Seeing as it's just a random assemblage of often contradictory (and on the odd occasion, seemingly pointless) ideas, I've tried to pull out the ones that might improve (or otherwise!) cycling in the city;
1. Improved signage to make safer for pedestrians, cyclist and motorists
2. Reduce the need to travel to work, shops and work within walking distance – keep Edinburgh compact through brown field development
3. Extend 20mph speed limits
4. Cycling – upgrade cycle paths
5. Extend dedicated bus lanes (= car free lanes, my parenthesis)
6. Proper separated Cycle Lanes on roads
7. Pedestrianise Princes Street from Waverley Bridge to West end.
8. Enforce cycle lanes to see they are kept clear
9. Extend bus priorities by simple traffic management measures (= cycling priority? my parenthesis)
10. Strict enforcement of delivering mixed use development that permits greater use of walk/cycling for home to leisure (education, health)
11. Council needs to use the powers it already has to enforce better quality of workmanship, quicker reinstatement on utilities who dig up roads
12. Extend the off road transport network by using the previous suburban rail routes. Will this be popular with walkers and cyclists? (I'm not sure what this means, nearly all of them are already foot/cycle paths to some degree, my comment)
13. 20mph speed limit city wide, to make it better for walking/ cycling and safer
14. Extend tram/light rail from Roseburn to Granton using old rail tracks
15. Institute a bike rent scheme/safe cycle lanes/dedicated cycle lanes
16. A council subsidised LPG car conversion scheme to get the cars that do use the city to be greener. Zoned by post code, nearer the city centre, better subsidies.
I left number 16 in as an example of one of the more hair-brained ideas as all it seems to be is subsidising people to keep driving, parking and being completely attached to their cars in the city centre.
It will be interesting to see if this can be worked up into a coherent Labour policy for improving transport in the city, of it will just remain a talking shop.
posts
