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Road pricing is almost inevitable, and both the UK and Scot Gov should be planning for it now.
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https://mobile.twitter.com/cllrscottarthur/status/1583371034899906560?
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(1432 posts)- Started 2 years ago by chdot
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On Friday I will publish our latest thinking on the restoration and economic development of George Street.
We will work with the community to turn it into a place where people can sit on a bench to have lunch and watch the world go past.
A place, not a car park!
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https://mobile.twitter.com/cllrscottarthur/status/1584966928657190913
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Sounds good, but can he deliver.
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As someone said there - what's happened to the supposedly already finalised and heading for detailed design 30 million quid regeneration plan? The one the previous administration that The Prof's party was part of had a hand in?
I smell the stench of "value engineering" wafting over the horizon.
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@Yodhrin - yes, sounds likely. That said, I think the George Street project is massively over specified. Initially at least, it could easily be pedestrianised (with cycle lanes) simply using some planters, paint and re-jigged traffic signals. No need to wait for some multi-year redesign £30m project. It could be delivered within weeks for a fraction of the cost. The street could then be gussied up as an when funds are available.
I reckon we will actually get the worst of both worlds - a stupidly compromised scheme (see Rose Street) but using massively expensive granite slabs and other pricey materials that are then patched up over the years with asphalt. It's the Edinburgh way.
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Dundee St/WAR access
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This is a plan I inherited from the last administration. Staff are overworked and funding is limited - two issues which I am looking at. More news in January.
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https://mobile.twitter.com/CllrScottArthur/status/1585166153717989377?
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Isn’t PART of the problem here identifying/understanding which bits of responsibility lie with CEC and/or @TramstoNewhaven PLUS longstanding contracts that can’t be simply altered
ALSO Picardy Place with bits of SG ‘involved’
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https://mobile.twitter.com/cyclingedin/status/1585174025059258368
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These governance structures were all approved by Cllrs.
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https://mobile.twitter.com/CllrScottArthur/status/1585228037355872257
But of course, they have ALL read through ALL the HUNDREDS of pages of documents at Committees…
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@Morningsider An "improve not remove" style scheme would be the sensible option absolutely, but it'd never get by Cockburn Society or business association types - they wouldn't even tolerate some lovely street trees in the first round of design consultation because it would "compromise the integrity of the original architect's vision" or somesuch guff, they'd have a conniption fit at the thought of Our Precious Historic Town Centre sullied by planters and other such plebian things.
There's also the disadvantage that anything that isn't permanent will almost certainly get ripped out if political circumstances change - the Tories and LibDems are as carbrained as they come, and much of Labour's crop have proven to be weathervanes. As compromised and suboptimal as it is, getting the whole of CCWEL including whatever they do to George Street set down in stone as it were is the only way we can be *certain* that link through the town will be completed and stay completed.
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A compromise set in stone...
Hmmm
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Perhaps instead of planters the council could see if the Ukranians would like to exhibit some of their vast collection of captured Russian armour in our fine city?
Like this:
https://www.rferl.org/a/russian-tanks-ukraine-captured-prague-exhibition/31938101.html
A few shredded vehicles suitably placed on George street would be quite the talking point and effective modal filters to boot.
Plus not very much larger than the SUVs normally found round those parts...
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@MediumDave - an excellent suggestion. All you need to do is slap a Land Rover badge on the front and tell any red trousered fool that complains "Lucy simply loves using hers on the run up to St George's" - probably create a healthy new income stream for the Ukrainian army to boot.
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On Friday I hope to publish the latest design visualisations for Picardy Place.
Sadly, there won't be a kinetic sculpture... but 20 years of roadworks will soon come to an end.
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https://mobile.twitter.com/cllrscottarthur/status/1585254852254310402
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The view was expressed at a public meeting which was webcast for free on YouTube. I expect the recording is still there.
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https://mobile.twitter.com/cllrscottarthur/status/1585359364931563520
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Each @on_lothianbuses bus can take up to 100 cars off the road.
