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Posted 11 months ago #
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Saying some of the right things in an order that suits him and advocating things he has little control over(?)
Isn’t ‘the Chord’ dead?
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The scale of development in West Edinburgh makes investing in bus priority a huge, erm, priority!
The tram can take half the demand, but we will need a bus in/our the area every 2 minutes or so - in total perhaps 6,000+ people per peak hour!
To avoid any doubt, Edinburgh supports the delivery of a Winchburgh Rail Station and the Edinburgh Western Approaches Project (Almond Chord).
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https://twitter.com/cllrscottarthur/status/1740359816080486681
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Can find almost nothing since this was written 4 years ago -
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Plan to relieve Edinburgh western approaches: Transport Scotland revives project for Almond Chord
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Picardy Place today from the John Lewis Café.
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https://x.com/cllrscottarthur/status/1740775327390146910
Speeded up video showing too many cars and slow progress for buses due to lack of priority at traffic lights.
Oh, and very few people on the wondrous island!
Posted 10 months ago # -
Weather more suited to John Lewis Cafe than to lounging on the island.
Posted 10 months ago # -
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Getting Stuff Done - 94% of Capital residents are satisfied with Edinburgh as a place to live, according to a large-scale city survey.
Around 3,700 residents were interviewed face-to-face between July and September 2023 for the 2023 Edinburgh Partnership Survey:
https://www.edinburghpartnership.scot/downloads/file/217/2023-edinburgh-partnership-survey
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https://x.com/cllrscottarthur/status/1740823953336066522
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Thinking about your neighbourhood as a whole, how satisfied or dissatisfied are you with it as a place to live? (3,736 responses)
Very satisfied 54%
Fairly satisfied 37%“
So
Combined that’s 91%
Maybe I am missed something…
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without doing the maths, I would usually assume that they have calculated the % after removing the don't knows.
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Aha, I DID!
• Unemployed participants were only 69% satisfied, compared to 94% satisfaction amongst those working full-time.
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Speeded up video showing too many cars and slow progress for buses due to lack of priority at traffic lights. Oh, and very few people on the wondrous island!
I had a look today and it was the same. There was a huge tailback all the way down Leith St, with several buses unable to make much progress towards Picardy Place.
It looked like there is so much traffic coming up from Broughton St that it gets priority as it reaches Leith Walk, and all that right turning traffic is adding to the traffic queued from Leith Walk that is trying to get to Broughton St. The effect was that the gyratory is unable to release any meaningful capacity for traffic coming down Leith St.
If I'd taken the torpedo today, on account of COLD, it would've been a dead loss because you can't filter in that level of traffic jam, much less reach any of the cycle lanes which seem to be inaccessible until you're at the bottom of Leith St anyway. I was on an upright bike and was able to winkle my way through to the sculptures where I watched the melee for a few minutes.
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“so much traffic coming up from Broughton St”
Posted 10 months ago # -
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Done - My first @parkrunUK of 2024.
Many thanks to all the Portobello Parkrun volunteers for keeping the event fun, free & safe!
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And I thought it would be from January 2nd!
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Happy New Year Folks - By the end of this month Edinburgh will have a pavement parking ban.
No street will be exempt.
No public footpath will be exempt.“
https://x.com/cllrscottarthur/status/1741821588389970056?s=46
All with no extra staff(?)
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It was reported on local facebook way out here in Currie that some notorious local pavement parkers had flyers put on their cars warning of impending enforcement. Whether it will make any difference though...
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@Dave - any idea if that was the council flyering cars or perhaps a local resident doing some helpful awareness raising?
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SA’s NY message
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In terms of active travel projects, spring should also see the completion of the City Centre West to East Link, and the Roseburn to Union Canal scheme taking shape. This year we will also see progress on the Western Villages project on Granton Waterfront, and the West Edinburgh Link will get underway. We will start the statutory consultation on Meadows to George Street, and the Lothian Road public and business engagement exercise will report. All of these schemes will improve walking, wheeling and cycling for everyone, whilst also providing good connections to our excellent public transport network.
