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IT’S TRUE!
CCE is 15years old!
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stickyCan’t decide if this is ‘good’ or ‘bad’…
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We are discussing road safety at the Transport Committee this week - resources fall far below what's needed to meet the reasonable expectations of residents.
Too many projects are progressing too slowly as a result.
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https://twitter.com/cllrscottarthur/status/1711289874156868082
The absurd amount of effort and expense they go to, to allow cars to continue to dominate our city...
What's the solution to Dundee St / WAR? Or what was the problem? (Can't see the previous tweet)
Tulyar often posts about this part of the Road Traffic Act:
https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/52/section/39
39 Powers of Secretary of State and local authorities as to giving road safety information and training.
(2) Each local authority must prepare and carry out a programme of measures designed to promote road safety.
(3) Each local authority must carry out studies into accidents arising out of the use of vehicles on roads or parts of roads that it has responsibility for. The LA must then take such measures as appropriate to prevent such accidents.
The Act gives various woolly sounding examples such as "the dissemination of information and advice relating to the use of roads, the giving of practical training to road users or any class or description of road users" but does include "the construction, improvement, maintenance or repair of roads" and "other measures taken in the exercise of their powers for controlling, protecting or assisting the movement of traffic on roads".
Given that the RAIB is now involved in the simple-sounding case of a signal passed at danger, maybe it's time LAs took action on every instance of RLJ. Perhaps car drivers should be made to operate under similar restrictions of block signalling.
Ha ha, yes. Only one car, at any one time, allowed between traffic lights in each direction
There is no "solution" other than closing the Dundee Street/WAR slip road. This could be done within a matter of days - a template TRO and a couple of concrete blocks would do it. Cost isn't the issue here as a few thousand pounds would do it.
What would be fun, if there was a bit more cash, would be
to then open the slip road to bikes only, install a light controlled crossing at the bottom of the ramp and convert a lane of the WAR into a two-way cycle superhighway. A cheap, almost ready-made safe cycle route into/out of town.
<round of applause emoji>
'Streets in central Edinburgh which residents think should be prioritised for reducing through traffic.' An accompanying image shows many city centre streets covered with lots of coloured dots, but there is no key that explains what the different coloured dots actually mean.
https://twitter.com/CllrScottArthur/status/1711464423133765823
Map is from this document: https://democracy.edinburgh.gov.uk/documents/s62125/Item%207.3%20-%20Actions%20to%20Deliver%20Edinburghs%20City%20Mobility%20Plan%20Consultation%20Update.pdf
On page 21 (page 34 of the pdf).
Although it doesn't really explain in there what the colours mean beyond "heat map", so (I'm guessing), red means high density and blue means low density.
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Labour Transport Convener Scott Arthur said he felt “uncomfortable” with the proposed arrangement as the space had “huge potential”.
He said: “It looks like quite a good public space, and there’s not a lot of spaces in Edinburgh that are like that.”
Cllr Arthur added: “We’ll have to decide if we should design the city around people or celebrities.
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https://www.edinburghlive.co.uk/news/edinburgh-news/concerns-edinburgh-st-james-quarter-27880304
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This result follows almost 18 months of making the case for cutting congestion and reduce climate emissions in Edinburgh. I'm pleased with the consultation outcome, and I'm looking forward to working with residents and businesses in Edinburgh to explore how we get our city back on track.
A top priority will be making everyday walking easier and safer, but public transport is there to do the heavy lifting if we are serious about modal shift.
The consultation outcome shows residents trust us to work with them on this transition.
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https://twitter.com/cllrscottarthur/status/1711993166591598717
Ah yes “claims”…
The Council should just say no. What are the hotel owners going to do? They need to recoup millions in investment, it's not like they can just walk away from this if they don't get their own personal taxi rank.
Looks Council will say no (well enough Cllrs).
Disappointing that officials recommended yes.
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Very surprised to see this come back as a request. Remember clearly discussing with officers when the plans were first mooted + agreeing that car entrance had to be through the car park. Anything else is going to change the pedestrian experience +reduce safety in that area.
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Presume car park has sprinklers?
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Liverpool car park fire: 'Sprinklers could have stopped' blaze that destroyed 1,600 vehicles
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Re the Jobbie
"SNP city centre councillor Finlay McFarlane said: “We all know that pedestrianised space in the city centre is at a premium and where we have it, we must protect it."