Tomorrow I will publish details of how Edinburgh plans to work with residents to use ETROs to extend Edinburgh's permanent bus lane network. #QuickWins
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https://mobile.twitter.com/cllrscottarthur/status/1585595414031597572
I know it’s his pet mantra, but really…
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plans to work with residents
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I am publishing...I hope to publish
How odd then that the City of Edinburgh Council's Standing Orders say:
Power is delegated to the Transport and Environment Committee in relation to the matters listed in paragraph 6.6, to:
6.5.1. develop and approve policies, strategies, programmes and projects and work with officers, communities and partners to implement them;
So unless this some personal crusade by Cllr Arthur, what he really means is "the Council will" or possibly "the Transport and Environment Committee will".
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So this whole "temporary transitional" thing seems pretty much knocked on the head aye? He certainly doesn't talk like someone who's just warming a seat.
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plans to work with residents
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work with officers, communities and partners to implement them
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So, HE chooses to work with a section of “communities”?
Or is it all just words?…
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An update on Brunswick Road is below. Personally, I think any drivers who have been wilfully ignoring the traffic signals should be ashamed of themselves.
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https://mobile.twitter.com/cllrscottarthur/status/1585624256024842243?
Personally I think they should be prosecuted, but, hey, I’m not responsible for anything.
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McGandalf rota has been mooted on twitter…
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Responding to community concerns #NECPT have been taking enforcement action at Brunswick Road today. A number drivers have been reported for contravening no right and no left turn signage.
#RoadSafety
#Leith
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https://mobile.twitter.com/edinpolne/status/1585747658672685056
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Has the good councillor unleashed his policy confetti cannon yet?
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“We are working with Siemens just now to change the lighting sequence, again to protect pedestrian safety. But what that is going to do is cause traffic queuing at that junction. But I think it is right that we respect the transport hierarchy and put pedestrians first."
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Guessed they would do lockdown of junction with long bit with all lights at red.
Question: does the green light on Leith Walk have a lit straight ahead green arrow. Could that work like a filter lane light?
Other examples of this in city I think where cars go straight ahead parallel to green pedestrian crossing.
Or could have LED lit arrow sign in style of Shandwick Place where compliance not to drive that street is very high.Why traffic modelling didn't pick this up is a mystery to me. Makes me wonder what else can go wrong.
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Or could have LED lit arrow sign in style of Shandwick Place where compliance not to drive that street is very high.
I was on Shandwick Place on Monday and in only about five minutes I saw three private cars being driven past those signs. I was waiting for a bus which was still a few minutes away so I wandered down to have a look and, as I suspected, the signs were not illuminated. I thought the prohibition was 24x7. Is that not the case? (This was around 1pm IIRC.)
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Delusional, disingenuous or just more self-promotion?
Click for ‘artist’s impression’ of next year’s superhighway.
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We've worked with the community to bring years of roadworks at Picardy Place to an end.
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https://mobile.twitter.com/cllrscottarthur/status/1586053871755055105
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Scott Arthur (me!), Edinburgh's transport and environment convener, said the thoroughfare, which is one of the city's main shopping streets, will go from "a place which is dominated by cars to one which is dominated by people".
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https://mobile.twitter.com/cllrscottarthur/status/1586023717850660864
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Can't even blame people following their sat navs for this kind of thing - neither Google or OSM would direct you this way as both have not been updated for the (temporary) one way eastbound arrangement on Brunswick Road.
Question: does the green light on Leith Walk have a lit straight ahead green arrow. Could that work like a filter lane light?
No it's just three lights + no right turn, which makes sense because the green light is for left and straight ahead.https://twitter.com/CyclingAndyC/status/1586028506739195904
Once the final arrangements are in place you probably wouldn't be physically able to turn into Brunswick Road (i.e. through the no entry sign) because other cars would be waiting to exit.
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George Street
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I hope that by the time the scheme is introduced the bollards will be ANPR driven.
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https://mobile.twitter.com/cllrscottarthur/status/1586330656212013056
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An end to subsidising driving in Edinburgh - I will be asking the Council to bring in a new price structure for electric vehicle chargers:
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https://mobile.twitter.com/cllrscottarthur/status/1586739598272724993?
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“We want to bring the price up to reflect the cost of us running the network, so we break even There's lot of things the council could choose to subsidise and I don’t think electric vehicles is one of them.”
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