Although this pace of change is incredible and is stretching the available staff and budget resources, there will always be those that urge us to go further and faster given the climate emergency and Edinburgh’s congestion problem. I will try not to disappoint them!
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https://drscottarthur.scot/2024/01/02/2024-getting-edinburgh-ready-for-the-future/
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Cllr Scott Arthur, Transport and Environment Convener, said: “These new rules are about making our streets safer and more accessible for everyone, in particular those with visual impairments or mobility issues.
“I’ve heard from many people who say the change will make their day-to-day life much easier. I have also been pleased to hear that, as a result of our publicity campaign, pavement parking is already reducing in some areas.
“Officers have been working hard over recent months to prepare for the changes coming into force and have been in contact with residents on streets where pavement parking is a real problem. I am proud that Edinburgh is leading the way on enforcing the ban, and that all political parties here agree that no street should be exempt.
“I would expect everyone to adhere to the new prohibitions once in place, but we’ll continue to monitor streets across the city to make sure the impacts on the wider network are minimal.”
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https://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/news/article/13891/edinburgh-sets-a-date-for-pavement-parking-ban
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I'll be interested to see what happens here:
https://maps.app.goo.gl/X6QG4m8Bsxs8oQ3g6
Pavement parking as far as the eye can see:
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Fraser Avenue will be interesting too
Needless to say it doesn’t look like this anymore!
http://www.edinphoto.org.uk/0_street_e/0_street_views_-_fraser_avenue_early_1920s.htm
It seems likely that is was intended that trees would be planted like in some nearby streets.
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This is the sort of thing he should be doing on a regular/consistent basis.
In some ways he is ‘hiding’ behind the idea that ‘all councillors’ (may be true) back a policy - “consensus” is one of his words/aims with TEC.
But when it comes to things that are less popular, it’s ‘ask the residents’ or ‘the trade unions don’t like it’ (WPL).
I’m not going to cynically suggest ‘he’s going after the disability vote’. There’s no doubt that people with disabilities are often badly disadvantaged by poor/inadequate infrastructure, but the bigger picture remains ‘too much traffic’ and too much planning for “traffic flow” and perpetuating decades of ‘car normality’ (priority even).
We can only hope for good/strong/bold plans to back the policy of ‘30% less traffic mileage’ and wish him luck building consensus with his colleagues…
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All 5 of Edinburgh’s political parties have agreed to enforce the pavement parking ban.
I know that the ban will mean that things will have to change in many streets in Edinburgh, but it is important to note that the process of parking on the footpath was already illegal. The same is true of parking in such a way that the road is blocked to other vehicles. (Check what the Highway Code has to say about both points.)
It is also important to note that the pavement parking ban is being introduced to create a more equal city. Vehicles parking on footpaths represent a significant barrier to people with disabilities, and that’s why the ban has the support of campaigning charities like Guide Dogs Scotland.
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> Fraser Avenue
I notice on Streetview that a car has parked 'correctly' at the edge of the road and blocked in at least one on the pavement. I wonder if this will count as banned double parking!
(From memory, double parking under the legislation is defined in terms of distance from the kerb, so probably not.)
Either way it seems to be a perfect example of a road where pavement parking is just 'the done thing' but actually completely unnecessary by anyone's standard of 'necessary' - it's not a main through-road and there is clearly room for on street parking on one side.
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All 5 of Edinburgh’s political parties have agreed to enforce the pavement parking ban.
How long before the Tories start calling for "common sense" exemptions to enforcement in Edinburgh? I bet they won't be able to help themselves.Posted 10 months ago # -
Fraser Avenue is apparently going well with behaviour change already being seen according to one resident.
Agree Malcolm, was worried about Fraser Ave. The Council flyered all the cars before Xmas. Now most are moved somewhere else or parked on one side of the road… we found somewhere else for our car.Hope that the kids play on the street now, which is what I had wanted for my son.
