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Significant barriers to deliverability have been considered including operational issues which might limit the effectiveness of the scheme. The environmental impact of the scheme on the Roseburn corridor is especially sensitive and a high level review of key issues has been undertaken.
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I’m really grateful to all the people who came along to the graffiti summit. It’s clear from our discussions that we all share the same aim – we want to be proud of the city we live in and for people who come here to love it as much as we do. It’s clear from speaking to people today that there’s a real spectrum of ‘graffiti’, from formal murals like Colinton Tunnel which have the consent and support of the community, through to offensive tags. I know many of the complaints we receive are about the latter. One of the key outcomes today was to work with both the private and public sector to solve this problem, whether that’s sharing data with the police to help them to identify the extent of the problem or working with stakeholders to provide an enhanced service. This adds to the £0.75m investment we’ve already made this year, which is allowing our excellent cleansing and graffiti teams to use specialist vehicles to focus on removing graffiti from public buildings and infrastructure, as well as power washing areas such as streets, pavements and steps which need it most.
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Option A is the originally approved City Centre Transformation.
Option C is the plan I will propose next week.
The revised plan is bigger and bolder, and will be implemented faster.
No change to bus routes - indeed, many will move faster. Vehicle access to homes, businesses and Blue Badge spaces is supported.
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very telling what is not mentioned
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City transport convener said that officials are “working with the Scottish Government on pay-as-you drive”, adding “that’s what used to be called congestion charge”.
The Labour councillor added: “The idea of a cordon around the city is not ruled out yet but I think road pricing is absolutely the way to deal with this going forward.
“It gives us much more control for different parts of the city, different times of the day, different pricing for different routes and maybe different pricing for different vehicles.
“I think there’s much more flexibility there if we get those powers right.”
Mr Arthur claimed that Transport Scotland “decided to pause” their work on the concept last year.
He added: “For it to work, it also needs collaboration with the UK Government and Rishi Sunak’s war on cars thing “As we move away from fuel duty, as we move to electric, what’s the alternative to fuel duty?”
The Transport (Scotland) Act 2001 established the discretionary power for local authorities to implement road user charging schemes.
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I am sure Councillor Arthur knows that "pay-as-you-drive" is NOT “what used to be called congestion charge”. They are two different things. A congestion charge is a one-off payment for entering a defined charging zone, pay-as-you-drive is a distance/route/time based charge.
Also, it's classic Cllr Arthur. The Council currently has the power to introduce a congestion charge. It cannot currently introduce a pay-as-you-drive scheme, as it cannot compel motorists to install the necessary tracking devices in their vehicles. I doubt Councils will ever be given this power, as any such scheme will likely be be a national replacement for fuel duty.
Instead of using the powers available, Cllr Arthur can paint the lack of action as the fault of the Scottish and UK Governments.
The argument that the camera technology for enforcing a road user charge is "obsolete technology" is laughable, as it is exactly what the Council will be using to enforce the Low Emission Zone.
So here’s the truth then
My bold
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However, the local authority’s transport convenor Scott Arthur has hit back at Lang’s criticism of the proposals, pointing out that walking (if not cycling) will still be available along that particular section of the new tram route, that alternative plans will lead to longer journey times for motorists, and that the cycle route in its current guise does not allow for “24/7 safe cycling”.
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https://road.cc/content/news/travesty-if-tram-plan-leads-loss-cycle-path-306435
Tell me he’s got all the permissions AND the money.
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Edinburgh Trams - Dates and times for Granton to Bioquarter & Beyond
On time & on budget:
Granton to City Centre opens 2031
City Centre to Bioquarter opens 2035
Journey Times:
20 mins Granton to Haymarket
9 mins WGH to Haymarket
30mins Shawfair to City Centre
34mins Musselburgh to City Centre
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https://x.com/cllrscottarthur/status/1751204839478964598
Coincidentally
Google says Granton to Haymarket via NEPN - 20mins
BY BIKE!
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The Council wants to consult on options for a new tram route to Granton. This video is the preferred route:
Full video summary from me here:
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Enforcement of Edinburgh's Pavement Parking ban will activate at midnight tonight, and I will be out supporting our parking Wardens at dawn tomorrow.
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https://twitter.com/CllrScottArthur/status/1751536499152060680
Wonder if there will be any cameras to record it…
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Scott Arthur, City of Edinburgh Council's transport and environment convener, said he had faith in motorists realising when they were blocking a road.
"Every driver is responsible for parking their vehicles considerately, and where this would not cause an obstruction to the road," he added.
“If a driver can't park with all four wheels on the road without blocking traffic, we would encourage them to park elsewhere. Neither parking on the footpath nor blocking the road is safe or acceptable."
