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stickyMotor bike thefts
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This has had a huge impact on Edinburgh’s biker community. Given the seriousness of the situation, I was happy to give The @MAGUKCentral an assurance that I would request a review of secure motorcycle parking in Edinburgh.
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https://mobile.twitter.com/cllrscottarthur/status/1597231836698398720
Anyone know numbers/value of bike/motorbike thefts in Ed?
Leith Walk parking
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In a few days I'll table a plan to deal with this issue faster and harder.
“https://mobile.twitter.com/cllrscottarthur/status/1598079823595048960
Opaque?
Yes
Meaningless?
Will we ever know??
If the “plan” is to “table” a motion for next T&E, is that the best/only option?
Perhaps more carpeting than tabling?
Nothing to do with SA
Oh no…
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Never feel the need to push myself forward and take a place someone else, esp children, might enjoy! And ALL seats are very fine indeed
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https://mobile.twitter.com/lmacinnessnp/status/1597931999100293121
Leith Walk pavement parking
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It's a matter for the police.
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https://mobile.twitter.com/cllrscottarthur/status/1598400290775965697
In a few days I'll table a plan to deal with this issue faster and harder.SA giving off Elon Musk vibes with that tweet.
The van driver seems to have parked perfectly to avoid any action from the council - on the cycle track and zig-zags instead of on the double yellows - taking their chances with the police.
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As a civil engineering student I once redesigned a junction in Ballingry. That was 1989, and I have not been back since. I think this was it:
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https://mobile.twitter.com/CllrScottArthur/status/1598328713757745154?
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Edinburgh Labour has a plan to end the housing crisis in our capital, and we will ensure new homes have infrastructure needed.
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https://mobile.twitter.com/cllrscottarthur/status/1598596851111849984
If crises in transport, housing, climate etc. could be solved by publishing plans then Scotland would lead the world in these areas.
We don't, because plans are worthless without action.
Targets, aspirations, visions, policies, strategies, plans...all high value statements written by clever people for other people to do the actual doing.
“written by clever people for other people to do the actual doing”
Yes
But they are not clever enough to work out how it MIGHT get done.
Or how to ‘nudge’ priorities and funding mechanisms…
@Arellcat - very well put. One of the main problems is the people left to do the doing (largely private sector developers) have no interest in delivering what is set out in the plans. So they pay just enough lip service to these requirements to get permission and sometimes even welch on those commitments when it comes to building things.
There is also the fact that there appears to be no consequence for writing a plan that is never delivered. Promise 10% of all trips by bike by 2020, and deliver effectively no change at all - not a problem. Simply organise another annual active travel conference and award a few gongs to your client NGOs. Everyone's happy (everyone who counts anyway - not your actual cyclists or other plebs).
That 10% promise was just a vision or aspiration. Nothing to see here, move along.
Sounds familiar…
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particularly when it leads to nonsense like the present situation on local authorities including Edinburgh City Council, where Labour and SNP politicians can be seen reaching fragile “arrangements” with parties with whom they agree on nothing, purely in order to spite one another.
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I want to tighten up on antisocial parking, and the activity will be funded by the fines it generates.
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https://mobile.twitter.com/cllrscottarthur/status/1598739805029949440?
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We will consult on the future of tram travel in Edinburgh.
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https://mobile.twitter.com/cllrscottarthur/status/1598744665028669440
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“arrangements” with parties with whom they agree on nothing, purely in order to spite one another.
It was railway companies, once; political parties, now.
(Lowgill viaduct carrying the Ingleton Branch Line, which could've been the route of the WCML but for the railway companies continually trying to outmanoeuvre each other, and in the end the WCML took its business elsewhere).
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At the Transport Committee next week I will also be tabling an update on the plan for the future of the Portobello High Street/Inchview Terrace/Sir Harry Lauder Road Junction.
