“we have this weird non-coalition reliant on keeping a tiny rump of right-wing petrolhead councillors happy”
You suggesting SA has a strategy??
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Posted 11 months ago #
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It's not perfect, but the Edinburgh Green project is a sign of things to come. It reuses / redevelops an existing site to include space for more workers, but does so at the same time as reducing car parking provision.
1 Car parking has reduced, but the people on site will grow from 1,663 to 4,810.
2 The parking on site will be used as a "Park & Ride" at weekends.
I was very pleased to hear they have been listening to Lothian Buses and Edinburgh Trams to ensure they get public transport connections right.
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https://twitter.com/cllrscottarthur/status/1735283779034288186
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Councilmember John J. Bauters
@JohnBautersEvery time someone tweets about how they hate sharing the road with bicyclists I choose another street parking space to eliminate.
8:12 PM · Jan 2, 2022 from Emeryville, CA
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Edinburgh Green is adding 516 parking spaces as a multi-storey. That is by no stretch of the imagination reducing parking. But then if SA tells us a cat is a dog, it must be a dog
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Adding in absolute terms, or that new structure will have 516 spaces? Because if the latter I'm sure there's some way of figuring the surface parking that will be built on as being *just* more than 516 so that his statement is Technically Correct, and the prof very much appears to be a Futurama fan.
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The Council has published a framework for the development of land immediately to the south of Edinburgh Airport.
There is an option for a potential new airport access route which would include public transport - this may be via Gogar Roundabout/ Myreton Drive and running close to the railway.
If cars are to use this road, this will only be supported if there are a range of measures provided which improve public transport to the airport.
More details:
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@Yodhrin - I find it hard to believe there was ever more than 516 parking spaces as original surface parking. That would be an enormous area. I think the "reduced" in this context means they were planning 1500 spaces or some such.
Anyway 516 spaces is still *a lot* and does nothing to reduce car dependency in the area
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@neddie: I find it hard to believe there was ever more than 516 parking spaces as original surface parking....I think the "reduced" in this context means they were planning 1500 spaces or some such.
The wording in the EEN article could be interpreted that way:
The number of car parking spaces as been scaled down from the original proposals to meet the city council’s policy
However, the satellite view on Google Maps shows that, as well as the parking in front of each building, there was/is a sizable surface car park in the south-west corner of the site behind the Younger Building, comprising 18 rows of 25 spaces each. That's 450 spaces in itself. A further quick scan of the satellite view gives a rough total of 130 spaces at the front of the Younger Building, taking the total to 580 spaces. Then there's the spaces in front of the (now demolished) Drummond House which would easily take it over 600.
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@55.9320936,-3.3090653,416m/data=!3m1!1e3?entry=ttu
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@neddie Oh I agree with you there, but the Prof likes to make arguments that contain little traps for critics so he can "refute" the mistake, both wasting the critic's time and presenting himself as correct on social media. Always better to take a moment to be absolutely sure of your approach to his nonsense, that way you'll only have to listen to garden variety obfuscation and dissembling hah.
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This is Scott's way of saying that he expects to be named as the Labour candidate on Monday
He has skillfully used the TEC convenership to boost his profile but he should stand down from the role as soon as he is selected or he'll be running his campaign out of the committee
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https://twitter.com/rsmcksg/status/1735667764621156703
Oh how cynical…
Q1 is he likely to be nominated?
Q2 are Lab likely to get elected?
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I’d rather have a Cherry than a Plum
Yours,
A ESW VoterPosted 11 months ago # -
Ooof, that seat in particular though, talk about a sophie's choice - do you want a disingenuous dissembler who cloaks their true opinions in "just asking questions" and concern trolling, or a disingenuous dissembler who cloaks their true opinions in "just asking questions" and concern trolling?
I could have taken some small measure of joy in him winning, assuming he would, if I actually thought it would send Cherry scuttling away under her rock, but sadly I expect she'd just carry on peddling her shtick as an MSP(still plenty of people who share her views lurking in the party's ranks sadly) or become an even more virulent presence as a talking head in the media.
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This week Police Scotland published plans to close more of the few Police Stations which are left in Edinburgh. This comes at the end of a year where my Ward has seen everything from serious anti-social behavior to house break-ins and robberies.
I was pleased, therefore, to see that police budgets in Edinburgh were being debated in Full-Council this week.
We agreed that the Council Leader should write to the Cabinet Secretary for Justice & Home Affairs to express the council’s "support for a proper funding settlement for Police Scotland which would prevent further reductions in police numbers and local service levels, emphasising the particular policing needs of Edinburgh as Scotland’s capital city."
Disappointingly, this was opposed by the Greens, and the SNP blamed Westminster for the decisions made by the SNP in Holyrood.