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-68087244
Definitely not a 100% compliance rate off the bat down here in porty.
Think he has just been on Nicky Campbell live from the mean streets of Currie?
But
Mid flow His pips ran out
So close to glory and yet so far
we would encourage them to...
Civilservicespeak, when you are hamstrung by politeness and understatement, comes across to the public not as understatement but actual statement.
Meanwhile former Emeryville mayor John Bauters was more upfront. No guts, no glory, as the bomb defusing guy in Die Hard 3 said.
See also the Lithuanian Fellow in his tank
I would pay money to watch Scott driving a tank down Riccarton rolling over pavement Parker’s
I mean only 75 per cent of the houses have unused off road parking
It is an injustice
My neighbour who - for no readily apparent reason - habitually parked his souped-up Range Rover with two wheels on the footway seems to have chosen to desist. He now parks about 1ft from the kerb...
(When I say two wheels on the footway, most of the time it was just the outer half of each nearside wheel that was on the footway, so half the rubber was on the kerb, the other half floating in mid air. I always thought that this was unlikely to do his tyres any good.)
A street round the corner from me has typically had 10-15 cars parked on the pavements.
None today. Never seen that before; long may it continue.
But are they just ‘properly’ on the street or have some had to go elsewhere?
Some are just "properly" on the street, where there's space for that to happen. A couple have gone round the corner to a side street. Others are likely just further up the street, where it's wide enough for parking on both sides.
This morning I watched a bin lorry being very carefully driven through the narrow spot in the street I was meaning above.
Heard recently:
What's going to happen to people that live and park in $narrow_road? There's not enough room for all the cars to park on the road and still be accessible to road users. Yet there's nowhere for them to go.
Yes, well, that's what happens when you try to own things for which you don't have storage space.
Here is a perfect example of this, actually. I don't know if Midlothian deigned long ago to extend the footways for the benefit of pedestrians, or to give drivers a chance to practice their bumping-up-kerbs skills. I also don't know when Midlothian might follow suit with the ban. People in glass houses, etc.
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What’s next for Trams in Edinburgh – Orchard Brae or Roseburn?
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https://drscottarthur.scot/2024/01/30/whats-next-for-trams-in-edinburgh-orchard-brae-or-roseburn/
Arguments against orchard brae:
1. Long-term disruption to the thousands of people who live locally.
2. Avoidable negative construction impacts on Queensferry Road businesses (including significant utility diversion works)
3. Difficulties installing cycling provision on Crewe Road South/ Queensferry Road / Orchard Brae.
4. Loss of protected trees.
5. No direct tram from Granton/Western General to west Edinburgh or Haymarket
6.Impacts on bus network and displacement of traffic.
1 - fair, but disruption will be inevitable regardless of option
2 - what businesses? There are a bunch of shops on Queensferry St but otherwise…
3 - can’t be worse than it was pre Covid
4 - really?
5 - put a bus on
6 - didn’t bother them last time
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This is very disappointing, and a real slap in the face for NHS staff.
Edinburgh Royal Infirmary parking row will flare again as free shuttle bus withdrawn
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https://x.com/cllrscottarthur/status/1752670600420598255
Not to worry, there’ll be a tram soon.
Just imagine if they had a huge site in city centre to locate the new Royal Infirmary, well connected to lots of public transport and even active travel... oh, they did.
But now seems to be mostly empty sterile flats owned by Dubai-based investment companies
In fairness, the building footprints of the ERI campus are probably several times the size of the Lauriston Place site, and built to a size/design that presumably wouldn't have met with planning approval in that location. So we'd probably have ended up with a split campus, necessitating lots of patient travel to Little France anyway, along with lots of transport between the sites too. (There is also the question of where all the patients would go while you were rebuilding it!)
It's also probably better to build high-density housing within a city and a major, purpose-built facility in the outskirts; the facility can attract a public transport hub/terminus whereas low-density housing in the same location would probably attract zero public transport provision and end up quite car-dependent.
(The fact that a low of the high density housing is in murky ownership and possibly under-utilised is an issue but not really one that is within NHS Lothian's purview.)
They could perhaps have built it on all the brownfield between the canal and haymarket, once upon a time. Still... at least it is generating car trips on the outskirts and not acting as another St James centre!
“probably several times the size of the Lauriston Place“
Health Sprawl?!
Of course Lothian Health Board (as was) expected to be allowed to knock down good housing all the way to Brougham Place.
Fountainbridge would have arguably been even better in terms of public transport provision than Lauriston Place and would have allowed high-density newbuild, but you still have to question whether the size would have been a limitation.
> Still... at least it is generating car trips on the outskirts and not acting as another St James centre!
Indeed!
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