New TEC Convenor
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Councillor Jenkinson is always happy to meet constituents to discuss any individual issues or concerns.
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Posted 2 months ago #
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Some background from 2022:
Name – Stephen Jenkinson
Party – Labour
Ward – Pentland HillsI am married with two teenage children and have lived and worked in Edinburgh all my life. I am an IT specialist and I have worked in financial services for 28 years. I am a committed trade unionist and I have played a key role in organising in my workplace over many years.
My key issues: There are five key issues I am campaigning on in Pentland Hills:
- Improving public transport ensuring it is a suitable alternative to car usage.
- Ensuring all children in the ward have safe walking and cycling routes to and from school.
- Getting the basics right. Focussing on fly-tipping, littering, dog-fouling weeds and graffiti.
- Supporting local businesses, charities and community organisations to recover from COVID.
- Improving roads and footpaths with a ‘fix it right, first time’ approach to pot holes.my bold
"the potholes"... hmmm
Posted 2 months ago # -
He's our ward councillor but I haven't had much contact with him. I asked him to abstain from voting the Tories into the administration after the election, but he said that as the party whip there was not much hope of that! Since then I've not bothered with the local councillors one way or another
Posted 2 months ago # -
Fluff piece in EEN https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/opinion/columnists/hitting-the-ground-running-with-visit-to-north-bridge-stephen-jenkinson-4767534
Posted 2 months ago # -
SA’s take on SJ’s article -
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He is hitting the ground running - "Key to these [climate] aspirations is the expansion of our award-winning tram network, and I look forward to working with the Scottish Government and other partners on this."
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https://x.com/drscottarthurmp/status/1831237317261963391
Under current financial/political circumstances, seems bizarre to have the tram as a continuing priority.
Posted 2 months ago # -
Key to these [climate] aspirations...
yeeeeaaaah...
The only way they are going to meet any climate "aspirations" is through demand-management of cars ("sticks")
Posted 2 months ago # -
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Cllr Jenkinson intends to continue chairing the Transport & Environment Committee [TEC] in the consensual way developed by his predecessor, but with greater emphasis on delivery – intentions which we very much welcome.
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Posted 2 months ago # -
Cllr Jenkinson to Spokes:
I see us moving into more of a delivery phase now which is quite exciting
okaaaaaay...
I won't be holding my breath
Posted 2 months ago # -
“I won't be holding my breath“
Quite
No idea how much he is passing on a script.
Or how much he understands staffing and money situations…
Posted 2 months ago # -
staffing and money situations
They could start by reallocating all the "roads engineers" and "signals team" as active travel.
The tinkering they do with the traffic lights achieves nothing anyway.
And why have they removed any advantage from the advance-cycle-signal coming off Morrison St into Haymarket? It just results in conflict with taxi* drivers turning left into the layby
*And other drivers pretending to be taxis
Posted 2 months ago # -
The prime minister has told the BBC that his new government is "going to have to be unpopular" and make tough decisions in order to bring reforms.
Speaking on Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg in his first major interview in Downing Street, Keir Starmer said the only way to change the country was to do "difficult things now" even though "I know they are unpopular".
Scott Arthur let the city down hugely with his backtracking and weakness on road safety, but imagine if he'd taken his messaging from Starmer instead. Will Jenkinson take inspiration from the new PM or from his predecessor?
Posted 2 months ago # -
Is a white, suburban, middle-aged man who has worked for the same bank for 30 years, in IT*, likely to be an ”in the box” or “out of the box” thinker?
*I imagine he started with the telephone system.
I predict we’ll see very slow incremental progress on delivery, maybe construction being started on one new scheme every 3 years, nothing to upset the drivers, and more rolling back on the temporary stuff (because they’ll be too mired in bureaucracy to make it permanent)
Posted 2 months ago # -
Apparently he has several cars and turned up late to a Living Streets event because he couldn't find a parking space for his BMW.
Posted 3 weeks ago # -
Anyone know if Cllr Jenkinson is particularly active, or responsive, on Twitter?
Is he on Bluesky? Mastodon?
Posted 3 weeks ago # -
He is on Twitter but not in the way Scott Arthur is. Some French nut called Pere Gembeaux has asked Jenky to show more guts next time over traffic dispersal bus gates BECAUSE they work.
Posted 3 weeks ago # -
He responded on Twitter to questions of himself and @edinhelp regarding a patch job on CCWEL I’ve dubbed the ‘liquorice layby’ until fixed - Edward Tissiman measured the surface as 15x rougher than the original CCWEL surface here. https://x.com/cllr_jenkinson/status/1850263676797759566?s=46
Posted 3 weeks ago # -
Edward T been super busy measuring roughness of all paths and has a great graphic. His method was to use a barrow filled with jelly and to see how much it wobbled. Oh wait, that was That’s Life Science
Posted 3 weeks ago #
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