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Responding to the Biodiversity Emergency - Edinburgh just became the first Scottish Local Authority to agree to end weedkiller use.
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https://twitter.com/cllrscottarthur/status/1702303296092869119
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(1432 posts)- Started 2 years ago by chdot
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Posted 1 year ago #
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Energetic - Not bad for a guy with a chronic heart condition.
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https://twitter.com/CllrScottArthur/status/1702437160563954114
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A wee update on the Transport and Environment Committee today:
Workplace Parking Levy - This was a difficult decision, but I fear the SNP/Greens/LibDems on the Committee have gotten it wrong. It should not have progressed without the negative impacts being fully addressed.“
https://twitter.com/cllrscottarthur/status/1702420077503561775
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No mention of the negative impacts we see every day of NOT taking a Workplace Parking Levy forward - air and noise pollution, road danger, community severance, an environment hostile to walking and cycling, delayed buses and so on.
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All things which would solicit an emergency response if they had suddenly appeared rather than growing slowly.
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It has emerged a sixth councillor, @CllrScottArthur, also attended this event
If he refers himself to Standards Commissioner as recommended by his group leader it means half the Labour administration now facing investigations over potential breaches of the code of conduct
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What event are we talking about here?
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A Labour Party gathering in the City Chambers which appears to have been an election campaign event.
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No politics involved…
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Edinburgh has proven this will reduce accidents and save lives.
Will the SNP/Green Government here now follow Wales and make 20mph the default in residential areas?
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https://twitter.com/cllrscottarthur/status/1702932290400076020
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Current cycle lane construction at Haymarket
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This scheme was agreed before I was Convener, but I may have been on the Committee at the time tbh - I'd have to check.
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https://twitter.com/CllrScottArthur/status/1703675811742568789
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I'm very happy to be compared to David "Greenways" Begg.
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https://twitter.com/cllrscottarthur/status/1703740368397701603
Not so sure Begg would be…
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Prof Begg who abandoned Edinburgh in disgust at spineless politicians over first attempt at congestion charging.
People don’t want it but they do NEED it.
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I had a useful update from Council Officers today - Edinburgh is on-track to enforce a pavement parking ban from December 2023.
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https://twitter.com/cllrscottarthur/status/1703807876228173944
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The quote is from the EIS, not me.
It's a legitimate concern, and robust mitigation options should have been part of the consultation.
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https://twitter.com/cllrscottarthur/status/1703852363792908534
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Is there any context to those last two tweets? Musk has made his site pretty much useless now for anyone who isn't signed in.
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Apologies
Hadn’t realised you could now only see a single tweet if not logged in!
First one is the first in a thread - with responses generally not believing any enforcement will happen.
The post about the WPL is in response to Alex Staniforth (@Alex4Craig_Dudd) saying
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Is that what happened in Nottingham or are you just making this up?“
Which is a reply to SA saying
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Many school staff would refuse to pay a Work Place Levy simply because they couldn’t afford it. Instead, they will resort to parking on neighbouring residential streets around school building, which will create additional safety concerns for pupils and their families in these areas.
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As an aside, if you don't want an artist-formerly-known-as-twitter account, check this list: https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/wiki/Instances
It's a bit less comprehensive following the recent changes, but you can usually find a few instances up and running, and you can append everything after .com in a twitter/x link to a nitter instance address and read away happily without restriction - works for browsing whole accounts as well.
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The letter which Scott has reproduced on his blog contains a nice cross section of concerns around reducing the unrestrained dominance of cars in our public spaces... but isn't he confidently telling us that the city will enjoy transformative change and a big reduction in car use? It feels like the mask slipping.
They don't intend to tackle any of these issues, just pass time with nice soundbites until it's someone else's problem.
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I visited Corstorphine Connections today to (1) speak to STV's @AmieFlett, (2) visit a local business, and (3) have a look at the wider scheme.
This wee video is about the Bus Gate on Manse Road.
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https://twitter.com/cllrscottarthur/status/1704174612647420019
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My wee update on Lanark Road.
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https://twitter.com/cllrscottarthur/status/1704220937984332033
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‘Lines and bollards not returned. Will get an update on that’.
But no sense of annoyance/urgency etc.Posted 1 year ago # -
Within the week.
Was what he said month and half ago
Maybe he became distracted as STV journalist wanted to meet him?
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It's interesting that compliance on Lanark Road has cratered, even where the bollards have been returned. For the past couple of years, I would say the average journey for us involved zero cars parked in the bike lane. Now there are always cars being stored next to the reinstated bollards.