This "cyclops" design will make the junction safer for everyone:
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https://mobile.twitter.com/CllrScottArthur/status/1599365398922756096
Sheriffhall
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Who ever said the "funding comes from London"? This is a SNP/Green Gov project.
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https://mobile.twitter.com/cllrscottarthur/status/1599389530485886977?
Surely it IS ‘money from London’
And a longstanding MidL desire
Facilitated by SG which currently has Green elements opposed to this(?)
Presume ‘London’ has a say in which projects should be funded?
UPDATE
“City Region Deals are packages of funding and decision making powers, agreed between the Scottish Government, the UK Government and local partners.”
https://www.gov.scot/policies/cities-regions/city-region-deals/
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“So we’re looking at places where these companies can come together, put all their deliveries in one vehicle and that vehicle does the deliveries."
Hermiston hub:
Freight canal barges
Freight tram carriages
Freight train carriages
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https://mobile.twitter.com/cllrscottarthur/status/1599382686556356608?
Sheriffhall
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Scotland has an SNP/Green Government. They could stop the magic roundabout if they wanted, but they choose not to.
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https://mobile.twitter.com/cllrscottarthur/status/1599433865625468929
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The sheer amount of roadworks being undertaken in Edinburgh each year is mindbogglingly HUGE.
Full report:
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https://mobile.twitter.com/cllrscottarthur/status/1599443411932676096
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We listened to community concerns on safety at Dalmahoy Junction, and next week will back plans for a fully signalized junction.
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https://mobile.twitter.com/cllrscottarthur/status/1599410697401643008
“back plans” - is that the same as ‘make it happen’ - soon?
Sheriffhall - again Cllr Arthur tries to imply he does not support something which his administration clearly backs. The Edinburgh and South Scotland City Region Deal committee progress report dated 28 November 2022 states:
Joint Committee ratified their support for the scheme as published on 3 September 2021, following the consideration of further technical information.
The City of Edinburgh Council is the leading member of this Committee. It reiterated its backing for the Sheriffhall scheme just a few days ago.
If the Council wished to see the scheme stopped then it could have lodged an objection to the Road Orders, which will be the subject of a Public Local Inquiry in January 2023 (which involves some weel kent faces). It didn't.
As I keep chuntering on about. Actions - not words. Cllr Arthur's actions show he supports the Sheriffhall scheme, which can only add to the traffic on Braid and Comiston Roads - worsening congestion and all that entails.
From same doc
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Public Local Inquiry to be held from 30 January 2023 for 2-weeks
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Presumably all relevant orgs are preparing for this?
Dalmahoy
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The Council had already agreed to progress with a pedestrian crossing which now has an estimated cost of £1.06m. The plan is to spend more to get a fully signalized junction to improve safety further, and the Scot Gov have approved £0.75m from their AT fund.
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https://mobile.twitter.com/cllrscottarthur/status/1599881705128873984
Given the location, that seems like a highly questionable reason to pull a huge chunk out of the AT pot.
Was the Wilkieston A71 junction signalised using AT money, too? I doubt it.
highly questionable
Very polite!
£750,000 would get you at least one decent permanent Low Traffic Neighbourhood. Covering everything - design, consultation, TROs, signs, bollards, speed tables, planters and all the rest. Probably have a decent bit of change left at the end.
If you went cheap and cheerful (as in Morningside/Grange) then you could probably install several LTNs for this money.
There is also the fact this absolutely isn't active travel infrastructure. It's really for the benefit of cars pulling into/out of the main road. Does make you wonder what else the "record breaking" budgets for active travel are being spent on.
What the Dalmahoyers and A71 speedsters need is a 40-30-20mph section with a bit of ANPR. If drivers won't take heed of warning signs, perhaps they can take heed of average speed cameras.
This simply isn't about walking and cycling, however much elegant wording and spin is put on it. There are better ways to get to and from Ratho.
My Bartholemew map from 1972 has a road straight across Dalmahoy golf courses that would be handy way to get to Ratho. If I wanted to get to Ratho.
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