From https://twitter.com/anitaacommunity/status/1742854191570170300
Posted 10 months ago # -
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My overview of what's coming to the January 2024 Transport & Environment Committee:
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https://twitter.com/CllrScottArthur/status/1743343290441666762
12 MINUTE VIDEO!!!
12 bullet points and a link to CEC papers might be more useful…
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Ok, he’s managed one of them -
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Papers here: https://democracy.edinburgh.gov.uk/ieListDocuments.aspx?CId=136&MId=6735
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https://twitter.com/cllrscottarthur/status/1743348731057938754
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"When I get emails from people about the project, I look at where the person lives relative to the scheme and often I find that people who have strong views about the scheme actually don’t live in the area and perhaps they feel inconvenienced because they can no longer drive through the area on their way to somewhere else.”
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Posted 10 months ago # -
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Following the opening of the Sainsbury's on Biggar Road in my Ward, the Council has agreed to look again at installing a pedestrian crossing.
They have also confirmed that the speed limit on the road will be reduced to 30mph.
Well done to the Winton residents who raised this.
The full response is below.
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https://x.com/cllrscottarthur/status/1744056315431841936
In short -
WHY WHY WHY did it have to have to wait until it was open???
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In response
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PV2 is a flawed and fundamentally discriminatory metric based on guidance withdrawn in 1995. Here's a paper I wrote on it and I'm more than happy to run a session with your Roads officers.
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https://twitter.com/rantyhighwayman/status/1744061164546396233
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That's a pretty good paper, although I spent the first half of it thinking to myself: surely low numbers of pedestrians crossing may very well be due to them being put off by the absence of a safe way to cross a busy road? With a sigh of relief I found on page 8 that this advice had finally made it into the official guidance in 2019:
A low number of people crossing the road, particularly vulnerable road users, may not indicate low demand. The low numbers may be due to latent demand as people experience difficulty in crossing.
Er, no s**t Sherlock.
I have to admit that I hadn't consciously registered the Sainsbury's Local in the Craigdon Mountain Sports building, despite passing that way fairly regularly.
If they were looking to put in a signal controlled crossing* then I think it would be handy if it could be a Toucan. I quite frequently cross there on my bike going from Swanston Drive to the path that connects to Winton Park, thence to Mortonhall and beyond. I have a feeling, though, that Toucans only usually go in on 'designated' cycle routes, like the WoL path at Balgreen Road, or where the shared use footway crosses Oxgangs Road North just before the Firhill roundabout. As I say, it would be handy, but dismounting and walking across with some kind of mechanism for persuading the motor traffic to stop would still be preferable to using the existing refuge (which isn't really wide enough for a bike - ridden or pushed - without leaving one or other wheel projecting into the carriageway). Maybe I'll drop SA a line about it...
* A zebra so soon after drivers have come off a 70mph motorway class "special road", albeit into a 30mph limit, sounds a mite optimistic to me. It can take a while for a driver's brain to reset from motorway mode to having to look out for non-motorised road users.
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Pedestrian crossings are usually framed as pedestrian infrastructure, but this is conceptually false because they are motoring infrastructure which is aimed at mitigating the current status quo
Nice quote there.
Segregated cycleways are also motoring infrastructure.
...lead[ing] to the conclusion that much of the ‘stuff’ placed on roads and streets are there because of mass driving and if we are to move beyond this proposition to one which is infrastructure aimed at walking, then every opportunity to reduce the impacts of motor traffic is required.
Posted 10 months ago # -
This is a network issue and when objective network decisions are taken, then many locations will have motor traffic volumes reduced to the point where fewer formal crossings are required, and which then allows local authorities and engineers to concentrate on main roads which will always carry the bulk of the motor traffic flows.
This is why LTNs are so so important - because it allows traffic engineers to focus on the main roads
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