CityCyclingEdinburgh was launched on the 27th of October 2009 as "an experiment".
IT’S TRUE!
CCE is 15years old!
Well done to ALL posters
It soon became useful and entertaining. There are regular posters, people who add useful info occasionally and plenty more who drop by to watch. That's fine. If you want to add news/comments it's easy to register and become a member.
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stickyIs it me or is it always "some else's fault"? I understand politicking quite well, but this is just endless points scoring that is doing no-one any good in the real world.
I have lost count of the number of consultations and opportunities to comment on things, and insofar as the Braidburn Terrace junction is important to me as part of my journeys south from Morningside, it feels like endless rearranging of deckchairs onboard the Titanic.
I can't summon the energy to dignify their schemeing with responses, which unfortunately is EXACTLY what councillors want as they rip out safe spaces
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This is my wee update on
@Edinburgh_CC's Corstorphine Connections trial road safety scheme.
Important to note:
1. The Council published traffic data today.
2. No conclusions can be drawn, but it appears there has been a marginal decreasein traffic passing the school.
3. The footpath widening work on the High Street should be completed by the 22nd of September.
4. The consultation remains open: https://edinburgh.gov.uk/cycling-walking-projects-1/corstorphine-connections/5
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https://twitter.com/cllrscottarthur/status/1699382242114490446
With 5 min vid
Please add comments here IF you watch!
I watched with the sound off. Cllr Arthur has nice new specs
@cllrscottarthur
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Please provide costings for each of the options, so that residents can make informed decisions. The costs vary enormously between the different options. Our estimate: £500,000 versus £10,000
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https://twitter.com/blackfordsafer1/status/1699435382486573344?
Cost is a stick only used to beat cycling and pedestrian improvements with. The motons will vote for tRaFfIc FlOw at any cost.
"no conclusions can be drawn... but here's a conclusion"
Well u can’t expect SA 2 b consistent/logical…
Cost is a stick only used to beat cycling and pedestrian improvements with
This isn't the case in this example. The £500,000 segregated cycle lanes on Braid Ave are to enable more rat-running, traffic queues, speeding and fumes in a residential area. The council are attempting to remove the simple and effective solution of a £10,000 modal filter, which brings far wider benefits than to just cyclists (the filter is already in place)
The most expensive option(s) for Braid Ave are the worst ones in all respects - they will divert active-travel resources away from where they need to be, all to appease a handful of angry drivers.
The real beauty of an LTN is that it allows safe cycling throughout a whole area. It isn't an A-B route. I cycle through the Greenbank-Meadows LTN most days, picking routes that suit what I am up to - going straight home, popping to the shops, wandering into town. I might occasionally use part of any segregated lane up Braid Avenue, but it would be a poor second best to what is there.
Then there is fact segregated lanes are no use to pedestrians, who also benefit from the quiet streets, which encourage sauntering, chatting, unhurried crossing and (for parents of younger children) the removal of that constant, unending vigilance lest your child(ren) wander too near or onto a busy carriageway.
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The headteachers are being mailed and asked to pass the link on to the school community.
The report will include a sub-analysis by school catchment as well as the leaflet drop area.
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https://twitter.com/cllrscottarthur/status/1699841117175382152
SO
More work for EVERYBODY over something straightforward that should fit in with CEC’s existing policies - not least on vehicle reduction.
‘Failure of leadership’ doesn’t really cover it.
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It was good to meet with New Town residents this afternoon to:
1. Hear their positive feedback on the green gull proof sacks trial, and their appreciation of the work the waste and street cleansing teams do.
2. Their desire to cut the amount of traffic cutting through the area on the way to somewhere else.
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https://twitter.com/CllrScottArthur/status/1700937707315171397
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Considering some of the negative impacts of a Workplace Parking Levy:
Women are more likely to be employed in education and part time work. (11% of employed men in Edinburgh work part-time and 31% of women employed in Edinburgh work part-time; and 56% of the Teaching and Educational Professionals in Edinburgh are women). The school sector has a relatively higher dependency on car use to work, and part time workers have a relatively higher income impact if the full cost of WPL was passed on.