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A wee update on Bonaly Road - Filmed yesterday on my way to @SwanstonFarm
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https://twitter.com/CllrScottArthur/status/1705490557127008676
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@Dave:
It's interesting that compliance on Lanark Road has cratered, even where the bollards have been returned.
Interesting is one way to describe it: entirely but depressingly unsurprising would be another.
For a start: it's not strictly a compliance issue, since - due to historical legislative stupidity - it's not actually illegal to park in a mandatory cycle lane, even though it's illegal to drive in one. The same (to my mind fallacious) argument thus applies to this as it does to pavement parking: it's illegal to drive your motor vehicle on the pavement, but not to leave it there - even though leaving it there would, to any rational person, look like prima facie evidence that the offence of driving on the pavement/cycle lane had, beyond a reasonable doubt, been committed.
I don't know about Lanark Road, but on Comiston Road parking continued "as usual" on the SfP cycle lanes, even with the bollards in place, until the DYLs were put in (presumably requiring another TRO of some flavour, in addition to the original one). Given the gammony rage surrounding the SfP infrastructure on Lanark Road, it's no great surprise that once the DYLs were gone, numerous drivists seized the opportunity to reassert their god-given right to abandon their motorised sitting rooms wherever the heck they liked.
AIUI, until the DYLs are reinstated the only action that might be taken against people who park in the mandatory cycle lane would be for causing an obstruction. This they undoubtedly are doing, given that it's far from reasonable to expect cyclists to launch out into traffic every few yards to avoid discarded motor vehicles (for the same reason that it would be unreasonable to expect pedestrians to walk in the carriageway because e.g. some van driver has completely blocked the pavement). But enforcement of that offence would require the police to attend, and the entitled payers of the fictional "road tax" know perfectly well that the police don't have the resources/inclination (your choice) to do so, so drivers happily carry on being <rule 2>holes until such time as the likelihood of being held to [bank] account for their <rule 2>holery becomes unjustifiable to them. Which means that DYLs, which can be enforced by council wardens, are what's needed.
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St James Square is a lovely space, will the hotel opening bring:
1) Tables and chairs?
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2) Taxis and coaches?“
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Game changer:
Until now all utility reinstatements on Edinburgh's roads have come with a 2 year warranty.
From the 1st of October 2023 this will increase to 6 years unless they meet the criteria in the table below.
This won't change road condition overnight, but it will help.
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https://twitter.com/cllrscottarthur/status/1705847706361487824
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I bet there’s no remedial action enforcement of the ones that do fall apart within 2 years, as it stands. So what will actually change in practice?
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On the proposed emasculation of the quiet route, "The options were developed in consultation with local councillors, and the active travel team are clear they respect the aims of the scheme."
How can this possibly be true? Claiming that reintroducing through traffic to a low traffic area respects the aims of a low traffic area isn't just doublethink, it's repulsive
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Can’t decide if this is untrue, delusional or standard ’we want to do stuff, but it’s SG’s fault we can’t’.
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In Edinburgh we agree about the need to establish and maintain a critical mass of expertise in our active and public transport teams to deliver the pipeline of projects needed to meet our climate obligations. There is a real desire to move transport to more sustainable footing, but too often progress is delayed due to a lack of resources or poor team resilience.
Indeed, this point was also recently echoed by Transform Scotland - they recognised it is crucial that the capacity of local authorities is urgently increased in order to ensure
sufficient staff resources are available.I'm certain that both Fiona Hyslop and Patrick Harvie understand this, and I am willing to work with them to deliver the progress needed if Scotland is to meet its climate obligations.
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https://x.com/cllrscottarthur/status/1707047579647652235
(In response to Lee Craigie's letter to Patrick Harvie.)
SA has previously said he ‘can’t interfere with CEC staffing’, so unclear how he can adequately influence whether “ensure sufficient staff resources are available“ are deployed to advance ‘active travel’ and, maybe, more/better.
If resources are limited (which they always are) how to shift the balance from ‘more of the same’ to ‘something better’?
Obviously
Far too much ‘resource’ is wasted on endless, pointless ‘consultations’.
P.s. this is a curious phrase to utter in public - “poor team resilience”.
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It can hardly help with resourcing that Arthur has half of the officials working to dilute and undermine the small amount of infrastructure we already have, let alone advance the changes that are needed to meet climate and health challenges.
Maybe Transport Scotland (and Sustrans) could begin to restrict funding more seriously from these kind of mad schemes (like spending half a million pounds on one of the city's wealthiest streets to re-open a filter to through traffic :rolleyes:)
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