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Edinburgh Circulation Plan
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Posted 1 year ago #
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Content warning: gruesome crash.
Maybe this poor guy would still be alive if they'd implemented the traffic filter on the Cowgate after the festival this year, as originally mooted by Cllr Scott Arthur:
Posted 1 year ago # -
Quite. I’ve always thought Cowgate was too uneven, narrow and busy for the volume of traffic using it.
Posted 1 year ago # -
Well 3 years on since this thread was started
Obviously it hasn’t happened (obviously “yet” is still true)
Talking to various people, I’m led to believe that work is still going on (both by CEC staff and also external experts)
Also that senior officials want it to happen, but don’t know (neither does anyone else!) what the political situation will be when the work is ‘finished’
Part of the reason for no apparent action is that the last ‘window’ for implementing significant chance closed as it got ‘too close to the election’… (next May)
Whether the new Cllrs are more or less interested/supportive/hostile is wholly unknown!
Whether Parties explicitly are for or against or don’t even care enough to mention in their election material is also unknown
If anyone here is interested, some degree of lobbying in the coming months would perhaps be useful - presumably there will be politicians at PoP
Apart from money (a perpetual problem), the main unknown is whether officers will (eventually) recommend a ‘do a lot, quickly’ approach or (more normal for Edinburgh) in stages/tinkering - and if they do, will TEC want to or be allowed (politically) to approve the plan
Top of the list is probably still the Cowgate
If that is done as an initial/sole project the question would be WHY WASN'T IT DONE YEARS AGO!
Posted 1 month ago # -
Edinburgh:
Council election - develop plans - consult on plans - too late to act - election...
Glasgow:
Lets redesign the entire city centre for bikes and buses and deliver it all within five years.
Posted 1 month ago # -
Glasgow has majority SNP council and they are pushing this through.
Edinburgh minority Labour council and all taking pot shots at each other and nothing happensPosted 1 month ago # -
@ g
True but think G was on the case before the SNP ran the show
CEC headhunted someone with expertise/experience from G
Has had to apologise about TRO failings (before her time)
“Edinburgh minority Labour council“
Yes but
Normally minority rule means finding people to agree on and vote for things
Currently in Ed more like doing what the opposition wants (unless it’s the SNP…)
Cynical???
Posted 1 month ago # -
I must correct myself in terms of Glagow - SNP run a minority led administration in Glasgow though they have the most seats and have done so since 2017. Glasgow Council Created in 1996 and Labour led until 2017.. I am not sure if many of the current projects have had EDINBURGH style 15 year lead ins or if they are more recent. The current sustainable transport initiatives in Glasgow are wide in their scope. THe City Deal funds the Avenues project which is putting in segregated infra in 16? City Centre roads. Meanwhile Edinburgh can only feck up George St. THe Avenues is only one off the Glasgow projects.
I do think the stagnation in Edinburgh is because Labour are running the show in a tiny number of seats. Shame as CCWEL is great as is the WoL path, Russell Road to nearly Canal and the towpath itself.
But the Avenues project is causing major disruption in the centre of Glasgow to people trying to drive cars and this is a bold decision the minority administration are pushing through with the icing on the cake Being their favoured position of dismantling the M8 which in fact wasnt even put to them as an option by Transport Scotland in the first instance. So Glasgow are Miles Better
Posted 1 month ago # -
“Shame as CCWEL is great“
Which bits are you referring to?
Haymarket to London Road isn’t
Posted 1 month ago # -
For those who don’t recognise gembo’s allusions
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glasgow%27s_miles_better
Understanding illusions or delusions is beyond the scope of CCE
Posted 1 month ago #
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