timings on a Friday don't match the lunchtime school finish I'm not sure they have the half correctly designed.
@Stickman, The Libdems are in a tricky position. They know that their voters need to drive less but they also know that their voters are fickle people many of who vote with their accelerator pedals.
Posted 10 months ago # -
"over 1000 people ready to protest against it"
https://twitter.com/lylljt/status/1664741753977544704
Do you hear the people sing?
Singing a song of angry men?Posted 10 months ago # -
Someone called Strong Arm and someone called Pidgon Posting having a debate without too many insults.
Normally claims are made like 70 per cent off but when I put on my specs the small print says Up to 70 per cent off and most items are usual twenty per cent off
Obviously Pidgin Posting is right
And Strong Arm’s claim that Over 1000 people are ready to protest is very bold.
I am ready to take Berlin but first we take Manhattan (singing that tomorrow in Dean Gardens will cost ypu a fiver. For charity. ) what is the name of the band you are in Gembo? I hear you ask. I say We Travel In Hope. Check is on Facebook, if you go there.
Posted 10 months ago # -
Claims of a Corstorphine business losing £5000 in the last week as their parking has been “effectively blocked”. No information about the location.
Posted 10 months ago # -
“Accessible Corstorphine for Everyone” has a new website. It includes some sample quotes from people explaining why they oppose the changes.
https://www.accessiblecorstorphineforeveryone.co.uk/community-response
Motorists of Corstorphine helplessly forced into another council-created steel trap, ironically hoping to save the planet by further clogging up St John’s Road with congestion
A steel trap?
I have a 96 year old Grandmother and a Mother in her 70s, both have limited mobility and cannot walk long distances, they attend the doctors surgery at Featherhall regularly which requires transport. These restrictions are to the detriment of their quality of life in the community"
There is still car access to the surgery.
”More traffic on St John's Road and coming up station road because you can't use manse road after you have been to tesco. I would normally go over by St Margarets park and up manse road and avoid a majority of St John's Road and the nightmare that is drumbrae roundabout but have to use alternative routes now"
This is the very definition of the rat running the scheme is designed to stop.
It's going to affect businesses in Corstorphine very negatively because people can't get parked and will be scared to take a chance of even trying;
Two spaces have been removed from Manse Road and bollards have been installed to prevent pavement parking on Kirk Loan. All other parking is completely unchanged and remains accessible.
how do I get to my dentist now on St John's road from Wester Hailes?
If driving, then by Meadow Place Road, Drumbrae roundabout then St John’s Road.
The centre of Corstorphine is now extremely unattractive. Choked with cars backed up on all streets. Nowhere now to stop for shopping, even on foot, you can only buy what you can carry.
This is just insane and appears to be written by someone who hasn’t visited Corstorphine in decades. And as noted above, there is no change to any parking.
A lot of the older generation like to go out and about and do their own shopping but taking buses away it will result in them not going out
No buses are being taken away.
Posted 10 months ago # -
Post truth society.
Keep calling them out.
Posted 10 months ago # -
As the Glitter band used to nearly Sing
Ga-Mon Ga-Mon
Posted 10 months ago # -
We’ve already reached the harrassing shop staff stage of opposition:
I have personally visited every business on St John’s Rd, adjacent streets to canvas opinion on the LTN ONLY the obvious 1 was for it. Only a public meeting can let you see the strength of feeling you have provoked. This could have been different.
https://twitter.com/thetwitererer/status/1665610952010522625
Posted 10 months ago # -
Looking at his Twitter profile, I'd guess he's in the motor trade
Ironic too that his profile pic shows him sitting enjoying a cocktail in what looks like a pedestrianised or low-traffic area
He follows JRM, BoJo, Trump, Farage, GB News and a load of anti-LTN accounts - need I say more...
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