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"George Street should be the Edinburgh equivalent of Las Ramblas in Barcelona"
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Posted 12 years ago #
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That sounds positive. I hope they close George St to motor traffic permanently. Surely even Edinburgh could manage that.
Posted 12 years ago # -
Don't suppose it's legal to cycle on the pavement if the Street is no longer a road(?)
Posted 12 years ago # -
As usual, things like this are only tried during the festival. The rest of the year, it's back to motor city.
Posted 12 years ago # -
I note from your bottom photo how, despite "closing" George Street to traffic, a significant section of it just had to be turned over to being a car park. How very Edinburgh. I can see the practicality in a transit van for moving and carrying things, but still can't get my head around the rise of the urban "pick up" truck.
Posted 12 years ago # -
It's parking for the bar and food suppliers, which kind of detracts from the whole point of making the street a pedestrian space. But what they really seemed to mean was pedestrianise the street to the east of the Assembly Rooms...
Nice to see it was sunny in August. I think I must have been away on holiday that day. ;-)
Posted 12 years ago # -
still can't get my head around the rise of the urban "pick up" truck.
Clearly you've not been Americanised enough. A holiday in Texas ought to sort you out. When you get back you'll wonder how anyone in Scotland can survive without a Cherokee at a minumum.
Posted 12 years ago # -
I once joked with a Californian pick-up truck owner about how impractical an urban pick-up truck would be in Scotland. I said they would never work in Scotland as all your tools would get wet, and then get stolen!
He looked at me sheepishly as if to say: "Yeah, your stuff would get stolen in LA too"
Hopeless!
Posted 12 years ago #
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