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  1. chdot
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    The next arrival was that of the Caledonian Railway, who opened a station called Leith in 1869 on a rather circuitous line around the North and West of the city from Princes Street Station via Roseburn and Newhaven. It would be renamed North Leith in 1903. To get around the confusion of two rival North Leith stations being a few hundred metres from each other on the same street, most maps stuck with Leith for the Caley station and North Leith for the NBR. To locals it would just have been the Caley and North British stations.

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    https://threadinburgh.scot/2022/11/16/the-thread-about-the-baffling-naming-of-leith-railway-stations-know-your-north-leith-from-your-leith-north-which-south-leith-is-which-and-whether-leith-walk-west-or-leith-walk-east-is-westernmost/

    Posted 2 weeks ago #

  2. chdot
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    He said the new line had accelerated growth in North Edinburgh, bringing investment to the city, which encouraged him about the plans for a new north-south tram line running from Granton to the Royal Infirmary and BioQuarter.

    "That's really why we want to push ahead with that second tramline - to accelerate growth, investment in homes, communities and in jobs in the city and in the wider city region."

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    https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/edinburgh-trams-residents-have-fallen-in-love-with-trams-since-newhaven-line-opened-claims-scott-arthur-4599060

    Posted 1 week ago #

  3. gembo
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    Was off to work down Muirhouse today Nice stencils Save The Roseburn Path

    Posted 1 week ago #

  4. chdot
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    Posted 1 week ago #

  5. neddie
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    If “growth” is a “factor” and “increasing growth” is “exponential”, then what is “accelerating growth”? An “exponential exponential”?

    Seems unlikely to be possible according to the physics of a finite planet and certainly not compatible with preventing climate breakdown

    Posted 1 week ago #

  6. chdot
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    Yeah well, (most) politicians have little concept of finite - or growth (beyond ‘we need growth to pay for stuff’).

    Not convinced he said this “the new line had accelerated growth in North Edinburgh”

    Doesn’t make sense.

    Then again…

    Posted 1 week ago #

  7. chdot
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    Spokes Public Mtg: Granton Tramline
    Wed 5 June in @edfoc

    Details-> http://www.spokes.org.uk/2024/04/spokesmtg-the-granton-tramline/

    Speakers:
    Roseburn not Road: @LAHinds
    Road not Roseburn: #EuanBaxter
    #Cycling aspects: @AvGeekAlex
    #PublicHealth aspects: @Adrian4Davis
    QA chair: @BoydJohanna1

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    https://x.com/spokeslothian/status/1783137494399087018?

    Posted 5 days ago #

  8. chdot
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    He added: "At night, when the path is not so user-friendly to cyclists, even though it’s lit up, the presence of trams might be an addition to the safety of cyclists."

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    https://web.archive.org/web/20240424035836/https://www.scotsman.com/news/transport/roseburn-path-the-battle-over-whether-an-old-edinburgh-rail-line-should-become-a-tram-route-4602356

    Ah yes, useful word “might”…

    Posted 4 days ago #

  9. neddie
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  10. neddie
    Member

    Looks like someone (the Council?) have removed all of the "Save the Roseburn path" signs on the lampposts, and even the cloth appliqued banner, which seems a bit mean

    Posted 1 day ago #

  11. stiltskin
    Member

    That’s a very clever spoof & certainly got people’s attention. Opposition is beginning to get organised!

    Posted 22 hours ago #

  12. Yodhrin
    Member

    Not quite so clever for the people who ended up unable to access it.

    Posted 2 hours ago #

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