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"Drivers face Waverley ban under terror rules"
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Posted 12 years ago #
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Terror laws. Honestly. I am all for restricting car driving for all sorts of reasons but terrorism? As if you can't carry a bomb under your jacket?
"More room for bikes then, or... "
We'll just go back to the old bike bomb scariness.
Posted 12 years ago # -
Actually, having foolishly read the comments, someone is claiming there used to be a ban on bikes at Haymarket for just that reason. Is that true?
Posted 12 years ago # -
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someone is claiming there used to be a ban on bikes at Haymarket for just that reason. Is that true?
"Yep
Room for about 4 bikes under bridge - no rain just pigeon droppings.
Then racks moved to car park for Viet Cong/IRA reasons.
Posted 12 years ago # -
if they stop cars going in then thats fine
however what will be the alternative for taxis and drop of/pick up for cars?
as much as i love the bike
picking my little boy and his mum up at the train with all the paraphernalia is a bit much for 2 wheelsPosted 12 years ago # -
"Then racks moved to car park for Viet Cong/IRA reasons. "
*slack jawed*
Posted 12 years ago # -
This sounds awkwardly close to the outright banning of members of the public having access to staffed railway station platforms. After all, you no longer get to watch air passengers embarking, or to stand on the grass next to the runway to watch the plane take off.
Waverley is certainly hamstrung by its valley location making access a little less straightforward for less able bodied people. But Mordor Central has lifts and underground corridors, Dundee does lifts now (I think), and even Haymarket has lifts.
Is it that access equality is easier to implement (and find money for) by invoking the anti-terror lever rather than the DDA? Or is it that getting vehicles out of the railway station will magically improve air quality and lower emissions? Or, perhaps all that space released by the exit of the GPO plus the space currently given over to parking can be used to add platforms to increase capacity, which mightn't be a bad thing if the additional routings can be worked out.
Posted 12 years ago # -
Haymarket was 2002 Scotrail knee-jerk to security briefing, bikes were removed from rack and left in heap - some reported to be stolen.
Currently still v sensitive and some bike risk - expect enforcement of items left on the bike - all viable bike bombs in UK to date have been packages on the bikes, very few reports of actual bike being a bomb (but not impossible - just using a car is more effective and a lot cheaper).
Removal of parking will follow suite with Glasgow Central, and allow restoration of platforms or enhanced retail/other uses.
Posted 12 years ago # -
"Haymarket was 2002"
OK, I thought it was even longer ago.
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