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In a tweet celebrating a local councillor's 35 years of service there is a picture of a 1992 leaflet bemoaing then pollution & traffic on St John's Road...
Wonder what it will be like in another 25 years...
https://twitter.com/BordersJen/status/1126925262988431360?s=19
Christine Jardine MP quoting SJR in her article
Is this the same Lib Dems that voted to reject the Transport (Scotland) Bill (which provides the legal framework for Low Emission Zones), voted against the workplace parking levy, voted against reinstating the prohibition on parking in mandatory cycle lanes, voted against the 20mph speed limit bill and opposed the Edinburgh tram extension?
My party, the Liberal Democrats, has a detailed plan to tackle the climate emergency, achieving net-zero carbon emissions by 2045 at the very latest.
Must have forgotten the hyperlink?
It's all okay Prof Arthur will be adjusting the traffic lights...
1) Can the convener advise what steps he is intending to take in order to reduce traffic delays along St John’s Road?
Answer (1) The actions that officers are progressing for St John’s Road include:
• Monitoring traffic in the area and adjusting the timing of traffic signals (which are local to each of the traffic signal controllers) to manage the traffic flow along the St John’s Road corridor;
• In addition, as the corridor is capable of running the Split Cycle Offset Optimisation Technique (SCOOT) method of traffic signal control, procurement of new equipment is underway to enable SCOOT to operate effectively;
• Considering proposals for a new layout at the A8/Drumbrae South roundabout as currently traffic flow into the roundabout from the other arms, especially in the peak periods, constricts the traffic flow westbound exiting from St John’s Road. This then creates a bottleneck through the St John’s Road corridor when traffic is queued back from this roundabout; and
• A re-design of the junction/roundabout is being developed to remove the roundabout and replace it with a signalised junction. Modelling work is still taking place to ascertain the effects of this on the network. In
addition, other options are also being considered on how to manipulate the existing infrastructure at the roundabout to improve traffic flow along St John’s Road
Bets on what proportion of this scheme will be funded from the active travel budget, as it includes pedestrian crossings and some nod towards bikes?
I know that he knows that none of that will reduce traffic delays.
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procurement of new equipment is underway to enable SCOOT to operate effectively
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HOW MUCH??
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• Considering proposals for a new layout at the A8/Drumbrae South roundabout
HOW MUCH??
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• A re-design of the junction/roundabout
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HOW MUCH??
But there isn't any congestion in Corstorphine. It was all caused by the temporary pavement extensions that have now been removed.
At least that was why they were removed.
I'm surprised that wasn't in the answer under things they have done to solve it...
Lots of ideas about appeasing the great god of Traffic Flow, not so much about traffic reduction.
So people living/walking in the area will no longer have to worry about queues of stationary traffic: it will be beautiful streams of constantly moving traffic they’ll have to worry about instead.
Is that progress?
“it will be beautiful streams of constantly moving traffic“
ONLY if you close all side roads, remove all traffic lights/ped crossings
AND
Convert roundabouts to Magic Roundabouts - bit like revolving doors where vehicles are neatly segregated and dispatched to their destination roads safely…
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