Well, they don't protect and enforce it in Rose St, Victoria St or the Grassmarket.
Not his ward…
Actually it is!
Finlay is one of a number of recent Cllrs (most parties) who understands ‘issues’ better than (some) longer standing Cllrs.
He even cycled though the Grassmarket last Saturday with Critical Mass.
Worth raising issues with him (and others).
Bus lane and junction priority approval being low is a depressing surprise. Buses are so bloody slow at the moment. It's one of the best arguments for cycling to be fair.
Scott Arthur talking about trialling it on key routes. Is that just so he can then launch another consultation?
His prediction of Within The week for the return of Lanark Road bollards now 3 months?
Still no lining on Melville Dr. either.
They've lost control of the city
@gembo: The prediction I saw posted on Twitter was from the Longstone Community Council, not CSA. Where they got it from I don't know.
I traversed Lanark Road from the Inglis Green Road junction to Gillespie Road and back again yesterday. It's a depressing hodge-podge of some - but not that many - wands, some - but not that many - DYLs, some bus stops properly marked (actually just one IIRC), and most of the parking spaces that were previously present not marked - including the bizarre situation outside the army place where half the parking spaces are marked and the other half aren't (but no wands, so even at the marked parking spaces some folks are choosing to park on the cycle lane as well.)
I have it all on camera and if I can find time I will send CSA, in his role a convener, a copy of the video pointing out exactly how much of the infrastructure has still not been reinstated. Ideally I would create a side-by-side before and after video, but I don't seem to have any before footage; I thought I'd videoed the "direct action" ride in 2020 but I can't now locate it :(
They've lost control of the city
I wonder if it is more a case of intense micromanagement.
This would be appropriate if the teams and policies and processes being micromanaged were open to change, but clearly they are not - hamstrung through resource inefficiency and legislative spaghetti, and perhaps increasingly resistant to such an approach - and the effect is ever more energy spent chasing and asking and urging and consulting and writing and reviewing and planning, but the symptoms of micromanagement are always an exponentially increasing paper trail and a deadening of work rate, even before you lose people to stress and frustration.
Where they got it from I don't know.
By asking the folk doing the resurfacing, if I remember right.
@Frenchy: I think you're right, though I can't locate the post on here in which it was first pointed out.
One job that has been completed recently i.e. within the last few days is the painting in of the hatch marks on the ghost island down the middle of Braid Road Road between Braid Hills Road and the crest of the hill southbound from there. Clearly this was much more important than reinstating infrastructure which protects the lives of cyclists...
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StJamesQuarter W Hotel #EdinWebcast
Proposed Experimental Order to allow vehicle access
@CllrScottArthur
says this is legacy idea, doesn't fit current policies
Cllr
@FinlayMcF
says it would be bad precedent
Voting: unanimous NO
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https://x.com/SpokesLothian/status/1712431564972347629
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Thank God!
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#EdinWebcast #MobilityPlan actions (ctd)
@CouncillorCowdy seeks delay for:
".. comprehensive masterplan of proposed changes, full costings, impacts on public transport & businesses, full public consultn prior to starting work"
@CllrScottArthur says city needs these actions now
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https://twitter.com/spokeslothian/status/1712477363806908579
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This is my wee recap on today's Transport & Environment Committee.
Lots of stuff discussed, and plenty of cross-party consensus on Edinburgh's future... and a bit of fun along the way.
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https://x.com/cllrscottarthur/status/1712537561556726252
6 min vid
(Haven’t listened)
He needs to use a tripod!
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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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https://twitter.com/CllrScottArthur/status/1703847812184543732
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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
So that’s that then…
Big thick yellow lines have now appeared in the bus stops of Lanark Road
Hopefully double yellow and bollards to follow
So HE is still saying “interim”, bizarre really -
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The (interim) Transport Convener: “The trial bus and taxi gate at Links Place will reduce traffic short cutting through the area near St Mary’s RC Primary School to create a safer, more relaxed environment for everyone."
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https://twitter.com/cllrscottarthur/status/1714373349973831820
I've said this before and most here already know it but no staff would have to pay a Workplace Parking Levy. Their employers might choose to charge them for parking after a levy came into force but the same employers could currently choose to charge them to park. As far as I can see there is no link between the levy and employers ability to charge their employees for using a small parcel of land for storage.
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