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Edinburgh tourist dies after being knocked down

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  1. Calum
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    A lady in her 70s, visting the city with her friend. Very sad.

    http://www.scotsman.com/news/transport/edinburgh-tourist-dies-after-being-knocked-down-1-2852048

    The chipwrapper reporting is the usual garbage. It was an "accident", we are told, and "waiting to happen", and it's all the council's fault really, because the street is "used as a tram diversion route". Ah, the trams - so useful for blaming things on.

    We are told that "there was a 20mph limit, but it was routinely ignored by motorists". Well of course it was routinely ignored, and you can bet your bottom dollar that it will go on being routinely ignored exactly as before, because the streets of this country are lawless places. How many more people are going to have to die? Why is life so cheap?

    Posted 12 years ago #

  2. kaputnik
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    What I noted from this article was that a temporary crossing wasn't (apparently) initially provided here, and only was after complaints were made. This would seem to fit with the pattern at Argyle Place recently, and also my own experiences at Broomhouse Road with tram works and this week on Gorgie Road at Fords Road - where crossings are taken out of commission for road works and no alternative is made, on roads were traffic routinely piles constantly through at 30mph (+).

    Any half-decent newspaper definitely should have been probed this sort of question in their article, if it wasn't for the fact you can't expect even basic investigative journalism from anything in the JP stable, their "journalists" are much to quick reaching for the gutter-jingo thesaurus to try and sensationalise their reporting.

    Posted 12 years ago #

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