Elm Row uphill bike path shut today - they're reducing the parking to parallel parking, to make room to move the downhill lane to behind the trees. Also adding a bollarded bike passthrough to Mongomery St. Great! I got a wee fright cos I first read Cllr Arthur's solution from a year ago - it really takes you back - lot of talk about having to listen to retailers, to shut the bike lanes to add more vehicle parking and loading bays. Was going to make people on bikes cross back and forth to pedal on the Gayfield Place side. So much energy to communicate how balanced this was. Just really glad he got into westminster.
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Posted 1 month ago #
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Good news!
Perhaps one of SA’s (former) students could do a thesis on the cost of his time ‘in charge’.
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I'm not sure the current incumbent is any better than SA.
Seems very corporate with little imagination, vision or leadership
Someone that only uses "one form" of transport, aka status quo monoculture. At least SA used the bus (best seat) and cycled, albeit not fully "getting it" on the issues
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albeit not fully "getting it" on the issues
This is arguably too kind. He was quite capable of "getting it" when it suited him.
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yes, too kind. But within "getting it", I also include "showing leadership and doing the right thing, per council policy, in the face of a vocal minority"
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New convener lives in my neck of the woods and said at the Spokes meeting that he primarily takes the bus. At a guess that makes him a bus user and driver, which is better than being uni-modal in a city experiencing modal conflict issues.
It was telling, however, how much more politically careful his 'answers' were at said meeting. SA was a lot balshier and direct in such scenarios, which at least felt authentic even when it was still maneuvering.
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