Day 3
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TRANSPORT
• Deliver the renewal and maintenance of roads and pavement infrastructure.
• Make pavements safe to walk on and ensure potholes are fixed quickly and done correctly first time.
• Review parking charges to ensure that parking provision meets the need of local residents and local businesses.
• Find a more efficient use of existing road space through a re-examination of traffic flows.
• Encourage more cycling in the city both for getting to work and for leisure and improve cross-city routes.
• Deliver a tram, within the current contract, on time and at the best possible price.
• Enable an expansion to car clubs in suitable parts of the city.
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Also
“Drive around Edinburgh and you realise traffic isn’t moving and people don’t know where to go, it’s very confusing. So let’s have a look at all the streets where roads have been closed and see if it can’t be done in a different way to keep cars moving. It’s started to become gridlocked at certain times because of the mess of the road system.
“Of course, people use public transport but cars will always have an important part to play in people’s lives.”
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