Full webcast: https://edinburgh.public-i.tv/core/portal/webcast_interactive/835614
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https://twitter.com/CllrScottArthur/status/1735998600042225976
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and the SNP blamed Westminster for the decisions made by the SNP in Holyrood.
I do wish we had a functioning media so that someone would pin these dissembling <rule2s> down and force them to answer the question: Then what would you cut instead?
Because that's why the SNP "blame westminster", it's a (pretty much)fixed budget, so if you want an increase in X, there has to be a decrease in Y.
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There was a point this year where Porty police station was closed for 5 weeks straight (based on sign outside). Clearly there's a better use for the building than what the police are currently managing.
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Balerno Cop Shop been dormant for years
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If a police station is closed to the public there may well still be police staff inside. It's just that the desk is unmanned.
That's certainly the case in Corstorphine but it may of course differ elsewhere.Posted 11 months ago # -
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The pavement parking ban comes to Edinburgh in January 2024.
No street will be exempt.
The fine level for those breaking the law is £100.
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https://twitter.com/cllrscottarthur/status/1735978454909104328
Good that SA is willing to punt some ‘war on motorists’ measures.
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Chosen as candidate for Edinburgh south west.
https://twitter.com/ScottishLabour/status/1736853853138460951
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Presume he/they think he might win
Wouldn’t be easy
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edinburgh_South_West_(UK_Parliament_constituency)
Might be impossible
Whatever, he’ll need to put some effort in
Might be time to step down from “Interim”(?)
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I’m shocked
Not so much the re-opening but the ‘nothing to do with me guv’ ‘innocence’
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It looks like the Council is getting ready to reopen Braid Road.
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https://twitter.com/cllrscottarthur/status/1737399788427993349?
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He forget to mention after its temporary closure for resurfacing.
But hey ho, a cat is a dog and a dog is a… dog’s breakfast of a Quiet Route
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Below is briefing from Council Officers on the temporary closure of Braid Road. It looks like the closure should lift tomorrow. The modal filter will remain in place, with improvements to the "Quiet Route" being considered by the Transport Committee in March. Works will begin on the South West Greenbank Crescent side after the Christmas / New Year embargo ends on 8th January, with the main junction works (over 5 nightshifts) to follow.
With Braid Road reopened, this should reduced public transport delays on the Comiston Road corridor.
https://drscottarthur.scot/2023/12/20/braid-road-update-december-2023/
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Still peddling the lie that reopening residential streets to rat runners will reduce delays to public transport, I see.
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Perhaps “corridor” should be buses only (and maybe bikes…), everything else can go on Braid Road.
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Flowers outside my office - Someone remembered the anniversary of the death of Lieutenant General Stanisław Maczek. He was the commander of the 1st Polish Armoured Division, and later of the Polish Army Corps under the Allied Command in WW2 - his actions were key to the Allied liberation of France.
Despite his status as a war hero, Maczek was stripped of his Polish citizenship by the Communist government of Poland soon after the war, and so remained in Edinburgh (Marchmont) and worked as a barman.
He died on 11th December 1994, 5 years after he received an apology from the Communists. Just before his death he was awarded the Order of the White Eagle (the highest Polish decoration).
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On the 26th of January we will publish our plans to work with residents and businesses to significantly reduce the amount of non-essential car traffic driving through the city centre.
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https://twitter.com/cllrscottarthur/status/1738474286019428618
All the right words in possibly the right order?
Obviously another consultation on the way, will it be ‘statutory’? Will it result in ‘we said we didn’t want it, but you ignored us’?
This could be another 20mph ‘watershed’. That was quite a battle with bizarre protests and quite a lot of work from ‘people like us’.
The Council also held its nerve.
Since then Edinburgh has witnessed all sorts of anti-LTN stuff and increasing of international conspiracies to ‘control people within 15 mins of their homes’…
I just hope the CEC plans are good and easy to support/defend/advocate.
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Edinburgh streets were entirely empty on Thursday morning.
Like Fife and Borders and Private schools were all already on holiday.
Putting the congestion charge right out at the Edinburgh boundary so that all the folk inside it didn’t have to pay might have worked . London sort of going that way now with ULEZ
Surely traffic modelers were aware that the road traffic in Edinburgh at commuting times is majority non Edinburgh council tax payers? (Before Covid)
The WPL won’t happen but would have given data on who still drives to work.
Our Tiny LEZ. Won’t tell us much.
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“Surely traffic modellers were aware that the road traffic in Edinburgh at commuting times is majority non Edinburgh council tax payers?”
Indeed
Agree that
A) that they MUST have info
B) that it may well be “majority”
I’m afraid CEC is In ‘don’t annoy too many people’ mode aka ‘only propose stuff that won’t have too much pushback’.
The fact that SA is running up to an election in the next 12 months will have an influence on all this.
Posted 11 months ago # -
Spending £30m on George Street certainly won’t reduce non-essential through traffic. Just implement the bus-gates already. And do it soon
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