stickybut delays to public transport will continue until Braid Road reopens.
I would venture that delays will continue until we get some of those cars off the road.
The situation yesterday was pretty terrible. I assume it's been like that most rush hours, though. And not just all the way south between Morningside clock and Greenbank church, but the queue was all the way along Cluny Gardens too.
But, the situation however bad at Greenbank is actually completely normal on other roads at peak time, like eastbound on Great Junction St and Duke St at half four in the afternoon, or the southern end of Easter Road going up to Abbey Mount. Yesterday morning's queues were around a mile long eastbound to Sheriffhall roundabout on the bypass, and it was a continuous and mostly stationary queue from the A1 junction at Newcraighall Road all the way to the Portobello Road/Harry Lauder Road junction. Hustling a 300kg bepanniered touring motorbike is hard work and not for the faint hearted - but to attempt my 15 mile commute in a car, rather than on two wheels, would've been an hour and a half at the minimum. I have never had to do so much filtering, so assertively and even a little aggressively.
Frankly I wish I'd cycled, but I had so much to carry for hybrid working, and post-work commitments of carrying even more meant I was no better than anyone with a car really, except that I was contributing to congestion to a much smaller degree.
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