I've been up and down Comiston Road a couple of times today and recommend that people try and avoid it if at all possible. Drivers have gone feral - red light jumping, u-turning, illegal turns, completely blocking box junctions - you name it, if it is physically possible then it will be happening.
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Comiston Road - avoid! (Nov 2023)
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Posted 6 months ago #
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Meanwhile, Herr Arthur telling everyone it's because Braid Rd is (temporarily) closed. Nothing to do with the fact that all of Edinburgh's roads are all designed to encourage as many drivers as possible into the centre. No, nothing at all.
"But, but, delays to public transport", he wails. No mate, all as you've done by opening up those residential streets to traffic is shift the bottleneck to the next location and make it worse at the same time.
Posted 6 months ago # -
If it's not horrible weather tomorrow I might take a slightly diversionary route to work to see what's going down in Morningsider's stomping ground.
Posted 6 months ago # -
It was also total chaos on Colinton Road on Wednesday: traffic lights at Meggetland was causing traffic to back up through Myreside. Many similar instances of feral behaviour from people in cars.
I took up my bicycle and walked at some points: it was quicker and felt safer than dicing with frustrated people not paying attention.
So many roads in the area now have works on them that everything has gummed up. Of course, the underlying root cause is not road works, but just too many cars.
Posted 6 months ago # -
It's bad enough that it's putting us off cycling to school. I went there and back with my 8 year old earlier this week and we couldn't use our normal route (Quiet Route then up/down Braidburn Crescent and cross at Margiotta) as it was fully backed up with cars sitting in the middle of the road so we couldn't pass. All the other side roads are full too and the queues are tricky to filter past for a kid.
Not sure they can really blame Braid Road for the closure, it wasn't anywhere near this bad when Braid Road was closed for years. If anything I'd say reopening Braid Road induced more traffic and this is a consequence of that.
Posted 6 months ago # -
Plus the horrible weather yesterday and Wednesday, possibly? I went that way on Monday after a stroll in the Hermitage and it seemed pretty civilised - albeit it was lunchtime rather than the evening peak. And I took the 11 that way on Tuesday at around 4pm and that seemed to make progress at or more less the usual rate.
I think it maybe also doesn't help that the temporary closure of Braid Road was only signposted locally and I suspect not widely publicised elsewhere (#edintraffic seems to have become pretty much useless these days). If more folks had known about it in advance, they might have taken a different route out of town altogether.
Even the signs which were in place weren't necessarily all that helpful or informative. IIRC there has been a sign at Morningside Clock announcing that Braid Road is closed further up ever since the labyrinth system was implemented: many people had probably got used to the fact that you could still get through by going round three sides of a square and approaching along Hermitage Drive, and were perhaps caught out on finding that its junction with Braid Road was actually closed. During our peregrination in the area on Monday we did see one or two drivers turning round, apparently not having realised that for the moment 'closed' did actually mean closed.
Posted 6 months ago #
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