Full report:
https://democracy.edinburgh.gov.uk/documents/s60982/EWPL%20Update.pdf
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https://twitter.com/CllrScottArthur/status/1700462492068012391
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A report by officials issues a stark warning to councillors that the one-off boost of £11 million extra agreed for the Capital’s roads and footpaths this year must be repeated for 2024/25 or the state of the roads will get worse. And transport convener Scott Arthur said: “Roads and footpaths are awful in Edinburgh. I'm tired of looking at it, feeling ashamed of it and hearing about if from residents – we have to start addressing it.”
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Their desire to cut the amount of traffic cutting through the area on the way to somewhere else.
Will be fun to see how Cllr Mowat responds to this: she has complained about through traffic on New Town streets previously.
Was coming down Dundas St today and wondering why all those traffic lights were there, on essentially side streets - yep, they're there to enable rat-running through residential streets.
And all that largely unnecessary infrastructure needs to be maintained which is cutting into the budget for repairing the roads.
Then, outwith the bus routes, they won't deal with the source of the pothole problem, which is too many, and too heavy, cars
More fundamentally, the only reason we need traffic lights at all is because cars and vans and buses are big and often poorly controlled and there are too many of them.
Yep, get rid of the cars from cities, and a multitude of problems melt away
Have been reading Traffication by Paul Donald and am discovering even more levels of harm caused by cars, on top of all the obvious ones
https://www.waterstones.com/book/traffication/paul-donald/9781784274443
Wait till you see the volume of traffic on the "Quiet" Route
https://x.com/CllrScottArthur/status/1701295163744584063?s=20
First minute of the video...
VAST number of enormous motors
Cllr Arthur trying to become an MSP?
Just imagine, the whole thing was fixable with about £10k of planters and legal orders and some further traffic restrictions off Comiston Rd to protect the buses... and now chaos
"concern about political handling in the past...people who feel their voices haven't been heard"
Yeah, so great, antis can and will try to veto pretty much everything because they know in Cllr Arthur they have a perfect ally - the type of human-shaped invertebrate who will allow them to endlessly claim they're "not being listened to" because things didn't go their way.
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It's been one of those days - it started at (not in) Wardie bay with @SanneDD and a peanut cookie, and ended in Longstone. Both communities want the same thing - safer streets.
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https://twitter.com/cllrscottarthur/status/1701337917220618255
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The police have footage of this criminality taking place which targets a scheme which makes it safer for kids to walk to school.
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https://twitter.com/cllrscottarthur/status/1701483050075398605
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Cllr Arthur also said that by using Orchard Brae the council could be presenting itself with a “Leith Walk situation” all over again, by which he meant that the council would be trying to do too much with not enough space. Critics suggest that retaining public transport and cars and a segregated cycle lane on Leith Walk which is a wide street was never going to be easy. Taking a tram across the Dean Bridge might mean that other modes of transport would be impossible. Where would all the cars go if they can’t use the Dean Bridge is a big question. And Scott Arthur confirmed that while all the routes are being looked at this will have to be followed by a detailed costing exercise.
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https://theedinburghreporter.co.uk/2023/09/trams-in-edinburgh-where-next/
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For all students starting at @HeriotWattUni's Edinburgh campus this week, it's best kept secret is the walking / running / wellbeing track around the perimeter.
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https://twitter.com/cllrscottarthur/status/1701592732488384821
Map
Those poor students, locked in their 15 minute neighbourhood, pacing the perimeter fence like caged tigers.
It's certainly one of the better aspects of being at Heriot-Watt, but I'm not sure that I'd agree that it's its best kept secret...
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Allowing peak time loading on bus lanes doesn't work, we need to work with businesses to find a better solution.
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https://twitter.com/cllrscottarthur/status/1702223242201579681
"we need to work with businesses to find a better solution"
Chorus of Kumbaya round a camp fire?
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